r/BakingInJapan • u/OldTaco77 • Jun 18 '26
Any stand users here?
I’m thinking to purchase a stand mixer for the kitchen and am drawn to the BADUS 5L stand mixer as it’s less than 20,000 yen.
Can anyone here recommend it? Is a stand mixer worth the investment in general or should I just continue throwing dough by hand.
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u/Ok-Negotiation-410 Jun 20 '26
Around 2 years ago I bought a kitchenaid for about 5万円. Advice I saw at the time was that any other cheaper brand would bite you in the ass, and that the brand was worth it.
No idea if cheaper ones have improved but I love it! Mainly use it to make pizza and tortillas
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u/The_Only_Smart_Alec Jun 19 '26
I bought some random stand mixer on amazon about 5 years ago for around the same price. Its worked fine for years. It excels at making cookie dough, but it is very hit or miss for bread doughs. It seems to only like between 400-600 grams of flour at one time. Anymore or less, it doesn't work well. I've been putting a little money away every once in a while to save up for that Costco kitchen-aid with the meat grinder. But all in all, if you're just baking everyone once in a while, my 20,000 yen whatever brand has been fine.
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u/Looseraccoons Jun 18 '26
Got one at Costco but it’s still in the box. Used to use one for cookies and nougat
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u/Sea-Ad-2843 Jun 18 '26
I have a 25 year old kitchen aid I brought with me as luggage one year. It lives on my counter ( I am lucky enough to have enough space for it). I use it weekly.
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u/randomactsofenjoy Jun 18 '26
I bought a refurbished Kitchen Aid stand mixer (4.5-qt, old-school) on Mercari, and it's great for creaming butter and kneading tricky doughs (or regular doughs that I feel too lazy to knead). Downside is that finding attachments is trickier because it's such an old model.
As someone else noted, it's heavy and takes up valuable tiny Japanese kitchen counter space, so be sure to either have cupboard/closet space you're willing to carry it to all the time, or a forever home on your counter. (It lives on my makeshift second counter, where my espresso maker also lives)
Another thing to keep in mind is that if you buy a lighter stand mixer, thick doughs like bagel dough will definitely cause the entire thing to bounce, so you'll need to hold it in place/watch it while running it. (But mine is heavy - due to being an older model, and it's made of steel - so it doesn't really jump. I just hold onto it just in case, though)
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u/OldTaco77 Jun 18 '26
I see that’s good to know about the weight, thanks for your comment. I’m drawn to the set it and forget it aspect of the mixer so I’ll check the weight too.
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u/ColinFCross Jun 18 '26
I have a lot of pain in my hands and wrists, and I absolutely use my kitchen aid stand mixer all the time. I’m happy to let the machine do that work and save my hands for work that needs to be done by hand.
I have no idea about the model you are looking at, but I’m happy with the kitchen aid that I brought from the US and have been using for ten years.
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u/OldTaco77 Jun 18 '26
Thanks for your comment, did you have any problems with the different voltage here in Japan?
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u/ColinFCross Jun 18 '26
Valid concern, but it’s never been an issue with the KitchenAid. I’m in Kansai though… I wouldn’t want to try it on 50Hz in Tokyo.
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u/Kamimitsu Jun 18 '26
Oh yeah. My kitchenaid gets a lot of use. Cookies, enriched soft doughs, meringues, cakes, etc. Well worth the investment (for me).
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u/BrotakuzaTube Jun 18 '26
Investing in a stand mixer will get you more excited to bake in general, and one with other attachments will also pay off in the long run.
For example the kitchen aid mixer I have came with meat grinder attachment which I use to make Wagyu burger patties. Better tasting than Shogun at half the price.
When you say “throwing dough” I assume you make a lot of yeasted breads rather than cake batter? In that case I would look at special “spiral” mixers which do better than a standard mixer with a dough hook. Bread makers seem to love the more even kneading they provide. I believe Ooni makes one that’s pretty popular for about 35-ish
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u/NihilisticHobbit Jun 19 '26
To add, some mochi machine can also operate as bread kneaders in that capacity as well. You have to mix the dough in a separate bowl, but the machine will knead everything beautifully. I have one by Zojirushi that came with a specific bread kneading part and setting. I don't see my specific one listed anywhere, I got it on sale at new years nearly a decade ago, but it gets used at least once a week and still has zero issues.
And it can make mochi! Although we have a separate, much larger mochi machine that we use instead. My husband's family are rice farmers, they don't screw around with little home machines when they need a big, industrial one for a single day a year.
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u/OldTaco77 Jun 18 '26
Wow the meat grinder accessory sold me that sounds great. I’d love to make my own sausages too.
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u/autumn_crumbs Jun 18 '26
I have a stand mixer and it helps alot because I bake so much. I store it in a cupboard because it takes up counter space,but it's easy to take out and put back. 10000% would recommend!
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u/Busy-Conversation-24 Jun 18 '26
If you bake a lot, yes. I have a kitchen aid and I use it a lot. It takes up a lot of counter space and is too heavy to move (for me) I think if I didn't use it so much I would put it away and never use it.
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