Customer Reviews

Bosch Compact Mixer with Food Proccesor and Blender - MUM4420

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absolutely happy with this! reminds me of European Moulinex....I absolutely recommend this product to my friend! it is quiet and does the job and it is multifunctional....

For years I've needed a good mixer such as a Kitchen Aid but they were too pricey. Then when I saw a larger version of this device at work, my wife and I decided to purchase this for a Christmas present for my daughter. Since she still lives at home we get to occasionally use it or at least find reasons for my daughter to use it. What a great tool! It's very compact and very powerful. It can do the work of the much larger Kitchen Aid but it takes up hardly any space. If you have a small kitchen or limited storage, this is the product for you.

I don't own one, sadly. But I grew up with one. I have used all accessories that are shown here and was extremely pleased with every single one of them. Easy to assemble, use and clean.
I was given a KA Artisan when I was married and it doesn't compare. Every time I use the KitchenAid, it annoys me and I wish I had the Bosch instead. Yeah, the Bosch isn't as sleek looking. But it just works so much better. It also seems that if you have the Bosch, you essentially have a mixer and a food processor. No need for 2 large appliances.

Living and traveling in an RV means less space to store Stuff. Not only does this take up less space than owning each individual appliance, it works great too! Only downside, the blender doesn't really substitute for a food chopper.

I purchased this and loved it for a year. The motor stopped working just over a year after I purchased it. Which was just after the warranty was up. I only used it for the holidays, so this was a huge disappointment. I purchased this one instead of the Kitchenaid, because several people complained of this problem with the Kitchenaid. This was a huge waste of money for me. Maybe a just got a dud!

I have owned this mixer for five or six years now. I thought what a bargain, all those available attachments and quite a bit cheaper than a Kitchen Aid, powerful, small footprint, great reviews. Unfortunately, I HATE this mixer. It doesn't mix things thoroughly due to the shape of the bowl being a weird convex bottom. The only thing it seems to do well with is bread dough, but anything else is impossible to get a smooth batter (always lumps) and often a glob on the bottom that doesn't mix in, regardless how much I try to scrape the bowl with a spatula as I mix. The big rotating head is difficult to work around for adding ingredients and bowl scraping, and it's messy and difficult to raise and lower. The angle of the attachments is a tight fit to move up and down into and out of the bowl when the bowl is in place in it's holding slot. I really have to force it in against the bowl. The blender attachment does work well, but is made of plastic, not glass as I would expect from a supposedly higher end unit. As for the shredder/food processor type attachments, the mouth is too small to be of any practical use. I wound up investing in a Cuisinart for those tasks.

Some other available options I ordered with this included the grinder attachment, which also has a very small feed. It tends to plug up easily and it turns your meat into mush rather than a nice grind, thus I also wound up buying a separate grinder for homemade sausage. The available ice cream maker is very small and doesn't work to satisfaction either.

All in all, I bought what I thought was going to be an all-in-one type kitchen appliance - stand mixer, grinder, food processor and a fun ice cream maker. What I got was an aggravating, inconvenient to store and mostly unsatisfactory waste of cupboard and counter space. This mixer really does not live up to its name. I have owned other Bosch small appliances and loved them, but this one is a huge disappointment and turned out to be a huge waste of my money. I'm on the hunt for a decent stand mixer to go along with my full size food processor, grinder and ice cream maker, all of which I ended up buying after being so disappointed with the Bosch attachments.