While I love my Kitchen Aid K5SS mixer, the enamel on the beater has flaked off to the point where I feel it can’t be safe to use it.  This is an expensive mixer but I felt it worth it because it is a durable, reliable workhorse of a machine.  However, if the most used part deteriorates and can’t be replaced with a part that won’t deteriorate as well (as per reviews on this site), a perfectly good mixer has become useless to me.  As such, I can no longer recommend that this Kitchen Aid mixer is worth the cost.   Surely, a stainless steel beater that fits this model can be made?