This mixer is ok. Not as powerful as I had hoped. My first test was chocolate chip cookies. Once I started mixing in the flour (about halfway through) I switched to the dough hooks. Worked like a charm. It easily mixed in the rest of the flour and chocolate chips. It was bogging down before I switched the hooks. I used this to make delicious omelets easily whipping in the ingredients. I also used this to make homemade whipping cream. About 5 minutes and it was done. Heavy cream and a bit of vanilla and sugar. Delicious! The only downfall of this mixed is the release button. To eject the beaters/or dough hooks took quiet a bit of effort. As a matter of fact my 16 year old daughter can't do this by herself. I had to use both thumbs pushing with all my might. I thought I was doing something wrong.