KitchenAid 11-Wire Whip for select 5, 5.5 and 6 Quart Bowl-Lift Stand Mixers,Silver

This kitchen aid head works much better than the standard whip that came with my lift bowl kitchen aid. It helps to dramatically reduce whipping time

My whisk broke and decided I may as well upgrade-- 11 wires are approx 11x better. Was tempted by a similar knockoff but glad I went with this one-- more solidly made than the OG. The only risk is over-whipping because it's so effective! Slow down the second you think it's getting there, which will be much faster than it was.

This will work awesome when I need things mixed better like whipped cream!

Fantastic upgrade to the cheap raw aluminum wisk that came with the machine. This is dishwasher safe and whips up eggs just as fast or faster. Only possible complaint is that the large number of wires means more retention of the mix when making sticky things such as marshmallows

Better quality than what came wit mixer.

Everything in the world has trade-offs; more about that in a minute. I bought this item after I saw on a Cook's Illustrated TV show on PBS mentioned that the Kitchen Aid mixers have 6-wire whisk attachments, and 11-wire whisk attachments. The 6-wire whisk was included with my Kitchen Aid mixer, and it did a good job, but I could never figure out why anything I tried to whip took longer than my recipes - especially the Cook's Illustrated recipes - said it should take. When I saw on the TV show that there was this 11-wire whisk and they said it speeded up whipping tasks of all kinds, the penny dropped. This new whisk did exactly what was described - dramatically speeded up the time to whip things. For my first use, I made an Italian meringue for a lemon meringue pie. This whisk made short work of whipping the egg whites with hot sugar syrup, yielding meringue that piled up into a white glossy mountain on top of the pie filling. That trade-off thing I mentioned up front? Although the meringue whipped up fast (and I do mean FAST,) most of the meringue was inside the whisk attachment when I took it off the machine. So, I did have to spend part of the time I saved with a jar scraper getting my mounds of meringue out of the whisk and into the bowl. Even so, this item is a net winner and performs exactly as advertised.

To be pretty clear here- I never actually used this whisk to MAKE anything. Unfortunately, my model is a Professional 5-series KitchenAid, but it was apparently a different kind than the other 5 and 6-pro models. So this whisk was way too big and I had to return it.However I briefly considered, and tried to convince my husband to replace our KA mixer with a newer model because "it doesn't fit the whisk." This is made out of a great quality material and looks like it will hold up for a very long time. It will definitely make whisking a total snap, and it is MUCH better than the standard whisk that ships with the KA mixers. I wish I could have used it on mine!!

Worked great with my commercial kitchenaid mixer