Levain & Co Stainless Steel Dough Hook,Spiral Dough Hook for KitchenAid Artisan/Classic/Ultra Power Series Stand Mixers,Fits all 4.5 & 5qt Tilt-Head Models,Bake Artisanal Bread & Pizza Like a Pro!

The media could not be loaded. TLDR: Buy it! It's expensive, but if you are a bread baker, just treat yourself, it's worth it!I got into bread baking at the end of Highschool and the beginning of college. I would bake bread on the weekends when I was home and enjoyed it a lot. I enjoyed it so much that I asked for a KitchenAid Artisan for Christmas one year when a local department store was having a door-buster sale with deep discounts (those were the days). Upon the first couple of uses of my new mixer, I was less than impressed with the kneading performance and its inability to incorporate the dry bits from the bottom of the bowl. The hook seemed to mainly mash the dough to the sides of the bowl and the dough would inevitably climb the hook and stop kneading repeatedly. When the hook was kneading it was laboring the motor of the machine horribly and causing the machine to flex the bowl and the mixer groaned and hopped all over the counter and seemed as if it was being damaged. This was so discouraging I resorted just to hand mixing and hand kneading my bread for years and years and the KitchenAid Artisan I wanted so badly for bread making just sat under a towel unused except for the occasional cake or cookie recipe. Recently I had been determined to get my use out of my mixer that I have had now for over a decade that has seen only very occasional use. My first stop was to look at the higher-end KitchenAid Mixers, you will note that they all come with a dough spiral as do all commercial bakery giant floor mixers as well. I looked at a few examples and that was the secret, the spirals push the dough down and knead the dough against the bottom of the bowl, stopping the dough from climbing and catching the dry crumbs in the bottom of the bowl in the process. Since the spiral is also not pushing against the sides of the bowl as hard, it also labors the motors and gears of the mixers much less. Most importantly the spirals kneaded the dough much more effectively and thoroughly, not to mention more quickly.I ordered this and gave it a shot. Wow! My mixer is about to go on active duty for the first time! It kicked but on the batch of dinner rolls, I made today. It was a 3 cups of flour-sized recipe (12 rolls) but it did amazing and I didn't have to stop the machine to scrape or adjust it while needed. I included the video above so you can see that awesome down spiral in action. It washed clean extremely easily, so easy it seems like a waste of space to put it in the dishwasher. It is heavily built of solid stainless steel with a satin finish and no coatings or finishes to flake off which is perfect! It is a darn spendy attachment, but well worth it to be happy with my mixer again.I would recommend this to others and have already done so. This would also make a great gift for a baker in your life.

I am a horrible baker (like, notoriously so). Like all horrible bakers, I never seem to know when to quit. I overreach.Naturally, I decided to take on making homemade sandwich bread. Because I'm a horrible baker and that's just how we roll.(And also because I have a stand mixer and I felt like I should at least use it.)My first batch of sandwich bread was, surprisingly, NOT horrible. So I decided to keep at it. Each successive loaf got better but they all had one thing in common: they were crumbly and missing that nice, springy texture like store-bought bread. Oh, and I noticed that there were always "bits" left at the bottom of my stand mixer bowl that hadn't been incorporated by the standard Kitchenaid dough hook.So, I did some research on how to solve my texture and bits problem... which led me to this spiral hook.It has changed EVERYTHING.As a horrible baker, I'm unqualified to tell you why or how it works. I just know that it DOES. I no longer have bits left in the bottom of the mixing bowl and my bread now resembles the loaves you can buy in the store. The result has been a nice, springy final product.I can't bake a nice looking cake to save my life but - by gum! - thanks to this I absolutely CAN make bread that people will actually eat (and want to!).

Order this hook for my artisan mixer after trying the qAp dough hook (I couldn't lock the machine as I had to drop the bowl too low to avoid the hook hitting the sides).Package arrived half opened, but the product works well and I can lock the mixer without problems. Dough does creep up a little bit, but not enough for me to be bothered and probably also depends on your dough hydration.

I got this because the paint on my factory dough hook from kitchenaid that came with my mixer had peeling paint. It was pretty old, I’d say at least 15 years. I bake bread about every other day and needed a good dough hook. This one looked good and so I took a chance instead of replacing it with the same one from kitchenaid (I figured, at the very least, no paint to chip!) and I’m SOOOOO glad I did. This is a million times better. Dough doesn’t creep up nearly as bad as it does with the other design. It has no paint and is ridiculously easy to clean. It’s much thicker and sturdier, and the spiral design works more effectively. If you are an avid bread baker, get this hook. You’ll love it.

Fits precisely on my Artisan Pro. This is the perfect tool to make a pizza or bread dough. The dough is not climbing upwards.

I threw out my old dough hook because the white enamel finish was chipping off. I didn’t realize when I purchased yet his dough hook that you can only use it on the lowest speed of your Kitchen Aid stand mixer. I’ve decided that is not a problem for me, but it might be for someone.

On my very first use, the it caused my KitchenAid to strip 2 gears, creating a $180 repair. It was too late to return it when we finally used it, so out that money too.

This is a solid, heavy dough hook. Love it! Works much better than the c shaped hook that came with my Artisan KitchenAid stand mixer. No white paint to chip off 🫤. The dough does not climb the hook even with a two pound dough recipe. Very happy with it.