The History
of Kenwood
Stand Mixers

1947

1947 was a good year for Britain: it was the year that Cambridge allowed full membership for women for the first time; the year that eight theatre companies gate-crashed the Edinburgh International Festival which was the beginnings of what is now the largest arts festival in the world – the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; and the year that Queen Elizabeth II married The Duke of Edinburgh to a televised audience of 400,000.  It was also the year that Kenneth Wood cleverly redesigned the electric toaster to toast both sides without touching the bread. It may seem like a simple design to us today, but it paved the way for us to revolutionise the kitchen appliances we know and love today.

Kenneth’s ideas soon outgrew his garage, taking him (and his then business partner, Roger Laurence), to his first factory in Woking and the business grew from there. We have a habit of looking forward; of driving the very best in design and technology in our products so you can make the food you love. But we wouldn’t be where we are today without decades of innovation...

1948

The Founder
Food Mixer A200
Four speeds, two bowls, twin beater mixers, a mincer, fruit juice extractor, whisk, and even a buffer for getting your cutlery gleaming in no time. The first Kenwood Food Mixer was an instant hit in households around the world.

1950

The Trailblazer
Chef Mixer A700
  With its grand launch at The Ideal Home Exhibition, the first ever Kenwood Chef set a legacy that has lived on ever since. Its secret ingredient? The planetary action which results in ‘double thorough mixing’. It offered a complete food preparation system thanks to a range of attachments. Combining function and modern design, it was – and still is – a kitchen icon.

1962

Redizajn
Chef Mixer A701A
Po celosvetovom úspechu modelu Chef v 50. rokoch si meniace sa trendy vyžiadali nový vzhľad. A701A prišiel s vylepšeným motorom, prevodovkou a remeňovým pohonom, ako aj s modernejším vzhľadom. Stal sa žiadaným kúskom každej domácnosti a vystihoval atmosféru búrlivých 60. rokov.

1976

Nadštandard
Chef A901
Aj keď si zachoval podobný vzhľad, bol štíhlejší a úplne prepracovaný zvnútra. Rýchlostné ovládanie bolo inovované. Už nebol určený len pre domáce kuchyne, ale aj pre profesionálov. A po prvýkrát bol dostupný v odvážnych a živých farbách.

1981

Gurmán
Chef De Luxe A901DL
Béžový s hnedým lemovaním, A901DL mal nerezovú misu a kryt proti striekaniu. Stelesňoval luxus 80. rokov.

1998

Silák
Chef KM400
V čoraz rušnejších domácnostiach bolo treba variť rýchlejšie. KM400 priniesol vyšší výkon na väčšie množstvá, zvládol aj cesto na cestoviny a mal novú prevodovku pre pripojenie nového nadstavca – kuchynského robota.

2017

The Future
Chef Sense KVC5000 
Fast forward to the 21st century but keeping true to that popular 60s silhouette, the new Chef Sense offered three bowl attachments for every mixing need – the K beater, the dough hook and the balloon whisk. In addition, it provided an extra-large feed tube and 1100W motor to handle tougher mixes, and came in a range of muted pastels.
  
2017 also saw the release of the Titanium Chef KVC7300. With a 1500W motor, an enormous 4.6L mixing bowl (with in-bowl illumination) and variable speed control, the Titanium was the more powerful upgrade of its sibling, the Chef Sense.

2020

The Chef that Cooks
The new Kenwood Cooking Chef XL indulges a passion for food, supporting culinary creations from preparation to perfection. Its CookAssist™ 4.3” Touch Screen offers expertly crafted pre-set functions such as dough proving and swiss meringue, ensuring best results, at the touch of a button.

The Cooking Chef XL also connects seamlessly to the Kenwood World app, allowing step by step connectivity to tried and tested recipes created by our passionate in-house chefs.

The Ultimate Chef
In 2020, we also launched the Titanium Chef Patissier XL. There’s so much we can say about it. More than a mixer, it delivers expert results through generations of innovation. It can prove bread and melt ingredients in the mixing bowl, and the preset functions on the touchscreen allow for precision results. The use of in-bowl weighing saves time (and washing up!) And there’s so much more. Meet your new Chef, the Titanium Chef Patissier XL.

2021

Today
The Titanium Chef Baker brings the addition of integrated EasyWeigh scales to the Chef mixer, so ingredients can be weighed directly into the bowl or attachment. Saving time during the baking process and reducing mess in the kitchen which is always a good thing! And if efficiency isn’t enough, we’ve introduced Pop Tops - our interchangeable mixer lids in a range of stunning shades so you can change your mixer to your mood. So when your kitchen colour scheme changes, your mixer can too.