We had a similar experience tooling up our kitchen. I ended up buying used, high quality appliances from an earlier era. Best move ever! Our Kitchen Aid mixe

We had a similar experience tooling up our kitchen. I ended up buying used, high quality appliances from an earlier era. Best move ever! Our Kitchen Aid mixer, for example, is metal construction, has servicable motor parts, and just works. Well, it did get glitchy a month or two back. I took it apart, saw flour everywhere. Hit it with compressed air, greased up some things, cleaned the motor brushes and mating parts, put it back together and it's like new! Toaster, blender, can opener, all the same deal. When I get them, I do a quick test and refurb on them. Doesn't take long, and often I can get parts, depending on what it is. Once I know the device, I feel like I can depend on it. And going used = ultra cheap. It's kind of crazy how cheap. And these things are simple. They have the features they need to and that's kind of it. Attachments are not hard to find either. Worst case it's a bad call. Oh well, try again.