Best Stand Mixers on a Budget

Can’t justify spending a lot of money on a stand mixer as an occasional baker, for the infrequent chef, these cheaper stand mixers may be your answer.

Essential Stand Mixer Attachments

What is usually included with your stand mixers are a set of basic mixer attachments or sometimes known as tools. These attachments will perform most of the required tasks of a mixer but you can extend this with optional accessories and attachments. Let’s take a look at some of the basic attachments:

• Dough Blade: for heavy cake mixes or kneading dough for bread
• Balloon Whisk: for whisking egg whites and creams
• Flexible Beater Blade for sticky mixtures that tend to stick tot eh side of the bowl. The flexible blade sweeps the bowl for a better and more even mixture.
• Beater Blade: for beating cake mixes and batters

Now for the optional Attachments

• Ice cream maker attachment / bowl: for making creamy or sherbet ice cream.
• Blender attachment: where supported, this usually goes on top of the stand mixer and turns your mixer into a blender
• Pasta roller and pasta shape press extruder
• Food Grinder and Food Processor attachments and slicer or shredder attachment

As stand mixers go, you can find a good range of affordable offerings from different manufacturers. You might ask yourself, do I bake often to justify going all out for an expensive mixer or am I the occasional baker?

If the answer is YES to the former and you prefer something more heavy duty, lasting and solid, see Top 10 Best Kitchen Stand Mixers. But if you answer YES to the later and only pull out your mixer once in a blue moon than one of these Stand Mixers is what you need.

Top 5 Stand Mixers on a Budget

Here is a quick look at our best and still cheap and good value stand mixers for under 200 in the market. Use the links below and elsewhere on this page to access the stand mixers on Amazon.

1. Andrew James Electric Food Stand Mixer
2. Breville Pick and Mix Hand and Stand Mixer
3. Morphy Richards Accents Stand Mixer
4. VonShef Stand Mixer, 5.5 Litre, 1200 Watt, Black – BIGGEST CAPACITY, MOST POWERFUL
5. Morphy Richards Folding Stand Mixer – MOST COMPACT

BONUS: One more food mixer from the french company Tefal

1. Tefal Kitchen Machine Compact with Blender Attachment – BLENDER ATTACHMENT

Now for a Closer Look

Andrew James Electric Food Stand Mixer

Notable Features

• Solid Construction
• Robust gear mechanism
• Versatile and great for mixing, whipping, stirring and kneading
• Bowl Capacity:  5.2 litres [BIG CAPACITY]
• Included Attachments: Dough hook, Flexible Beater blade, Stainless Steel Whisk and beater blade [4 MIXER ATTACHMENTS], silicon spatula and 128 page recipe cook book
• Power & Speed Settings: 800 Watt motor, 6 power levels and a pulse level settings
• Bowl Type: Stainless Steel bowl with splash guard but without handle
• Optional Accessories: Dust Cover, Ice Cream Maker Attachment and Three Tier Stackable Cooling Rack
• Colour Options: Silver, Black, Red, Classic Cream

5.2 litres | 4 Mixer Attachments | 800 Watt 6 Speed and Pulse | Stainless Steel Bowl | 4 Colour Options

Breville Pick and Mix Hand and Stand Mixer

Notable Features

• 2 in 1, hand and stand mixer mode with detachable mixer unit to use as hand mixer for better control.
• small and lightweight with 1950’s retro look in pastel colours
• patented twin motor, one powers the beaters and the other rotates the bowl allowing the beater to reach a greater area for more thorough mix
• Bowl Capacity:  2 litres for liquid and 1 kg capacity for dry food [SMALLEST CAPACITY]
• Included Attachments: stainless steel beater, whisks, dough hooks [3 MIXER ATTACHMENTS] and spatula
• Power & Speed Settings: 380Watt motor, 10 power levels
• Bowl Type: Stainless Steel bowl without handle
• Optional Accessories: None
• Colour Options: 3 options; Strawberry Cream, Pistachio and Vanilla Cream (seen here is the Vanilla Cream)

2 litres | 3 Mixer Attachments | 380 Watt 10 Speed | Stainless Steel Bowl | 3 Colour Options

Also see: Breville Digital Twin Motor Stand And Hand Mixer

Morphy Richards Accents Stand Mixer

Notable Features

• Orbital mixing action to ensure perfect mix
• lightweight and easy to maneuver
• A dough hook for homemade breads and pastries, a beater for cake and cookie mixtures and a whisk for meringues and icing
• Bowl Capacity:  5 litres [BIG CAPACITY]
• Included Attachments: cake beater, whixk and dough hook [3 MIXER ATTACHMENTS] as well as recipes and instruction booklet.
• Power & Speed Settings: 800 Watt motor, 6 speed settings
• Bowl Type: Stainless Steel bowl with splash guard but without handle
• Optional Accessories: None
• Colour Options: Silver, Black, Red, Classic Cream

5 litres | 3 Mixer Attachments | 800 Watt 6 Speed | Stainless Steel Bowl | 4 Colour Options

VonShef Stand Mixer, 5.5 Litre, 1200 Watt, Black

Notable Features

• Powerful motor with 6 speed setting, pulse function and planetary mixing motion.
• large volume perfect for large celebration cakes for a maximum of 2 kg mixture preperation and 5 litre liquid
• Chrome dough hook for mixing dough and heavier cakes; chrome beater and whisk for whisking egg whites, creaming ingredients and for light cake mixtures or batters,
• Bowl Capacity:  5.5 litres [BIGGEST CAPACITY]
• Included Attachments: Flat Beater, Kneading Dough Hook, Balloon Whisk [3 MIXER ATTACHMENTS]and 200 recipe cook book
• Power & Speed Settings: 1200 Watt motor, 6 speed and a pulse function settings [MOST POWERFUL]
• Bowl Type: Stainless Steel bowl with splash guard but without handle
• Optional Accessories: VonShef Nylon Dust Cover in Black, Silver, Red or White.
• Colour Options: Silver, Black, Red

5.5 litres | 3 Mixer Attachments | 1200 Watt 6 Speed and Pulse | Stainless Steel Bowl | 3 Colour Options

Also see: VonShef 450W Stand Mixer and VonShef 650W Stand Mixer

Morphy Richards Folding Stand Mixer

Notable Features

• Robotic arm construction folds down to a third of its height for easy storage and space saving. [MOST SPACE SAVING]
• Compact storage box to keep your mixer when not in use.
• Bowl Capacity:  3.5 litres
• Included Attachments: Cake beater, whisk and dough hook [3 MIXER ATTACHMENTS] and spatula
• Power & Speed Settings: 300 Watt motor, 6 speed
• Bowl Type: Stainless Steel bowl without handle
• Optional Accessories: None
• Colour Options: White, Red, Classic Cream

3.5 litres | 3 Mixer Attachments | 300 Watt 6 Speed | Stainless Steel Bowl | 3 Colour Options

Others Worth Mentioning Here

Tefal Kitchen Machine Compact with Blender Attachment

Notable Features

• Compact design takes up less space
• Planetary movement with the head of the machine and the tools rotate simultaneously for increased efficiency with faster and even mixing
• Blender attachment included for making soups and smoothies
• Bowl Capacity: 3.5 litres and 1 litre blender [BLENDER ATTACHMENT]
• Included Attachments: dough hook, wire whisk, beater [3 MIXER ATTACHMENTS] and instruction booklet with recipes.
• Power & Speed Settings: e.g. 700 Watt motor, 4 speed settings with pulse function
• Bowl Type: Stainless Steel with splash guard but without handle
• Optional Attachments: None
• Colour Options:White and gray

3.5 litres | 3 Mixer Attachments | 700 Watt 4 Speed | Stainless Steel Bowl | 1 Colour Options

Our Line-up

Here is a quick look at our best and still cheap and good value stand mixers in the market. For the most up to date prices on Amazon, please click on the links below:

1. Andrew James Electric Food Stand Mixer
2. Breville Pick and Mix Hand and Stand Mixer
3. Morphy Richards Accents Stand Mixer
4. VonShef Stand Mixer, 5.5 Litre, 1200 Watt, Black – BIGGEST CAPACITY, MOST POWERFUL
5. Morphy Richards Folding Stand Mixer – MOST COMPACT

BONUS: One more food mixer from the french company Tefal

1. Tefal Kitchen Machine Compact with Blender Attachment  – BLENDER ATTACHMENT