THE BOSCH UNIVERSAL PLUS KITCHEN MACHINE   

The Universal Plus has a Stronger Transmission: Even more important than a mixer's motor, is its transmission, which converts motor power into work. Our mass-marketing competitors build transmissions with inexpensive spur gears. The first shortcoming of spur gears is that they break under stress. Stress is a bowl full of bread dough or a triple batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Things you need your mixer to handle. Buyers tell us frequently that they're getting a Bosch Mixer now because their other mixer, often brand new, failed. The Universal Plus has a new sealed oil transmission for ultra-longevity.

The Bosch Mixer is More Efficient: The second major problem with spur gears is that even before they break, they transmit torque poorly. Torque is the ability to exert power at low turning speed — exactly what's required of a good mixer. The Universal's competition starts with a much smaller motor, then squanders much of it on the friction that is inherent to a gear drive system. Which is why many big mixers have surprisingly little oomph.

The Bosch Belt: The Universal Plus transmission uses a belt drive design so strong that fewer than 1% have failed within twenty years. And that's twenty years of much heavier work than most mixers ever see, because the Universal's reputation as a workhorse causes it to be purchased by a higher percentage of cooks who place high demands on their equipment. The belt drive of the Bosch Mixer also prevents motor failures from the heat that develops in the cramped gear enclosures of overhead drive machines, a major cause of "mixer meltdown" in other machines.  

Bosch Mixers: The Ultimate Kitchen Machine and Bread Maker

The Total Kitchen Center: This Bosch Mixer is a complete kitchen center. It's the world's premier mixer and bread maker and in one outstanding machine. Available attachments extend its range of abilities to include powerful blending, food processing, grinding and more.

Better Gluten Development: The Bosch Universal Plus Mixer has achieved its dedicated following among bread lovers not only because it lasts, but also because it produces. It makes better bread, faster and easier, because no one else has the patented three-arm stainless steel BreadMaster dough hook design plus the strength to run it in up to 15 lbs. of tough dough. The BreadMaster dough hook vigorously incorporates oxygen as its unique design stretches and folds dough against itself, processing 100% of your dough every four rotations around the bowl. By comparison, other mixers merely stir the dough, never achieving the Bosch's level of gluten development. Proper gluten development produces light bread with great texture. Merely stirring the dough produces "brick bread." Bread from the powerful Bosch Mixer needs to rise only once before baking, letting you make as many as nine loaves of fabulous fresh bread and have them out of the oven in just 75-80 minutes!

Mixing: Besides kneading dough, of course, you do want your mixer to mix, too — and the Bosch Universal's mixing action is unexcelled. The bowl has a "tubular" bottom profile like a deep bundt cake form. Twin whips mount on top of the narrow center column, driven from below by a stainless steel drive shaft. The whips spin rapidly as they rotate, and the whip drive design allows the whips to "float" against the bottom of the bowl. The bowl's "bundt cake shape" bottom profile ensures that no lump can escape... every bit of your ingredients get mixed perfectly. The Bosch Mixer's whipping action is so energetic it will make a cup and a half of meringue from a single egg white.

Access, Ease & Stability: The Bosch Universal's bottom-drive configuration gives you total access to the top of the bowl. A convenient two-part cover allows you to use just the splash ring, or add the lid for complete coverage.The bottom-drive design also provides tremendous no-tip stability through a low center of gravity rather than by adding a ton of weight to the base — weight you have to deal with every time you move the machine.  The mixing bowl of the Universal Plus mixer now locks down to the mixer's base for rock-solid attachment and even greater stability, and powerful suction-cup feet to keep your Bosch mixer right where you put it.

Optional  Accessories: Further down this page you can see the wide range of optional equipment that demonstrates the axiom, "No One Does It All Like BOSCH!" From food processing to making pasta, the Bosch Universal gives you the tools to do the job right. The most popular accessories for the Universal Plus are the Blender, and the Slicer Shredder.