Breville BEM800XL Scraper Mixer Pro Review

Do you love to bake? Are you the person your family goes to for birthday cakes, holiday cookies, and other sweet treats? Well, no baker, whether they’re an amateur or a professional, can create their best sweet treats without the right equipment.

A stand mixer can make baking a much easier task. However, with all the different mixers on the market, choosing the right one can be overwhelming. Let’s take a look at the Breville BEM800XL Scraper Pro Stand Mixer to narrow down your options.

This stand mixer has 12 different speeds, a built-in timer, and a powerful motor with 550 watts. But not everyone has good things to say about the Scraper Pro.

Some users had the mixer become hot, while others found it was not as good for kneading bread dough as it claimed.

However, let’s take a more in-depth look at the Breville Scraper Pro, and then you can decide whether it’s the mixer for you.

Breville Scraper Pro Stand Mixer: The Details

In A Nutshell

• Weight: 2 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9 x 15.8 x 13.8 inches.
• Capacity: 5 quarts.
• Speeds: 12 speeds.
• Bowl type: Stainless-steel bowl.
• Motor: 550 watts.
• Warranty: One-year warranty.

Features

12 Speeds

The Scraper Pro comes with 12 different speeds. All that’s needed is turning the dial on the mixer to select which one you want.

There is an easy-to-read LED strip to show you what speed you’re on and what type of mixing that speed is good for (folding, kneading, whipping, etc.).

The mixer also starts off slow no matter what speed you set it on, ensuring you never accidentally cover yourself in flour or cake batter.

The Scraper Pro also comes with a pause function that will temporarily stop the mixer if you need to step away for a minute or want to add another ingredient. This feature also pauses the timer on the mixer if you’re using it.

10-Minute Timer and Auto Shut-Off

There is another LED display on the mixer that shows the timer, indicating how much time you have left or how long you’ve been mixing, depending on how you choose to set it up.

It can be programmed to count up or down. No more guesswork on how long you’ve been mixing something!

This is especially great if the recipe you’re using has a specific time.

Attachments

The Breville Scraper Pro comes with all the attachments you’ll need.

You’ll get a scraper beater, a burnished aluminum flat beater, a burnished aluminum dough hook for kneading bread, and a wire whip for whipping up egg whites and heavy cream.

The scraper attachment has flexible edges, so you don’t have to stop the mixer every couple of minutes to scrape down the sides of the bowl. You’ll get your tasty treats in the oven in no time.

The mixer also comes with a two-piece pouring shield, so you don’t have to worry about splashing ingredients on that new sweater you just bought. It makes it easier to add ingredients as well.

Don’t worry about clean up either! All the attachments are dishwasher safe.

Planetary Mixing Action

This mixer also comes with planetary mixing action. This means that whatever the recipe, your ingredients will be mixed together evenly.

There won’t be any pockets of flour or one section with more chocolate chips than another.

The mixer head spins counter-clockwise while the attachment spins clockwise, so it is sure to get everything incorporated.

5-Quart Stainless Steel Bowl

With the 5-quart stainless-steel bowl, you can make just about anything. Even if you don’t bake often, the holidays are a time when everyone is baking in large quantities. The Scraper Pro can take your double batches of cookie dough.

The bowl also has a large handle, so that it’s easy to lift and move around. You don’t have to worry about dropping the bowl even when you have a heavy batter or dough inside.

Load-Sensing Technology

One of the cooler features on this mixer is the load-sensing technology. It will detect if what you’re mixing is heavy and/or needs an extra boost from the motor to get the job done.

This means the motor is less likely to feel overloaded. If an overload does occur, the mixer will shut down, and then the LED screen will tell you what to do next (most likely, let the machine cool down before using it again).

Tilt-Release Head

This Breville also has a tilt-back head as opposed to a bowl-lift style.

When you lift up the head of the mixer, it will lock in place to avoid falling down on you when you’re trying to add ingredients or change the attachment.

The mixer also won’t turn on if the head is tilted up, which is a great safety feature.

Lift-Assist Handles

The mixer also has handles, making it easy to grab and carry around when you need to store it away after use.

The handles are on the bottom and front of the machine.

Warranty

The Breville comes with a one-year repair warranty and a five-year motor warranty.

Any defective parts will be replaced for a year, and issues with the motor can be dealt with for up to five years.

Breville BEM800XL Scraper Mixer Pro Review

The Positives

Sturdy

Multiple users noted how sturdy the Scraper Pro Stand Mixer is. It is made of die-cast metal, which helps it to avoid wobbling across the countertop like some mixers are known to do.

The mixer will stay balanced and stable on your countertop even when you are working at high speeds or kneading heavy bread doughs.

Easy to Manage in Size

You won’t need to clear out a ton of space to have this stand mixer in your kitchen. It’s not clunky so it won’t be an eyesore if you choose to leave it on your countertop for frequent baking.

This is great for those who are short on space, and if you do decide to keep it tucked away, it weighs in at about twenty pounds so it won’t be too much of a hassle to store away in a cupboard or cabinet until you need it.

Convenient and Saves Time

A lot of users also like how convenient some of the features are on the mixer. The timer and the pause mode make it easy to step away from the mixer without worry.

The pause mode also makes it easy to add ingredients or check the progress of whatever you’re mixing, without having to keep turning the mixer off and on.

A number of users also noted how much time the Scrape Pro saved them.

The scraper attachment works to ensure nothing sticks to the side of the bowl, so you don’t have to keep pausing the mixer to scrape the sides or to ensure everything is incorporated properly.

Baking can be time-consuming and frustrating enough; it’s great that the Breville makes it a little easier.

Quiet

No longer will your family or housemates be annoyed by your midnight baking sessions. The Breville mixer is quiet thanks to its smooth operating motor.

Those with sensitive ears will be thankful to not be distracted by the whirrs and buzzes of their stand mixer, and you’ll be able to easily tune in to the radio or have a conversation while you wait for your ingredients to combine.

Easy to Clean

We all know how daunting the task of cleaning up can be after completing a recipe. Thankfully, the Breville BEM800XL makes it easy.

Not only does it come with a splatter shield to reduce the amount of mess made when mixing, since the body is made of metal, it makes it super easy to wipe down should some batter get away.

As for the attachments, they’re dishwasher safe, so you can just toss it all in with a load and call it a day.

We’re all for more time baking and less time cleaning!

The Negatives

Not for Bread Dough

Some users stated that this mixer is not for bread dough no matter what it says when you buy it. The mixer became hot, smoked, and struggled when dealing with bread kneading.

It would be better to use this Breville solely for cake batters, cookie mixes that aren’t too thick, and thinner bread batters (i.e. banana bread, pumpkin bread, etc.).

Heats Up

The mixer also seems to heat up when working on thicker batters and doughs.

While the overheating shut-off does work, it was so frequent that users were becoming frustrated.

The safety feature is great, but if it’s being set off too often, is it really worth using the machine?

Pouring Shield

A few users also found the pouring shield to be pretty difficult to work with. It’s hard to get on and off the bowl, and is not very stable.

Some even noted that they had to jiggle it around a little before it would snap into place.

While the pouring shield is convenient, it’s something that isn’t necessary to use your machine with unless you’re making a really messy batter.

If you can live without it, this con won’t be a bother.

Here’s a video showing what the Breville Scraper Mixer Pro looks like out of the box.

Overall Verdict

After looking over all the positives and the negatives, we are recommending the Breville BEM800XL Scraper Mixer.

The number of users who had issues with the mixer smoking is definitely a cause for some concern and if you make any kind of bread dough, this may not be the mixer for you.

However, if you just want a mixer to create the occasional batch of cookies, a cake, or a pan of brownies, the Breville seems to be great for that.

Where to Buy the Breville BEM800XL Scraper Mixer Pro

Breville is no newbie to the kitchen appliance market with a variety of products already on the shelves of stores across the nation.

The Breville BEM800XL Scraper Mixer Pro fits right in line with their current products and can be found both in-store and online.

To kick-start your search, check out the following online retailers.

• Breville (from $399)
• Wal Mart (from $299)
• Sears (from $420)

But of course, you can also find this stand mixer on Amazon.

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That’s it for our Breville BEM800XL review. Would you give it a try?