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A benchtop spiral mixer built for dough and nothing else. The 8 L stainless bowl turns at 21 rpm while the spiral hook turns at 159 rpm inside it, which folds and stretches a bread or pizza dough the way hands do, only faster. It weighs 37 kg.
Free delivery to most addresses in NSW, ACT, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia; enter your postcode at checkout to confirm. We do not deliver to Tasmania or the Northern Territory yet. Dispatched within 1 to 2 business days; at this weight it goes by freight and can take 10 to 15 business days. Return within 30 days in the original packaging for a full refund.
Set it on a level bench, fit the bowl and hook, lower the guard and plug in. Start with a small batch to learn the timer.
A spiral mixer turns the bowl and the hook at once, so the dough is folded and stretched rather than beaten. Bread and pizza dough come out of it right.
Every part of the dough is carried past the hook and pushed against the fixed breaker bar in turn, which develops the dough evenly.
The head tilts back to lift the bowl out. It is the machine a pizzeria buys when the planetary mixer is being asked to do a job it was not built for.
What this usually leaves the warehouse with.

The bowl and the hook both turn clockwise, the bowl at 21 rpm and the hook at 159. A fixed stainless breaker rod down the middle of the bowl gives the dough something to fold against. That is the whole trick of a spiral mixer: the dough is worked continuously and evenly, so a stiff pizza dough develops evenly.

The panel is a waterproof on and off switch, a timer knob to 60 minutes, a reset button and a power light. The motor stops when the timer runs out or the guard is lifted, whichever comes first. If it stalls under a load it should not have had, the reset button brings it back.

Eight litres and 3 kg of dough per batch is about twelve 250 g pizza bases or four 700 g loaves. That suits a pizzeria doing its own dough, a café baking bread for the counter, a bakery test kitchen, or a serious home baker who has worn out a domestic machine. It fits on a 500 mm stretch of bench.
Speeds are fixed and geared. Each batch runs at the same two speeds from start to finish; the timer decides how long.
One bowl size in this range. If you regularly need more than 3 kg of dough at once, the answer is a second batch rather than a bigger benchtop machine; the next step up is a floor-standing mixer.
| Item | Detail | Motor | Weight | Price inc. GST | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 L Spiral mixer | 3 kg of dough per batch | 450 W | 37 kg | AU $919 | In stock |
| 610 equipment stand | Puts the bowl at working height | — | AU $189 | Add at checkout | |
| Ingredient bins 25 L x 3 | Flour, semolina and sugar beside the mixer | AU $179 | Add at checkout |
Ready to use out of the box. Have a second person to lift it.
A planetary mixer has one tool orbiting a fixed bowl and takes a hook, a beater and a whisk, so it does cakes and cream as well as dough. A spiral mixer only kneads, and it does that better: the turning bowl and fixed breaker rod develop dough faster and keep it cooler. Buy this for bread and pizza, the planetary for everything else.
Up to 3 kg of finished dough. That is a dozen 250 g pizza bases or four 700 g loaves.
No. It plugs into a standard power point; the motor is 450 W.
The guard has an interlock. The motor only runs with the guard down, so a hand cannot reach a turning hook. Lower the guard and press start to continue.
Clean the bowl, hook and rod after each batch and wipe the head and base with a damp cloth. Do not hose the machine; the motor is inside the head.