Our top picks come from KitchenAid, Wolf Gourmet, and Ankarsrum. A vast majority of baking recipes call for a stand mixer. And we’ve long recommended the KitchenAid Professional Series 600 Stand Mixer ...

When it comes to how we test stand mixers, I don't like to sugarcoat anything (except, of course when I'm icing a cake).

I bake a lot of sourdough bread — over 1,000 loaves in the past four years. Every six days or so I pull four one-kilogram loaves out of my oven, piling my counter high with deep brown batards that I ...