What is the best kitchen appliance for kneading dough?

I'd get a Kitchenaid food mixer with the dough hook attachment - great appliance, very reliable :)

http://www.kitchenaid.co.uk/app.cnt/ka/en_GB/pagei...

Like Sue said "Kenwood Chef and the dough hook.."

Been making bread this way for a couple of years, 5 mins in the Chef saves 20mins of kneading by hand and the elasticity is just as good.

Do check the load capacity of the machine though. I burn't out two cheap machines by trying to use more than 400g of flour.

We now own a Kenwood Chef KM265 with dough hook and it'll quite happily mix 500g of flour. But it's not a cheap machine though!

I would get a kitchen aid mixer. They have a dough hook that works wonders. Expensive though, but in my opinion it's worth it.

Kenwood Chef and the dough hook or your hands.

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Gram, mom, and myself have always relied on our hands... they never burn out, and you develop forearm strength.