Honey, the 2021 Color of the Year for the KitchenAid® Artisan Stand Mixer – which exudes sweetness and truly captures the warmth that comes from bringing people together. This color reflects the global desire for togetherness, celebrates the kitchen as a place of connection, and represents a moment in time.
Color of the Year
KitchenAid Brand continues to champion color to fuel our creative curators and develop deeper conversations about color – one that draws on emotion and inspiration. In 2021, Honey demonstrates the desire for togetherness and a moment in time, translated into a rich, warm hue. The color was chosen to bring people together globally,and celebrate the kitchen as a place of connection.
Over 10 Stand Mixer Attachments Available*
To make everything from fresh pasta to burgers, veggie noodles, ice cream and more. *sold separately.
Make More with Multiple Bowls
Includes (1) 5 Quart Stainless Steel Bowl to mix up to 9 dozen cookies, and (1) 3.5 Quart Stainless Steel Bowl to mix up to 5 dozen cookies, and it’s also great for smaller tasks like whipping egg whites. Both bowls feature a comfortable handle and are dishwasher safe.
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number.
Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs.
An artisan (from French: artisan, Italian: artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand. These objects may be functional or strictly decorative, for example furniture, decorative art, sculpture, clothing, food items, household items, and tools and mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork movement of a watchmaker. Artisans practice a craft and may through experience and aptitude reach the expressive levels of an artist.
A head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilaterally symmetric forms do, regardless of size.
Heads develop in animals by an evolutionary trend known as cephalization. In bilaterally symmetrical animals, nervous tissue concentrate at the anterior region, forming structures responsible for information processing. Through biological evolution, sense organs and feeding structures also concentrate into the anterior region; these collectively form the head.
Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primarily floral nectar) or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, and during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous.
Honey bees stockpile honey in the hive. Within the hive is a structure made from wax called honeycomb. The honeycomb is made up of hundreds or thousands of hexagonal cells, into which the bees regurgitate honey for storage. Other honey-producing species of bee store the substance in different structures, such as the pots made of wax and resin used by the stingless bee.
Honey for human consumption is collected from wild bee colonies, or from the hives of domesticated bees. The honey produced by honey bees is the most familiar to humans, thanks to its worldwide commercial production and availability. The husbandry of bees is known as beekeeping or apiculture, with the cultivation of stingless bees usually referred to as meliponiculture.
Honey is sweet because of its high concentrations of the monosaccharides fructose and glucose. It has about the same relative sweetness as sucrose (table sugar). One standard tablespoon (15 mL) of honey provides around 190 kilojoules (46 kilocalories) of food energy. It has attractive chemical properties for baking and a distinctive flavor when used as a sweetener. Most microorganisms cannot grow in honey and sealed honey therefore does not spoil. Samples of honey discovered in archaeological contexts have proven edible even after millennia.
Honey use and production has a long and varied history, with its beginnings in prehistoric times. Several cave paintings in Cuevas de la Araña in Spain depict humans foraging for honey at least 8,000 years ago. While Apis mellifera is an Old World insect, large-scale meliponiculture of New World stingless bees has been practiced by Mayans since pre-Columbian times.
The quart (symbol: qt) is a unit of volume equal to a quarter of a gallon. Three kinds of quarts are currently used: the liquid quart and dry quart of the US customary system and the imperial quart of the British imperial system. All are roughly equal to one liter. It is divided into two pints or (in the US) four cups. Historically, the size of a quart has varied with the different values of gallons over time, and in the case of the dry quart, in reference to different commodities.
by Judy
I have a plain white kitchenaid stand mixer purchased for me by my in-laws 25 yrs ago for Christmas. The in-laws have passed on but my mixer works on. I’m considering a new one, would love the Honey, but, REALLY? You charge more for a COLOR? Love my plain white KitchenAid mixer.
by Owie
I owned one for 30+ yrs but my hubby saw my excitement when I came across this honey color of the year model and ordered it for me.
by Laura
This was my first mixer and I am so glad I chose it. It’s very heavy duty and also easy to use. I was really intimidated by stand mixers for some reason at first. I like that it comes with interchangeable bowls, and there’s a ton of options for extra parts. I want to get the pasta maker next! It fits under my cabinets and the deep orange is so pretty. My kitchen is dark blue/light blue/white/dark brown and the splash of the deep orange adds a really nice accent to the decor. I finally was able to make homemade cinnamon rolls that I’ve been wanting to try for so long! It’s also surprisingly quiet, I thought it would sound like my heavy duty blender which terrifies my cats every time I turn it on, but it’s actually pretty normal sounding. Highly recommend!
by Sarah
I’m really surprised how much I love the orange/rust color. It has a ‘Moroccan’ style feel to it that works really well with probably any kitchen theme and if you’re looking to brighten up/warm am empty space on your counter. I’ve never used a Kitchen Aid before this, so my first project was making a cake! I was so surprised how easy it was to use, and requires very little to put together and get started. This appliance is a game changer in the kitchen, and with a fun color
by Kmill
KitchenAid Mixers have earned their reputation as the best in the business, so it comes as no surprise that this Artisan Series Tilt-Head Stand Mixer is a beautiful workhorse, doing its job efficiently and looking great in the process. Durable, bright, and simple to use, I’ll never not have a KitchenAid living on my counter.
This KitchenAid Mixer is a bright tangerine color that absolutely pops against our white/gray backsplash. It’s the first thing you notice, and the first that usually draws compliments. Having a silver KitchenAid (and loving it), this has everything we loved about our previous model, with a fun, contemporary color.
Aesthetics aside, the KitchenAid works with powerful, quiet grace. It came with four attachments, a splatter guard, and two mixing bowls (standard and a small). No task is too small, and no batter too thick for it to do its work quickly and effectively.
And it is built to last. Seriously, we’ve had our previous model for years and it looks and functions as new. We gave it to our daughter (an aspiring baker), and, because we can’t live without one, we were happy to replace it with this brighter sibling. The KitchenAid is a durable, solidly built machine that when cared for will last for at least a decade (so far at least, according to our previous model).
I do have one negative comment…right out of the box we put on the whisk attachment and it got very tightly locked on. Nothing was making it budge. The internet offered many solutions, but almost all concerned attachments that had been used and food had welded it on. We hadn’t done anything but, straight out of the box, put it on. I tried wrapping a hot, damp rag around it, and using mineral oil. Nothing seemed to work and I was about to give up. After a day or two I gave it another try, and after some heavy fiddling, it finally loosened enough that I could rotate the whisk back and forth and then suddenly, inexplicably it released. No real idea why, and no problem since. Unfortunately I’m not sure what caused it to seize up, or what caused it to release, but thankfully it did and we’ve been up and running since.
That said, I had no doubt that KitchenAid would’ve assisted if it had gotten to that point, as I have high regard for the commitment and love they put into their products. And for that I very highly recommend.
by Amini
This is the 2nd KitchenAid Mixer I’ve owned and I only bought a second one purely for the color. It is such a great way to add a bit of color to my kitchen, the perfect accent to my counter. All the attachments are great. I find it a bit difficult to work with the plastic guard as it is a bit too flimsy to stay in place but I still use it.
by James
KitchenAid makes the best stand mixer at this time. I was very impressed with the sleek paint job of this Artisan Series mixer, the color is a very warm orange and looks great on my counter. The mixer is plug and play. No need to read any directions. Easy speed lever on the one side, with a lock on the other side. The attachments are easy to install and seem to fit perfectly in the bowl. The bowl is easy to insert into the stand. The lock holds up well even when mixing tough dough’s and full mixes. Scraping on paddle attachment is wonderful and saves time not having to stop mixer and scrape down bowl.
by Robbel
The kitchenaid mixer really lives up to the hype. It comes with a 5 Quart Stainless Steel Bowl, 3 Quart Stainless Steel Bowl, Coated Flat Beater, Flex Edge Beater, Coated Dough Hook, 6-Wire Whip, Pouring Shield. I have yet to buy other attachments but I plan on doing so soon. Looking at the spiralizer and meat grinder attachment. Surprisingly, they are not as expensive as I thought they would be. My cheesecakes in the past have been notoriously laborious, having to scrape the sides before adding the eggs and after adding the eggs to avoid unmixed cream cheese. That’s a thing of the past now (I did buy a mixer head with a silicon side scraper, though the stock one works just as well). I can mix my filling ingredients whilst intricately levelling and perfecting the sides of my graham cracker crust, cutting 5-10 minutes off of prep time. When making regular cakes, I can throw the ingredients in, start the mixer, and forget about it as I oil and flour my pans, reducing prep time there as well. If you’ve never owned a kitchenaid stand mixer before, you’ll be surprised at how dang heavy it is! You’re getting a solid piece of machinery. I highly recommend this product for ALL you baking projects!!
by Ed
I always knew that Kitchen Aid is a very well known and trusted brand. I just didn’t trust myself to make the move and purchase this mixer. Their mixers are so highly rated and I felt intimidated to use it. That feeling of intimidation of using a new appliance flew out the window and excitement took it’s place when this Artisan mixer was delivered right to my front door! I could not have imagined how easy it would be to use. I’m by no means a professional but this AMAZING Artisan mixer makes me feel like one when using it to make delicious foods! Whether it’s fresh baked bread or cake they turned out perfect! It incorporates the ingredients with such ease. No more tired hands kneading dough, whisking batter, beating eggs for meringues or mixing cookie dough. For someone who did not like to be in the kitchen, now you can’t get me out of it. I love that it offers the stainless steal bowl instead of a glass bowl. Offers many features. Made of top quality materials. Nothing cheap about it!! I enjoy displaying it on my kitchen counter with it’s Honey hue color when not in use. It is a show piece no doubt about it. It’s a conversation piece to say the least. This would make an excellent housewarming gift, a bridal shower gift or just buy it for yourself! This will be your favorite new appliance that you will use for old recipes and maybe some new ones. You will not be disappointed!
by Elazo
I’m a beginner in the kitchen and this was very easy to use! This machine makes baking sooo much easier and more fun! I love that I can easily tilt the head back so I can add more ingredients or if I need to push down the edge with a spatula. So far, I’ve used this for whipping egg whites and heavy cream and mixing butter and dough. I can’t wait to try more attachments. It’s not that loud, especially since it’s so powerful, I don’t actually have it on for that long. There’s also a shield included that makes it easy to pour in ingredients so you don’t have to stop the mixer and it prevents any splatters. It’s quite heavy so I just leave it on the countertop. The biggest difference for me is the amount of time I save (which is essential as a mom!).