KitchenAid 5KFP7FF User Manual

However, it wasn’t until after the First World War, when American

manufacturers could finally reclaim their businesses from bleak but

necessary war work, he was able to really begin. He knew his home mixer

would have to be made from the highest quality materials, that it would

have reliable mechanical workings, and, in his inimitable forward-thinking

way, that it would look good. In 1919, it was ready. When it was

launched, the KitchenAid Hobart model H-5 caused a sensation. With his

insistence on quality, only four machines a day were made in his

Springfield, Ohio factory.
During the following decade, he worked tirelessly on refining the mixer

because his ambition for the next model was that it should be made to the

same exacting standards but at a price everyone could afford. The

stunning, elegant model G, launched in 1927, made the company’s fortune,

selling 10,000 every year for the next three years.
The devastating effects of the Depression in the 1930s called for even

cheaper models. So, in 1936, Johnston employed the fantastic design skills

of Egmont Arens, also editor of Creative Arts magazine, and society rag

Vanity Fair. His flair combined with the uncompromising quality of the

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mixer, produced three new K-models. The “K” won awards,

became a design museum must-have, and in 1955, when it was produced

in a range of colours, it put the world of white goods in a spin and

America fell in love with Sunny Yellow, Island Green, Satin Chrome,

Antique Copper and Petal Pink.

KITCHENAID – style icon for almost a century

Designed at a time when the United States was fizzing with energy, when

American manufacturers led the way in making state-of-the-art machinery,

KitchenAid has kept its legendary number one position in both professional

and domestic kitchens. The brand’s continuing - and unique - ability to

combine beauty with the latest innovations in technology make it, still, the

most coveted range of kitchen appliances in the world.
It is 1908, the year the Harvard Business School is established, William C

Durant founds the company that will eventually be General Motors, Henry

Ford produces the Model T, and Ohio-based engineer Herbert Johnston

begins his own work on developing a commercial mixer that will transform

the baker’s backbreaking, laborious art.
It took Johnston six long years to get his first mixer to market. The Hobart

model H, launched in 1914, was an immediate commercial

success. With a massive 75-litre capacity, bakers’ lives were

changed forever, making light work of the mixing and kneading

that used to be done by hand. As well as the established

bakery chains who invested in the machine, in 1917, the US

Navy installed the monster mixer in the galleys of its entire

fleet of ships. Not one to stand still, Johnston saw the

enormous potential of what he had produced, and put his fine

engineering mind to work developing a smaller but just as

efficient mixer for the cook in the domestic kitchen.