THE VIDEO SHELF · appliance teardown
BOLTR: KitchenAid Mixer. SURPRISE!
AvE tears down a high-end KitchenAid stand mixer, looking at its castings, large DC motor and gear train. He also picks apart some design trade-offs.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters point to it as an entertaining teardown and as evidence that KitchenAid mixers are stoutly built.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- AvE
- Topic
- appliance teardown
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This might be slightly off-topic, but if you like this type of teardown content, I highly recommend checking out AVE's channel on Youtube [1]. He does plenty of tool teardown's, things like drills, all types of heavy industrial gear, and some electronics thrown in. I …
WestCoastJustin on Hacker News · 2017-03
In Nintendo Switch TeardownI thought the BOLTR teardown of one was entertaining: [VIDEO] Sadly, it's only one model. I'd love to see a lot more consumer products be subjected to this kind of treatment.
mumblemumble on Hacker News · 2020-03
In How KitchenAid and Le Creuset Took over Kitchens
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