"Love Braun and these designs are wonderful, BUT the KM 32 Kitchen Machine has a fault! The rotating bowl, which runs on a spindle and accompanying 'cogs' produces unwanted plastic fragments and those fragments enter the mixing bowl and hence, the food you're creating. Most of these machines show a lot of wear and tear at the top edge of the mixing bowl and the spindle, and you'll see on close inspection that the plastic (I think it was actually a Bakelite material) was worn away dramatically. "