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It's my 20th anniversary at work. One of the options is a Cuisinart 500 watt stand mixer. Any feedback good bad or indifferent?

Get something else and buy a Kitchen Aid.

KitchenAid with the tilt back FTW

What the 2 fine, fat fellas, above me said !

What about an instant pot 11 in 1 cooker?

If you don’t have one you should. We now have two, they replaced our crockpot. One for side dishes and one for the protein. Extremely versatile and make food taste like it was cooked all day in a few hours. Definitely not instant but quicker slow cooker type results. Just like grandma’s old school pressure cooker but easier.

I’ll be the odd man out and say if you are in the market for a mixer check out the Bosch mixer. Heavier duty than most of the newer kitchenaids with the plastic internals.

I have owned a Cuisinart stand mixer, worked well for me.

A kitchen is not really a kitchen without a Stand Mixer.

Kitchen Aid Artisan

My wife's.

Damn, that's like the biggest compliment I've gotten all year, and from a Canadian no less 😉😎😎

Kitchenaid Classic is my choice. Depends on what you want to do with it though. I make a lot of small batches of sausage--3-6 pounds at a time. In fact I wrote my wild game cookbook Sausage Season using the Kitchenaid Classic, and a Lem sausage mixer when I wanted to test a 12-15 pound batch. The Kitchenaid took a lot of abuse and worked great. I tested/made a ton (literally) of sausage in that machine. And still am making it. Favorites are the Polish, fresh Italian and Greek with tzaziki sauce.

The shape of the bowl was important to me. The Classic has a more tapered bowl than a lot of the other mixers. Other bowls are wide at the bottom so it's harder for the mixing paddle to pick up and incorporate all the mix. (Unless they've made the paddles wider, lately, which I have not seen.)

The same is true with bread making, the other thing I use the Kitchenaid for a lot. In both sausage and bread mixing, the mixing is integral to the success of the end product. I bought one of those bigger stand mixers with the wider bowl once. I ended up having to stop the machine and run a spatula down the sides to incorporate the rest of the mix. I returned it immediately and went back to the Classic.

Good news is the Classic is the less pricey model KitchenAid stand mixer.

Congratulations on your anniversary.

I'm not a great chef but If I were choosing between a Cuisinart 500 and an Insta Pot, I'd get the Insta Pot.
We use ours a lot.

Congrats on hanging on for 20!

I'll out my 2 cents in re the Instantpot. They are great at browning, and cooking really tough stuff. But it takes at least 30 minutes to start it up, another 30-40 minutes to release the pressure safely, so you can open the pot. Plus the cooking time. So if the meat is not really tough it's faster to cook it in a Dutch oven, and DOs are a lot cheaper.
Plus depending on where you buy it, replacement valves may not be available. I bought my first one at Costco, lost the valve, and found out Instapot did not and never would make replacement valves for that run of pots. Luckily Costco refunded the price.
On top of that, Instapot is in financial trouble. I just read they're closing down/going bankrupt. Either way, the question remains: will you be able to get replacement valves, and sealing rings if you need them.

I love our Ninja Foodi, fantastic oil-free fries and other stuff, that's for sure!

I have big kitchenaid mixer but I rarely use it. I was going to learn it bake about 6 years ago but I never did. It has some attachments for cutting zuchini. I have other appliances that more better than the kitchenaid would so I don't have any interest in the accessories.

i agree. I have an Emeril air fryer, but same thing. I've cooked whole chickens in 15 minutes, without heating up the house. Baked potatoes. Fries. Inexpensive, easy to clean, save energy. They're also really good for frozen snacks, like hot pockets or mini pizzas. Sausage or hamburger patties.

We have had a KitchenAid stand mixer for a long time, and it worked as advertised, seeing a lot of use. My wife was wanting an upgrade one for Christmas, so my son bought her a new one..........a Cuisinart. Turns out, he knew nothing about mixers, and thought he was getting her what she wanted. So, we have been using this latest one for several years now, and it does just as good a job as the KA one did.

I burnt a kitchen aid up grinding meat a decade or so ago.

The new kitchen aid mixer is only for baking.

Two of my sons working the Kitchen Aid. The one in purple bought it up here in Idaho at a garage sale for $40. He added a couple of attachments.

Much prefer the bowl lift one.

Not for the bowl lift, but for the motor that's significantly more powerful.

My wife and her sister used to bake together.
Hers sisters tilt back would get hot on big cookie batches or peanut butter egg
filling. Our has a bigger bowl, can do bigger batches, and doesn't get hot doing it.

I have ground deer in the grinder attachment.
Friends report their motor got hot, our never did.