The KitchenAid toaster oven has a storied pedigree going all of the way back to 1908 when Herbert Johnson, an engineer for the Hobart electrical manufacturing Company invented an electrical standing mixer. The company was founded in 1897 by C.C. Hobart, and so as to increase motor sales the company simply attached motors to their coffee mills and meat grinders, almost accidentally creating the powered food production machine industry.

A mixer is a kitchen appliance, like KitchenAid toaster ovens, that makes culinary creations that much more straightforward. A mixer is available either as a hand mixer or a stand mixer, each of which mixes, folds, beats, and whips food ingredients. It was in 1908 that Herbert Johnson, a Hobart manufacturing engineer, invented the electric standing mixer after being inspired by the appearance of a baker mixing bread dough with a metal spoon.

After many years of toying with various mechanical implementations of the concept, Johnson’s 80-quart electric mixer became standard apparatus for most sizeable bakeries by 1915. This first model weighed sixty-nine pounds. Four years after the company formed its famous KitchenAid division and debuted its stand mixer model for home usage. To this day each unit is still assembled by hand in Greenville, Ohio. The mixer is one of the few home appliances to receive a trademark only for its unique classic shape.

It is this practice of technical excellence and achievement that KitchenAid toaster ovens embody. Every unit is built round the same quality artistry which has informed ninety years of fulfillment in commercial and home kitchens across the nation and around the globe.

The brand is so well known for culinary excellence, that a line of cookware is created with permission by Meyer Corporation. The brand itself has been owned by Whirlpool since 1986. It is an upscale division of the company, competing against toaster ovens, water bottles with filters, and other major appliances from the likes of GE, Bosch, and Electrolux.