Redmond RKM-4035 — a fresh review of the universal kitchen helper

In the Red­mond RKM-4035 review, we will talk about all the advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages of this kitchen machine, com­pare its func­tion­al­i­ty with the capa­bil­i­ties of ana­logues. When describ­ing the mod­el, not only tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics were tak­en into account, but also cus­tomer reviews, as well as test results.

Content

1. Com­par­i­son with com­peti­tors
2. Appear­ance
3. Equip­ment
4. Set of attach­ments for plan­e­tary mix­er
5. Start of oper­a­tion
6. Safe­ty
7. Con­trol
8. Acces­sories
9. Reviews
10. Con­clu­sion

Comparison with competitors

Con­sid­er the tech­ni­cal fea­tures of the Red­mond 4035 kitchen machine and com­pare it with the main com­peti­tors in the price cat­e­go­ry up to 100 dol­lars, the clos­est of which was the pop­u­lar devel­op­ment of the Ger­man brand Bomann. Also, the hero of our review is often com­pared with the bud­get Bosch and Moulinex com­bines, but here the dif­fer­ences are a lit­tle more notice­able.

	REDMOND RKM-4035	Bomann KM 398CB	Bosch MUM4426	Moulinex FP542132
Max pow­er	1200 W	1200 W	500 W	800 W
bowl capac­i­ty	5 l	6.3 l	5 l	2.2 l
bowl mate­r­i­al	stain­less steel	stain­less steel	plas­tic	plas­tic
Num­ber of noz­zles	3	2	6	3
Num­ber of speeds	6	6	four	2
Addi­tion­al set­tings	yes (pulse mode, smooth speed con­trol)	yes (pulse mode)	No	yes (pulse mode)
Mix­er	yes (plan­e­tary)	there is	there is	there is
Meat grinder	option­al	No	No	No
veg­etable cut­ter	option­al (set of 3 graters, shred­der, push­er)	No	yes (noz­zle for slic­ing and grater)	eat (grater)
util­i­ty knife	No	No	No	there is
Blender	option­al	No	No	there is
Over­load pro­tec­tion	there is	there is	No	No
Dimen­sions	307×380×220mm	460×360×315 mm	265×305×265 mm	300x280x200 mm
The weight	8.3 kg	6 kg	4.1 kg	3.3 kg
aver­age price	RUB 8,890	RUB 10,020	RUB 7,095	90$

When com­par­ing the most impor­tant tech­ni­cal indi­ca­tors and func­tions, it becomes obvi­ous that the Red­mond 4035 has the most in com­mon with its clos­est neigh­bor, the Bomann kitchen machine. Both mod­els have the high­est pow­er, which allows them to do their job many times faster and more effi­cient­ly than oth­er ana­logues. They also have in com­mon the num­ber of noz­zles and speeds, the pres­ence of a pulse mode, which is used at the end of cook­ing for a short-term accel­er­a­tion of the stan­dard mode, and over­load pro­tec­tion. But at the same time, Red­mond 4035 is much more com­pact and much cheap­er. In addi­tion, this mod­el is equipped with a smooth speed con­trol and goes well with a full-fledged veg­etable cut­ter, blender and even a meat grinder, which dis­tin­guish­es it favor­ably from both Bomann and Bosch and Moulinex, which do not have such a vari­ety of add-ons. At the same time, the bowl of this kitchen machine is not made of plas­tic, like the last two ana­logues, but of high-qual­i­ty stain­less steel, which makes it very reli­able and durable.

How­ev­er, in some aspects Red­mond RKM-4035 is still infe­ri­or to its com­peti­tors. First of all, it is the heav­i­est of the kitchen appli­ances pre­sent­ed in our review, the weight of which even exceeds the weight of the larg­er Bomann mod­el. In the devel­op­ment of Bosch, a pow­er­ful kitchen machine, like oth­ers, los­es in the num­ber of noz­zles, and at the same time it costs a lit­tle more.

Thus, in most cas­es, a Red­mond kitchen machine will be an opti­mal and fair­ly ver­sa­tile solu­tion. In terms of pow­er, price and fea­tures, this is def­i­nite­ly one of the lead­ers. How­ev­er, the com­pe­ti­tion is also very good and can be an ide­al device for prepar­ing a fes­tive din­ner for a large fam­i­ly, or, con­verse­ly, a great mobile option for one or two peo­ple.

Appearance

Although inte­ri­or dec­o­ra­tion is not one of the pri­ma­ry tasks of a kitchen machine, this fac­tor often becomes one of the deci­sive ones for many house­wives. Suit­able dimen­sions and organ­ic design make cook­ing very con­ve­nient and allow you not to hide the device in a far cor­ner, as soon as you fin­ish work­ing with it. At the same time, the device should match the style of the kitchen, but not be con­spic­u­ous, but fit into the envi­ron­ment.

Red­mond 4035 ful­ly meets all these require­ments. The clas­sic, not too flashy design is aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleas­ing and at the same time har­mo­nizes per­fect­ly with any envi­ron­ment. At the same time, the device takes up a rel­a­tive­ly small space on the work­ing sur­face, and the build qual­i­ty and the absence of gaps and irreg­u­lar­i­ties that are peri­od­i­cal­ly found in state employ­ees are con­firmed by cus­tomer reviews.

Equipment

The Red­mond RKM-4035 kitchen machine is sold in a card­board box in a stan­dard par­al­lelepiped shape with col­or­ful images of the appli­ance itself, its noz­zles and dish­es that can be cooked with them. Also on the pack­ag­ing it is easy to find basic infor­ma­tion about the tech­ni­cal capa­bil­i­ties and addi­tion­al prop­er­ties of the mod­el.

Inside, the buy­er will find a secure­ly packed device with noz­zles and accom­pa­ny­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion. How­ev­er, it is impor­tant to note that although the man­u­fac­tur­er posi­tions the kitchen machine of this pop­u­lar brand as a “4 in 1” device, in fact, three of the four items are acces­sories that per­fect­ly match the appli­ance and can be pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly. So what does the buy­er actu­al­ly get?

Each box of Red­mond Rkm-4035 con­tains:

• actu­al kitchen machine;
• stain­less steel bowl with a con­ve­nient trans­par­ent lid;
• three of the most use­ful and pop­u­lar mix­er attach­ments;
• ser­vice book;
• a col­lec­tion of recipes;
• instruc­tion.

Thus, in gen­er­al, this equip­ment can be called quite good for a state employ­ee. How­ev­er, oth­er acces­sories, if nec­es­sary, will have to be pur­chased addi­tion­al­ly.

Set of attachments for planetary mixer

The plan­e­tary mix­er is the heart of the Red­mond 4035 kitchen machine, the main com­po­nent that allows you to bring any liq­uid, soft and chopped prod­ucts to the desired con­di­tion. It owes its effi­cien­cy not only to a suc­cess­ful design, mov­ing both around its axis and around the cir­cum­fer­ence of the entire bowl, but also a set of the most pop­u­lar inter­change­able noz­zles, which please with a high lev­el of per­for­mance.

The whisk noz­zle is known, per­haps, to all skilled house­wives. Indeed, with­out it, it is impos­si­ble even to beat eggs or cream. Also, the noz­zle is vital for prepar­ing desserts with a light airy mousse and del­i­cate cream, as well as var­i­ous sauces. The edges of the whisk are made of stain­less steel, which makes the noz­zle quite durable and resis­tant to mois­ture and oth­er fac­tors. The plas­tic sleeve to which they are attached is equipped with a spe­cial shield that pre­vents liq­uid, crumbs and flour from enter­ing the retain­er.

The flat beat­er for slight­ly thick­er prod­ucts is designed for thick cream, choco­late icing and even light bis­cuit text. It is made from a sin­gle piece of met­al, like the third replace­ment com­po­nent, and is high­ly durable.

A hook for thick yeast dough, or rather its shape, sets Red­mond Rkm-4035 apart from many oth­ers. Its design allows it to effec­tive­ly cap­ture lumps of dough for more effi­cient mix­ing.

Start of operation

The Red­mond Rkm-4035 kitchen machine, accord­ing to reviews and instruc­tions, is very easy to use and does not require large-scale prepa­ra­tions for the first start. How­ev­er, there are a few basic steps that are high­ly rec­om­mend­ed before you start using the instru­ment.

First of all, the man­u­fac­tur­er advis­es to thor­ough­ly wash all parts of the kitchen machine that will come into con­tact with food, and also gen­tly wipe the motor unit with a cloth damp­ened with water. The use of chem­i­cals is not rec­om­mend­ed. After all parts have dried nat­u­ral­ly at room tem­per­a­ture, Red­mond 4035 can be assem­bled fol­low­ing the attached instruc­tions and turned on. Some authors of reviews and reviews advise to make a test batch dur­ing the first oper­a­tion, since in some cas­es dur­ing the very first ses­sion, the device, like most ana­logues, may emit a slight smell of grease.

Safety

Thanks to the high-qual­i­ty assem­bly and durable mate­ri­als that are not prone to break­age, the hero of this review is quite reli­able. In addi­tion, the devel­op­ment is equipped with effec­tive pro­tec­tion of the elec­tric motor of the com­bine against over­load and over­heat­ing. It stops the oper­a­tion of the device if it warms up above the set tem­per­a­ture, as well as in oth­er cas­es that can lead to break­age. This is one of the safest kitchen machines.

Nev­er­the­less, it will not be super­flu­ous to remem­ber the basic pre­cau­tions. In par­tic­u­lar, it is nec­es­sary to lim­it the time of con­tin­u­ous use to 15 min­utes. Between inclu­sions, it is advis­able to take breaks for about half an hour. How­ev­er, this will not cause any par­tic­u­lar incon­ve­nience. The most pow­er­ful kitchen machine in the bud­get cat­e­go­ry works at an incred­i­ble speed, so you can do a lot in 15 min­utes. It is also impor­tant to remem­ber that only the bowl can be washed in the dish­wash­er. Oth­er parts of the device, includ­ing the hous­ing itself, can only be washed by hand and only with water.

Control

Work­ing with Red­mond 4035 is no more dif­fi­cult than prepar­ing for it. All con­trol of the kitchen machine comes down to set­ting the desired speed, as well as chang­ing it and adding a pulse mode when nec­es­sary. All this can be adjust­ed with a slight turn of the mechan­i­cal reg­u­la­tor, thanks to which any user can man­age this kitchen machine, regard­less of the expe­ri­ence of using small house­hold appli­ances and var­i­ous elec­tron­ics.

As you can see in the pho­to, each speed is assigned a ser­i­al num­ber. They are arranged clock­wise in ascend­ing order. The move is step by step. To start work, you just need to move the con­trol from the rest mode “Off” to the select­ed speed. Red­mond RKM-4035 allows you to change the speed in the same way dur­ing oper­a­tion. The mod­el fea­tures a very smooth switch­ing between modes, so you can not be afraid of jerks and jumps even with a car­di­nal change in speed, for exam­ple, from first to sixth. Also on the rotary con­trol is a “P” icon, indi­cat­ing “pulse mode”. For short-term accel­er­a­tion to the max­i­mum, it is enough to switch the reg­u­la­tor to this mode for a few sec­onds, and then return it to its pre­vi­ous posi­tion.

This kitchen machine has anoth­er intu­itive con­trol ele­ment. The but­ton, locat­ed just above and to the left of the speed con­trol, rais­es the mix­er head when pressed. You can return it to the orig­i­nal appli­ca­tion and fix it only by press­ing and hold­ing this but­ton.

Accessories

It is easy to make a basic kitchen machine with a mix­er more mul­ti­func­tion­al by pur­chas­ing addi­tion­al com­po­nents or acces­sories for it, as Red­mond calls them. After all, although they are not pro­vid­ed to the buy­er as a free appli­ca­tion, these items are designed specif­i­cal­ly to work with the Red­mond RKM-4035, which makes them ide­al­ly suit­ed to this par­tic­u­lar mod­el both tech­ni­cal­ly and in style. At the same time, these acces­sories are quite afford­able. Their cost ranges from 1000 to 14$. There­fore, the pur­chase of one or two of them will not pre­vent the device from remain­ing one of the most bud­getary.

As acces­sories to expand the capa­bil­i­ties of the kitchen machine, the man­u­fac­tur­er offers the fol­low­ing addi­tions:

• blender;
• meat grinder;
• veg­etable cut­ter.

More­over, each acces­so­ry, except for the blender, is not just a sin­gle noz­zle, but a com­plete set of sev­er­al ele­ments. For exam­ple, a veg­etable cut­ter includes three graters of dif­fer­ent cal­ibers, as well as a shred­der and a push­er. The meat grinder, in addi­tion to the stan­dard meat grinder attach­ment, is equipped with per­fo­rat­ed discs for pro­cess­ing meat into minced meat, as well as attach­ments for sausages and kebbe, a push­er, and a load­ing tray. All this makes the Red­mond 4035 mod­el, improved with the help of acces­sories, the most ver­sa­tile and func­tion­al kitchen appli­ance.

Reviews

Reviews on this prod­uct are not yet as numer­ous as on some well-known ana­logues, since this Red­mond devel­op­ment was released quite recent­ly, but still they are quite enough for an objec­tive assess­ment of the device. Among the main advan­tages of the kitchen machine, most sat­is­fied cus­tomers point to excel­lent work with dough for char­lotte and oth­er pas­tries, sta­bil­i­ty, ease of use and adding ingre­di­ents dur­ing the cook­ing process. Also, accord­ing to reviews, the mod­el shows excel­lent results and devel­ops a very good speed when prepar­ing mashed pota­toes, marsh­mal­lows and bread dough. Buy­ers who have added a meat grinder to the basic device also note the effi­cien­cy and uni­for­mi­ty of the result­ing prod­uct, pri­mar­i­ly minced meat.

How­ev­er, it was not with­out its down­sides. The hero of the review, like oth­er devel­op­ments in the bud­get cat­e­go­ry, does not dif­fer in com­plete­ly silent work. In addi­tion, from time to time, buy­ers come across defec­tive whisks, the plas­tic part of which is unre­li­able. There­fore, when choos­ing a par­tic­u­lar device, it is rec­om­mend­ed to care­ful­ly exam­ine the whisk for slack. The rest of the noz­zles are com­plete­ly made of met­al and are real­ly durable.

Conclusion

In gen­er­al, Red­mond 4035 can be called a very good option for your bud­get. The kitchen machine has a num­ber of advan­tages, includ­ing a sol­id body, styl­ish design, decent func­tion­al­i­ty. Also, the hero of the review is very easy to use and main­tain, which means that no addi­tion­al knowl­edge and skills are need­ed to use it, even not the most tech­ni­cal­ly savvy per­son can han­dle it.

Thus, the main advan­tages of the kitchen machine are the fol­low­ing fea­tures:

• nice design, suit­able for any inte­ri­or;
• best pow­er;
• addi­tion­al set­tings;
• intu­itive con­trol;
• sus­tain­abil­i­ty and secu­ri­ty;
• ade­quate price;
• upgrade pos­si­bil­i­ty.

But it was not with­out draw­backs:

• basic equip­ment instead of the declared 4 devices;
• not too qui­et work;
• plas­tic whisk hold­er.

Nev­er­the­less, this is one of the best rep­re­sen­ta­tives of kitchen machines cost­ing up to 100 dol­lars. And the option­al­i­ty of com­po­nents can be a huge plus for those who are look­ing not for the max­i­mum of func­tions, but for spe­cif­ic fea­tures in good per­for­mance.