Lab – Lidl’s new Monsieur Cuisine Smart motor is kneading proof – Les Numériques

With its Monsieur Cuisine Smart, Lidl corrects in small steps the flaws in the Monsieur Cuisine Connect. Not content with sporting a larger screen, a new interface and a central handle on its bowl, this new robot-cooker also gains an engine on which the distributor is full of praise. It would indeed “more powerful” to mix twice as much dough.

This improvement is more than welcome for many budding pastry chefs, who deplored the kneading function of Monsieur Cuisine Connect at the time. Indeed, the heavier the dough, the more the engine is requested. Lidl therefore swapped its 800 W motor for a new 1000 W. But as everyone knows, the number of watts does not necessarily make a good robot. At KitchenAid, for example, the power of the motors of their pastry processors does not exceed 500 W, without preventing the kneading of a dough.

The technical sheet of Monsieur Cuisine Smart states that it is possible to knead up to 1 kg of flour. We therefore asked Lidl’s two connected robot-cookers to mix 1 kg of T55 flour (the same brand for both devices) with 60 cl of water. The automatic program recommends kneading for 45 s at speed 4.

In the end, the result is not that different from one device to another. The kneading is impeccable on the side of the Monsieur Cuisine Smart on which we obtained a very homogeneous dough, without flour residue and without liquid mixture at the bottom of the bowl. In addition, the dough ball does not stick to the bowl, a good sign of its quality. On the Monsieur Cuisine Connect, the result is a little more mixed: the flour is well mixed with the rest of the dough and we do not notice any water + flour liquid that is not very stingy at the bottom of the bowl either. However, the material obtained is more sticky and it is sometimes necessary to use a spatula to recover everything. It is also more fluid. Consequently, the shaping (to make a baguette for example) may be more hazardous.

From a purely technical point of view, the power developed by the Monsieur Cuisine Smart oscillates between 400 and 600 watts during the 45 seconds of kneading, while that of its predecessor varies between 550 and 820 watts. For this program in any case, the newcomer is therefore a little less energy intensive, which suggests that its engine, of better quality, makes better use of the resources allocated to it. On the other hand, it is noisier since our sound level meter indicates 60 dB (A) during the process while the sound level of Monsieur Cuisine Connect does not exceed 53 dB (A).

The bet is therefore successful for Lidl which has obviously made efforts on the kneading functions, which should delight our apprentice bakers.