When I got married 14 years ago, my three high school best friends pooled together and bought me a KitchenAid stand mixer. It’s a beautiful heirloom, and I think about my friends whenever I’ve made batches of chocolate chip cookies over the years. Like most home stand mixers, it’s a planetary mixer—the blades rotate around a fixed point. Properly cared for, a nice planetary mixer will last forever.

But it often doesn’t feel like it when you’re making 4,000 batches of pizza dough and clinging to the top of your rapidly overheating KitchenAid to prevent the dough hook from slapping the dough ball to the side with enough force to knock it over. If you’re making a lot of bread dough or stiff dough, you should look into a spiral mixer, which commercial bakers use. In this mixer, the bowl rotates around a fixed spinning blade.

Having revolutionized the home pizza oven industry, Ooni turned its sights on making the commercial-inspired spiral mixer essential home equipment. I hate to say this about a piece of kitchen equipment that costs $799, but it’s going to be hard to go back to my KitchenAid. I have spent two months using the Ooni Halo Pro to make baked goods, and it’s a little bit life-changing.

The Halo Pro is beautiful. Unboxed, it takes up about the same amount of counter space as my KitchenAid. It's about 6.5 inches wide, 14 inches deep, and 12.5 inches tall. It comes in two colors: white or glossy black.