Drill-Press Style Food Mixer

Your typical kitchen food-mixer has a base with a high part (probably rather hollow), and a low part (the mixing bowl sits on the low part).

There is an electric motor above the high part of the base, with its drive shaft or axis going horizontally from its location above the base.

Then, a modest distance from the motor, and above the mixing bowl, there is some gearing to convert the horizontal rotation of the axle into vertical rotation. Various tools are attached to the vertical shaft, which mix in various ways the foodstuffs added to the mixing bowl.

I suggest a smaller base, suitable for holding the mixing bowl, with something like pillars (3 will probably work OK) around the bowl (spaced far enough apart that the bowl can be removed from the base area).

The pillars support the electric motor, mounted with its drive shaft vertical. Some gearing may still be needed to give the mixing tools various fancy motions, but there won't be any need to convert horizontal rotation into vertical rotation.

Appropriate leverage (such as by a rack-and-pinion gear-set and a hand-wheel) can vertically raise and lower the motor-plus-mixing- tools assembly, kind of like a drill press. This allows easy tool- changes and bowl-removal.