Hi Bonnie. I don't know if Breville is working on a fix for stainless steel bowl issues. I use the glass bowl and just use the stainless bowl for mixing dry ingredients to add to whatever I am making in glass bowl. . I have just purchased the Freeze and Mix bowl to go with Bakery Boss, The stainless steel bowl is good for chilling ice cream mixture before it goes into the Freeze and Mix bowl. Cheers!

I too have resorted to just using the glass bowl which is fine except that I find it very heavy to hold up with one hand to pour and scrape cake batters into a baking tin. Anything that can be lifted out like bread dough or pizza dough is easy but holding up the glass bowl for any period of time I find difficult, especially with a heavy mix like a fruit cake. It is a very big bowl for those small jobs such as whipping a few egg whites or a small batch of icing and personally I would find the convenience of a second smaller bowl (that works in the machine) an asset. It is such a shame that a machine that works so well should be sold with such an obvious fault as one of the bowls being completely the wrong size to work effectively with the mixer.

You are right Franki, the machine works without it but I would have bought a different machine had I known the small stainless bowl was just going to hold ingredients and the only mixer that worked with it was me and my wooden spoon. :)

I would say no both are quite different give Breville on their support service a phone call.