Seriously. Not even if there’s a factory-reconditioned 450-watt variety available in the right color for only $220.
Because I don’t use one. (I don’t have one, therefore I don’t use one.) Because I don’t like bread. Or cookies. And that’s all you can make with one. Seriously. Cookies and bread. Nothing else. Certainly not anything particularly tasty. Like cinnamon rolls.
Oh man, I know. I don’t want one either. Not at all and it doesn’t do me any good to point out that I’ve been able to find them as cheap as a 100 bucks on craigslist. 'Cause, yanno, I don’t want one.
I make bread from scratch at least twice a month, by hand. I don’t want to lose half a counter top, or worse, half a cabinet, to a stand mixer. It really is not difficult to make yeast breads by hand.
However, I did enjoy SELLING KA mixers when I worked for a department store. I could make half my daily goal selling one of the delixe models
I use my professional 600 for fudge, none of that waiting until it is 110 F to beat. Beat it about 150-160, and turn it out as soon as the gloss is off. It is still malleable and can be pressed flat on a buttered sheet and cut, in nice square pieces that don’t shatter, but I don’t need it. I didn’t need it for the pumpkin pie filling, the dinner rolls, pumpkin bars, cream cheese icing, this week, but I used it. I did not need it for the muffins for the bake sale, the cookies, or the fruit cake that I make every year. Scratch that. There is no way I am doing the fruitcake by hand.
I never needed a cobalt blue model when I was overseas to make sausage and pasta and to grind my own burger, and I don’t need it still, even though it would be so tough it would have lasted for 16 years now without any problems.