# I don't need a Kitchenaid stand mixer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970 "2008-11-29T20:22:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/81 "2008-12-02T23:10:55Z")
For that I’ll need a special pan, yes? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/82 "2008-12-02T23:29:43Z")
That’s right. I mean, no, you [don’t need this at all](http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/SpringForm.htm). ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/83 "2008-12-03T04:43:19Z")
There’s no good pasta attachment? I noticed on the KA website that there appears to be several different attachments. I really want to make pasta with mine ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/84 "2008-12-03T08:13:12Z")
So there I was, _minding my own business_ in the bakery aisle, looking at round cake pans and springform pans suitable for cheesecake, when _suddenly and without warning_ a bag of butterscotch chips **ASSAULTED** me, battered me about, and leapt into my shopping basket. What could I do? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/85 "2008-12-03T14:25:30Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > There’s no good pasta attachment? I noticed on the KA website that there appears to be several different attachments. I really want to make pasta with mine ☹ I’ve had no problems with mine. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/86 "2008-12-03T14:26:34Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > So there I was, _minding my own business_ in the bakery aisle, looking at round cake pans and springform pans suitable for cheesecake, when _suddenly and without warning_ a bag of butterscotch chips **ASSAULTED** me, battered me about, and leapt into my shopping basket. > > What could I do? Not make cookies? ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/87 "2008-12-03T16:41:30Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > So there I was, _minding my own business_ in the bakery aisle, looking at round cake pans and springform pans suitable for cheesecake, when _suddenly and without warning_ a bag of butterscotch chips **ASSAULTED** me, battered me about, and leapt into my shopping basket. > > What could I do? My condolences for your traumatic experience. I’ll bet you would feel better if you exacted a horrific revenge on said chips, say, mixed them in with some sort of , I don’t know, dough, and cruelly thrust them into a blazing oven. I can PM you my mailing address. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/88 "2008-12-03T17:14:33Z")
I just might have to do that! That’d show 'em! I’d send out cookies but I have no idea how to mail such a thing without breakage and cookie catastrophe. Suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/89 "2008-12-03T18:47:17Z")
Since [Pioneer Woman](http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/12/to-tide-you-over/?cp=all#comments) is giving one away today, you definitely don’t want to go over there and enter her contest and tell her how you want to have a KitchenAid mixer’s babies. Because she’d probably believe you, and you’d win, and there you’d be. ---
**Author:** ![Necroscopics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@Necroscopics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necroscopics)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/90 "2008-12-03T20:13:40Z")
My mom had one of those things when I was a kid. It made her life hell. It would make something in the kitchen and leave it a mess, or force her to make all kinds of food for it’s evil pleasure. It dominated all her time. She’d be up early in the morning making stuff for it in the kitchen, and slave over it for dinner. Then it wouldn’t even like the food! It used to come home drunk from the bar and beat her… Oh wait. I’m thinking of my father. Yeah, my mom just made cookies and cakes and stuff. They were actually pretty delicious. You’d better hope Santa isn’t British. He might mistake your dry humour for not actually wanting one. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/91 "2008-12-03T21:02:38Z")
> [@DirkGntly](#): > > Well, if that’s the case, then you probably also don’t need a husband who knows how to do fancy-schmancy cabinet work, who can build a fold-out, self-lifting-and-locks-into-place platform that has the KA bolted to it, so you can pull it out, lock it in place and use it to your heart’s content at the front of the counter, then clean it and fold it back in place again, either… > > …yes, I’m the husband in question… \*\*All of the good ones are taken. \*\* **pepperlandgirl** , I recommend using the KA for French Silk Pie, as each egg has to beaten as added and that’s a good reason to not do this by hand. The taste is sinful! This one is pretty close, except Mom beats each egg for five minutes not two: [http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=11269](http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=11269) She always just used eggs but I guess pasteurized would be erring on the safe side. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/92 "2008-12-03T22:28:01Z")
I told my wife she didn’t need one, and I told my mom my wife didn’t need it, but it showed up anyway. Gray krinkle finish. I made a space for it on the counter and scowled at it for a few minutes, until I noticed the front cover came off and there were gears inside. Kinda like a power tool I thought to myself… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/93 "2008-12-03T22:57:48Z")
In about 30 years you’ll be tinkering with the insides of it to keep it running, like my father did for my mom’s avocado one for years. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/94 "2008-12-03T23:04:51Z")
Well, damn it all anyway, I got my KitchenAid stand mixer delivered today, and I was _juuuust_ opening up the box to look at it — I wasn’t going to make anything — and wouldn’t you know, the ingredients for butterscotch oatmeal cookies just _fell right in._ It’s like some kind of curse. Well, they haven’t fallen in **yet**. The butter isn’t soft enough. But they’re teetering precariously on the edge of the mixing bowl and they’re bound to fall in soon. You know how butter is. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/95 "2008-12-04T00:13:56Z")
> [@lunar\_elf](#): > > I don’t need a [Flames would be cool… You mean like [URL=“[http://flameka.com/default.aspx](http://flameka.com/default.aspx)”]these]([http://www.cuisinart.com/catalog/product.php?product\_id=465&item\_id=575&cat\_id=344](http://www.cuisinart.com/catalog/product.php?product_id=465&item_id=575&cat_id=344))? No I wouldn’t want these for my Empire Red KA5 …nosiree, not in the slightest ---
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/96 "2008-12-04T03:35:18Z")
I wasn’t thrilled to get my husband’s Grandmothers KA many years ago even though it still would work perfectly if I used it all the time. Which I don’t. Because I have better things to do than bake goodie’s. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/97 "2008-12-04T04:07:11Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > butterscotch oatmeal cookies Mmmm, still warm. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/98 "2008-12-04T04:17:01Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > Mmmm, still warm. Good thing you didn’t make them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/99 "2008-12-04T04:22:03Z")
And if I **did** make them, I sure didn’t eat [del]any[/del] all of them! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-a-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/474970/100 "2008-12-04T04:24:11Z")
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