Can other people provide their favorite recipes for the KA mixer? I plan to use the hell out of mine when it arrives and makes my household complete. Breads, cookies, pizza dough, pasta, whatever you got, I want it!!!
I didn’t need a black Artisan to make Divinity, or anything else. Nope, not me.
Hand-cranked tools worked just fine for ravioli, ice cream and sausage. Yep, just fine. After all, people have been doing it by hand for ages.
Elbow grease adds flavor.
I got one for $15 at a garage sale last summer. I sing love songs to it. It helps me make pizza dough and I love it.
I am appalled. What kind of heartless bastard would sell a KA stand mixer at a garage sale for $15??? Did their pets and children have price tags on their foreheads as well?
However, you,** Zjestika**, are a fine human being for selflessly providing it with a good home.
I never use my cobalt blue one, nope. Not for cupcakes or birthday cakes or fresh whipped cream. Nosiree, just sits there collecting dust, it does.
I could be mistaken here, but I suspect that what you ALL don’t need is the beater with the silicon flange, so there is no need to even scrape the side of the bowl. I am, however, often wrong, and I am sure one of you will be by shortly to inform me of my error.
I did inquire, and it seemed that the woman’s daughter had gotten a new one in a coveted color and had given the boring old white one to her mother to put in her garage sale. Whether they cared or not that they could have gotten at least three times what I paid for it I couldn’t tell. What really surprised me was that it was still there. Shouldn’t the very first person to arrive at that sale have bought it??
I made cookies last night inspired by this thread, feeling like I haven’t appreciated my mixer quite enough lately. And it’s pizza today, though frankly it would be pizza every day if it were up to me.
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I don’t want one either.
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I don’t need mine to make biscuits or pancakes or waffles in the morning, nor do I need it to make other delectable baked goods. I especially don’t want to get the sausage attachment to make sausage. After all, the stuff at the supermarket is just as good.
Robin
Wow… that’s an interesting recipe for carrot soup. :dubious: No wonder it’s famous.
Oohh, a beater with a silicon flange. I totally don’t want that for my KA mixer that I never should have bought. And I would never dream of making yet another loaf of cranberry bread. Because who in their right mind would like a still warm slice of cranberry bread with a pat of melting butter?
I didn’t think I needed one either…but last summer my cousin gave me her mom’s. It’s at least 40 years old and it works like a dream…Making cookie dough has never been this easy.
Mine is collecting dust and taking up space on the counter. I never use it, the big hulking brute of 600 pro model. I don’t use the extra bowl I got with it or the pasta attachment or the sausage attachment.
Not to make my own butter, or cookies or sausages. I don’t even use it to grind my own meat for hamburgers or meatballs!
I also never ever let my husband use it. Not when he’s making pizza dough, or bread or cinnamon rolls. He never uses it to make muffins either.
No sir.
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Wow, they make butterscotch chips? I so did not need to know that!
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I don’t need one either. Nope, don’t need to make fruitcake, that’d just keep me on my feet for 3 hours straight, followed by another few hours baking them. Don’t need 'em to mix up my mom’s cheese ball recipe either.
Actually how about some reasons why they’re really not “all that”?
They weigh a ton, so if you don’t have permanent counter space for one, it’s a pain in the neck and back to put it away and take it out again.
It’s REALLY hard to add ingredients when they’re running, without dumping said ingredients all over the counter. This is even with one of those collars with a spout for pouring stuff in.
You can’t scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula while it’s running - gotta stop it, lift the head (assuming that’s the sort you have; lower the bowl for the other styles I guess), and then scrape.
Scraping is necessary - as there are “dead zones” in the bowl where ingredients like butter lurk, unmixed.
Honestly - if they could make KitchenAid power in a Sunbeam style (like my mom had: the bowl rotated on a spinning base, the beater(s) stayed put, and you could actually scrape as needed), I’d buy it in an instant.
There. Hope that helps 
DAMMIT :smack::smack::smack: There goes one of my big arguments against getting a mixer!
This is true.
This is why Og invented flexible cutting mats. Put your ingredients on it, bend it up and no problem. Of course, you want your speed on low when you’re adding flour, but that’s true of any mixer.
Actually, much as I love the idea of the flanged beater linked previously, scraping down isn’t much of a hassle at all. I can time the scraper so that I can do it while running most of the time (I have the lower the bowl model, don’t know if it’s set lower than the tilt head or not), but I also use the stop-and-scrape moments as opportunities to check out the texture and mixedness of my stuff.
There are, but not nearly as many on a Kitchen-Aid as on other brands I’ve used. There’s a little reversed dimple on the bottom of the bowl that hides butter in the valleys, and sometimes butter does creep up the sides past where the beater can remove it. Takes all of 2 seconds to rescue it.
Don’t try doing bread dough in that style! Or grinding meats or stuffing sausage or grating veggies or…
I don’t need a Cuisinart stand mixer, because I have a Kitchenaid stand mixer. I won the Cuisinart one in a cookie contest last year and right now its sitting in a box in the spare, but soon to be Baby #2s room.
I love my KA mixer for making things that would otherwise require lots of babysitting - ie: royal icing. I can let it mix for 7-10 minutes and when it gets to the consistency I need I just turn it off. I’m not into the extra accessories yet because I have no room to put them. Grinding my own meat using the mixer or making my own sausage just seems gross, watched my family do it too much as a kid /barf.
Flames would be cool…
I soooooo don’t need the beater with the silicon scraper flange. And I don’t need to curse Mame for calling my attention to the fact that such things exist. I especially don’t need to ask anyone to get me one for Christmas…
I’m so glad I didn’t buy my husband a KA mixer for the holidays 6 years ago, brand new off of ebay, so he could make his special Sunday morning pancakes, and brownies, and cookies, and muffins, and cakes. Also, I never use it to mix up his mom’s special stuffing that he can’t get through the holidays without. Never.
Silicone flanges. Hmm. The holidays are coming.
Why… no! Um, no, not at all. There are no such thing as butterscotch chips, right in the baking aisle next to the chocolate and white chocolate chips. Nope.
And they aren’t very tasty. At all.