Drum roll, please…
Photos of before and afterwith the new spatula beater. You have to start at the bottom right, as I couldn’t figure out how to rearrange the photos.
The before photos were taken after I had beaten the butter and sugar together for about a minute with the original beater. The after photos were taken after about ten seconds with the new beater. The consistency photos are of the final creamed product, which is pretty impressive.
How’s it clean up? Is the internal skeleton well and truly covered by the silicone, or are there seams or openings for inevitable bacterial growth?
My Kitchenaid arrived yesterday (we added the Wilco sticker to make up for lack of flames). So, I decided to make some sugar cookies.
Shiny!
A word of advice from the grandmother of Kitchen-Aids. See that bowl like area of the base, under where the actual bowl is? Yeah, that spot tends to collect moisture, get banged by your bowl, and after about half a century, starts to rust where the enamel’s been worn away. No biggie, just cultivate the habit of wiping it dry when you’re done using the mixer.
I’m assuming that the whole shebang’s still made of iron, of course. If they’ve made it with plastic or aluminum or stainless, then nevermind.
I also don’t need to make fluffy mashed potatoes every week or so.
We certainly don’t need an appliance that would happen to be the most-used thing in our kitchen.
Most excellent question. The wings are sealed to the skeleton, and I was able to get all of the residue cookie dough off by rinsing with hot water. The only problem (which is not really a problem), is that there is a hole in the center where the blade attaches to the mixer. I found a bit of cookie dough up in there, but it’s an easy cleanout. The package has a claim that this can cut mixing time by up to 50%, and I believe it. I had creamed butter in no time at all, and it thoroughly mixed all the other ingredients without problem and in quick order. This thing is the shiznit!
Pretty!
Put it away, you don’t really need it.
You especially don’t need to soften a brick of cream cheese and beat it with a stick of softened butter until smooth. That’d be useless.
Especially if you got crazy and threw an egg and a teaspoon of vanilla in there and creamed it all up willy-nilly.
You certainly wouldn’t want to add a box of devil’s food cake mix in, which would be the death of most mixers anyway, it’d be total silliness.
Rolling them into donut-hole sized balls, sprinkling p.sugar over them and baking at 350 for 10 minutes, using a baking sheet you can slide right off the pan to let them cool completely, nah, you don’t want to do that at all.
Really. Just say no.
lol
I don’t cook much (though this thread has gone out to a few) but I fucking laughed out loud at the spackle!!!
I just might not need one!!!
Yes. Yes, it is.
But I am so appliance deprived, I can only pretend to have tenterhooks of my own.
Nevertheless, I don’t need a KA mixer. I was doing just fine making mashed potatoes tonight. When I stepped away from the mixing bowl (which requires diligent monitoring, or it starts to make decisions on its own) for exactly two seconds to shut off the microwave, potatoes were flung out of the bowl in the loveliest arcs of spirograph-esque plumes. Quite spectacular, really. So, if I had a Kitchen Aid, I would not be able to enjoy free form potato art on the floor. And countertop. And refrigerator. AND my clothes and hair.
Some people call it a kitchen disaster… I call it performance art.
Two words: potato ricer. Squooze them into a bowl with butter and milk, mix with a fork or hand mixer: Done!
Chefguy, it seems unnecessarily cruel to deprive my friends and family of their little amusements. But I’m sure I could find some ingenious way to make myself ridiculous using a simple manual potato ricer… hmm, maybe I’ll try it. Thanks. 
I replaced my seven-year-old Heavy Duty model with a Pro 600 earlier this year.
About two months after we got it, it was kneading a batch of bread just like usual when it suddenly started making a godawful noise. It still ran, but it wouldn’t stop making the noise and it was at half-power at best.
I called KA’s customer service line and was shocked to reach a very nice lady who appeared to be a native English speaker. She asked me a few questions and listened to the noise over the phone. She put me on hold for about a minute to speak with a supervisor and then came back to take my address. Less than 48 hours later I came home from work to find a brand-new identical mixer sitting on my front porch; I was told to put the old one in the box and FedEx would be back for it in a week or so.
So you DEFINITELY don’t want to buy from a company that offered such a ridiculously pleasant and helpful customer service experience.
Supposing you wanted to have some delicious fresh pasta for lunch. How would you make it?
If, and only if; you had a KA with the pasta roller that you most expressly don’t need you would make a simple egg pasta. You would first blend the eggs, water, salt and flour with the paddle attachment until well blended. Then pop in the dough hook and knead it for a few minutes.
You would then let this hypothetical “dough” rest for about 20 minutes in the fridge. Then you would pop on the pasta roller, starting at the “1” setting and roll the dough through increased settings until you got the pasta the thickness you desired. You then switch the roller for the cutter, and feed the sheets of pasta dough through it. My God! You’ve just spent the better part of 1/2 hour making fresh pasta. You hussy! And you don’t even have to clean the attachments afterwards, nor call them the next day. Harlot.
Then, you have to spend about 4-5 whole minutes watching the fresh pasta cook in boiling water. Who has time to boil water? What a waste of time!
If you wanted an extruded pasta, like macaroni or such, you would order the pasta plates to accompany the grinder attachment that you also don’t need.
I was coming in to say that - like you didn’t tell me when I didn’t get my 1970s, cream-coloured, Hobart-made (metal gears, bitches!) K45S for $86.00. Including shipping.
Hmm…that sounds like something I won’t be making for the office for Christmas. If I had, would they come out as flat cookies or still in a ball shape? (Just to know what I’m missing, you understand.)
I want to paint racing stripes on mine.
Robin
It’s a good thing I have no urge to make this recipe. Otherwise I would have to tell you just how easily my KA creamed the butter and cream cheese, and how it didn’t even break a sweat when I added the cake mix.
Furthermore, I would then have to tell you just how good (and cake like) those cookies are.
But since I have no urge to make this recipe, I don’t have to do any of those things.
::: DING!:::
ooops, excuse me, the timer on the stove just went off, I have some [del]cookies[/del] err baked potatoes in the oven. Baked potatoes, yeah that’s the ticket, I have baked potatoes in the oven.
The baked potatoes you made would go really well with the [del]cheesecake[/del] chicken I just made. 
ARRRGHHH!!! I was robbed! Like Sally in the pumpkin patch on Halloween! The stupid site ate my thread subscription and I just find this TODAY!!!
To console myself, I must not go make a batch of eggnog meltaways in my hypothetical KA cobalt blue mixer that I don’t have. sob
