Julia Altshuler > wrote:
> Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> >
> > I suppose I should have been clear that when the dough gets
> > too thick for the hand mixer, we switch to a spoon. Granted,
> > perhaps we are not switching soon enough, and perhaps that is
> > what is causing our mixers to die a premature death, but I was
> > hoping that perhaps there is a better answer than that...
>
>
> I mix cookies by hand with a metal spoon and have never had a problem.
> The only reasons I'd be tempted to use a standup mixer or other
> electronic help would be:
>
>
> if I were making an especially large batch as though making them
> commercially
>
> if I had arthritis or other medical condition which made using my arm
> in that way difficult.
>

My thoughts exactly. It's literally been a couple of decades since I made a
batch of cookies but I never used a mixer to do it. Even with arthritis
(mildly annoying, not severe which I'm sure would make a difference) I don't
recall cookie dough taking that long to stir together.

Jill