On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:31:50 -0500, Jim Elbrecht >
wrote:

> sf > wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:36:03 -0500, Boron Elgar
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I still need an "everyday" mixer for cookies and cakes. I am biting my
> >> tongue, crossing my fingers and getting a 6qt KA.
> >
> >I'm just looking at the smallest one, what you do you think - tilt
> >head or lift bowl? I saw a comment where the person said she got a
> >lift bowl without thinking about it and was glad later because once
> >she got it she realized she didn't have enough clearance to
> >accommodate a tilt.
>
> I owned a tilt for 4 hours last spring. I picked it up, did a
> batch of bread in it, and brought it back for the 6qt.
>
> The 5qt tilt 'kind of' held my 7cups-of-flour bread mix-- but the
> motor labored to knead it for 4 minutes. It was smelling like it
> would burst into flames.
>
> So I brought it back and got the 6qt bowl lift. It hurt. I'm a
> cheap SOB & don't like to spend more than I have to for any tool. But
> it was money well spent. The extra quart is nice-- but the motor on
> the 5qt was 350watts, the 6qt is 575.

Thanks for those observations! I hadn't thought about how
powerful/weak the motor is and I wasn't thinking of doing more dough
than I would ask my Cuisinart to do, but I can see where it would be
easy to let the amount creep up with all that bowl space to fill.
>
> It doesn't strain to grind meat, churn ice cream or knead stiff dough.
> I probably would have burned the smaller one up in a year or two--
> this one should last me a decade or two.
>
> If you're just going to use it for cookies and cakes the smaller one
> should be fine- but if you are thinking of running attachments on it,
> consider the bigger one.

I haven't even considered the attachments yet! How does a 6qt work
with just enough batter for an ordinary sized cake? Doesn't that
small of an amount sorta get lost way down in there?
>
> >It looks like the beater just slips on and off
> >the stem - no tightening, is it really that easy?
>
> Yep-- That's a pretty neat coupling.
>
Sounds easy enough, thanks.


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