On 8/20/2013 3:43 PM, graham wrote:

> I bought a used one nearly 38 years ago and my then in-laws gave us a coffee
> grinder made of metal, but it makes a mess so I never use it. They also gave
> us the meat grinder, which I use occasionally, and a cream maker. The
> latter reconstitutes u/s butter into cream. I suppose it was a useful device
> once upon a time but the only thing I can think of using it for now is to
> make a creamy salad dressing from oil and vinegar.
> The speed control is now faulty - the minimum speed is too high - but I keep
> it for certain recipes, high hydration bread doughs for example.
> The new ones boast of being proudly designed and engineered in the UK, but
> in small print you can guess where it says it's actually made!
>
Mine is one of the last English-made ones - and my old KitchenAid (now
my daughter's) is marked 'Hobart'.
They're both terrific machines.