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James Silverton[_4_]

On 9/13/2014 11:19 AM, wrote:
> On Friday, September 12, 2014 6:40:52 PM UTC-5, Kalmia wrote:
>> In all honesty, how often do you use the thing?
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> Once or twice a week.
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>> And what is your most frequent operation with said mixer?
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> My Oster Kitchen Center also has a grinder, slicer, and blender.
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> Most often, we mix bread dough or sweet yeast dough for Kuchen. Every August, the grinder gets a workout as we process apples into a form which works better in our cider press. That's probably two or three days of 4 hours of operation (our tree produces 8 - 10 bushels every year). We hardly use the slicer/grater these days. It's easier to just use the microplane. The blender is only rarely used for milkshakes or smoothies.
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> We got this machine back in 1983. We had a similar one before that, but it was demolished when we moved back from Germany in February, 1983. We didn't use it much in Germany because it's 60 hz, so it ran 16% slower.
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Early in our marriage, we bought a KitchenAid (made by Hobart) mixer. It
is still used quite frequently even if I do put the large thing away
from time to time to gain some kitchen space and it looks almost as good
as new. It does what it is supposed to do and has only required
maintenance once in 30 years when it became noisy and I replaced the
white grease on the gears.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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