On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:25:16 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
>sf wrote:
>
>> Anything as heavy as a stand mixer needs to live on the counter.
>
>They make a counterbalanced stand mixer shelf unit that stores the mixer
>in the cabinet under the counter and you pull/swing it out and up and it
>locks into place at counter height for use. It's a built in thing
>obviously that may or may not be retrofitable to your particular
>cabinetry, but it works quite well.

sf can use one to lift her fat ass out of bed! LOL-LOL

Ophelia wrote:
>
> "Gary" wrote:
> > As said before, my one grandfather was an avid rabbit hunter. That was
> > his passion in life...the thing he loved the most. At age 92, the
> > family decided that he was too old to be out alone hunting so they
> > made him quit. His health steadily declined from then on. He lived
> > another 5 years and died at 97.
>
> They decided and his health declined ... what a pity he wasn't allowed to do
> what he loved Did they think he was a danger to himself?

No. They thought he was so old that he might just die out in the woods
while hunting. I think that if he did, that would have been his best
death....die while doing what you loved to do. My mother agrees.
Instead, he sat in a recliner for 5 years and just slowly withered
away. My old boss did the same thing...once his wife died, he gave up
on life and withered away in his recliner. That one took him 4 years
to accomplish.

>
> He had 3-5 rabbit dogs (beagals) that
> > were trained to run as a pack and flush out rabbits. Once the rabbit
> > started running, they hearded it back to where my grandfather stood
> > waiting with his shotgun.
> >
> > My grandma used that meat for casseroles too. She always served
> > several casseroles at each lunch and dinner. It was a country buffet
> > at ever meal.
>
> )

I've always wondered just how do you train your dogs to find rabbits
and herd them back to you? WTH?

The meals were awesome. Here's a repost pic of him sitting at the
table. You can see 8 dishes there, mostly casserole dishes. This was
only 1/4 of that long table. He's also holding a fresh garden tomato
but I've always wondered what he (and the other person) are holding in
the other hands.
http://i49.tinypic.com/15mjjgz.jpg

G.

"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
> On 9/13/2014 12:34 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>
>
>
>> Yep, mine is always on the counter and ready to use, same with the food
>> processor.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> As is ours. You can improve the performance with a "beater blade" that
> cleans the sides better. Many stores carry them, just Google beater
> blade.

I have one.

Cheri

"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> "Gary" wrote:
>> > As said before, my one grandfather was an avid rabbit hunter. That was
>> > his passion in life...the thing he loved the most. At age 92, the
>> > family decided that he was too old to be out alone hunting so they
>> > made him quit. His health steadily declined from then on. He lived
>> > another 5 years and died at 97.
>>
>> They decided and his health declined ... what a pity he wasn't allowed to
>> do
>> what he loved Did they think he was a danger to himself?
>
> No. They thought he was so old that he might just die out in the woods
> while hunting. I think that if he did, that would have been his best
> death....die while doing what you loved to do. My mother agrees.

So do I!

> Instead, he sat in a recliner for 5 years and just slowly withered
> away. My old boss did the same thing...once his wife died, he gave up
> on life and withered away in his recliner. That one took him 4 years
> to accomplish.





>> He had 3-5 rabbit dogs (beagals) that
>> > were trained to run as a pack and flush out rabbits. Once the rabbit
>> > started running, they hearded it back to where my grandfather stood
>> > waiting with his shotgun.
>> >
>> > My grandma used that meat for casseroles too. She always served
>> > several casseroles at each lunch and dinner. It was a country buffet
>> > at ever meal.
>>
>> )
>
> I've always wondered just how do you train your dogs to find rabbits
> and herd them back to you? WTH?

I don't know but dogs get trained for all manner of work)


> The meals were awesome. Here's a repost pic of him sitting at the
> table. You can see 8 dishes there, mostly casserole dishes. This was
> only 1/4 of that long table. He's also holding a fresh garden tomato
> but I've always wondered what he (and the other person) are holding in
> the other hands.
> http://i49.tinypic.com/15mjjgz.jpg

She sure looks happy there))

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"Cheri" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 9/13/2014 12:34 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>>> Yep, mine is always on the counter and ready to use, same with the food
>>> processor.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> As is ours. You can improve the performance with a "beater blade" that
>> cleans the sides better. Many stores carry them, just Google beater
>> blade.
>
> I have one.

Whereas I've never heard of them
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"Ophelia" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> "Cheri" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 9/13/2014 12:34 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yep, mine is always on the counter and ready to use, same with the food
>>>> processor.
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> As is ours. You can improve the performance with a "beater blade" that
>>> cleans the sides better. Many stores carry them, just Google beater
>>> blade.
>>
>> I have one.
>
> Whereas I've never heard of them


http://www.amazon.com/Design-Beater-.../dp/B0015TMI28

"Cheri" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>>
>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On 9/13/2014 12:34 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Yep, mine is always on the counter and ready to use, same with the
>>>>> food
>>>>> processor.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheri
>>>>
>>>> As is ours. You can improve the performance with a "beater blade" that
>>>> cleans the sides better. Many stores carry them, just Google beater
>>>> blade.
>>>
>>> I have one.
>>
>> Whereas I've never heard of them
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Design-Beater-.../dp/B0015TMI28

Ahhh thank you) That will be why I've never heard of them. Mine's a
Kenwood!


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Kalmia > wrote in
:

> In all honesty, how often do you use the thing?
> And what is your most frequent operation with said mixer?
> Seems all first time brides want one, but are they really going to use
> it, or it just 'the thing' to ask for?
>
> I'm still using my cheapo Ham Beach handmixer- prob. get it out twice
> yearly.

I can top that. I have a manual (crank-type) hand mixer. Haven't used it
for decades.


--
You know it's time to clean the refrigerator
when something closes the door from the inside.

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?
>
> Once or twice a week.
>
>> And what is your most frequent operation with said mixer?
>
> My Oster Kitchen Center also has a grinder, slicer, and blender.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

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.

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not." in Reply To.

On Saturday, September 13, 2014 12:45:40 AM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:

>
> *shudder* My mom used to make that. Probably, IMO one of the most foul
>
> tasting things ever.

Ahh, yer full o' shit. You probably never even HEARD of it til this thread.

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:22:24 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>
> > Sqwertz wrote:
> >
> >> So much easier to just do it all by hand. How hard is it to stir cake
> >> batter yourself? Or mix cookie dough with a rubber spatula?
> >
> > A rubber spatula would not have a chance against my chocolate chip
> > cookie dough. That dough broke a couple wooden spoons before I got the
> > Hobart, now with the Hobart it's a piece of cake and it doesn't even bog
> > down. The KA pasta roller set is wonderful as well, so much easier than
> > the manual Atlas pasta machine.
>
> After I mentioned this last night went down and made chocolate chip
> cookies. As usual, the plastic handled rubber spatula made quick work
> of mixing the batter/dough. Yes, it's very stiff stuff. But unless
> you're a wimp, it was still twice as fast as the stand mixer.

I'm no wimp, I've broken two good wooden spoons on the dough in the
past. By hand may be faster than a KA, but not a Hobart N-50 with it's
induction motor and gear transmission.

>
> Another thing I don't like about the stand mixer is that it requires
> babysitting. You have to scrape down the sides and the spots that the
> paddle did not reach. Much easier to do it all by hand in the first
> place.

I have a beaterblade that has the silicone scraper flaps, it does a
pretty good job getting the sides of the bowl.

On 9/13/2014 2:09 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>
> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:22:24 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>>
>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>
>>>> So much easier to just do it all by hand. How hard is it to stir cake
>>>> batter yourself? Or mix cookie dough with a rubber spatula?
>>>
>>> A rubber spatula would not have a chance against my chocolate chip
>>> cookie dough. That dough broke a couple wooden spoons before I got the
>>> Hobart, now with the Hobart it's a piece of cake and it doesn't even bog
>>> down. The KA pasta roller set is wonderful as well, so much easier than
>>> the manual Atlas pasta machine.
>>
>> After I mentioned this last night went down and made chocolate chip
>> cookies. As usual, the plastic handled rubber spatula made quick work
>> of mixing the batter/dough. Yes, it's very stiff stuff. But unless
>> you're a wimp, it was still twice as fast as the stand mixer.
>
> I'm no wimp, I've broken two good wooden spoons on the dough in the
> past. By hand may be faster than a KA, but not a Hobart N-50 with it's
> induction motor and gear transmission.
>
>>
>> Another thing I don't like about the stand mixer is that it requires
>> babysitting. You have to scrape down the sides and the spots that the
>> paddle did not reach. Much easier to do it all by hand in the first
>> place.
>
> I have a beaterblade that has the silicone scraper flaps, it does a
> pretty good job getting the sides of the bowl.
>
I believe those things work but they're one more thing to clean. The
three blades that came with the KitchenAid, beater, whisk and dough hook
all work well after many years and the only problem is that the bowl is
not equipped with the recent handle and sometimes sticks in the base.

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not." in Reply To.

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:25:16 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
> sf wrote:
>
> > Anything as heavy as a stand mixer needs to live on the counter.
>
> They make a counterbalanced stand mixer shelf unit that stores the mixer
> in the cabinet under the counter and you pull/swing it out and up and it
> locks into place at counter height for use. It's a built in thing
> obviously that may or may not be retrofitable to your particular
> cabinetry, but it works quite well.

Not everyone has a kitchen so huge that they can dedicate an entire
cabinet to store one item.


--
Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them.

"James Silverton" > wrote in message
...
> On 9/13/2014 2:09 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:22:24 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So much easier to just do it all by hand. How hard is it to stir cake
>>>>> batter yourself? Or mix cookie dough with a rubber spatula?
>>>>
>>>> A rubber spatula would not have a chance against my chocolate chip
>>>> cookie dough. That dough broke a couple wooden spoons before I got the
>>>> Hobart, now with the Hobart it's a piece of cake and it doesn't even
>>>> bog
>>>> down. The KA pasta roller set is wonderful as well, so much easier than
>>>> the manual Atlas pasta machine.
>>>
>>> After I mentioned this last night went down and made chocolate chip
>>> cookies. As usual, the plastic handled rubber spatula made quick work
>>> of mixing the batter/dough. Yes, it's very stiff stuff. But unless
>>> you're a wimp, it was still twice as fast as the stand mixer.
>>
>> I'm no wimp, I've broken two good wooden spoons on the dough in the
>> past. By hand may be faster than a KA, but not a Hobart N-50 with it's
>> induction motor and gear transmission.
>>
>>>
>>> Another thing I don't like about the stand mixer is that it requires
>>> babysitting. You have to scrape down the sides and the spots that the
>>> paddle did not reach. Much easier to do it all by hand in the first
>>> place.
>>
>> I have a beaterblade that has the silicone scraper flaps, it does a
>> pretty good job getting the sides of the bowl.
>>
> I believe those things work but they're one more thing to clean. The three
> blades that came with the KitchenAid, beater, whisk and dough hook all
> work well after many years and the only problem is that the bowl is not
> equipped with the recent handle and sometimes sticks in the base.

So do the ones with the handles. I actually prefer the bowl without the
handle.

Cheri

On 13 Sep 2014 17:36:28 GMT, KenK > wrote:

>Kalmia > wrote in
:
>
>> In all honesty, how often do you use the thing?
>> And what is your most frequent operation with said mixer?
>> Seems all first time brides want one, but are they really going to use
>> it, or it just 'the thing' to ask for?
>>
>> I'm still using my cheapo Ham Beach handmixer- prob. get it out twice
>> yearly.
>
>I can top that. I have a manual (crank-type) hand mixer. Haven't used it
>for decades.

I have one of those, and I use it all the time. It only takes a minute
of two to whip up some cream or beat a couple of egg whites to soft
peaks.

Doris

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:19:30 -0400, James Silverton
> wrote:

> the only problem is that the bowl is
> not equipped with the recent handle and sometimes sticks in the base.

You too? I thought it was something I am doing wrong!


--
Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them.

On 9/13/2014 3:04 PM, Cheri wrote:
>
> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 9/13/2014 2:09 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>>>
>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:22:24 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So much easier to just do it all by hand. How hard is it to stir
>>>>>> cake
>>>>>> batter yourself? Or mix cookie dough with a rubber spatula?
>>>>>
>>>>> A rubber spatula would not have a chance against my chocolate chip
>>>>> cookie dough. That dough broke a couple wooden spoons before I got the
>>>>> Hobart, now with the Hobart it's a piece of cake and it doesn't
>>>>> even bog
>>>>> down. The KA pasta roller set is wonderful as well, so much easier
>>>>> than
>>>>> the manual Atlas pasta machine.
>>>>
>>>> After I mentioned this last night went down and made chocolate chip
>>>> cookies. As usual, the plastic handled rubber spatula made quick work
>>>> of mixing the batter/dough. Yes, it's very stiff stuff. But unless
>>>> you're a wimp, it was still twice as fast as the stand mixer.
>>>
>>> I'm no wimp, I've broken two good wooden spoons on the dough in the
>>> past. By hand may be faster than a KA, but not a Hobart N-50 with it's
>>> induction motor and gear transmission.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Another thing I don't like about the stand mixer is that it requires
>>>> babysitting. You have to scrape down the sides and the spots that the
>>>> paddle did not reach. Much easier to do it all by hand in the first
>>>> place.
>>>
>>> I have a beaterblade that has the silicone scraper flaps, it does a
>>> pretty good job getting the sides of the bowl.
>>>
>> I believe those things work but they're one more thing to clean. The
>> three blades that came with the KitchenAid, beater, whisk and dough
>> hook all work well after many years and the only problem is that the
>> bowl is not equipped with the recent handle and sometimes sticks in
>> the base.
>
> So do the ones with the handles. I actually prefer the bowl without the
> handle.
>
> Cheri

Is that so :-) Makes me wish we had invested in the larger model with
the lifting mechanism but it's too late now.

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not." in Reply To.

sf wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:25:16 -0500, "Pete C." >
> wrote:
>
> >
> > sf wrote:
> >
> > > Anything as heavy as a stand mixer needs to live on the counter.
> >
> > They make a counterbalanced stand mixer shelf unit that stores the mixer
> > in the cabinet under the counter and you pull/swing it out and up and it
> > locks into place at counter height for use. It's a built in thing
> > obviously that may or may not be retrofitable to your particular
> > cabinetry, but it works quite well.
>
> Not everyone has a kitchen so huge that they can dedicate an entire
> cabinet to store one item.

It doesn't occupy the whole cabinet, only the upper half or so. There is
room under it to store attachments, extra bowls, etc.

sf wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:19:30 -0400, James Silverton
> > wrote:
>
> > the only problem is that the bowl is
> > not equipped with the recent handle and sometimes sticks in the base.
>
> You too? I thought it was something I am doing wrong!

I have the bowl lift style, nothing to stick.

On Friday, September 12, 2014 11:51:57 PM UTC-5, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>
> Blend-Tec mixer blender combo - use it all the time. The mixer is
> really nice because you can get the whole thing clean. With a
> Kitchen-Aid or similar arrangement (with the mixer hanging off an
> apparatus / bar perpendicular to the axis of the mixing tools) you can
> never be sure the thing is absolutely clean, and stuff can come up, hit
> the top part, and drip back down.
>
>
You must be either filthy in the kitchen or overload the mixing bowl. I've never once had "stuff can come up, hit the top part, and drip back down." I've never even seen this happen in anyone's kitchen. Honestly, it sounds like you made that up just to plug your 'Blend-Tec mixer' or you work for this company.

On Saturday, September 13, 2014 12:34:23 AM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
>
> >> Well, lucky for all of us that there are many ways of doing things. I
> >> love my KA and wouldn't want to be without it, especially when making
> >> things like divinity during the holidays.
>
> >> Cheri
>
>
I loooooove divinity!!

"James Silverton" > wrote in message
...
> On 9/13/2014 3:04 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>
>> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 9/13/2014 2:09 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:22:24 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So much easier to just do it all by hand. How hard is it to stir
>>>>>>> cake
>>>>>>> batter yourself? Or mix cookie dough with a rubber spatula?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A rubber spatula would not have a chance against my chocolate chip
>>>>>> cookie dough. That dough broke a couple wooden spoons before I got
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Hobart, now with the Hobart it's a piece of cake and it doesn't
>>>>>> even bog
>>>>>> down. The KA pasta roller set is wonderful as well, so much easier
>>>>>> than
>>>>>> the manual Atlas pasta machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> After I mentioned this last night went down and made chocolate chip
>>>>> cookies. As usual, the plastic handled rubber spatula made quick work
>>>>> of mixing the batter/dough. Yes, it's very stiff stuff. But unless
>>>>> you're a wimp, it was still twice as fast as the stand mixer.
>>>>
>>>> I'm no wimp, I've broken two good wooden spoons on the dough in the
>>>> past. By hand may be faster than a KA, but not a Hobart N-50 with it's
>>>> induction motor and gear transmission.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Another thing I don't like about the stand mixer is that it requires
>>>>> babysitting. You have to scrape down the sides and the spots that the
>>>>> paddle did not reach. Much easier to do it all by hand in the first
>>>>> place.
>>>>
>>>> I have a beaterblade that has the silicone scraper flaps, it does a
>>>> pretty good job getting the sides of the bowl.
>>>>
>>> I believe those things work but they're one more thing to clean. The
>>> three blades that came with the KitchenAid, beater, whisk and dough
>>> hook all work well after many years and the only problem is that the
>>> bowl is not equipped with the recent handle and sometimes sticks in
>>> the base.
>>
>> So do the ones with the handles. I actually prefer the bowl without the
>> handle.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Is that so :-) Makes me wish we had invested in the larger model with the
> lifting mechanism but it's too late now.
>
> --
> Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

I have the old white one that is about 30 years old with no handle, and I
have a newer one that I got free with rewards from a credit card and updated
to a butter yellow color which has a handle on the bowl, but no lifting
mechanism. They both get stuck occasionally and are very hard to move.

Cheri

On 9/12/2014 7:40 PM, Kalmia wrote:

> In all honesty, how often do you use the thing? And what is your most
> frequent operation with said mixer? Seems all first time brides want
> one, but are they really going to use it, or it just 'the thing' to
> ask for?
>
> I'm still using my cheapo Ham Beach handmixer- prob. get it out twice
> yearly.
>
My Kitchen Aide is a hand-me-down from my grandmother. I use it maybe
3-4 times a month but when I need it I don't want to move it so it has
it's own little spot on a small countertop. My mom always wants to go in
on one of these for wedding gifts. I think she's one that just assumes
all brides want one, but the last wedding where she wanted to get one,
they didn't want one.

I gave away my old hand mixer years ago and never miss it.

--
ღ.¸¸.œ«*¨`*œ¶
Cheryl

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:24:27 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
> sf wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:25:16 -0500, "Pete C." >
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > sf wrote:
> > >
> > > > Anything as heavy as a stand mixer needs to live on the counter.
> > >
> > > They make a counterbalanced stand mixer shelf unit that stores the mixer
> > > in the cabinet under the counter and you pull/swing it out and up and it
> > > locks into place at counter height for use. It's a built in thing
> > > obviously that may or may not be retrofitable to your particular
> > > cabinetry, but it works quite well.
> >
> > Not everyone has a kitchen so huge that they can dedicate an entire
> > cabinet to store one item.
>
> It doesn't occupy the whole cabinet, only the upper half or so. There is
> room under it to store attachments, extra bowls, etc.

It hogs some serious room. DD has all of that + other machines on the
same shelf of a cabinet. Tiny house, tiny kitchen.


--
Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them.

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:25:05 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
> sf wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:19:30 -0400, James Silverton
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > the only problem is that the bowl is
> > > not equipped with the recent handle and sometimes sticks in the base.
> >
> > You too? I thought it was something I am doing wrong!
>
> I have the bowl lift style, nothing to stick.

Well, I don't - and apparently neither does Jim.


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On 9/12/14, 7:40 PM, Kalmia wrote:
> In all honesty, how often do you use the thing?
> And what is your most frequent operation with said mixer?
> Seems all first time brides want one, but are they really going to use it, or it just 'the thing' to ask for?
>
> I'm still using my cheapo Ham Beach handmixer- prob. get it out twice yearly.

Pretty dishonest thread title.

There might be opinions to be gained for you, but I don't see anything
here for us.

-- Larry

On 2014-09-13 11:25 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

>>
>> I agree. The diet version of something awful is still... awful.
>
> Is disliking Coke a political reason because it's Coke or a dislike of
> all colas? I enjoy a rum and Coke, or a rum and Pepsi, but I
> especially like my rum with Cherry Coke, or Wild Cherry Pepsi... I
> like rum with the lime versions too however I prefer rum with the
> cherry versions but with real lime. Actually I don't care for soda
> unless it's with booze.

Personally, I prefer my booze without any mixer, except gin and tonic.
I don't drink much soda pop, maybe one cane every 2-3 weeks. I find them
too sweet. I dislike most diet soft drinks. In the past I preferred
diet Pepsi but lately have had the odd Coke Zero, which is pretty good.
I preferred diet Dr.Pepper to the normal stuff.


> But still I think anyone who drinks 12-16 cans of soda a day has a
> serious emotional problem, called an addiction. I'd say drinking a
> couple three cans of soda a day is normal, but 12-16 is an illness.


Don't worry. In a couple weeks she will deny ever having posted that.

> "Cheri" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> I never used a mixer for cookies and I used to bake tons of them. I
>>> find that my hands are the best tool for mixing most cookie doughs.
>>
>> Well, lucky for all of us that there are many ways of doing things. I
>> love my KA and wouldn't want to be without it, especially when making
>> things like divinity during the holidays.
>
> Divinity? I did Google it but it seems to mean sin. Unless of course
> your divinity is very sinful <g>
>

Wikipedia is the best place to start looking for such things...

Divinity (confectionery):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinit...nfectionery%29

Divinity is a nougat-like confectionery made mainly with egg white, corn
syrup, and sugar. Flavorings, chopped dried fruit and chopped nuts are
optional, but frequent ingredients. Replacing the sugar with brown sugar
results in another related confection called "sea foam".

On 9/13/2014 11:19 AM, wrote:

>
> My Oster Kitchen Center also has a grinder, slicer, and blender.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

We had one of those about that time too. It was discontinued and once
it died, no way to repair it. Nice machine while it lasted.

On 9/13/2014 1:30 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>


>>>>> As is ours. You can improve the performance with a "beater blade"
>>>>> that cleans the sides better. Many stores carry them, just Google
>>>>> beater blade.
>>>>
>>>> I have one.
>>>
>>> Whereas I've never heard of them
>>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Design-Beater-.../dp/B0015TMI28
>>
>
> Ahhh thank you) That will be why I've never heard of them. Mine's a
> Kenwood!
>
>

There is one for the 7 quart Kenwood
http://www.cookswarehouse.com/beater...od-7quart.html

On 9/13/2014 2:19 PM, James Silverton wrote:

> I believe those things work but they're one more thing to clean. The
> three blades that came with the KitchenAid, beater, whisk and dough hook
> all work well after many years and the only problem is that the bowl is
> not equipped with the recent handle and sometimes sticks in the base.
>

Huh? You have to clean a blade be it the standard or the Beater Blade.
Makes no difference. Dishwasher safe too.

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:53:08 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> On 9/13/2014 2:19 PM, James Silverton wrote:
>
> > I believe those things work but they're one more thing to clean. The
> > three blades that came with the KitchenAid, beater, whisk and dough hook
> > all work well after many years and the only problem is that the bowl is
> > not equipped with the recent handle and sometimes sticks in the base.
> >
>
> Huh? You have to clean a blade be it the standard or the Beater Blade.
> Makes no difference. Dishwasher safe too.

Being a pain to clean a standard reason for why someone doesn't want
to use something. Too many say that for not using a FP when the fact
is they are easy to clean - but they are a PITA to get out of wherever
they are kept and to put back.


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"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:22:24 -0500, Pete C. wrote:
>
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>> So much easier to just do it all by hand. How hard is it to stir cake
>>> batter yourself? Or mix cookie dough with a rubber spatula?
>>
>> A rubber spatula would not have a chance against my chocolate chip
>> cookie dough. That dough broke a couple wooden spoons before I got the
>> Hobart, now with the Hobart it's a piece of cake and it doesn't even bog
>> down. The KA pasta roller set is wonderful as well, so much easier than
>> the manual Atlas pasta machine.
>
> After I mentioned this last night went down and made chocolate chip
> cookies. As usual, the plastic handled rubber spatula made quick work
> of mixing the batter/dough. Yes, it's very stiff stuff. But unless
> you're a wimp, it was still twice as fast as the stand mixer.
>
> Another thing I don't like about the stand mixer is that it requires
> babysitting. You have to scrape down the sides and the spots that the
> paddle did not reach. Much easier to do it all by hand in the first
> place.
>
> -sw

Hands are even quicker. You do need to chill the dough after as any fat in
it will be melted by the warmth of your hands.

"Kalmia" > wrote in message
...
> On Saturday, September 13, 2014 12:45:40 AM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>>
>> *shudder* My mom used to make that. Probably, IMO one of the most foul
>>
>> tasting things ever.
>
> Ahh, yer full o' shit. You probably never even HEARD of it til this
> thread.

Of course I've heard of it. I even bought some for my mom last Christmas
because I know she loves it and she no longer makes candy. One of the
grocery stores was selling it.

She made the mistake of making it for the 6th grade Christmas party when she
was the room mother. Most people didn't take any and most of the few who
did, didn't eat any more after taking a tiny taste. I don't think it is
something most kids would like. Then when my mom was taking the leftovers
to her car, one girl offered to help her and praised her divinity. My mom
knew she would eat it all herself if she took it home because none of the
rest of us liked it. So the girl said she would take it. My mom gave it
to her and she was very happy! The rest of us just said, "You can have it!"
So clearly some kids like it but at least in those days, not many did.

> wrote in message
...
On Friday, September 12, 2014 11:51:57 PM UTC-5, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>
> Blend-Tec mixer blender combo - use it all the time. The mixer is
> really nice because you can get the whole thing clean. With a
> Kitchen-Aid or similar arrangement (with the mixer hanging off an
> apparatus / bar perpendicular to the axis of the mixing tools) you can
> never be sure the thing is absolutely clean, and stuff can come up, hit
> the top part, and drip back down.
>
>
You must be either filthy in the kitchen or overload the mixing bowl. I've
never once had "stuff can come up, hit the top part, and drip back down."
I've never even seen this happen in anyone's kitchen. Honestly, it sounds
like you made that up just to plug your 'Blend-Tec mixer' or you work for
this company.

My Bosch throws stuff up and they know it. That's why it comes with a bowl
cover.

"Bakatori" > wrote in message
. 38...
>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> I never used a mixer for cookies and I used to bake tons of them. I
>>>> find that my hands are the best tool for mixing most cookie doughs.
>>>
>>> Well, lucky for all of us that there are many ways of doing things. I
>>> love my KA and wouldn't want to be without it, especially when making
>>> things like divinity during the holidays.
>>
>> Divinity? I did Google it but it seems to mean sin. Unless of course
>> your divinity is very sinful <g>
>>
>
> Wikipedia is the best place to start looking for such things...
>
> Divinity (confectionery):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinit...nfectionery%29
>
> Divinity is a nougat-like confectionery made mainly with egg white, corn
> syrup, and sugar. Flavorings, chopped dried fruit and chopped nuts are
> optional, but frequent ingredients. Replacing the sugar with brown sugar
> results in another related confection called "sea foam".

Ahhh... So that's why I don't like sea foam! Both are just far too
sweet for me.

On Saturday, September 13, 2014 10:58:48 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:

> I've never once had "stuff can come up, hit the top part, and drip back down." I've never even seen this happen in anyone's kitchen. Honestly, it sounds like you made that up just to plug your 'Blend-Tec mixer' or you work for this company.
>
> > My Bosch throws stuff up and they know it. That's why it comes with a bowl cover.
>
>
My Kitchenaid has never thrown anything up. It does have a bowl cover but that's for idiots who dump cups of flour all in at once while the mixer is going full tilt and then it will produced clouds of flour.

> wrote in message
...
> On Saturday, September 13, 2014 10:58:48 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> I've never once had "stuff can come up, hit the top part, and drip back
>> down." I've never even seen this happen in anyone's kitchen. Honestly, it
>> sounds like you made that up just to plug your 'Blend-Tec mixer' or you
>> work for this company.
>>
>> > My Bosch throws stuff up and they know it. That's why it comes with a
>> > bowl cover.
>>
>>
> My Kitchenaid has never thrown anything up. It does have a bowl cover but
> that's for idiots who dump cups of flour all in at once while the mixer is
> going full tilt and then it will produced clouds of flour.


Mine throws the dough up.

> wrote in message
...
> On Saturday, September 13, 2014 10:58:48 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> I've never once had "stuff can come up, hit the top part, and drip back
>> down." I've never even seen this happen in anyone's kitchen. Honestly, it
>> sounds like you made that up just to plug your 'Blend-Tec mixer' or you
>> work for this company.
>>
>> > My Bosch throws stuff up and they know it. That's why it comes with a
>> > bowl cover.
>>
>>
> My Kitchenaid has never thrown anything up. It does have a bowl cover but
> that's for idiots who dump cups of flour all in at once while the mixer is
> going full tilt and then it will produced clouds of flour.

Mine too, but I don't use it. I've never had it throwing things up either.

Cheri

"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
> On 9/13/2014 1:30 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>
>
>>>>>> As is ours. You can improve the performance with a "beater blade"
>>>>>> that cleans the sides better. Many stores carry them, just Google
>>>>>> beater blade.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have one.
>>>>
>>>> Whereas I've never heard of them
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Design-Beater-.../dp/B0015TMI28
>>>
>>
>> Ahhh thank you) That will be why I've never heard of them. Mine's a
>> Kenwood!
>>
>>
>
> There is one for the 7 quart Kenwood
> http://www.cookswarehouse.com/beater...od-7quart.html

Well! Who knew

Thanks, Ed!



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