/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19636958]

Are these things actually worth the money or is there any cheaper mixer that doesn't fall apart after using it twice?

[Anonymous No.19636967]

How often are you going to use it?
Make sure you get the professional models that are still made in Ohio. They have steep discounts on refurbished models on their website. But the ultimate question is how often you'll use it.
They are indeed basically engines you attach stuff too, and they're very reliable.

[Anonymous No.19636973]

>>19636967
I make Pizza pretty regularly and i like making brioche and similar breads too.

[Anonymous No.19636978]

>>19636973
Then get one.
I really like my 6qt professional model myself.

[Anonymous No.19636990]

>>19636973
If youre gonna use it for bread making I suggest you get the pro model because it has a stronger motor. Ive heard the artisan motors burn out if you use them to make bread eventually

Keep in mind the pro has a bigger bowl and (imo) less user friendly mechanics (swivel head vs pressing bowl into place) and you need to make bigger batches of breads in it otherwise the dough hook wont catch, generally at least 2 loaves

[Anonymous No.19637007]

>>19636990
Mine started to smoke and the head wouldn't kick no matter how I tried to adjust it.

[Anonymous No.19637158]

>>19636973
You don't really need a stand mixer for pizza dough. For brioche they are good.

[Anonymous No.19637189]

>>19636990
>Ive heard the artisan motors burn out if you use them to make bread eventually
The artisan models are the ones with the plastic worm gear meant to break so the motor doest.
>>19636973
Ive got the professional model too and its an absolute must if you do any sort of tough stuff. I was shredding chicken breast the other day and the bowl would have flown away if i didnt have the lift bowl model that keeps it in place

[Anonymous No.19638298]

>>19636958
Think of it this way--to oversimplify:
Every time you use your blender is one less time it will work again
Cheap blenders have x uses before they die
Expensive blenders have x * 10 to x * 100 uses before they die.

If you use it a lot--get a good one, if you don't get a cheap shitty one.

[Anonymous No.19638307]

>>19637158
I think that depends on how much dough you make at a time, I know I definitely use mine a huge amount for pizza dough.

[Anonymous No.19638704]

>>19636958
>Are these things actually worth the money
for the 100th time YES!

[Anonymous No.19638958]

>>19636958
why are these so expensive in my country? it's not fair

[Anonymous No.19639714]

>>19636958
>worth the money
No. Get a Hobart, they're expensive, but buy once cry once as the saying goes.

[Anonymous No.19639717]

>>19638704
Even if we had archives, we wouldn't have archives, nobody looks

[Anonymous No.19639721]

>>19639714
Same company

[Anonymous No.19639728]

>>19636958
You can get a stand mixer for less than $50 easy

[Anonymous No.19639759]

>>19639721
Not since 1986.

[Anonymous No.19639761]

>>19639721
It isnt

[Anonymous No.19639782]

>>19639759
>>19639761
Heh, about when I got my Hobart
They're still the same company, though Kitchen-Aid wants it back so they can take it apart for their scientists
Fuck them it's my machine

[Anonymous No.19639784]

>>19636958
muscles.
get some.

[Anonymous No.19639789]

>>19639784
Gay

[Anonymous No.19639790]

>>19639782
They aren't the same company anymore, KitchenAid belongs to ge iirc

[Anonymous No.19639795]

>>19639782
>They're still the same company
They aren't. Hobart sold Kitchenaid to Whirlpool in 1985.

[Anonymous No.19639798]

>>19639789
>gay
fat hands typed that

[Anonymous No.19639869]

>>19639795
Shell game
>>19639798
Lol 6' 160 and I've posted wrist

[Anonymous No.19640622]

>>19637189
Shredding chicken? Which attachment? The mixing one?

[Anonymous No.19640917]

>>19640622
Yeah just the paddle. You can mash potatoes with it too

[Anonymous No.19641064]

>>19638958
Probably import taxes or something.

[Anonymous No.19641234]

>>19638958
>why are these so expensive in my country
Your country? I paid 500 usd for mine. Totally worth it tho

[Anonymous No.19641266]

>using hand mixer
>it splashes food everywhere and proceeds to jump out of my hand and skitter across the countertop into the sink throwing water everywhere until it shorts out and blows the circuit breaker

[Anonymous No.19641286]

>>19636958
personally my needs are almost entirely around making batters and liquids so a hand mixer for $20 does just as well

[Anonymous No.19641350]

Try one of those European models that have the engine in the base, theyve got much greater longevity

[Anonymous No.19641352]

Definitely worth it if you'd like to bake.

[Anonymous No.19641363]

>>19638298
>Think of it this way--to oversimplify:
>Every time you use your blender is one less time it will work again
>Cheap blenders have x uses before they die
>Expensive blenders have x * 10 to x * 100 uses before they die.
>
>If you use it a lot--get a good one, if you don't get a cheap shitty one.

This is a retarded take as everything eventually breaks down regardless of whether it's my Chicago electric angle grinder from harbor freight or my Ryobi. I have put the Chicago electric one through hell and back despite only paying $17 for it.

[Anonymous No.19641376]

>>19641363
>everything eventually breaks down
Except Hobarts

[Anonymous No.19641379]

>>19641376
>Except Hobarts
which eventually break down.

[Anonymous No.19641401]

>>19641379
oh wait you're this >>19639721 retard aren't you?

[Anonymous No.19641915]

How do they fair against Bagel dough?

[Anonymous No.19641953]

>>19636958
Can your kitchen appliance fuck you?
Can it hmmmm?

[Anonymous No.19642090]

>>19641953
>pic
I suppose, just don't let em touch your balls.

[Anonymous No.19642094]

>>19641401
Nope

[Anonymous No.19642378]

>>19638958
The most famous one in Italy goes for 1359€, at least that was last year.

[Anonymous No.19642384]

>>19642378
This is pretty much the same, used to go for 600€, shop is getting absorbed though, so we got one for 100€.

Now I am pondering what could I cook to bring to a friend tomorrow.