Hi all.

I really need your expertise on this matter.

I have one of those hand held mixers. They work fine. Cost me all of $10.00

But there are some things which I prepare that these become STUCK IN.

For instance, my brownies that I add peanut butter to.

I was invited somewhere and they love my brownies. I don't eat them because I'm diabetic but sometimes I make them with splenda and egg whites and then add a bit of peanut butter and maybe I'll have one piece and it doesn't impact my sugar but the problem is I CAN'T USE THE HAND HELD MIXER when I am mixing the ingredients. The mixer gets stuck in the bowl. The ingredients are TOO THICK.

And I can't use a wooden spoon because my hands are arthritic and it's just TOO HARD.

So today I said to myself "Get one of those electric mixer things".

I went on ebay, took a look (I think I need the dough hook things) to do what I want to do, but maybe I'm wrong? Not sure.

So I came across this item

http://cgi.ebay.com/KitchenAid-KSMC5...item2ea9b3273d


So is this (or something similar (because this comes with the dough hooks), will this do the brownie (and other thick mixes)???

I would also use it to mix the muffin batter because my hands are not what they used to be, and I'll take all the help I can get.

So which mixer should I be buying (to make thick stuff), Would the dough hooks do the trick (I gather any mixer I purchase should have the dough hooks)????

Thanks much

Melody

I love my kitchen aid Mel! It has a paddle attachment which you would
use for your brownies. Your other mixer just doesnt have the power to
cut thru thick batters.

The dough hook is for pizza, bread, or sweetbread doughs.

Good luck. Happy Baking.

Oh!!! I need a paddle attachment???? Never ever heard of this.

Will wonders next cease!!!

See why I love all of you.

I have just learned about PADDLE ATTACHMENTS!!

Life is indeed good.

lol

Melody

The paddle should come with the kitchen aid mixer. Mine came with the paddle, whisk, and dough attachments.

Well, since I don't have $400 or so bucks to spend on a Kitchen Aid, I shall continue to look. If anyone sees anything cheaper .....for example, $50.

YEAH!!! LIKE THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

I'll just mosey along and have Alan use his strong arms to do the mixing.

Thank you VERY much for putting me in the right direction.

Melody-Bells

Jingle Jingle!!!

You said Sweetbread dough!!

I googled Sweetbread

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetbread

???????????????????????????????????????lol lol lol

Don't think you mean this, right?

Mel

No, not those kind of sweetbreads Mel. I am not Hannibel Lector silly.

I will never understand how people eat these things. One day (over Easter time), my husband and I were passing the local butcher (we had just moved into this neighborhood), and I saw this GOAT hanging from a rack (RIGHT IN THE STORE WINDOW).

Now, having never seen this in all my life, I had no idea what the heck this meant. Then I saw the sign and the sign read "Baby goats for sale, get your order in early".

I looked at Alan and said "Oh my god, they are selling baby goats?" And Alan said "yeah, and they are killing them too". We had no idea.

I went into the store ranting and raving about the goat hanging in the window and the guy behind the counter was hysterical. He said "Lady, this is an Italian neighborhood, don't you know that?" I said "Of course, I happen to be Italian"

He then said: "But don't you know that people eat goats and lamb for Easter?"

I said: "But it's hanging in the window". (See, my mother never bought them this way, we all just sat down and ATE, I had NEVER seen the BEFORE of the meal).

I just looked at the man and he immediately understood. He said "you should see what's downstairs".

I ran out of the store, then I had to explain to my Jewish husband that many people around here were buying fresh killed baby goats and lambs.

You should have seen his face.

I don't know why but we don't have any butchers around here any more.

And I'm vegetarian. I WONDER WHY!!!!

lol

Melody

When I was a little girl my dad would buy our family a live Turkey... This was not in the country, but in western Detroit!

We went to a place not far from our post WWII home, that had floors with sawdust, and awful smells and gobling turkeys in cages... He'd pick one, and they take it to the back room and after many more bad smells and noise, they brought out a freshly plucked bird. Some pin feathers still trembling in the skin. My Grandmother used to say, the freshest was the best. But it totally traumatized ME.

I have a stand mixer - my dream toy ever since I worked in a bakery. But I opted for the Sunbeam instead of Kitchen aid. It's almost the same, only two beaters vs KA's one.

My first one was $5 at an auction - real life, not online or ebay. Then I got one for about $100 on sale. Had beaters and dough hooks, two bowls.

Sunbeam does not have where you can add all the attachments like a KA, but I didn't expect to need that - and for half the money?



The thing is like a train. Right through cookies, bread dough, you name it. Love love love! With my arms, could not do baking without it.

I gave away the old auction one after the bowl broke (the old one came with glass, new one with metal bowls) and I got my new one. The person who took it ordered replacement bowls and beaters cheap, online, new.


The motor is still running like new last I heard.

So either model, I'd say you'd be totally happy with - even used. They are built like tanks. If you get it off ebay, just find a seller w good feedback.

Have fun!