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Alright bakers, I need some help. My mom had surgery recently for a torn rotator cuff. The surgery was only partially succesful.
She likes to bake--homemade bread, doughnuts, cookies etc. I don't see how she's going to be able to stir and work with dough with her injured shoulder for quite some time.
Kitchen Aid mixer for Christmas? Any suggestions for which one? They seem to have around a dozen models (tilt stand, lift) etc.
I don't bake and I don't know jack about mixers.
It just occurred to me that that bitch Tiki probably knows all about mixers.
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If I was you I would go for the one that does bread and pastry dow.
Just a thought you understand.
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they are essential!
of course get heavy-duty one with dough hook. and they are $$$ but will last forever.
in fact i am pissed off my old one won't die because i wanted the new candy-apple red one with a glass bowl. hahaha it's gorgeous.
but for your Mom, get a color she likes, steel bowl, heavy-duty for bread.
i like your Christmas kitty.
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(12-07-2011, 03:51 PM)IMaDick Wrote: If I was you I would go for the one that does bread and pastry dow.
Just a thought you understand.
Is there only one that does bread and pastry dough? I thought you might have to get some attachment thingamajig for dough...?
I could probably research this a little more but I'm lazy. I'd rather someone just hand me the answer, please.
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(12-07-2011, 03:54 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: they are essential!
of course get heavy-duty one with dough hook. and they are $$$ but will last forever.
in fact i am pissed off my old one won't die because i wanted the new candy-apple red one with a glass bowl. hahaha it's gorgeous.
but for your Mom, get a color she likes, steel bowl, heavy-duty for bread.
i like your Christmas kitty.
Awesome! What about the tilt vs. non...?
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Try the artisan series, no smaller than the 500.
It works for me.
299 at amazon.
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whatever you think would be less stressful for her. can you go to a store like williams-sonoma and check them out? mine is a tilt. but i can't be sure for your mom.
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(12-07-2011, 03:51 PM)IMaDick Wrote: pastry dow.
I've already had an eleven hour day & I'm just too tired to go for it. *sigh*
...but I had to acknowledge it.
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Thanks Dick! I'll check out that series.
LC, I was at Macy's yesterday and looked at a few but I didn't notice that some tilted etc. I'll go back and take another look before I order. I plan on getting it online so I can have it shipped directly to her. I hope she'll use it--she's sort of a baking purist (no interest in bread machines or anything like that).
I'm going to buy it from somewhere reputable (maybe Amazon) that has a fairly easy return policy just in case.
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(12-07-2011, 03:56 PM)username Wrote: (12-07-2011, 03:51 PM)IMaDick Wrote: If I was you I would go for the one that does bread and pastry dow.
Just a thought you understand.
Is there only one that does bread and pastry dough? I thought you might have to get some attachment thingamajig for dough...?
I could probably research this a little more but I'm lazy. I'd rather someone just hand me the answer, please.
even basic ones will come with a dough hook and a few other doodads. like a whisk thingy. and a paddle-type attachment for cookie dough.
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(12-07-2011, 04:06 PM)Duchess Wrote: (12-07-2011, 03:51 PM)IMaDick Wrote: pastry dow.
I've already had an eleven hour day & I'm just too tired to go for it. *sigh*
...but I had to acknowledge it.
Fuck off bean brain, can't you ever just carry on a normal conversation?
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Stop stealing my material, Paco.
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(12-07-2011, 04:23 PM)Duchess Wrote:
Illiterate Paco.
dough,now fuck off
By the way the worst speller I ever knew was an interior designer/architect she also had bad feminine odor.
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(12-07-2011, 04:29 PM)IMaDick Wrote: dough,now fuck off
There. That's much better...now go make me a sammich.
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Can't one buy a mixer that comes with the option to tilt? I would think that the main requirements would be power & attachments.
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I'll probably be incinerated for this but does bak, bak, bak mean something I'm not aware of?
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No wonder I didn't know what it meant.
I thought it must be some kind of kitchen term. *face palm*
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well if it had been bake bake bake...
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