[Sca-cooks] mixers

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Johnnae said:
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I did 600 plus by myself for the Midrealm Crown feast in 2001.
That took an entire day (9 hours) with breaks. I do an assembly line.
Melted the butter in the microwave, used the kitchen aid mixer for the 
batter, and used electric irons. 
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I don't have a mixer, which would seem to definitely help when you are making multiple or large  batches. After comments here and watching folks use them (pretty much always the KitchenAid ones) to cook for feasts I'm considering one. But they aren't cheap and take up storage room and I don't know how much I will use one. The KitchenAid ones seem to come in different sizes and colors. I don't particularly care about the color, but do folks here find the larger size better than the smaller one? And what accessories do you find you really use with them? And which aren't worth spending the money on?

I don't know if I've ever made a cake but the bundt cakes in the recent Cooks Illustrated looked wonderful and it has been years since I made bread. I have thought about making sausages but I did buy one of the cheap stuffers and haven't used it yet. So I really don't know if I would make full use of a mixer, but perhaps I would.

I did buy a food processor after the discussions here and I do use it occasionally, although I'd use it more if I could figure out how to chop things consistantly with it, rather than simply pulverizing them or ending up with some pulverized, a goodly amount okay and some too big chunks.

Stefan