[Sca-cooks] kitchen aids
Ang Malone
alm4cu at localnet.com
Tue Nov 27 20:09:39 PST 2007
I am lucky or maybe fortunate is the word. I have one of the
original kitchen aid that were made by hobart, bought in 1971 or
1972. I have all of the original attachments except
for juicer. They had an interesting attachment they no longer sell
not even in plastic that is basically a food mill for the kitchen
aid. It has a smaller 'bowl' that pretty much resembles a potato
ricer bowl with a removable strainer plate in the bottom and a wood
hmmm what's the right word? paddle that smooshes and pushes the
stuff throw the holes in the bottom of the shorter bowl into the
original kitchen aid bowl. My mother used it mostly to make pumpkin
pies. She also had a squeezo strainer with all the screens. That
was used to make tomato sauce, apple sauce and grape jelly, of course
that's only what I can remember going through that. She may have
later also used the squeezo for pumpkin pie if she had time. The
good thing about the kitchen aid is that you could let it work
without you for some things.
I have an original grain mill that is so much different from the one
that you can buy now. I also have the original meat grinder
attachment that is not plastic, but as time wears on the metal
doesn't get fatigue but it gets discolored and sort of icky looking
so I got the plastic attachment in reality I think it works
better. The auger seems to work better, the disc with the holes in
it is metal I think not plastic. You can also put it in the
dishwasher too. I also have the spagetti attachments for rolling the
dough too, I haven't used them yet, and they are metal. I don't
think those will go to plastic. They also have a 'newer' attachment
that is like the squeezo. I bought it but haven't tried it
yet. BTW, I get most of the attachment from Kitchen collections
http://www.kitchencollection.com If you happen to have one of those
outlet malls near your house there is usually a kitchen collections
you can also mail order as well. I think you can also order
refurbished kitchen aid stuff through them. The blender that I have
is refurbished.
A few years ago my Dad bought me the professional kitchen aid which
has the bowl that goes up and down, I haven't used it yet, but was
going to start using it when I gave my old one away, however, based
on some of the comments here, I may keep old Hobie for a while even
though he is that original yucky green color, maybe the new one
(professional 6, 525 watts) isn't as good as I hope it will be. I
have to admit, my family is hooked on kitchen aid stuff, I have the
food processor, a blender, I had the 5 speed handmixer which we
bought in 1992 but the beaters wouldn't stay in after we moved, I
think the movers were rough on the machine was in so I had to get rid
of it, but I am looking forward to buying the 9 speed model. We had
the older kitchen aid coffee grinders that were burr grinders that
were made around 1975 or so, I also have one of the newer ones that
looks like a gumball machine.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents about kitchen aids. All I can say is the
old hobie helped my mom do a lot of things a lot easier because she
made almost everything from scratch and we were subsistence farmers
for about 12 years. I can remember my Mom making butter with the
kitchen aid from cream she skimmed from the fresh farm milk from the
farm down the road. Yummm Yummmm.
Angeline
>Message: 3
>Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:27:52 -0800 (PST)
>From: Lawrence Bayne <shonsu_78 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Hobart/Kitchenaid/Conair etc...
>To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Message-ID: <986979.94529.qm at web50211.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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>
>NOT TRUE!!
>Kitchen Aid is still made from metal and metal parts.
>UNFORTUNATELY, some of the gadgets that you can buy to
>play with such as meat grinder/sausage stuffer ARE
>plastic. BUT the pasta roller I got with mine is all
>metal and great for rolling out ravioli doughs or
>noodles.
>BB
>YIS
>Lothar
>
>--- "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius"
><adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Nov 27, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Susan Fox wrote:
> >
> > > Bear wrote:
> > >> The reference is to the fact that Hobart does not
> > manufacture
> > >> KitchenAid
> > >> anymore, rather than KitchenAid is no longer
> > manufactured. Hobart
> > >> sold the
> > >> company to Whirlpool in 1986. According to some
> > discussions about
> > >> KitchenAid mixers, the motor in the Whirlpool
> > manufactured ones is
> > >> not as
> > >> sturdy as those in the older Hobart manufactured
> > models. At 25
> > >> years, your
> > >> mixer is one of Hobart manufacture.
> > > That must be when they went from metal
> > construction for the
> > > attachments
> > > to plastic. I have my mom's grinder attachment as
> > well as my own,
> > > they
> > > are pretty much identical except for the material.
> > I'm a bit rough on
> > > my utensils [blush] so I try to avoid the plastic.
> >
> > Oh, my gosh! Those are plastic??? And not plastic or
> > enamel-coated
> > metal??? I had no idea!
> >
Angeline diAquila
DoD, Dominion of Myrkfaelinn
Webminister, Dominion of Myrkfaelinn
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