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I mentioned in a previous post that I had ordered SS attachments for my mixer. KA mixers come with either aluminum attachments (which they call "burnished metal" or with nylon-coated attachments. The aluminum ones can't go in the dishwasher, so I was always hand-washing them, and the nylon ones are notorious for the coating flaking off. I bake SO MUCH lately, I make at least one loaf of sandwich bread per week, plus usually a treat on the weekend, and it was really too much labor. So I decided to treat myself to stainless steel attachments.
KA makes a SS whisk (which they call a whip) for my mixer, but they don't make a ss beater for my model. (They actually make multiple whips, I upgraded to an 11-wire one which will supposedly whip faster than the 6-wire one I have now.) But there are lots of companies now selling attachments that fit a KA, so I bought the beater from one of those. While I was shopping for those, I learned that KA has a relatively new "pastry beater", designed to work like a pastry cutter. I decided to spring for one of those too, because I do use my mixer for pie crust and I make large batches (because it's just as easy to make 4 pie crusts as it is to make one, and they freeze well. I love having a stock of frozen pie crusts in the freezer.) And last I ordered an accessory I have wanted since I got the mixer: a 3-quart bowl with combi-whip. My mixer is a 6-quart, the 3-quart bowl is really nice to have as an option, and the combi-whip is like a whip with a single beater bar attached. Great for making small batches of things, or making frosting after the cake, etc.
I've tried everything now except the whip and I am so glad that I finally got these. They are all labopr-savers. I used the bowl tonight to make a small batch of 6 cupcakes and then to make a tiny batch of frosting. The big bowl was still clean for me to make bread dough. These really upgrade my experience. The pastry beater is great, I can throw in large chunks of butter and it cuts them really quickly. I used to use the beater to make pastry but I had to start with small slices of butter and it would mostly crush them, the pastry beater is much faster and seems to really cut them into flatter pieces. I like it. They say it's also good for shredding meat.
I like things that make life easier. I'm always so tired, any little bit of labor saved helps.
KA makes a SS whisk (which they call a whip) for my mixer, but they don't make a ss beater for my model. (They actually make multiple whips, I upgraded to an 11-wire one which will supposedly whip faster than the 6-wire one I have now.) But there are lots of companies now selling attachments that fit a KA, so I bought the beater from one of those. While I was shopping for those, I learned that KA has a relatively new "pastry beater", designed to work like a pastry cutter. I decided to spring for one of those too, because I do use my mixer for pie crust and I make large batches (because it's just as easy to make 4 pie crusts as it is to make one, and they freeze well. I love having a stock of frozen pie crusts in the freezer.) And last I ordered an accessory I have wanted since I got the mixer: a 3-quart bowl with combi-whip. My mixer is a 6-quart, the 3-quart bowl is really nice to have as an option, and the combi-whip is like a whip with a single beater bar attached. Great for making small batches of things, or making frosting after the cake, etc.
I've tried everything now except the whip and I am so glad that I finally got these. They are all labopr-savers. I used the bowl tonight to make a small batch of 6 cupcakes and then to make a tiny batch of frosting. The big bowl was still clean for me to make bread dough. These really upgrade my experience. The pastry beater is great, I can throw in large chunks of butter and it cuts them really quickly. I used to use the beater to make pastry but I had to start with small slices of butter and it would mostly crush them, the pastry beater is much faster and seems to really cut them into flatter pieces. I like it. They say it's also good for shredding meat.
I like things that make life easier. I'm always so tired, any little bit of labor saved helps.
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