Stand Mixer Wishes
Mar. 5th, 2011 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamcatchingsIf you have any knowledge of me and did not just stumble onto my journal randomly and are brand spanking new then you know I do a lot of baking. Cookies, cakes, brownies, breads, etc. I love baking. It's so much like chemistry. I like the orderliness of it even though I know that chemical reactions always have a chance of failing. I've had baking failures. I readily admit to them even though they might reduce me to tears or swearing like a sailor while I pace around my kitchen muttering darkly and dangerously.
Something you might not know about me is that my hands do not like me or, at least, they do not like me when I am kneading bread. They get all stiff and sore and aching. Both sides of my family have hand issues so I should expect it, but it still pisses me off. My current stand mixer (oh bless you, Sunbeam) is older than me. It's from the 60's and was my paternal grandmother's. My father and uncle thought I should have it after she passed. It's a workhorse, but it can't do bread dough. I fear every single Christmas that I will kill it by making it go through Cookiepaloza. I also have a bread machine, which is decent for kneading bread but can pretty much only do one loaf at a time. This gets totally annoying when my dad asks me to bring him two loaves of something because it means an entire day of waiting for the bread machine, second rise, shape, bake, wash the bread machine pan and repeat. I'm not a fan.
So I started researching stand mixers. KithenAids have mixed reviews and, really, the general consensus on the wide world of wonder web is that they're not really fit for bread, which does not suit my purposes. Sunbeam doesn't offer the capacity that I need. Viking, once again, seems to be less fit for bread than what I was hoping. Cuisanart has decent reviews but, again, it's mostly aimed toward other than bread baking. After a lot of research, I decided that the Bosch Universal Mixer was probably the best machine for me given what I want to do with it. It doesn't come in pretty colors, and it looks a little like something that should be on STNG but the reviews are good, especially for bread. I have dithered on and off about a new stand mixer for awhile now as it is a bit of an extravagant expense. However after once again fearing the good old Sunbeam would quiet during Cookiepaloza, I decided that once the tax refunds came back I would be stand mixer bound.
They did.
I ordered my Bosch earlier today. I hate making big purchases, but I really think I'm going to love this little beauty.
Something you might not know about me is that my hands do not like me or, at least, they do not like me when I am kneading bread. They get all stiff and sore and aching. Both sides of my family have hand issues so I should expect it, but it still pisses me off. My current stand mixer (oh bless you, Sunbeam) is older than me. It's from the 60's and was my paternal grandmother's. My father and uncle thought I should have it after she passed. It's a workhorse, but it can't do bread dough. I fear every single Christmas that I will kill it by making it go through Cookiepaloza. I also have a bread machine, which is decent for kneading bread but can pretty much only do one loaf at a time. This gets totally annoying when my dad asks me to bring him two loaves of something because it means an entire day of waiting for the bread machine, second rise, shape, bake, wash the bread machine pan and repeat. I'm not a fan.
So I started researching stand mixers. KithenAids have mixed reviews and, really, the general consensus on the wide world of wonder web is that they're not really fit for bread, which does not suit my purposes. Sunbeam doesn't offer the capacity that I need. Viking, once again, seems to be less fit for bread than what I was hoping. Cuisanart has decent reviews but, again, it's mostly aimed toward other than bread baking. After a lot of research, I decided that the Bosch Universal Mixer was probably the best machine for me given what I want to do with it. It doesn't come in pretty colors, and it looks a little like something that should be on STNG but the reviews are good, especially for bread. I have dithered on and off about a new stand mixer for awhile now as it is a bit of an extravagant expense. However after once again fearing the good old Sunbeam would quiet during Cookiepaloza, I decided that once the tax refunds came back I would be stand mixer bound.
They did.
I ordered my Bosch earlier today. I hate making big purchases, but I really think I'm going to love this little beauty.
