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My First Kitchen Aid K5SS Stand Mixer
As I had mentioned in my earlier article, baking is my favorite hobby. Since I enjoy baking, I wanted to let you know that the Kitchen Aid K5SS Mixer was my 1st stand mixer that I had purchased soon after I had gotten married 22 years ago. This was a white 10 speed stand mixer with a 5-Quart Stainless Steel Bowl. It came with the Flat Beater, Dough Hook, & Stainless Steel Whip. Also included was the Pouring Shield which is very useful since I always mix up a triple batch of cookies. My husband takes cookies with him to work for morning & afternoon breaks so a single batch wouldn’t last very long.
The Kitchen Aid Stand Mixers have an Attachment Hub Socket for attachments such as a Food Grinder, Pasta Maker, Rotor Slicer/Shredder and other attachments. My Kitchen Aid K5SS Mixer came with the Food Grinder. The Food Grinder has come in handy. I use it to grind up meat for ground meat and chili; fresh peaches to make peach preserves.
I used this stand mixer all the time to mix up cookies, bread dough, dough for cinnamon rolls, cakes, meringue for pies and anything else that the mixer could be used for. Since I had used this mixer so much, I ended up replacing this mixer with the Kitchen Aid Mixer Professional HD Model that I presently use.
My Favorite Mixer
I was the baker while growing up in our family of 9 & all my Mom had was a hand mixer. I used it to make cakes, cookies, bars and anything else you would you a mixer for. At times it was a struggle to mix the dough. After I got married & knowing that my husband came from a home that his Mom always baked, he had his fresh baked goodies to take with him to work every day for his morning & afternoon snacks. I knew it would not be a problem since I love to bake.
I knew since I would be baking a lot that a hand mixer wasn’t going to make it very long no matter how expensive it was. That’s when I decided to check out the KitchenAid Stand Mixers. It has been an investment well worth it. In fact, this is my 2nd one that I’m using presently. I invested in the Professional HD Model, KG25HOXMC, with a 6 QT Bowl since I always make a triple batch of cookies at a time every time I bake cookies. Some of my recipes will fill the bowl three-fourths full. This mixer has NO PROBLEM in mixing it all together. It’s a charm to make bread because the mixer does all the work & doesn’t even grunt. I remember growing up that Mom had to knead the bread by hand which was a lot of work & time.
I do own a hand mixer but it is only used for mashing potatoes, mixing pudding and other things that don’t require much effort.