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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.
Who is KitchenAid?
Kitchen Aid mixers exploded in popularity during the 1920s and 1930s. Gradually, KitchenAid came to be known for its other products as well. During the 1980s, the company made a concerted effort to expand its product line, introducing their ovens and stovetops in the middle of that decade. In 1986, KitchenAid was acquired by the Whirlpool Corporation, still the largest appliance maker in the world.
The traditional KitchenAid stand mixer sold in record numbers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During the economic recessions of 1990 and 1991, KitchenAid remained profitable, continuing to gain market share due to its high-quality product and effective advertising campaign emphasizing multigenerational family reunion themes. The KitchenAid mixer–the original product from which the company name was derived–continues to flourish as well.