Thread: Always Reach for the Hamilton Beach (RIP Eddie)

Originally Posted by DZEC

Danish dough hook is something I use whenever I make dough for no-knead bread. It’s not an appliance, but it gets a lot of use.

Yes, it is! Like my can opener (hand-held, aka "manually-operated"), it's a kitchen appliance... often the best kind.

Originally Posted by DZEC

I’ve had a Kitchen Aid stand mixer for over 40 years. It’s one of the models for which you raise the stainless steel bowl up to the beater.

It weighs a lot and has been used for countless loaves of bread and cakes and making whipped cream, butter cream and meringues. I even had the pasta maker and meat grinder attachments, but passed them on to a daughter who is more likely to make regular use of them.

It’s a tank and I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to pass it on to a grandchild when I no longer want to try to heft it from its storage place to the counter top. It really has been a lifetime investment and I’d recommend spending the $$$ to anyone serious about baking.

Yeah that's the one. The tilt head type is okay but the bowl raiser type is way better. It is the serious one.

Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors

Yeah that's the one. The tilt head type is okay but the bowl raiser type is way better. It is the serious one.

I had a "regular" (tilt-head) KitchenAid stand mixer in Fairbanks, but it took up way too much of my limited counter space, so just before I returned to the Lower '48 I sold it. It's like my KitchenAid coffee grinder — way too big — which now sits in an under-the-counter cabinet (and takes-up limited storage space) — I really ought to sell it. I've been using the hand-held Zassenhaus grinder since 2007, and it's really the best solution for my needs — grinding, brewing, and sipping Eight O'Clock "Colombian Peaks" since 2016, when I stopped home-roasting.

I had a Kitchen Aid mixer for many many years. It was what they called the K-45 (the smaller one). It survived moves and decades and at times it got so hot I thought it would burn up but it always kept going. Then when I started with heavy duty dough it would just stop dead so I donated it to our church and by then Hobart sold them off and they were garbage made in China. I guess Whirlpool bought them now and they are supposed to be better but 7 years ago I bought a Swedish made machine an Ankarsrum. It's a fantastic machine I use for everything. I could mix concrete in this thing.

I have a Zass grinder a bought a few years ago. They are garbage now.

I have drooled over the ankarsrum machines, but they are just under $1000 Canadian.Very impressive machines. If I were 40 years younger I’d buy one.

This is my favorite. I would leave it clamped on the end of the kitchen table but my wife disagrees.
I had to take it out of the potato drawer to pose it for this picture.

Originally Posted by JBHoren

I had a "regular" (tilt-head) KitchenAid stand mixer in Fairbanks, but it took up way too much of my limited counter space, so just before I returned to the Lower '48 I sold it. It's like my KitchenAid coffee grinder — way too big — which now sits in an under-the-counter cabinet (and takes-up limited storage space) — I really ought to sell it. I've been using the hand-held Zassenhaus grinder since 2007, and it's really the best solution for my needs — grinding, brewing, and sipping Eight O'Clock "Colombian Peaks" since 2016, when I stopped home-roasting.

THAT'S OUR COFFEE! Cheap but VERY good! We like a medium roast Columbian a lot better than super duper dark espresso roasts for espresso. It's absolutely the best value in big name commercial whole bean coffee.

Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors

THAT'S OUR COFFEE! Cheap but VERY good! We like a medium roast Columbian a lot better than super duper dark espresso roasts for espresso. It's absolutely the best value in big name commercial whole bean coffee.

I buy a 40oz bag each month from Amazon... $13.24 and S/H is covered by my $5.99/month Prime subscription. As you wrote: VERY good coffee, and at an affordable price.

Originally Posted by 32t

This is my favorite. I would leave it clamped on the end of the kitchen table but my wife disagrees.
I had to take it out of the potato drawer to pose it for this picture.

THAT is a beauty! I bet it's as old as (older than?) me... and that it works as well as the day it was made. Refurbish, recycle, reuse. Thanks for posting!

I roast my own and pay no more than six or seven bucks per pound for green beans and it's all small farm high quality stuff.