My wife loves to cook. She spends hours in the kitchen preparing and cooking her favorite recipes. If you ask her what the most valuable appliance in her kitchen is, without hesitation, she will answer her KitchenAid Stand Mixer. Her’s is the Artisan 5 quart mixer. Kitchenaid makes bigger and more powerful models, but for the average homeowner, this mixer will do everything you need to do.
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KitchenAid Stand Mixer Attachments
The KitchenAid stand mixer typically comes with three different attachments, which will handle the bulk of your basic baking and mixing needs.
The first one is the beater or paddle. This attachment is good for mixing cookie dough, cake batters, and other heavier mixes.
The second is the whisk attachment. This is used for making whipping cream, frosting,
The third is the dough hook. This is used for mixing bread dough, pizza dough and any other heavy mixing needs. With these three attachments, you can start mixing with your KitchenAid mixer right out of the box.
Special Attachments
There are several other attachments that can be purchased for additional food preparation. For example, my wife purchased the flex edge beater, which has a flexible edge on one side for scraping the side of the bowl. Similar to a spatula. This attachment does a better job of thoroughly mixing your ingredients.
Another great attachment we purchased was the meat grinder for the KitchenAid stand mixer. The grinder comes with fine and coarse discs and sausage stuffing tubes. It has handled everything we’ve used it for with ease. We use this grinder for processing our own venison, making my own venison summer sausage, and a delicious sweet Italian sausage. Check out our articles on making sausage and see how easy it is to do. My wife’s mother has some dietary restrictions, so we also use the grinder for grinding chicken, or turkey, to use in recipes that can be adapted for her.
The KitchenAid stand mixer uses are endless with all the special attachments that are made for it. They include food processors, pasta cutters, corer and peeler, slicers, juicers, ice cream makers and many more. There is something for your every need.
Stand mixers take all of the work out of mixing. No more stirring stiff cookie dough or kneading bread dough by hand. Put the ingredients in the bowl and start the mixer. While the mixer is doing its job you can be doing other things. Be sure to check out some of the recipes we use our KitchenAid stand mixer to prepare. Like the sponge cake
Here are few links to Amazon for the KitchenAid Stand Mixer and for some of the KitchenAid Stand Mixer attachments. This will help you see what KitchenAid has available, get further information, and check current pricing. This mixer is such a versatile appliance they have created a KitchenAid Stand Mixer Cookbook to show just how useful it is. Let KitchenAid start helping you in the kitchen.
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