Kitchen Aid - 1 kg flour Pizza Discuss Kitchen Aid - 1 kg flour in the Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart forums; Pardon my ignorance, but... I know the OP was talking about the KA Artisan mixer. I've got a Pro 600 ...

[Stan]

Pardon my ignorance, but...

I know the OP was talking about the KA Artisan mixer. I've got a Pro 600 that I believe lacks the plastic cog, and I mixed and kneaded 2 kg of bread on Friday night. No trouble at all. I routinely make 1 kg of pizza dough in it too, and I roll pasta with the pasta roller and grind stuff with the grinder. Yes, if I need more than 2 kg of dough I have to do multiple batches. But I've NEVER heard the gears strain on a simple dough.

When I first bought the thing, the manual said to never knead dough with the spiral hook on anything past speed 2. I never have, and I haven't blown up my mixer. Apart from the coffee machine, it's the most used appliance in the kitchen. So it CAN be done.

Now, if I needed to mix 5kg of dough at a time, that's an entirely different story...

Different strokes (and mixers!),
Stan

[heliman]

Hi Stan - the KA I was referring to is the basic one that is designed for home use. It was a 300 watt motor and uses a small C dough hook...

Your one is quite a bit larger and definitely more robust.

Rossco

[heliman]

Hey Himzo - how is that new machine of yours going? Is it giving good results??

Rossco

[Himzo]

Originally Posted by heliman

Hey Himzo - how is that new machine of yours going? Is it giving good results??

Rossco

Hi Rossco,

working like a dream, 2kg of pasta dough in minutes.. I do have to make a stand for it as it's too tall to put on the kitchen benches.. probably about 600mm high stand would do the trick.
The other half just loves it, saves her heaps of time and she isn't thrashing the KA which she still uses for other mixing requirements.

Himzo.

[heliman]

Good news Himzo ....tks for the update.

I see your supplier has a "screw" type model for making dough as well. Going at $1,200 it's a bit more expensive, but certainly worth considering. I'm keeping an eye open for a 2nd hand mixer at the moment as there seem to be quite a few offered for sale.

One thing that I have realised is that the standard KA which I have (with the short C shaped dough hook) doesn't do a proper job of kneading. I have loaded it with enough dough to make 4 x pizzas (about 1,066 kg) but still it flies around without kneading all the time.

I think that the only thing will be to relegate the KA to cake mixer duties and get something dedicated to dough production for my pizza needs.

Rossco

[Archena]

I think I'm going to try a redneck mixer - auger on a power drill in a pickle bucket. Black and Decker rules!


Maybe...

[Mitchamus]

Hmmm..... No use of a pick-up truck.

-5 redneck points for that solution!

[Archena]

...auger on a power drill - powered by a pickup truck battery from a '78 Ford owned by a guy who's drunk momma had just got out of prison and was run over by a train, in the rain - in a pickle bucket.

You just can't please some people...

[Mitchamus]

Beautiful!

[heliman]

This had a good outcome for me... picked up a bargain today!!!

Saw an advert in the local newspaper for a "cake mixer" so shot over to have a look during my lunch break. The guy basically just wanted to get rid of it as it was used commercially and they had upgraded to a larger model.

It came with 3 S/S bowls and a whisker (but not paddle and dough hook). It works fine but the casing has a crack which I will have a friend with an engineering shop repair for me tomorrow. Just pricing paddle and dough hook at the moment as the agent is a few doors down the road from where I work.

It is a Thunderbird ARM-02 with 3 speeds (price tag about $3,200 delivered): AllFoodEquipment.com.au - Thunderbird > PLANETARY MIXER - THUNDERBIRD Model: ARM02HBL - Domestic & Commercial Food Equipment Sales Australia Wide

What did I pay for it?? $100! Great Xmas present!! Pics to follow shortly.

Rossco

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