Kitchen Aid Appreciation Society

[Nicambhar]

I've got the candy apple red KA and have the ice cream bowl... I've made the vanilla bean ice cream from the book that came with it and it's gorgeous, am a little shocked at how much fat and sugar go into it though LOL.
My next investment is going to be the grater set.

[MrsB26]

Oooh, i'm joing in on the KA love too.
I have the boysenberry one too. I have the 3 piece pasta roller attachment and the acessory kit thing which has the rotor slice, grinder and strainer. I made a potato bake for 15 people in december and it seriously sliced 20 potatoes in like 2 minutes!! Same with onions for the barbie, quick as! I have only had mine a month but already its become the most used appliance (besides the toaster and kettle) and i use it probably every 2nd day, sometimes twice a day. I got my attachments from amazon dot com for a whole lot cheaper then in australia. I also got a beater blade which scrapes the side of the bowl as it beats and whhhooooooah it makes quick icing

My favourite thing i have made since my purchase has got to be Italian Meringue Butter Cream, OMG the most seriously delicous icing in the whole wide world. It took about 30 mins to make but so worth every damn second - i made chocolate flavour and even my dh wnted to lick the bowl and he isnt a sweets fan.

Yesterday i made bread dough but then decided i wanted something more savoury so turned it into cheese, sundried tomato and chive scrolls with a few vegemite ones for ds. Yummo.

I have tried to make pasta yet but its next on my list.

The ice-cream attachment has been requested as a b'day present!

[Nelle]

I thought about attachments from Amazon - is postage as frighteningly bad as I suspect it is though?

[CharlieBrownGirl]

I thought about attachments from Amazon - is postage as frighteningly bad as I suspect it is though?

I jumped straight on Amazon when I read MrsB's suggestion.
For the attachment package its $115 and for a cover less than $20. Haven't got as far to find out the postage.

[MrsB26]

um no, i think it cost me less than $30 for postage. All up i paid something like $350 incl postage for what would have cost me over $800 in aust. Go shop now while the dollar is good!!!

[Nelle]

After a bit of researching (aka avoiding putting the rubbish out), I think that the only attachment we shouldn't buy from the US is the ice cream attachment - because it attaches to stem (err, not official term) of the planetary mixer part. And the Aus/Eur machines have that annoying ring thing to meet safety requirements, and the US machines don't have that. You probably could buy the ice cream attachment from the US and then order the right parts from Aus, but by then the prices might be so close that it might be worth just spending an extra $20 and buying from an Aus retailer.

So I think the motors/voltage and the safety ring might be the only differences between models - so the other attachments should fit. They are made in the US after all, you'd think they'd be the same...