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I've started really experimenting with baking- love it!
Made my very first cheesecake last night- crumbling the biscuits in the blender is not an experience I want to have again.
I'd like a bench mixer, but I also need a food processor for cheesecake base and for dough- or do I use my mixer for dough?
Help me please!
Ps I think I've decided on the KW chef mixer if that makes a difference.
I've got a KW Chef, the Major model, it's fantastic :) It comes with a dough hook which works well. I know what you mean about using a blender in that way, I desperately need a food processor too! The top of the line KW, think it might be called Titanium, has a food processor attachment you can purchase seperately.
Thermomix ;) :lol:
I have a Kitchenaid and a Thermomix. I realise that they are not in everyone's price range, but they are excellent. Before them I had a Sunbeam Compact Kitchen Pro mixer. Useful enough, but not powerful enough for doughs and large quantities. As a processor I have and still use my Kenwood stick blender with multiple attachments. It has a large jug that has processed many biscuit bases. I still use it almost every day (the other attachments - I blew up the large jugs gears lol). I also had the Sunbeam processor they sell at Target, but my KW stick processor had the same amount of power and less fiddling, so I sold it.
My Mum has a Kenwood, and it is just as awesome as my KA, but she has a top of the line model. A GF of mine bought one of their smaller newer models last year and loves it. She bakes lots.
ETA depends what type of dough you're making as to what machine you'd use.
You know you don't need a machine to make cheesebake base, right? LOL ;);)
Good choice on the KW. Spend the money and get a top model. It will serve you well.
I have a KA food processor and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The machine itself is good, but the bowl is terrible. The quality of the plastics is atrocious - I have had to have it replaced 3 times now in 2 years (all at their expense because of the crap product! LOL)
My dough hook for my KW has gone to god long ago, it is 40 years old, so I do dough in the FP when I am feeling lazy. Otherwise, is it mostly by hand as I prefer to make doughs and pastes that way.
If you have no real need for a FP aside from the dough, then I wouldn't bother getting a super exxy one, if at all. Get a KW, there are plenty of attachments like there are with the KA, and you may find you never need a FP at all!
Good luck :)
LS- how do you do cheesecake base without a machine?
The gold old rolling pin? Too much hard work for me..... :p
Just talking to DH about getting a decent mixer. blender, slicer and all in one machine. Almost sold him on a Thermomix :o Great thread!
Don't you just crumb biscuits or use cornflake crumbs and add butter, stir and pat into a cheesecake flan for a base :think:
ETA: Ahhh, gotcha! I sometimes use my blender to crumb up the biscuits :lol:
I've got a Moulinex food processor which is brilliant despite being 13 years old now and I got a new Breville mixer for Christmas which also came with the freezer bowl and it's brilliant! The difference it's made to my baking (and waistline, lol!) is incredible.