Kitchenaid stand mixer --best uses for it?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a small kitchen with minimal counter space and I find it very worthwhile to keep my stand mixer out on the counter. I use it for pizza dough every weekend and for breads and other baked goods regularly.

If you can make a place for it on your counter, you’d find yourself using it much more frequently. You have a very thoughtful son who gave you such a nice gift!

Agree. We are adding on and getting a big new kitchen and I will be keeping my KA mixer and Cuisinarts (3!) on the counter. I use them all the time and can't stand this design trend to hide things. It's a workshop for culinary tools--see them and use them!

Three? Could you please explain?

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I use mine all the time— for all my baking, including bread dough. Also, pizza dough which I make frequently (every Friday night is homemade pizza night). I also use it to make applesauce— about 3 dozen quarts a year, and to grind meat. Probably the most-used appliance in my kitchen after the stove/oven.

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Definitely bread dough.

Get the Rev-a-Shelf, keeps it off the counter and you don't have to do the heavy lifting. I also use it making Christmas cookies when I'm making triple batches amd several other holiday items

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Whipped cream, of course.

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I don' know why people here are going on and on about how you need to leave it out or need a special shelf for it. I can handle lifting 20ish pounds every couple of weeks when I decide to bake something or mix a sauce. It's not hard.

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I love it for pasta making for kneading the dough and also the attachment to make spaghetti, and mixing for cookies and cakes.

I have an attachment to spiralize vegetables too.

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I have a KA stand mixer but still knead dough by hand. I tried it in the mixer but it just wasn’t getting everything in the bowl so the dough would not come together.
Can someone post a recipe for dough that they use?

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Bread, pizza dough, cookies, whipped cream

We also regularly use the attachments. We always buy chuck roast and grind to make hamburgers. We also use the pasta attachment.

I'd say it's used weekly in some manner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a small kitchen with minimal counter space and I find it very worthwhile to keep my stand mixer out on the counter. I use it for pizza dough every weekend and for breads and other baked goods regularly.

If you can make a place for it on your counter, you’d find yourself using it much more frequently. You have a very thoughtful son who gave you such a nice gift!

Agree. We are adding on and getting a big new kitchen and I will be keeping my KA mixer and Cuisinarts (3!) on the counter. I use them all the time and can't stand this design trend to hide things. It's a workshop for culinary tools--see them and use them!

Three? Could you please explain?

I have a classic 14, and two mini-preps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I don' know why people here are going on and on about how you need to leave it out or need a special shelf for it. I can handle lifting 20ish pounds every couple of weeks when I decide to bake something or mix a sauce. It's not hard.

Talk to me when you're in your mid-60s. I love my rev-a-shelf heavy duty lift, and wish I had gotten it sooner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a KA stand mixer but still knead dough by hand. I tried it in the mixer but it just wasn’t getting everything in the bowl so the dough would not come together.
Can someone post a recipe for dough that they use?

I can't give you a specific recipe but I bake bread from King Arthur's website plus multiple cookbooks and never had the issue you did. Are you using the dough hook instead of the paddle for kneading? Sometimes I start out with the paddle then switch to the hook and you always knead with the hook.

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I have a small kitchen but use it a ton. I make most baked goods from scratch including two loaves of bread weekly, can’t beat just throwing everything in the bowl and letting the dough hook do its thing. It cuts the active time considerably.
I probably use it 2-4 times a week.

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I have one in my fav color.. Our kids use it more than I do .

Tons of uses for it .. All of which most here have shared. Have fun with it.

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In addition to what everyone said, it’s great for mixing ground meat such as for meatballs or meatloaf. It gets all the ingredients mixed together without overworking the meat. Use the paddle attachment for this.

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I'm addition to what's been mentioned:

"Mashing" potatoes and sweet potatoes

Homemade marshmallows