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I really like this beater. I use it almost every time I use my mixer. Batter does stick a bit to the blades, but even with that, I like it better than anything that came with my mixer. I also like that it can be put in the dishwasher. I recommend this.
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I just got the 5qt. heavy duty stand mixer for Christmas (insert happy dance here). However, the recipe book that came with it is about 1/2 the size of the one that came with 5qt. stand mixer my Mom's 5 years ago. The KA site no longer has a recipe section and I am dying to try the pasta attachment. At one time there was a recipe for a VERY buttery VERY vanilla crunchy cookie. It could really only be made with a heavy duty mixer because the dough was so dense. Now that I have the hardware to create the little darlings I can no longer find a recipe.Any and All help will be greatly appreciated!
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So I had the BeaterBlade for my 5 qt tilt-head mixer and loved it. Bought it for my new 6 qt Proline lift bowl model… and it just about knocked the bowl off its perch. Returned it, and decided to try the SideSwipe because I really enjoyed not having to scrape the bowl of my previous mixer. It still knocked the bowl a bit, but I just took a pair of scissors and trimmed down the little fingers by a couple millimeters, and now I’m perfectly happy with it. I actually like it better than the BeaterBlade because it doesn’t fling ingredients out of the bowl. You do have to scrape in between the fingers of the SideSwipe afterward, but I’m ok with that. Mostly because it means I get to eat a large portion of the cookie dough or cake batter stuck to it.
Related to the scraping the beater issues, I’ve noticed that some batters tend to clump around the lower midline of the beater, in the little cavity above the fingers but below the circle. Usually this goes away simply by increasing the mixing speed. If not, all it takes is one good poke with a spatula to break up the glob, and it all gets mixed in.
This is the greatest for those that have kitchenaids. It works so quick on batters. It only takes 5 turns around the bowl to have the brownies mixed up. And no more stopping half way through to scrape the bowl or the little bit in the bottom that never gets touched by the other beaters. Everyone should own one.
works well especially with thick batters! love it, but am not sure why KitchenAid doesn’t endorse it. Jealousy cause they didn’t think of it first????
Ordered the SideSwipe after seeing it reviewed on TV. It works great. I didn’t have to scrape the sides of the bowl at all. Worked so well I’ve already told all of my friends that have a KitchenAid Mixer that this is a “Must Have”
This mixer a bit heavy, but that is a small price to pay for a well built work horse.
I’ve had my mixer for 10 years. My husband calls it my cement mixer. It is heavy. I don’t keep it on my counter because it takes up too much space, so I move it every time I need it from cupboard to counter. I don’t mind because this mixer is consistent in the way it beats! I only make cakes, icings and cookies, but it performs beautifully today as the day I received it. I’ve never had any problems. What makes this mixer even better are the additional attachments. On days when I ran out of ground beef or ground pork, I didn’t have to make a trip to the grocery store. I only had to reach into my freezer and pull out some sirloin or pork shoulder butt and then grab my meat grinder and within in no time, I had ground meat! Same for the pasta attachments. When I ran out of spaghetti, I only had to pull out the mixer, make some pasta dough and push it through the spaghetti attachment. This mixer is versatile and will not let you down. I love my mixer!
I have had two empire red Artisan mixers in the past five years. They are gorgeous BUT both have suffered from the same three serious problems: 1. the slow speed burned out in the first month on machine number 2 when I kneaded soft brioche dough and now the mixer has only two speeds: fast and faster. 2. the mixing bowl sticks to the metal plate so that dislodging it requires a healthy husband or a liberal amount of WD40 or both. 3. the pin holding the armature to the base slides out when the machine gyrates, which it does something fierce when kneading for more than three minutes. This is one of the worst engineered products I have ever owned, and Kitchen Aid’s service is not helpful. I’m going to buy a Breville next and abandon KA for good.
I’m glad I got this because once I started researching baking, I was no longer interested in retail baked goods (except for Dunkin Donuts’ Old Fashioned Donut). I plan on baking American classics with my kids just as a part of their childhood even though I plan on serving them an authentic Chinese menu otherwise. American desserts are just fun but there are too many bakeries that take liberties with using too much sugar and butter and sometimes artificial fillings to make children loyal customers. I’d rather bake at home than buy anything that tastes like they didn’t clean the sheet pans between bakings.
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