Sunday, August 08, 2004


interesting differences

devoted readers recall the recent death of my beloved kitchenaid stand mixer, blanche, who's spending her august at the repair shop.

thus i'm making pizza with my kitchenaid hand mixer, using its little twin dough hooks. these resemble whimsical steel squiggles more than than blanche's sturdy shephardess crook.

but kneading the pizza dough with the squiggles offers some interesting differences that are noticeable in the pizza.

the dough emerges from the squiggles much warmer, which i'm sure improves rise. also, after resting the dough, it rounds more nicely, forming a nicer, plumper ball.

and since there's no central spindle for the dough to climb, you can make a slacker dough, which is easier to roll out, to my mind.

the drawbacks are also evident however: you have to stand there with your arm absorbing the shock from the mixer for 15 mins. this tires my wrist and shoulder quite a bit!

also, the hand mixer motor gets really hot, and you begin to smell it. which is worrisome -- am i burning out this mixer too?

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