Home baking made easy (Kenwood Chef Foodmixer)

Member Name: jessyclown

Product:	Kenwood Chef Foodmixer
Date:	08/11/01 (662 review reads)
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Advantages: works efficiently, lasts for years

Disadvantages: bulky, hard to store

When I was a child my mother owned a Kenwood chef, she still does! Her Kenwood is at least 30 years old and has been used regularly over that time with no problems.

When I got my own home one of the items I had to own was my own Kenwood chef. I have had mine for around 10 years and have had faithful service from it over that time.

The Kenwood chef is a food mixer which has a reasonably powerful motor. It comes with a choice of mixing bowl either a plastic one or a shiny metal one. If you may need to melt the contents of the bowl in the oven then the metal one is far superior. If you have to reduce the cost of the mixer then the plastic one is cheaper.

There are three mixing tools which come with the chef. The k-beater which is good for creaming and general mixing. It helps to give a sponge a light texture as it is good at incorporating the air. The k-beater is a bent mixing paddle which is K shaped with a ring around it. This is the too which is used the most in my chef. There is the whisk which is essential when you want whisk egg whites for meringues and soufflés! It is amazing how quickly an egg white is whisked with the chef it saves hours of manual beating. The other tool is the dough hook whisk is used when you need to Kneed dough for bread making. I use this least often as I do not often make bread!

To work the chef there is a knob on the side of the mixer which can be set at various speeds of on a pulse for more accuracy in mixing. If you turn it to full speed when you have just added the flour beware of the impending snow storm! You can of course get a splatter cover which contains the snow storm but it is not as much fun!!

When mixing the tool rotates as it spins so that all the ingredients in the bowl are well combined. It is supplied with a spatula so any ingredients which are stuck to the side of the bowl can be cleaned from the side and then mixed into the rest.

The Kenwood is not just a
mixing tool it has other attachment which can be added. I am not sure of every thing you can add the list seems to be endless. I use the liquidiser most personally. They come in either glass or plastic. The glass is more expensive and can be used to liquidise hot food but can also be dropped and broken. The plastic liquidiser is cheaper but does not break nearly as easily.

Other attachments include coffee bean grinder, grater, chipper, mincer, ice cream maker, and a great many more.

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