Posted on 12/11/2006 7:03:31 PM PST by Pukin Dog
Okay, here it is:
Girlfriend is a budding pastry chef, who made a subtle hint yesterday about wanting a Mixmaster. I'm thinking "thats no big deal, what the hell?" So, I go up to Amazon, and theres all these colors, and all these freakin attachments, and DAMN that thing is expensive!! I thought I was going to get away cheap on this deal, ya know?
So, you owners of these things, what is so great about them anyway, and what attachments should I buy with the thing, and what freaking COLOR and, and, and, by the time I'm ready to buy, should I just give her the cash?
Why is this thing so much more expensive then the other brands? Does food taste better with this thing? Is this some female status symbol or something? I could buy a lot of man stuff with that money, so ladies, tell me what's so great about this sucker, before I get her a gift certificate instead!
Yes, a mixer is just like getting engaged only worse.
She will make you eat muffins.
I can afford the attachments, I just don't know that I want HER to know that I can afford the attachments yet, ya know?
"Why is this thing so much more expensive then the other brands?"
Good tools always seem to cost more up front. However when you realize that one Kitchen Aid mixer will outlast three, maybe four of the cheaper models, it ends up being cheaper in the long run. :)
Then there's the matter of quality. The cheaper models were never meant for the kind of usage that a professional chef routinely requires.
How about starting out with the professional model with the three basic beaters(beater, whip, and dough hook). Attachments can be purchased later on. Color? Either ask or play it safe with stainless steel.
Hope this helps - from a cook with 30+ years experience. :)
Have never attended chef school or pastry school but do a pretty fair job of of cooking whatever I want and I don't own any fancy expensive mixer. But, hell I am a man. Go figure.
What?
Are these things like a cult item? I had no idea. Who is Alton Brown?
LOL, then just play dumb. Get her the mixer and say "I didn't know which attachments to get you"
A gift certificate is looking reeeeeely good right about now.
lol!
Thanks, Mrs Ranger.
Liking the Red, though. Some of you folks have me thinking I should buy the thing for myself and learn to use it!
Only to her craft my friend, only to her craft.
But look at it this way. If things don't work out between you two every single time she uses it she'll think of you and how stupid she was to ever let you go.
Or:
Every time she cooks something for that no good low life SOB she tossed you overboard for she'll remember how much better you were at buying presents for her, not to mention that you were far more skilled in the arts of love than her current loser boyfriend will ever be.
I'm sure you can add others.
Get her the damned thing. If nothing else she'll be really, really grateful and will most likely externalize that gratitude in your general direction either by immediately whipping up something wonderful or by...give me a minute, I'll think of something.
Just remember this...pastry chefs are inherently odd people but they can make pastry creme and pastry creme has a multitude of uses both in and out of the kitchen.
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You definately want the HD receiver. Also, the 6.5 HP Briggs and Stratton four-stroke is way cool.
Here you go!
Oh yes, don't let her know you have money. Chicks hate successful men. Just break up with that Kitchen Aid gold digger now....before she gets all you precious man things.
ROTF!!!
Alton Brown has a show on Food Network called "Good Eats". It mixes cooking, history, and food science in what I find to be a very entertaining half hour show.
I'm sure he 'customized' his KitchenAid but it sure looks cool on his counter with flames on the side.
OK, so I'm an incurable geek....and yes I watch Food Network, and I like it and I don't care what anyone says about it.
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I love my kitchenaid.
Funny, I know someone who lost a kitchenaid to a first wife. I gave him a kitchenaid as a gift when he remarried.
I've seen everything now. A mixer with flames. Unbelievable.
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