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electrolux137

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What better could there be to do on a cold, rainy day than to bake a cake? Oh, I know ... it would be second only to eating a slice of that cake with some ice cream and cold milk! (Yellow cake with fudge frosting -- sugar free, believe it or not!)

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I have a red Kitchen-Aid mixer that I love. It was a Christmas present from Santa a couple of years ago. This year Santa brought me a ceramic mixing bowl with pouring lip -- much easier to use than the standard metal bowl with no lip.

I also have a couple of vintage Sunbeam mixers including chrome and turquoise Model 12s but I haven't used them since I got the Kitchen-Aid.
 
Sitop--I'm with you on the Mixmasters. I have three, well, two plus a pile of parts that I've assembled into an almost complete one (missing a beater and the big bowl). I had a fourth one but I gave it to my girlfriend. It's her new favorite toy--besides me, of course. We made homemade guacamole with it over the weekend. Used the dough hooks instead of the regular beaters. We'd had 'tableside guacamole' at a Mexican restaurant a couple of weeks before and as I watched the waiter mix it up in a granite mortar and pestle, I made note of the simple ingredients and after I'd tasted it, I said 'hey, we can make this!' The $8 we paid for it became tuition to 'guacamole school'. Here's what we came up with:

Two avocados
Juice of 1 lime
One roma tomato
Half of a fresh jalapeno pepper, finely chopped
One medium sized sweet onion, finely chopped
Fresh cilantro, garlic powder and kosher salt to taste*
*You can use garlic salt but adding garlic powder and salt separately gives more control over the ratio.

Slice the avocados in half lengthwise, remove the seed, and scoop the flesh out with a spoon and place into the small mixing bowl with the lime juice.

Slice the jalapeno pepper in half lengthwise, remove the seeds, and chop finely in an electric food chopper or food processor.

Slice the onion in half from top to bottom, then cut one of the halves into four pieces and chop finely in an electric food chopper or food processor (you can chop the onion and the jalapeno together) and add to the mixing bowl.

Chop the cilantro finely (you can do this along with the jalepeno and the onion if you wish) and add to the mixing bowl along with the salt and garlic.

With the dough hooks in place, turn the mixer on medium low speed (we used '4' on the 12-speed Mixmaster) and begin the blending process, using a plastic spatula to push the mixture into the path of the dough hooks as necessary. Using the dough hooks instead of the regular beaters gives the guacamole a somewhat lumpy texture, similar to that achieved with a mortar and pestle. The regular beaters make it too creamy.

Once the guacamole has reached the desired texture, stir it with a spoon to reveal any large lumps and mash them up with the spoon.

Finely dice the tomato by hand and fold into the guacamole as you stir it with a spoon or the plastic spatula. Serve immediately with your favorite tortilla chips.

Total prep time: approx. 15 minutes
 
Oh Charles! If we were neighbors, do you even have any idea how fat we would be??? OMG. Bake off any second. I love the look of the Glass bowls on the tilt heads, but honestly, can't hardly lift it and I know I would chip that sucker in a week. My hands, well, crap happens. Cake made me drool.
 
Sunbeam

I also have a commercial Kitchenaid and I only use it once a year now to make 10 pounds of strufs[aka Honey Balls]. I went back to the Mixmasters because to me they are like using an old vacuum! love the sound that they make. My newest Mixmaster is from 1984 or 85. It is chrome. I bought it new and I still have the box. I also have a early Chrome and an earlier white. I picked up an early Hamilton Beach mixer, complete for $15 at a garage sale upstate NY. I love the way I can take the Mixmaster off of the base and whip my potatoes right in the pot. I use all of them just like I change which vacuum I am going to use.

Eric
 
human & electrolux137

Guacamole sounds delicious! I always made it with a fork. Another reason to pick a Mixmaster! My ingredients are avocados, lime to taste, salt, chopped tomatoes, fresh cilantro, and lots of diced fresh garlic.
Charles,
I LOVE to cook and I host all of the "cooking" Holidays!
 

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