Any Home Bakers Here?

[N F C]

The columns in the spreadsheet link in post #1 have been adjusted so the recipe name is first. Please check it out and tell me what you think.

I like that new order Bob!

 

[rjohns39]

I'd love someone other than you and ronott1 to take a peek and see what they see. aka make sure I didn't mess anything up. Maybe we could enlist @R2elk to do a quick quality check.

 

[N F C]

I'd love someone other than you and ronott1 to take a peek and see what they see. aka make sure I didn't mess anything up. Maybe we could enlist @R2elk to do a quick quality check.

Good idea

 

[BullChick]

LOL, glad "we'll do" BC .

 

[Aria]

I did have a pouring shield and it was good. It fit my old mixer though.

I do NOT have a pouring Shield. Mine is an old model and I LOVE
everything about it. Aria

 

[Aria]

All of this talk about accessories had me thinking about grinding up some semolina flour, taking my freshly laid eggs and making some pasta.

We do not eat enough pasta (two of us) to getting my pasta machine going again. Thinking??? Well? Right NOW...no. Bob what kind of pasta do you make? Maybe you will inspire me??? Aria

 

[pennyJo1960]

My shield is plastic and yes lives in a cupboard as I am not using it pasta on the menu for Sunday dinner

 

[ronott1]

I do NOT have a pouring Shield. Mine is an old model and I LOVE
everything about it. Aria

I don't have it any more. I watched an episode of the barefoot contessa that had a guest baker on it using the kitchen aid to make a cake. The person creamed the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla as normal and then took the bowl off. She added the rest of the ingredients, put the bowl back on and started the mixer slowly. Ina Garten was shocked! The Baker told her that the mixer was very powerful and you did not need to do all of that fiddly stuff when using one.

Hence there is no need for a pouring shield!

 

[R2elk]

I don't have it any more. I watched an episode of the barefoot contessa that had a guest baker on it using the kitchen aid to make a cake. The person creamed the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla as normal and then took the bowl off. She added the rest of the ingredients, put the bowl back on and started the mixer slowly. Ina Garten was shocked! The Baker told her that the mixer was very powerful and you did not need to do all of that fiddly stuff when using one.

Hence there is no need for a pouring shield!

A lot of the recipes are old and were written for people mixing the batters by hand. With the new powerful mixers, there is no need to "add eggs one at a time until well mixed". Other than the creaming part (not even that step sometimes) and beating in the eggs, I add everything else all at once and have been doing so for a very long time.

There is one particular cake recipe that my mother would make by adding all the ingredients other than the topping ingredients into a pan and beat it up with her hand mixer. No one ever complained about how that cake would come out.

 

[ronott1]

A lot of the recipes are old and were written for people mixing the batters by hand. With the new powerful mixers, there is no need to "add eggs one at a time until well mixed". Other than the creaming part (not even that step sometimes) and beating in the eggs, I add everything else all at once and have been doing so for a very long time.

There is one particular cake recipe that my mother would make by adding all the ingredients other than the topping ingredients into a pan and beat it up with her hand mixer. No one ever complained about how that cake would come out.