Kitchen appliances chat

We use the pasta rollers and extruders , meat grinders and sausage stuffers. But I did upgrade to the biggest kitchenaid as 6.6l bowl lift one burned out the motor 3 times when it was used for milling grain and grinding beef. Kitchenaid gave me a full refund on the original mixer and I used this to help pay for the upgrade to the professional model.

The direct drive professional ones are significantly more powerful.

I already have a spiraliser so haven’t bought one for the kitchen aid. I also ditched the Mockmill attachment and got a dedicated Mockmill for flour making.

How do you all find the time to do this shit?!

I like the hand wound pasta makers. Tbf they're the only ones I've tried. The only thing I'd say is that the lingini cutter on mine isn't great. But then I'd generally do fat ribbons, tagliatelle, or ravioli.

Haven't done it since covid though. I should probably do it again as a weekend activity with the kids now the weather is shit. We made triffle this weekend. Although someone (not me) bought single cream...it was only when I moved onto the hand whisk that I spotted the issue.

Full time house spouse, and I like making food.

The meat grinders let us make sausages, force meat and burgers, so burgers can be done medium rare with no worries.

Fresh ribbon and sheet pasta is amazing

Bake four or five loaves a week

Making cakes is great, had pumpkin pie at the weekend

All of these processes could be done by hand or using smaller tools however the bigger tools make the jobs easier and quicker. This frees up time to do other things.

What's a good under counter fridge? Don't need a freezer

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Feel like there should be something between £100 and £500

The Bosch one at £180?

It's Bush and it's got a freezer

Fuck my eyes are terrible

a hand wound one is much cheaper and more than enough for any reasonable amount of home making

Yeah, but gadgets innit.

Sometimes the grater attachment is great to have, will do that pumpkin quiche agein soon, thanksd! But most of the time grating is limited to an amount that is still done by hand.
The extruder thing struggled the only time I made sausages (we have the smallest kitchenaid and the cheaper plastic attachments) But it comes out once a year to make churros looking cookies (spritzgebäck), those are fun to make as the dough consistency/speed/put on tray action really keep you busy.
And I agree, if we ever make pasta the manual chrome thing is enough.

Dryer just shat itself. 3 years for about £100 2nd hand probably isn't bad.

Replacement: Bosch or Samsung? Seems like WiFi is the main difference which probably isn't a bad feature when it'll be tucked away in a utility room soon.

That'll be the problem. Kind of expected this to be more complex inside.

Also.... WhyTF are Samsung charging 3.6x as much for their spares compared to Bosch? I think that's decision made on the eventual replacement for this thing. Hopefully I can get another couple of years out of it yet.

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Kind of expected this to be more complex inside.

I've had to repair our £30 second hand tumble dryer twice. Once replacing the heating element, once just resetting the internal fuse.

Both times I was amazed at how basic it is inside. Idk what I expected, but it wasn't really a giant bin attached to a big rubber band.

Obviously they use a lot more electricity, but they are so cheap and easy to DIY if issues arise.

This is a heat pump one, not a condenser, I'd heard they're hard to fix and I expect if the heat pump part goes it'll be trash. I had been meaning to open it up for a while as it'd been really noisy. The impellor had been rubbing on the casing and eventually just wore through itself. When I get the part through I'll have to try and get it to sit without rubbing, might require a heat gun and pressing the casing back out if it's become deformed from pressing against something.

Anyone got any experience and recommendations for switching from gas hob to induction hob?

Julie Bindel did an extensive analysis on the pros and cons.

One thing to note that I learnt the hard way, is be careful with steel frying pans. I warped two of mine quite quickly. The power the induction can throw out is ridiculous coming from a normal gas hob.

Haha, rep.

Done it several times over.

Ensure the wiring is there or easy to change.
Decide on the power split you want from your "burners". Do you want one turbo hob, small/medium/large, all equal.
Look at all the various options for features and decide what you want.

Be aware an induction hob will eventually go wrong, a gas hob is unlikely to until the gas runs out.

Don’t buy a cheap induction hob. Get one that has separate power controls for each hob.

Would you recommend it? Sounds like I should just stick with gas and breath in the fumes

Be aware an induction hob will eventually go wrong

Will it? I’ve had a couple over several years without issue

As much as I love the idea of open fire, explosions and so on in my kitchen , if I had the choice I’d go induction.
Good ones are really nice to use.