LOVE IT it is the size of wisconsin
Written: Aug 26 '07 (Updated Sep 05 '07)
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Pros: LOVE the size, power, ease of use, durability
Cons: small batters need more attention
The Bottom Line: LOVE IT huge capacity, great power, cover keeps ingredients in mixer not on counter
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| sewnmom's Full Review: Bosch MUM6610 Universal Series 700 Watts Stand Mix... |
I love my Bosch universal stand mixer. I have the Kitchen Aide already and had a problem with the flour coating on my kitchen when making home made breads and pizzas. This is nothing against the KA but I was looking for something more. My husband was upset when his coffee pot got covered one day when I forgot to cover it. Then I went to clean a decorative shelf in the area of the mixing and it was flour coated - time to find one with a lid on it if possible.
I searched on the web and found the Bosch. I was looking for recipes where you grind your own wheat, which I was looking to do to get more protein into one of my kids diets. If you grind flour you retain about 20% more protein if you use it right away. I knew it would be heavy and coarse dough and that the flour would do more than a light dusting to the defenseless coffee maker and all in it's path.
I found that the Bosch can make SIX yes 6 loaves of bread at a time. You can use up to 20 cups of dried ingredients in it. The lid keeps all ingredients in the mixer and not flying around the kitchen attacking that poor coffeemaker any more. I make about 9 pizza shells at one time, or 6 foccacias. My family calls it power baking. Well power baking or not for three growing teenagers and a tweener (and their friends) I need all the help I can get.
I grind my own flour and make six loaves of bread a week in the fall, winter and into spring. I make some kind of cookies or bars every week at least one time. I make homemade pizza shells about once or twice a month and freeze them after parbaking. I bake things for bake sales when asked (at least monthly) and for kids' class parties and for the spanish class fiestas. Bottom line I probably use it daily in the three seasons before it gets too hot to bake here. I have owned it for three years and have not had one bit of problem.
I bought mine online at pleasanthillsgrain and they were very helpful. The bowl holds a lot and the capacity is immense. The whisks are good for making meringues and light batters. I use the universal dough hooks for almost everything. There are new cookie paddles available but I have not gotten around to getting them. I think I will for the fall season of baking coming up.
I make 12 dozen cookies at a time. I have a chocolate chip recipe from crisco sticks and I use all three sticks and multiply the recipe to make it. Everyone loves them and I do nothing special with them.
Holiday time I make doughs up and refrigerate them until I am ready to assemble. This works really well when we do cookie exchanges - we all get together and bake them at my house since I have the room. I make a lot of the doughs ahead of time with a few friends help getting the ingredients ready and cleaning as we go. We are able to mix many batches at one time and cut our time way down.
The mixer works really well. The 700 watts of power is amazing. We make wheat berry pancakes in them and kids that are picky will eat these because they dont know they are healthy plus they are very smooth with no lumps of berries.
There are a host of attachments available but I have not delved into any of them. I have a separate grain grinder that I am happy with so I dont envision getting the attachments.
I also own the kitchen aid which I kept for holiday baking to do icings, etc or when I need another mixer. The bosch is so easy to clean I just rinse it and go again!
there is a cookie recipe on line that you dont even have to rinse in between to make several different kinds of cookies. you just make a similar batter and keep going.
The only thing I see as a down side is that when you do a regular box cake batter, the mixer seems oversized and you have to scrape the bottom more often to get the ingredients mixed.
Since we cook on a large scale most of the time, it is a great unit for us.
Bosch also offers a smaller version of this mixer. Several of my friends bought it and love it. For 125 bucks it was a great investment for them.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 320.00
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