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Post# 142559 , Reply# 1   7/15/2006 at 14:56 (6,494 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 143555 , Reply# 4   7/19/2006 at 13:16 (6,490 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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So far no problems with my 2 year old KA stainless side by side, but I don't like the way the crisper drawer needs to snap back into place when you close it. I get streaks from any water on the finish but they do come off with some cleaner and a soft cloth. I would have preferred a frig that had a stainless "look" finish but that wasn't available with KA or Whirlpool. I like the ice maker arrangement with bin in the top of the freezer door--bought it mainly for that feature--but am wondering how the whole electric eye system that controls the ice maker will hold up. I do find that once in a while there's a big mass of cubes all stuck together in the bin, I just remove them and let that ice get replaced with new loose cubes, not a big deal. It runs very quietly but the frig side does seem to have zones where things can freeze, but if you adjust the temp for that, then the drinks aren't cold enough. Is there any frig out there that doesn't have this kind of problem?
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Post# 144012 , Reply# 9   7/21/2006 at 02:01 (6,489 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)   |   | |
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Maybe KA is Krushing the older mixers just like GM did with the electric cars, so they can keep making the new ones because if the older ones lasted so long there would be no demand. Then WP can just deny that the older, sturdier, mixers ever existed. Just as Less Nessman on WKRP in Cincinatti would say, "It must be some kind of a plot". |
Post# 146033 , Reply# 17   7/30/2006 at 18:45 (6,479 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Mark-- I agree that food processors don't do a great job with tasks like julienned vegetables and I never use mine for those purposes. However, I definitely take advantage of the speed and convenience of a food processor for other tasks. I've made a lot of pesto lately, and I can't imagine how time consuming it would be to use a mortar and pestle instead of the processor.
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Post# 146053 , Reply# 18   7/30/2006 at 20:10 (6,479 days old) by lightedcontrols ()   |   | |
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...the m&p may take a little more time but it's all the difference in the world.....and after all, it's the taste that counts! Mark |
Post# 146171 , Reply# 23   7/31/2006 at 13:04 (6,478 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Kelly, I agree completely. I was the kitchen manager/lead cook (I'm not a trained chef) for a catering business for 8 years and I learned quickly that you have to balance handmade vs. machine-assisted in order to keep the books in the black. Labor is always the biggest expenditure in a business like that. We had standards---I insisted all sauces and breads be made from scratch, for instance---but we definitely took advantage of time-saving appliances in the kitchen. You'd sink yourself in labor costs if you, for instance, shredded carrots on box graters for carrot cake to feed 500 people. It truly is a balancing act. Then there's always the front room waitstaff issue and while most clients won't be able to tell if the bread dough was kneaded by hand, they will be very impressed if your waitstaff/guest ratio is 20 to 1. Cute cat, BTW. |
Post# 146913 , Reply# 29   8/4/2006 at 08:26 (6,475 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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The Kenwood mixers (rebadged in a lot of places as DeLonghi, Hamilton Beach, many others) are a good alternative to the new crappy generation of KitchenAid mixers. I still have and use a K5 from 1977 that has been repaired once. If I had to purchase new I would get a Kenwood 7 qt. or one of its clones. The Viking seems OK, but it is very noisy. See if you can find a Hobart "Cream Whipper" (Hobart's 5 qt. professional gear-driven version of the KitchenAid) on ebay. They're indestructible.
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