@JasonToon i am not a big REM fan but i am a fan of your write-ups. You knock it out of the park a lot, this is just another excellent example. @snapster note this praise on Jason T’s next performance review. @mcfladd Jason T unsolicited praise for your contest as it earns me nothing more than continued enjoyment of his write-ups .
Both my KAs are bowl lifts. Both were thrift store purchases too, on the same day! For years, I haven’t seen any at all, in any condition. Then one Saturday, a 5-qt bowl lift for $50. And again that afternoon at a different Goodwill, the same in Bisque, also $50.
@narfcake Now I feel compelled to hit my local thrift stores today, just in case. I always get in trouble there anyway. Fortunately I have a goat to blame if I come home with appliances. Hey, @sammydog01 !
Most of my small kitchen appliances were thrift store finds in good to unused condition. The aforementioned KA mixers, a Breville Smart Oven ($15), and InstaPot pressure cooker ($11) are among my best finds.
And of course, shirts. My shirt.woot collection would only be half its size if it weren’t for thrift store finds.
@narfcake The thrift stores in my area are pathetic. Possibly I have been spoiled by past experience. Or perhaps all the good items are going to a store I just haven’t found yet. I have never yet encountered a wootshirt in any local store. I need to move.
/giphy thrift store
I bake my own bread and it will be nice to have something do most of the mixing and kneading for me. I’m too poor for a kitchenaid right now, so I’ll give this one a try. My kitchen’s like 90% furnished by meh by now. I could use some nice pots and pans hinthint.
This is the most unbelievable bread to eat with unsalted sweet butter:
"This recipe comes from the delightful cookbook called Good Things by an English writer, Jane Grigson, who has a fine palate and the ability to evoke vivid pictures of food. It makes one of the most attractively flavored and textured breads I have eaten in a long time. If you can’t find walnut oil, you can use fruity olive oil. Baked in intriguing, small, round loaves, it is light and has a pleasant crust, delicious ‘nose,’ and a delicate onion flavor. It is good with broiled or roasted meats, or with some cheeses, notably goat.” ~James Beard
Jane Grigson’s Walnut Bread from Southern Burgundy~
preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
5 cups all-purpose flour (preferably unbleached)
1 Tablespoon salt
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 packages active dry yeast
2 cups warm milk
1/2 cup walnut or extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
(fun to use way more)
3/4 cup onion, finely chopped
Sift flour, salt and sugar into a big, warm bread bowl. Dissolve the yeast in 1/2 cup of the warm milk. Pour it into the middle of the flour together with the walnut oil (or olive oil) and rest of the milk. Knead well until the dough is firm and blended into a smooth, springy ball (about 10 minutes.) Leave in a warm place to rise, covered with buttered plastic wrap for 2 hours. Punch down, mix in walnuts and onions. Shape into 4 rounds. Leave on a greased baking sheet, covered with the buttered plastic wrap for 45 minutes. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 45 minutes or until the loaves sound hollow when tapped underneath
@f00l If you put in too much yeast, you can also screw up your rising time as the yeast eats its food too fast. The bread rises too quickly and can deflate. King Arthur Flour and Serious Eats/ Food Lab are my go-to resources for bread recipes and experimentation/troubleshooting. I do knead dough by hand a lot, but I have some joint issues and I’d like to reduce wear and tear since I do a lot of similar motions at work. Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll try that walnut bread recipe!
@HemlockTea
I used to make bread all the time…several times a week, each time a diff recipe. Yeast was always my troubled child in the process. I got better over time.
I presume yeast is better right now, easier to work with. Rarely make bread now, little time and no need to have it around all the time. When you have the good stuff, amazing. It just disappears too fast.
The Jane Grigson/James Beard recipe is one of the best ever. James Beard’s book is a must-have. Chop the onions really fine for this bread. I used to do huge round freeform loaves on a baking sheet or baking stone. You will be so happy you made it.
@jaburg If you’re weird, then I’m weird. I keep singing “Your bread is going to be folded right
The peaks on your cream will stand up all night…” over and over. Totally normal, right? That’s what I thought.
@fuzzmanmatt Same here, but I have a Viking which has been abandoned by the company. Can’t find accessories since they stopped manufacturing their stand mixers. Still, who says a kitchen can’t have back up (says the woman who purchased the immersion blender last week. Hope my other one doesn’t think I’m cheating).
@f00l Last time I checked was about 2 months ago and came up empty. Even tried several different parts warehouses. No joy. Zilch. Primarily looking for a pasta attachment and a sausage grinder. I need to re-do my ebay search and set it up a BOLO alert.
My one complaint about my Kitchenaid mixer is that the 4.5 quart bowl is not quite big enough for two loaves of bread or a double batch of cookies. I can do it, but I have to keep pushing down the stuff riding up over the top of the attachment.
I was tempted to buy this one because it was so cheap until I saw the bowl is 3.5 quarts. And some of the Amazon reviews don’t fill me with confidence.
It’s not a KitchenAid – and that may be a reason to want one. The KA’s size and weight can be negative in storage and handling. Do understand that at 3.5 quarts, you won’t be making huge batches at once.
But you can also buy six of these for the price of one KA too.
The Brownies Of Evil, from a vintage copy of The Joy of Cooking, to go with the bread recipe earlier. Pls pay attention to the handling of the butter and chocolate, it matters.
PS:. If you aren’t allergic, and like nuts, just overload with walnuts already. Tho I love pecans, walnuts are better here.
Brownies Cockaigne, posted by a baking fanatic:
Notes: from The Joy of Cooking. Brownies bake for about 20 to 30 minutes more after being taken out of the oven, so don’t skip the step about leaving them covered with a towel. If you bake them according to the recipe, they will not be done at the end of the baking time. That’s okay - just make sure they sit under a towel.
I don’t like nuts in brownies, so I always skip them. The double-boiler to melt the chocolate isn’t really necessary as long as you’re careful not to burn the chocolate. Keep the heat low and use a whisk to be sure.
Cockaigne is a mythical medieval land of plenty, where all the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist.
Preheat oven to 350 F
1/2 cup butter
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
4 eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
1 cup pecan meats
Melt the butter and chocolate in a double-broiler (or a pot over another pot of boiling water). Let this mixture cool, or the brownies will be heavy and dry. Beat the eggs and salt until light in color and foamy in texture. Add the sugar and vanilla gradually and continue beating until well creamed.
With a few swift strokes, combine the cooled chocolate mixture and the eggs and sugar. Do this by hand instead of using a hand mixer. Before it’s well mixed, fold in the flour. Add the nuts if desired. Stir gently until mixed. Try not to beat the mixture too heavily. Bake in a greased 9 X 13 inch pan for about 25 minutes at 350 F. Cover the pan with a towel and leave it to sit between 30 and 45 minutes. Don’t cut until the brownies are cool as the interiors are still moist when fresh from the oven.
@f00l This sounds like my sister’s recipe for brownies. Although she is evil and tops them with a green mint frosting. Fights have been known to break out over the last brownie.
@LaVikinga
When I have made these Brownies, if I didn’t put them into an empty locked room to cool, they had all been eaten long before they could have cooled. And fights had broken out. And bribes had been offered for more more more.
The “pause” is a weak move. Quit catering to the east coasters. I’m an east coaster and I refresh at midnight. Maybe one day I’ll thank you for it, but I doubt it.
@Stallion I don’t think this is “catering” to those of us who live in the East, I think it’s just good business to give all your customers a chance at your products, even the ones that fall asleep too early. Maybe if you went to bed at a decent time you wouldn’t be so grouchy? Just sayin.
@Stallion I think it’s more about getting more customers than catering to existing ones. If I heard about this meh thing, but found it sold out the first couple of times I checked, I would probably give up on it.
This way the existing base who checks at midnight gets its shot, but new people who check when they get to work still see something to buy.
I guess I’m just a purist. In good old Woot days, you stayed up and refreshed at midnight, or you missed out unless they had enough to carry through to the next day. I stay up late and get up early so I get a fair chance at anything I want. For some of you old timers or people who can’t stay up last 10pm, I guess it is a welcomed change. To each his own.
Let the ppl on the east coast get some sleep w/o anxiety. I mean, there’s enough anxiety deciding on which planet is the best. Yeah, we want our crap, too.
@haydesigner Meh, it costs a little bit more, but seems to be a little bit better. I don’t regret the purchase, but I would have been content with this cheaper option. I don’t mind it too much to go through a return process, etc.
I own one of these, had it for a couple of years now. Works great, easy to use. It takes up little space on the counter and is lightweight. It’s no KitchenAid, but if you need a stand mixer on the cheap, I recommend this one.
Pretty ticked off right now. I was trying to purchase this for wifey on the sly…signed up as a vmp since it was either that or pay $5 in shipping . I waited patiently until 4PM and boom…“We’re saving these for people who’ve been a VMP for over a day.” I’ve been a member for almost 2 years and watched the site, but never bit the bullet on anything until today and NOW i’m SOL…C’MON. You took my $5 dollars from my account to be a VIP member and made no mention about the being a member more than a day. That’s a pretty sly stipulation.
@kender The “more than a day” is pretty clearly stated. It’s to prevent exactly what you did, people waiting for the deal they want and then paying for a month of VMP instead of shipping. Encourages you to just subscribe and stay subscribed.
Its common knowledge to most anyway if you dont order for the time period of the month and cancel they refund your 5 bucks but sorry that happened to you its a snooze you loose site and tomorrow your more then a day lol good luck brother
@mellowirishgent Yeah just feels like I played the lottery and threw the scratch off out the window before scratching it. $5 won’t hurt my bank account, but paying $5 for nothing at all…You see my point.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Mixer
1x Dough hook
1x Whisk
1x Flat beater
1x Bowl
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Everything included
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90 Day Hamilton Beach
Mixing it up meh
@AttyVette
Sending mixed messages with this one
Anyone with a mixology degree who can authoritatively review this appliance?
@MehnofLaMehncha no mixology degree but I’ll give this product the third degree –
this one’s not for meh
I’ve got mixed feelings about this.
Great price…but I’m already mixed up more than I should be…
@eeterrific
Really good price.
About the same price as a single kitchen aid accessory
Could see the logic in buying 3, keeping the extra bowls around, saving the 2 extra motors for when #1 eventually burns out
Mixingly bad.
Just put a cassette in this thing, turn it on, then BOOM, you got yourself a mixtape
@lichme I would have missed this gem had it not been for the daily email.
@jasontoon. I’m a big R.E.M. fan. This is one of my favorite write-ups.
@AnnaB Me too but I always hear “Spam” by Weird Al instead.
@AnnaB
I saw the Planetary Mixers open for REM in '84.
@AnnaB I agree. So good.
@AnnaB was totally singing the description this time…
Chalk it up as a win for meh.
@JasonToon i am not a big REM fan but i am a fan of your write-ups. You knock it out of the park a lot, this is just another excellent example. @snapster note this praise on Jason T’s next performance review. @mcfladd Jason T unsolicited praise for your contest as it earns me nothing more than continued enjoyment of his write-ups .
@mollama
@snapster
Performance reviews are a stinking pit of useless suck. Just skip the p-review and give @JasonToon a raise.
@f00l not sure i agree on performance review, if done well. But fully agree it could be skipped and go straight to the raise.
Waiting for the interplanetary mixer.
@radi0j0hn
Interplanetary mixer should a been a sponsor of the Cosmic Muffin.
(RIP. Funny guy. Only astrologist I ever wasted more than 5 seconds on. Lightening 100, Nashville, mid-90s)
@MehnofLaMehncha I remember listening to Darrell Martinie the Cosmic Muffin on WBCN in Boston. Both are missed.
@kathyl The Big Mattress, Dwayne!, Elevator to Hell, Richie Reardon, Lunch Songs, The Annual Fools Parade…
Is this sorta a KitchenAid?
If I break it up with a hammer, and put it in my KitchenAid, what will happen?
@f00l If it’s a bowl lift, it’ll whip. If it’s a tilt head, the parts may win.
@narfcake
Bowl lift, of course. (Fanatic here)
@f00l It’ll be fine.
Both my KAs are bowl lifts. Both were thrift store purchases too, on the same day! For years, I haven’t seen any at all, in any condition. Then one Saturday, a 5-qt bowl lift for $50. And again that afternoon at a different Goodwill, the same in Bisque, also $50.
@narfcake Now I feel compelled to hit my local thrift stores today, just in case. I always get in trouble there anyway. Fortunately I have a goat to blame if I come home with appliances. Hey, @sammydog01 !
@OldCatLady Blame or unblame?
Most of my small kitchen appliances were thrift store finds in good to unused condition. The aforementioned KA mixers, a Breville Smart Oven ($15), and InstaPot pressure cooker ($11) are among my best finds.
And of course, shirts. My shirt.woot collection would only be half its size if it weren’t for thrift store finds.
@narfcake The thrift stores in my area are pathetic. Possibly I have been spoiled by past experience. Or perhaps all the good items are going to a store I just haven’t found yet. I have never yet encountered a wootshirt in any local store. I need to move.
/giphy thrift store
@OldCatLady Location is definitely a factor. With 18 million people in the Greater LA area, there’s much more stuff to turn over.
Fastest shirt.woot debut to thrift store rack: 3 weeks. It was a mutant Anvil shirt, so no big surprise there.
I really want this, but my KitchenAid wouldn’t understand.
220v사용가능한가요?
@kimkihoon No, doesn’t look like it.
@kimkihoon that’s what she said!
Will it blend?
I bake my own bread and it will be nice to have something do most of the mixing and kneading for me. I’m too poor for a kitchenaid right now, so I’ll give this one a try. My kitchen’s like 90% furnished by meh by now. I could use some nice pots and pans hinthint.
@HemlockTea I get the impression from some of the reviews that this lacks the muscle to knead bread dough, but it’s only a few bucks to find out.
@craigthom
@HemlockTea
Kneading is great for hands wrists forearms.
Beard on Bread, by James Beard
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0394473450/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Try the Walnut bread.
@f00l
This is the most unbelievable bread to eat with unsalted sweet butter:
"This recipe comes from the delightful cookbook called Good Things by an English writer, Jane Grigson, who has a fine palate and the ability to evoke vivid pictures of food. It makes one of the most attractively flavored and textured breads I have eaten in a long time. If you can’t find walnut oil, you can use fruity olive oil. Baked in intriguing, small, round loaves, it is light and has a pleasant crust, delicious ‘nose,’ and a delicate onion flavor. It is good with broiled or roasted meats, or with some cheeses, notably goat.” ~James Beard
Jane Grigson’s Walnut Bread from Southern Burgundy~
preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
5 cups all-purpose flour (preferably unbleached)
1 Tablespoon salt
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 packages active dry yeast
2 cups warm milk
1/2 cup walnut or extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
(fun to use way more)
3/4 cup onion, finely chopped
Sift flour, salt and sugar into a big, warm bread bowl. Dissolve the yeast in 1/2 cup of the warm milk. Pour it into the middle of the flour together with the walnut oil (or olive oil) and rest of the milk. Knead well until the dough is firm and blended into a smooth, springy ball (about 10 minutes.) Leave in a warm place to rise, covered with buttered plastic wrap for 2 hours. Punch down, mix in walnuts and onions. Shape into 4 rounds. Leave on a greased baking sheet, covered with the buttered plastic wrap for 45 minutes. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 45 minutes or until the loaves sound hollow when tapped underneath
@f00l Great book
@f00l I can’t decide whether to hate you or to want to have your babies (hey, 21st century–anything is possible).
@f00l
How do you get in the oven to tap the loaves from underneath?
@MehnofLaMehncha
Well I can’t give you all my secrets!
/giphy shape shifter
@LaVikinga
If you have ever made bread, this is a pretty easy bread to make. Assuming you can get the yeast to do its thing, you’re good.
(Hint to newbies…learn to mess w yeast first. Yeast involves art. If you put too much yeast in bread, the bread tastes like yeast and you’re fucked.)
We’re Americans, so just triple the walnuts if you feel like it.
@f00l If you put in too much yeast, you can also screw up your rising time as the yeast eats its food too fast. The bread rises too quickly and can deflate. King Arthur Flour and Serious Eats/ Food Lab are my go-to resources for bread recipes and experimentation/troubleshooting. I do knead dough by hand a lot, but I have some joint issues and I’d like to reduce wear and tear since I do a lot of similar motions at work. Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll try that walnut bread recipe!
@HemlockTea
I used to make bread all the time…several times a week, each time a diff recipe. Yeast was always my troubled child in the process. I got better over time.
I presume yeast is better right now, easier to work with. Rarely make bread now, little time and no need to have it around all the time. When you have the good stuff, amazing. It just disappears too fast.
The Jane Grigson/James Beard recipe is one of the best ever. James Beard’s book is a must-have. Chop the onions really fine for this bread. I used to do huge round freeform loaves on a baking sheet or baking stone. You will be so happy you made it.
A big thumbs up on the rewrite of the REM song for the item. Best one I ever saw here and I found myself singing the whole thing out loud.
That’s not “weird” is it?
@jaburg
/giphy not weird
@jaburg I totally did too so don’t feel bad!
@jaburg If you’re weird, then I’m weird. I keep singing “Your bread is going to be folded right
The peaks on your cream will stand up all night…” over and over. Totally normal, right? That’s what I thought.
Based on the description, it gets an A for function, but D+ for form. So ugly.
@lordbowen ugly mixers make pretty baked goods just as well as pretty mixers.
@sitonmyfacebook And that’s why it got an A for function.
If I didn’t have a Kitchen Aid stand mixer already, then I’d be all over this like flour on my everything after baking bread.
@fuzzmanmatt Likewise. And yet, the price (only three catshirts!) is still tempting me to purchase one as a “just in case”.
@fuzzmanmatt I agree. I was given a Kitchen Aid as a gift. If that never happened, I still wouldn’t own a stand mixer and I’d be buying this one.
@fuzzmanmatt Same here, but I have a Viking which has been abandoned by the company. Can’t find accessories since they stopped manufacturing their stand mixers. Still, who says a kitchen can’t have back up (says the woman who purchased the immersion blender last week. Hope my other one doesn’t think I’m cheating).
@LaVikinga
Can you get attachments and parts from eBay?
@f00l Last time I checked was about 2 months ago and came up empty. Even tried several different parts warehouses. No joy. Zilch. Primarily looking for a pasta attachment and a sausage grinder. I need to re-do my ebay search and set it up a BOLO alert.
Can I lick the thingy when you’re done?
Something something lick my thingy till I’m done
My one complaint about my Kitchenaid mixer is that the 4.5 quart bowl is not quite big enough for two loaves of bread or a double batch of cookies. I can do it, but I have to keep pushing down the stuff riding up over the top of the attachment.
I was tempted to buy this one because it was so cheap until I saw the bowl is 3.5 quarts. And some of the Amazon reviews don’t fill me with confidence.
Holding out for the dwarf planetary action mixer. Pass.
@mike808 Team Pluto.
It’s not a KitchenAid – and that may be a reason to want one. The KA’s size and weight can be negative in storage and handling. Do understand that at 3.5 quarts, you won’t be making huge batches at once.
But you can also buy six of these for the price of one KA too.
Also, obligatory catshirts:
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/makin-bread
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/makin-biscuits
furry-devious-front
I can’t stand this mixer crap - why on earth (or mars) would I need planetary stuff for baking?
That price is insane, if you need a mixer.
Will it mix gluten-free flour? I didn’t see that included in the description.
@jvspencer
Dunno if regular mixers go a decent job on gluten-free flour. If they do, this one will prob be fine.
Mixed emotions
@mckinlay
Oh come on, how does Uranus not have an assload of votes in this poll?
@Portlis Because not everyone wants to see Uranus take a beating.
@AdmiralDave I think it’d make more sense if you said, “I guess some people just want to see Uranus take a beating” but alas.
@AdmiralDave
@Portlis
/giphy beating Uranus
did we figure out the % of stock at which cut offs happen?
@username I think they’re still experimenting on that.
@username About %25 percent…after that they start looking like Daisy Dukes and you don’t want a ball popping out or anything.
@AdmiralDave
/giphy oooohhh!
@AdmiralDave Wouldn’t that cut off circulation?
Another reason to get this:
The Brownies Of Evil, from a vintage copy of The Joy of Cooking, to go with the bread recipe earlier. Pls pay attention to the handling of the butter and chocolate, it matters.
PS:. If you aren’t allergic, and like nuts, just overload with walnuts already. Tho I love pecans, walnuts are better here.
Brownies Cockaigne, posted by a baking fanatic:
Notes: from The Joy of Cooking. Brownies bake for about 20 to 30 minutes more after being taken out of the oven, so don’t skip the step about leaving them covered with a towel. If you bake them according to the recipe, they will not be done at the end of the baking time. That’s okay - just make sure they sit under a towel.
I don’t like nuts in brownies, so I always skip them. The double-boiler to melt the chocolate isn’t really necessary as long as you’re careful not to burn the chocolate. Keep the heat low and use a whisk to be sure.
Cockaigne is a mythical medieval land of plenty, where all the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist.
Preheat oven to 350 F
1/2 cup butter
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
4 eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
1 cup pecan meats
Melt the butter and chocolate in a double-broiler (or a pot over another pot of boiling water). Let this mixture cool, or the brownies will be heavy and dry. Beat the eggs and salt until light in color and foamy in texture. Add the sugar and vanilla gradually and continue beating until well creamed.
With a few swift strokes, combine the cooled chocolate mixture and the eggs and sugar. Do this by hand instead of using a hand mixer. Before it’s well mixed, fold in the flour. Add the nuts if desired. Stir gently until mixed. Try not to beat the mixture too heavily. Bake in a greased 9 X 13 inch pan for about 25 minutes at 350 F. Cover the pan with a towel and leave it to sit between 30 and 45 minutes. Don’t cut until the brownies are cool as the interiors are still moist when fresh from the oven.
@f00l This sounds like my sister’s recipe for brownies. Although she is evil and tops them with a green mint frosting. Fights have been known to break out over the last brownie.
@LaVikinga
When I have made these Brownies, if I didn’t put them into an empty locked room to cool, they had all been eaten long before they could have cooled. And fights had broken out. And bribes had been offered for more more more.
@f00l Nothing more criminal than a dry, crumbly brownie. Bet they’re extra moist while still warm!
The “pause” is a weak move. Quit catering to the east coasters. I’m an east coaster and I refresh at midnight. Maybe one day I’ll thank you for it, but I doubt it.
@Stallion Most people don’t get up at midnight just to buy crap. I think the pause is a welcome addition.
@Stallion I don’t think this is “catering” to those of us who live in the East, I think it’s just good business to give all your customers a chance at your products, even the ones that fall asleep too early. Maybe if you went to bed at a decent time you wouldn’t be so grouchy? Just sayin.
@Stallion I think it’s more about getting more customers than catering to existing ones. If I heard about this meh thing, but found it sold out the first couple of times I checked, I would probably give up on it.
This way the existing base who checks at midnight gets its shot, but new people who check when they get to work still see something to buy.
Refresh at midnight? What are you doing the two hours before that to require refreshing?
I guess I’m just a purist. In good old Woot days, you stayed up and refreshed at midnight, or you missed out unless they had enough to carry through to the next day. I stay up late and get up early so I get a fair chance at anything I want. For some of you old timers or people who can’t stay up last 10pm, I guess it is a welcomed change. To each his own.
Let the ppl on the east coast get some sleep w/o anxiety. I mean, there’s enough anxiety deciding on which planet is the best. Yeah, we want our crap, too.
I’m just glad the Meh folks went for an R.E.M. parody, instead of the low hanging fruit of yet another spoof of Devo’s “Whip It”.
Kudos on the write-up today!!! Sang the whole thing! It was absolutely Mehvelous!!!
I just bought a stand mixer from our company store! For the price I would have preferred to try this instead. Thanks for being late meh!
@ELUNO, return it.
/giphy shrug
@haydesigner Meh, it costs a little bit more, but seems to be a little bit better. I don’t regret the purchase, but I would have been content with this cheaper option. I don’t mind it too much to go through a return process, etc.
had to wait to see if we wanted one or not. so no black-chrome from us.
I own one of these, had it for a couple of years now. Works great, easy to use. It takes up little space on the counter and is lightweight. It’s no KitchenAid, but if you need a stand mixer on the cheap, I recommend this one.
I love you meh.com, and your deals are usually super fab…but this one also left me with mixed emotions, as these are for sale, New, at Kmart for roughly $20 more…
http://www.kmart.com/hamilton-beach-6-speed-3.5-quart-stand/p-011W007088646001P?sid=KDx01192011x000001&gclid=CjwKEAjw26C9BRCOrKeYgJH17kcSJACb-HNANoZ7HmvbCVrVCxE4Mcd7x0u202xbfZ5CfXwK7kRxWBoC-mXw_wcB
@dagirlgenius Thanks for posting, just got BestBuy to price match Kmart
@dagirlgenius So this one is 38% less. That’s a decent discount for a refurb.
You can have my Bosch Universal when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I have 2 Universals, a Bosch Compact and a (poor decision) Wolfgang Puck stand mixer. My Universals will knead 6 loaves of bread without straining.
@StGermain I am going to guess that costs more than 10 times what this costs?
@ELUNO At least 10x
Dammit, wanted one. Sold out in 1 min. That sucks!
@a9a1c1 That’s supply (low) and demand (high) working. FWIW, I wasn’t able to purchase one either.
Pretty ticked off right now. I was trying to purchase this for wifey on the sly…signed up as a vmp since it was either that or pay $5 in shipping . I waited patiently until 4PM and boom…“We’re saving these for people who’ve been a VMP for over a day.” I’ve been a member for almost 2 years and watched the site, but never bit the bullet on anything until today and NOW i’m SOL…C’MON. You took my $5 dollars from my account to be a VIP member and made no mention about the being a member more than a day. That’s a pretty sly stipulation.
@kender The “more than a day” is pretty clearly stated. It’s to prevent exactly what you did, people waiting for the deal they want and then paying for a month of VMP instead of shipping. Encourages you to just subscribe and stay subscribed.
Its common knowledge to most anyway if you dont order for the time period of the month and cancel they refund your 5 bucks but sorry that happened to you its a snooze you loose site and tomorrow your more then a day lol good luck brother
@mellowirishgent Yeah just feels like I played the lottery and threw the scratch off out the window before scratching it. $5 won’t hurt my bank account, but paying $5 for nothing at all…You see my point.
We love this refurbed mixer-- worked great but have only used it one time so far. However, we plan on mixing things up in the future too!