BIT: Chiller/Heatable mixer bowl for a kitchenaid mixer?

[Captain Wheelgun]

I recently saw an episode of Good Eats where A.B. used a beauty salon drying hood and a handheld blow dryer to do the gentle heat on the mixer bowl thing. He hung the dryer from a countertop banana hanger and put the hood around the mixer bowl with the hose running back to the dryer. Maybe this could be rigged to run cold air to the bowl instead of hot.

ETA - I just noticed that I've passed 500 posts. I've been promoted from Case Shiner to Loose Cannon

[HTRN]

If you need cold, you can simply use the freezer bowls they have for the Kitchenaid mixers for ice cream making (and in fact, the Kitchenaid mixer ice cream maker bowl setup along with the Cuisinart machine are probably the best bet under a hundred bucks if you want to make ice cream)

[mekender]

If you need cold, you can simply use the freezer bowls they have for the Kitchenaid mixers for ice cream making (and in fact, the Kitchenaid mixer ice cream maker bowl setup along with the Cuisinart machine are probably the best bet under a hundred bucks if you want to make ice cream)

The ice cream maker is the next thing I am planning on getting for my mixer.

[mekender]

It wouldn't last - Kitchenaids, at least the cheap ones, have plastic gears. The really expensive version is the "commercial" which is meant more for duty in restaurant(and costs $650), and even then it's a bit optimistic. So yeah, they could possibly build it for 500-700 bucks. And it would crap out on you in six months due to a being run 10 hours a day. Remember, Kitchenaid was the retail spinoff of Hobart, who does manufacture smaller mixers for heavy commercial use. Of course, you're talking 2200 dollars for a 5 quart N-50 mixer.

Word is, they used to use a plastic gear that was designed to fail in case of the motor getting bound up thus saving the motor. Apparently after idiots complained about plastic gears, they stopped using it.

[Netpackrat]

Word is, they used to use a plastic gear that was designed to fail in case of the motor getting bound up thus saving the motor. Apparently after idiots complained about plastic gears, they stopped using it.

That seems like a bad attempt at justification of a cost saving measure. They could have done the same thing with a simple shear pin, while retaining the long-wearing advantages of all metal gears.

[HTRN]

Word is, they used to use a plastic gear that was designed to fail in case of the motor getting bound up thus saving the motor. Apparently after idiots complained about plastic gears, they stopped using it.

They used metal(bronze I believe) gears for decades. Then they started using the plastic. They may claim that it was "to save the motor", but I'm betting on a cost cutting move - because if the gears crap out, it was not cheap to fix.

The big thing that was killing them was bread dough, which was murder on the plastic drivetrain, even going by their guidelines. When you have to sent the machine in every year to be fixed, costing upwards of 50% of it's replacement cost, it isn't a case of "weak link by design", it's "We tried to cheap out and it blew up in our face".