April 2, 2016 - 12:12pm
Spiral Mixer Opinion
Hi..there is a small 5L Spiral mixer listed on both ebay and Amazon that caught my attention. It is a Chinese import but the price is reasonable. With not much info regarding it with the exception of a picture and short description I contacted the company and asked for the manual. It looks like the single speed Haussler but is 1/4 the price. So here is my question...it is single speed but the hook rotation is 193 and the bowl 19. That seems a bit too fast for the hook too be moving??? Any experience with a spiral would be appreciated. Thanks
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It seems incredibly small. Is it this one?
http://www.globalsources.com/si/AS/Hakka-Brothers/6008826116165/pdtl/5l-Fxing-Head-Single-Speed-Spiral-Mixer-bakery-Equipment/1085019086.htm
(about $550 on ebay?)
Anyway, I have a spiral mixer - it's a Fimar 22l/18Kg model. It's single speed and really aimed at Pizza restaurants, but it mixes my sourdough mixes without an issue. I've never measured the bowl and spiral speeds though. The documentation mentions 90rpm which is 1.5 revs a second - that sounds like the spiral - the bowl is much slower.
The biggest issue is cleaning it! It's a fixed bowl model, so you need to get in there and do it all in-situ. It's not too bad, just a bit harder than removing the bowl from my old Hobart A200... For its size it kneads 3x the dough quantity that the Hobart will. Just hope it never breaks down.. I've love to get a 2-speed one, but the cost...
-Gordon
and it takes care of almost all the kneading for me, especially the heavy duty ones. The only time it doesn't knead well is when the dough is too light, say < 1kg. Then I have to rely on my other mixers. As drogon mentioned above, cleaning is a pain. You ought to clean it when the scraps are still moist or be prepared to do a lot more work: re-moistening the scraps, scraping them, and wiping with the power of all your biceps and triceps.
The TMJ website says mine has a maximum capacity of 8lbs/3.6kg. I checked the manual and it's in Italian. So I can't provide any info on rpm. Wait, I take it back, the instruction in English is hiding in the middle of the booklet. But it doesn't provide any info on rpm either. In the booklet, it says the capacity is 5kg, so probably is similar to 5L, I guess?
Capacity is 3kg so really small....fixed bowl bad..most 1 speeds are 100-135 .I will save up for a Haussler. Thanks again!!
stock accessories for my Kitchenaid. The new ones are being sold with a spiral dough hook, but now you can get a spiral hook to put on older models. I just have to call KA customer service and make sure the model numbers are compatible. The hooks are about $20.00 on Amazon, which I could afford now. A Haussler would be $1400 to over $2000, depending on the model - I'll have to put that on my list of things to buy after that Powerball win that I know is just around the corner. ;-)