June 30, 2008 - 7:27am
Electrolux DLX - WOW!!! It CAN do things other than make bread!
This weekend I was teaching a Sourdough Quickbreads class and for the first time in a class got out my mixers. I'd never used my DLX for anothing other than making bread, but today it was time to make cupcakes, cake, muffins and frosting - LOTS of frosting.
After a bit of hunting I found the smaller bowl, the beaters, and the drive extension rod. WOW!!! It was GREAT!!!\
It didn't have any trouble with a whole bowl full (3 packages of cream cheese and 14 cups or so of confectioners sugar).
I'd been using my KitchenAid for everything except making bread, but now I know that the new kid on the block CAN do it all!
Mike
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OK, I want one! But it isn't sold in France :-(
Jane
Just one word for you.... smuggle
Have fun,
Mike
I have had this mixer for two years. I got it to knead bread for me because doing it by hand, while I love it, is too time consuming iwth a kid underfoot.
In the meantime, I got into cake baking (have my own out of home mini business) and I belong to a cake decorators site and NO ONE has heard of it and EVERYONE is die hard KA fans. So, when I could get an artisan for a steal, I tried it. OMG so small... I was used to making 6 lbs of powdered sugar frosting in teh big bowl of the Assistent. So, I sold that (for what I bought it for) and got the Pro 600 KA, and again, I was like - this stinks compared to the Assistent and I sold it (for profit actually) and have vowed never to listen to others again when it comes to the KA mixers.
The assistent is easier to clean, has a timer and can do ANYTHING. I use the smaller bowl with whisk for up to a double batch of cake batter and then I make a triple batch of frosting at a time in the big steel bowl (and store the extra).
And breads and cookies are so easy in the Assistent. I got mine off ebay for a steal (it was misspelled in teh listing) and after using it for a year, I told my husband that if anything ever happened to it, I would pay full price to replace it and he agrees.
Pleasanthillgrains sells a few cookbooks for the assitent, especially geared for bread. Does anyone have these? I keep meaning to get them as I think I still might not know how to use this mixer to it's best ability (I can't walk away and hope it will do it OK).
I have a DLX as well and am really enjoying it. I bought it for bread, but I live in small place and don't have room for another mixer so I'd like to use it for other things as well. A cake that I tried this weekend turned out beautifully, but I'm not sure of how to translate recipes written for a kitchenaid to the DLX. Does anyone have tips on when to use the plastic mixer v the stainless bowl for tasks like creaming sugar, whipping etc, etc? Any preferred techniques for making pie crusts? The manual is a bit ambiguous. We need to recruit a few Swedish housewives to this board ....