Kitchen Tools

[worth1]

The ricer might be the cats meow for squeezing my salted onions.

[worth1]

Crinkle cutter needs work and I knew it would.
Crinkle not pronounced enough.
I'll get the right size rods and use my trusty vise to make the crinkles deeper.
Hopefully.
It might turn into a disaster.

[JRinPA]

I've never see a garlic press style ricer. Mom's ricer is like a big strong cone shaped sieve that you use a masher.

And it is not a subaru or mitsubishi like half the pics if you search for "ricer". I thought those were called rice burners, not ricers. With rice rockets being japanese sport bike. But okay...

There, something like that, a ricer.



Used for fluffy potatoes, mostly.

And the crinkle cut gets used for zuchini, but it is a just a 3-4" blade with a handle. Like this:


A ricer, huh. Never knew that exact term regarding engines.
My high school quarterback was dead at 25, crashed a rice rocket. I want to say an 1100 cbr but not positive. A buddy of mine found him on the way to work early one morning. Saw a headlight off the road in the woods. Held his hand while he died. Couldn't talk with the blood in this throat. I had a bike but never had an interest in speed. PA is a terribly dangerous state for motorcycles, lots of hills, trees, and can't keep a road free of potholes with all the freeze/thaw. High or drunk doesn't help, either.

[worth1]

That's the right kind I can't find one to save my life.

[worth1]

I spent hours at the controls of the China hat growing up.

[JRinPA]

Might have been 24 yo, not 25. I remember he rear ended me high school year on an icy day in the school parking lot. He had subaru wagon, kept on acting like he was gonna hit me, so I would have to pull forward with the buick. This is during the daily traffic jam at 245pm school letout, but this was in Jan or Feb. So after a few times, I went about 2 foot and hit the brakes again. He couldn't stop in the slushy ice, SMACK. Screwed his front end up, the buick hardly had the plastic bumpers on the steel bumper marred. And he was mad. But his copilot was laughing his ass off at the damage.

[worth1]

I've always called the high speed Japanese motorcycles kid killers.
Even when I was a kid.
Because that's what they do, kill unsuspecting inexperienced young kids.
But no this is a potato ricer.
Gotta food mill somewhere maybe.
Never used it so it might have ended up at Goodwill.

[worth1]

I tested the potato ricer yesterday with some Yukon Gold potatoes skin on.
It works and it's weird.
It does make fluffy potatoes but after I added soft butter it wasn't really anything that I haven't done without it.
I don't add anything to mashed potatoes other than butter and salt.
No cream or milk.

[JRinPA]

I've never used mom's, I remember bringing it upstairs for holiday meal making. I don't really know what the end product looks like, other than mashed potatoes that are somehow better. For sure it never lived in the kitchen.

[worth1]

I've never used mom's, I remember bringing it upstairs for holiday meal making. I don't really know what the end product looks like, other than mashed potatoes that are somehow better. For sure it never lived in the kitchen.

The china hat lived in the kitchen growing up.
It was my job to squeeze anything that needed squeezing through it.
Of which was darn near everything from tomatoes to wild blackberries.
The there was the much stained cheese cloth.
Once every last bit of goodness could be squeezed out the remainder went to the laying and eating chickens mixed with leftover soured milk and other vegetable scraps.
Darned egg yolk looked and tasted marvelous.

[Ken4230]

I've never see a garlic press style ricer. Mom's ricer is like a big strong cone shaped sieve that you use a masher.



There, something like that, a ricer.



Used for fluffy potatoes

I have a well used one that was my moms. No idea on the age, she died in 1983. She used it for potato pancakes and vedgie pancakes (zucchini, squash, carrots and anything else that was fresh out of the garden) I can remember it being kind of messy, she had a small bowl that fit under it that caught most of whatever she was fixing.

My mom was an old fashioned country cook, she never made anything that could be published in Southern Living but when everyone got up from the table, there were usually no leftovers. I blame her all the time for me weighing 300 lbs

[worth1]

I keep forgetting to use the ricer and it's within arms reach.
I actually like a few potato lumps in mashed potatoes.

[worth1]

KitchenAid in the news and complaint section again.
Some of the statements are s little flabbergasting.
https://www.dailydot.com/news/kitchenai ... ead-dough/

[JRinPA]

Becoming radicalized over a mixer, huh? I think there's a term for that.

And I love how she spouts the reason for tiered products is "Capitalism". She should get an honorary MBA for that. Signed by Adam Smith.

Planned obsolesence also mentioned by someone, again,
"I don't think that word means
what you think that word means."

You bought chinese junk because you don't care enough to understand the reasons not to.

This is an example of two ears/one mouth ratio totally ignored, and getting rewarded for it due to our current world of free publishing/pretty face chasing. In a way she is right, but there is so much wrong mixed in it is hard to agree with.

Replace the motor on mom's mixer already. That was probably a Hobart out of Ohio. Most of the money went back in to the community where it was built, so people could afford nice houses and cars and to raise their kids with good dentistry. And the employees cared enough to make a quality product. People tend to make quality products when their own neighbors are the customers. And they have to look them in the eye when they see them at market. Pride is a good thing.

[worth1]

The one comment about they should last at least 5 or 10 years is ridiculous.
It shows what people expect out of a product.
I have a 40 year old made in USA hand mixer.
Most people buy by name and everyone has heard of KitchenAid.
And they're close to 500 dollars.
You can get a pretty good countertop mixer if you're serious about using mixer all the time without paying a fortune.
My KitchenAid stand mixer I got from the company factory refurbished and saved a ton of money.
6 or 7 quart pro.
Professional doesn't mean anything.
I was just wondering about the remarks that gal made.

[worth1]

Found this first search.
https://www.vevor.com/commercial-mixers ... 0774457545

[worth1]

Well I'll be.
I never knew this and need to do it mine is too low I think.

There's also one for the tilt head model.
How to adjust you bowl height.
Lift bow.



Tilt head model.

[pepperhead212]

Funny you should mention this now - I just did a "tuneup" on my KitchenAid mixer, after it started acting up, when I was simply whipping some cream. It was not slowing down a few days earlier, when making bread dough, which seemed strange, though that was only going up to speed 4. While troubleshooting this, I found a thing on YouTube, that suggested checking the gearbox, so I took it all apart, and there really wasn't much grease on the gears. The one the guy in the video - Mr Mixer - cleaned out, got a lot more old, thick grease out than I got. And nothing leaked inside the motor housing. And, fortunately, there weren't any shavings or chips from the gears on mine, as he was describing, so I cleaned everything out that I could, then cleaned everything with some solvent, and let it dry, while waiting for the KitchenAid grease and gasket to come, that I ordered from Amazon. Took less than an hour to re-assemble, since those two videos were very instructive. Cleaning is what took the longest...plus finding those snap ring pliers! It also helped having the square drive screwdriver. The mixer seems to work well now, though I haven't used it yet for food - just test ran it.
The gear box, first opened up, so I know what I'm looking for, when it goes back together! by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The gear box of my KitchenAid Pro 600, opened up, and fairly well cleaned out. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The gears and other parts of the KitchenAid Pro 600, cleaned up and spread out, ready to clean with solvent. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Almost put back together, with the top housing and the accessory drive gear, to mesh with that top bevel gear,. Only took about an hour to finish. by pepperhead212, on Flickr
What I almost couldn't believe, when looking for the grease I needed, plus the KA parts, in case I had to replace any of those gears, was that those things are available in plastic!!! Then I thought about it, and realized, that's what those cheap models have in them, when we see those really cheap KA mixers out there. Those mixers are the ones that also have the plastic gear housing - the ones that Mr Mixer cautions us about in his videos, to check for cracks, and warns about tightening screws too much. He didn't even mention those plastic gears I saw!

This mixer I got in early 2020, when my last KA burned out on me, and I found it would cost more to fix. It was about 20 years old, so it had gotten a lot of use, and this latest has a thing where if it heats up too much, it cuts out 15 minutes, to cool off, so they have improved it, in that way. But my 1st KA I got in '76 - before Hobart sold KA to Whirlpool - and I only got rid of it to get the 6 qt, and gave that 4½ qt to a friend, who was setting up his kitchen. And he still has it today! That will be 48 years old, at Christmas time.

And another thing almost that old in my kitchen is that range, bought in '83, which I cleaned up last weekend, and turned the 7 pilots back on (heats up the kitchen too much, for warm weather). This thing will outlive me, definitely.
It's that time again - I have to turn all the pilots back on, and that still shines up like that after 40 years! by pepperhead212, on Flickr

[Uncle_Feist]

Well I'll be.
I never knew this and need to do it mine is too low I think.

There's also one for the tilt head model.
How to adjust you bowl height.
Lift bow.



Tilt head model.

Didn't know that, thanks!

[worth1]

@pepperhead212
There's two parts in there that act like gears but aren't technically gears.
It is the worm and the worm wheel and together they're called a worm drive.
These are the ones that normally break due to the high stress loads on them.
This so called set up has been around for a couple of thousand years.
The reason for the rant is if they don't use the proper nomenclature then I'm pulling my hair out looking for something.
In every occasion they are calling the worm wheel a worm gear.
And the other way around.
Worm drive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_drive