On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 10:20:55 AM UTC-6, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 01:08:16 -0600, MaryL
> > wrote:
>
> >On 3/10/2016 3:10 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:14:42 -0600, jinx the minx
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>> Brooklyn1 > wrote:
> >
> >>> so I bought myself a big stand mixer for Christmas--the 5qt. bowl lift one.
> >>
> >> I hope you enjoy cleaning it... when I had a stand mixer I spent more
> >> time cleaning than mixing.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >My mother used one of the old Kitchen Aid stand mixer's when I was
> >growing up. She used it for her entire married life, and it was still
> >in good condition after my father died and I became her caregiver (she
> >moved in with me). Clean-up was easy! It was no more difficult than
> >cleaning a hand mixer. The only drawback was that it was big and heavy.
> >
> >MaryL
>
> It was heavy because your mother's old machine was probably made by
> Hobart. Today's Kitchen Aid stand mixers are crap, they have no
> transmission, they employ a dimmer switch/rheostat instead. Anytime
> an appliance company is touting Wattage they are pandering to least
> intelligent; Wattage is electricity consumed, NOT power output...

What, you expect the manufactureres to put the mixer on a dynomomer and MEASURE the precise power applied by the mixer motor's output? HA!!! Of course the Wattage figure is the atts of electricity consumed by the motor. Electric motors are rated as to the number of Watts of electricity they consume. And yes there will always be power/energy lost as heat, that is the nature of electrical motors. It's the laws of thermodynamics.

Now go slice up some food with your mad cutlery skills and leave the engineering talk to engineers, OK?

John Kuthe...