[geeks] food geekery question

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>Honestly, unless you do something really outrageous with it, you're
>unlikely to do anything that'll break a current all-metal(-again) Pro
>series.  My wife used hers for all kinds of things, including bread
>dough and pizza crust, for several years with only one problem; that
>problem was that the phenolic gearbox housing fractured.  I replaced it
>with the now-standard-again metal housing; end of problem. 

How much did it cost for the housing, and how easy was it to fix. Most
people I know have trouble changing the beaters, let alone a gearbox.

> The
>following year, we sold it for most of the price we paid for it, after
>our neighbor across the street gave her a Hobart C-100.

So we have a contest between someone who used to use a KitchenAid telling
him to buy one versus someone who used to use a Sunbeam telling him to buy
one. :-)

Geoff.

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