Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer accessories what is your favorite?

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patbastrop

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I bought my KA from Costco -- good buy, and it came with an ice cream bowl you could send away for. The bowl driver, as it turned out, didn't fit the model so I'll have to wait to use that. We did hand stir some frozen yogurt, though, since the bowl was frozen, and it was awesome!

I needed a bowl cover -- my past KA had one that I got after-market, but you had to buy TWO. What a waste. But nothing else will snap on there and keep the c*ap out of the bowl when not in use, and I really didn't want a cloth cover - something about dressing up appliances is like putting a dress on your chihuahua. So I bought the two (10 bucks) and figured they would sit together siamese-twin style like my old ones had on the top of the bowl.

Then I was fussing about the "shower of flour" when I'd forget to start *s l o w* when mixing the flour in my cookies. Back to the past, when I had a splash guard that would protect me from those lapses, but (whine, whine) I had to assemble it to use it and it was a pain to store.

So, my son was cooking with me as I was whining about not having a splash guard that I didn't really want anyway. He went to the drawer and retrieved a box cutter and proceeded to re purpose one of those covers. He cut out the middle portion which is cupped down to avoid the beater shaft. Then he cut off the collar portion. Voila! a splash guard which snaps on the bowl! It is easy to tilt up to be able to add stuff to the bowl, and stores snapped onto the bowl cover.

Love it! Cheapest accessory ever!

 
I love the pasta rollers and cutter. It's so much easier to use than a hand-crank pasta machine.

 
Well, the only one I have is the juicer attachment

it's useful if I'm doing a ton of lemons off the tree. I don't drag it out much, but super handy when I'm doing a large batch.

 
Melissa, what do you "grind" then "can?" I always think of the grinder for raw meat. Just curious

 
While I like the meat grinder attachment, the additional larger tray doesn't fit well and seems a

waste. It's supposed to slip on and grip the actually grinder feed, but it's just formed plastic and slides away from the grinder opening. You can't process the meat quickly because the tray keeps moving.

I think I'm spoiled because the first meat I saw ground was my FILs. He was a butcher & had a professional SS grinder with a molded SS tray that was part of the setup. No movement there.

 
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