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Prevent Overheating! Top Five Tips To Maintain Your Mixer
A mixer is a kitchen appliance used for mixing, grinding, beating and whipping the food ingredients. Kitchen aid mixer can mix soups, drinks and juices and it can also grind complicated food ingredients easily within a fraction of second and helps the people to finish their work fast.
Mixers are divided into two major types they are hand mixer and stand mixer. Depending up on the type of mixer, the kitchen mixers will do any mixing task the user wants to do. Now mixers are available in different shapes and designs in the market in different brand name names. Mixers are usually designed for both commercial and household use.
How do Mixers Work?
The mixer works with small motor driven by electricity. All mixer works on mechanical principle, which helps the food ingredients to grind. Its function is to combine ingredients while baking or cooking. 250 watts of mixing power provides creaming butter, kneading dough and whipping cream. In hand mixers the motors are placed inside an enclosure and small in size. In stand mixers the motors are larger in size and capable of grinding large volume of ingredients. Whatever the mixer you choose, it simplifies your tasks in the kitchen and saves time.
Types of Mixer
Hand mixers are hand-held devices.
The hand is mounted on the enclosure containing the motor, which drives the beaters. This beater is immersed in the food to be mixed. If the food mixers are used for making cakes, brownie or cookie recipes then the user need hand mixers. Hand mixer takes less room and mostly works on batteries. Some features attached with hand mixers are balloon whisks or dough hooks. The price is less compared to stand mixer. This is well suited for the homemaker who makes cakes and cookies in small quantity.
Stand mixers are mounted on the stand and they are larger in size and fixed with large motor. It is provided with bowl that is locked in place when the mixer is operated. If the person makes breads and more complicated recipes then he can go for stand mixer. It has attachment like pasta roller and meat grinders that expands the usage of this mixer behind grinding. It is capable of grinding large quantity of food at high speed.
This mixer is powerful than hand mixers and could be used to process large quantities of flour or other ingredients. Mostly the hand mixers are made up of plastic cover with stainless steel handle. The stand mixer is made up of plastic with the bowl in stainless steel.
