A trend

[icepixie]

Heh. I'm highly amused that out of everyone on my flist who's posted something exclamatory about gifts received, almost all of the posts, including mine, have been about kitchen appliances or bakeware. I guess you can tell that much of my flist is only a couple years out of college. :D

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[alto2.livejournal.com]

Dude, I am out of college 15.5 years now, and I'm getting a STOVE. (Which I am still not altogether sure I need, because I suspect Dad could come out and fix mine in July and I could light it with a match or other flame until then, but he is convinced that I will blow myself up/burn my house down if I do that. Never mind that I lit the pilot light on my furnace many times and lived to tell!)

Anyway, you don't have to be right out of college for appliances to die...

[icepixie]

Anyway, you don't have to be right out of college for appliances to die...

True, true. But bowls and blenders and pots and cutting boards (portable stuff for apartment-dwellers), seem so typical for the immediately post-college set. (Myself, I eventually want my own set of Revereware pans, perhaps as a combined Christmas/birthday present with some of my own money thrown in.) It particularly amused me that all of my friends from Kenyon who've posted on such things so far got that sort of stuff as presents.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Ah. I took "kitchen appliances" to mean "big stuff like stoves and dishwashers" rather than pots and pans and the like. I do remember (way back in them old days long ago) getting things like my toaster oven (which I still have and could not live without) and my standing mixer (which is also made of win). You'll have them forever, most likely :)

[icepixie]

Ah, sorry, no. I was trying to find something more descriptive than "stuff," but I guess I just made it more confusing.

I've heard people crow about standing mixers, but I'm not sure what they do that either a wooden spoon or a handheld mixer can't. For the prices they go for ($350???), they'd better clean the house and make dinner too.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I've heard people crow about standing mixers, but I'm not sure what they do that either a wooden spoon or a handheld mixer can't.

Two words: Bread dough.

Yes, you can make it without one, but if you have even the slightest glimpse of carpal tunnel, you'll be in pain afterwards (or your hands/arms will go numb for a while, which is what happens to me). A wooden spoon is thus not always practical, and even a handheld mixer is best for stuff that's quick. The standing mixer is for the serious stuff, and for times when you need to have your hands free to prep other stuff/add ingredients while the mixer is running. A Kitchenaid mixer can also do a whole host of other stuff, from grinding meat to making pasta, so, yeah, it does a lot that you're not going to do on your own.

[icepixie]

Two words: Bread dough.

Aha. That would be why I've never seen why people like them. The only bread my mother or I have ever made was Irish soad bread, which does not need to be kneaded. I think the longest beating session I was ever in on was four minutes with the handheld for...a cake? Maybe?

A Kitchenaid mixer can also do a whole host of other stuff, from grinding meat to making pasta, so, yeah, it does a lot that you're not going to do on your own.

My goodness. The grocery aisle is so much more convenient, though...