These beaters won't beat up your bowls
03.02.10
Hand mixers are necessarily quite powerful. Their function requires fast spinning beaters, designed to plow through everything from thin cream to thick dough. One of the first kitchen-related things we learn as children (other than stove equals hot) is not to stick our fingers into the cookie dough. While hygienically speaking this is a bad idea anyways, the presence of rapidly spinning beaters teaches us that it is a good idea to practice patience. (All bets are off though, when those beaters are detached from the mixer and are begging to be licked clean.)
A not-necessarily welcome result of all this power, is that beaters attached to hand mixers are anything but subtle; they clink and clank against the sides of bowls, quite often resulting in a sound that is akin to fingernails on a chalkboard. The Hamilton Beach SoftScrape 6-Speed Hand Mixer with Case solves this dilemma coating it's attachments in silicone.
Complete with five attachments that store neatly in a snap-on case, the hand mixer includes coated beaters and a whisk, along with two traditional metal beaters. The 300-watt hand mixer extends the lifetime and usability of nonstick pots and pans by allowing for safe, scratch-free usage. The attachments are all dishwasher safe, meaning that even if there isn't a child around to lick the cookie dough off of the beaters, they'll still be easy to clean anyways.
Source: CNET
Ellie wins bonanza of cookery prizes for Winchcombe School
03.02.10
ELLIE Forsyth won a bonanza of prizes for Winchcombe School in a national cookery competition.
The 14-year-old pupil at the Greet Road school won 18 Kenwood hand mixers, 31 aprons and 30 tea towels in the British Food Fortnight Cook a Life Challenge.
Winchcombe School entered the competition after it, along with all other schools running GCSE catering courses, received details about the challenge last summer.
Each school’s catering students had to design a menu using local ingredients and the smallest carbon footprint possible.
Ellie made tomato and goat’s cheese risotto, plus pears coated with chocolate.
She did not win the Kenwood-sponsored competition but the organisers were so impressed they sent her school the prizes.
The high school donated all its old food mixers to Winchcombe Abbey Primary School.
Sarah Groves, Winchcombe School’s head of food technology, hospitality and catering, said Ellie winning the prizes meant the school would not have to spend so much money on cooking equipment next
year. She said: “It’s fantastic.”
Source: Cotswold Journal
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