Dough hooks on electric whisk

carolinosourus

Hi all,

Not sure if this is in the right place or if anyone can help.

I got an electric whisk/beater for Christmas as I've been wanting one so I can make cakes with less effort than creaming things by hand and can whip cream and eggs without standing there for ages until my arm falls off. It came with a set of dough hooks. Does anyone have any experience of using dough hooks to make (unsurprisingly) dough?

TIA

Caroline

msb5262

Yes - my parents make bread every day using a mixer with a dough hook. Very effective.
HTH
MsB

snow

msb5262, maybe they use a stand mixer, where the dough hook has a plate on the top? I've always found dough hooks on a hand-held mixer pretty useless, as the dough keeps creeping up the hooks...

floyd

I used to use the dough hooks on my hand held mixer for making cookies, rgey were much better than the beaters

mrs_thrifty_2

Ive also used them for making biscuits and found them better than the beaters!

pookiewoo_2

I use the dough hooks on my hand-held for breadmaking. Can't be doing with all the chucking it about (unless I'm feeling v. cross!)
Also used them for making the Delia Stollen recipe - it came out very 'light' - no good for trad stollen lovers, but great for those that find stollen too heavy!
Any hoo, I think they work ok - but I can't really compare them to the normal method. Give them a whirl (hoho!) and see how you get on....Good Luck