Kenwood Chef - Fun and Practical

winniepooh

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Oh I am so so jealous. I have got a birthday coming up so was thinking about the basic Chef which is £170 in Argos at the moment.

Then I remembered that Mum had one and I havent seen her use it for years. Question is how do I ask her nicely if she has still got it and if so will she give it to me?

Maybe I just need to pay her back in cakes. Want to ring her now but she will probably be tucked up in bed!

I wonder how many of these old machines are starting to get used again.

Mines an old one and I love it. It runs very quietly. And you can stilp get attachments.

Does anyone know if you could use the k blade to mix sausage meat?

littlesnuggy

Nicki wrote: »

Homemade pasta tonight in mine using the pasta maker attachment for the first time. Much less mess and far easier to clean up then I feared and the pasta was delicious (we had it for tea tonight). I took some photos and will try and post later but DD has run off with my phone!

Some tips I discovered during the process if anyone fancies trying it:

Got my pasta machine today too so this is brilliant, thanks Nicki. Couple of questions: did you use normal plain flour or a special pasta/00 flour? And how much did you make / how many portions did that do?

I'm planning on making it for mine & OH's dinner tomorrow & will update on how it goes!

Nicki

littlesnuggy wrote: »

Got my pasta machine today too so this is brilliant, thanks Nicki. Couple of questions: did you use normal plain flour or a special pasta/00 flour? And how much did you make / how many portions did that do?

I'm planning on making it for mine & OH's dinner tomorrow & will update on how it goes!

I just used plain flour and it was fine. I used 500g flour, a pinch of salt, 4 eggs and half a teaspoon of oil and this made enough for 2 adults, 2 almost teens and a baby generously.

Badrick

winniepooh wrote: »

Does anyone know if you could use the k blade to mix sausage meat?

I always use the dough hook to mix sausage meat, because although it takes a bit longer, it's a lot easier to clean afterwards.

winniepooh

Thanks badrick. X

peachyprice

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

Oh I am so so jealous. I have got a birthday coming up so was thinking about the basic Chef which is £170 in Argos at the moment.

Then I remembered that Mum had one and I havent seen her use it for years. Question is how do I ask her nicely if she has still got it and if so will she give it to me?

Maybe I just need to pay her back in cakes. Want to ring her now but she will probably be tucked up in bed!

I wonder how many of these old machines are starting to get used again.

Something along the lines of "Hey Mum, I'm thinking of buying a Kenwood mixer, as they're so expensive can I borrow yours for a couple of weeks to make sure I can get along with it before I buy one". Hopefully she's say, "Take it love, I never use it anyway"

Nicki

Pasta photos:

The finished product:



The total amount of washing up:



And the total mess made:




All in all, I thought it was worth it!

peachyprice

Thanks Nicki, I'm going to get the pasta maker attachment soon, although I noticed on John Lewis it's gone up from £22 before Christmas to £34 :eek: I may have to shop around.

Nicki

I got mine on eBay! And I am sure amazon also do them so might be worth looking there too?

peachyprice

yes, definitley back to ebay/Amazon, at the time i was looking JL were the cheapest, now I know why they kept selling out :rotfl: