Recently diagnosed, how to properly clean my kitchen aid mixer

[Roxy6896]

So I was diagnosed yesterday and my head is spinning with how life altering this is. Luckily I have an extremely supportive husband who is more than happy to change his diet to 100% gluten free to make things easier on me. So now I am trying to go thru our kitchen and figure out how to properly clean kitchen appliances. More specifically I used to bake a lot of bread and was wondering what the best way to clean my mixer? I was thinking maybe I should even take it outside and use our air compressor to really get into the machine and get all the flour off but would that truly be enough? Is there a company I can send it to for gluten free cleaning of it? I love my mixer and would hate if I had to toss it 😭
 

also side question, do I need to buy a new air fryer as well? 
 

 

thank you in advance everyone! 

[trents]

Welcome to the forum, @Roxy6896!

Taking an air compressor to the mixer sounds like a good idea and just giving the air fryer a good cleaning should suffice. Don't overthink this. It is easy to to get paranoid in the beginning when you read all the horror stories on the forum from those who are super sensitive celiacs. Most don't have to go to extremes to be safe, however.

[Wheatwacked]

Welcome Roxy6896 to the forum.

That is awesome that your husband is going gluten free to support you.

Some have withdrawal issues at first, as gluten can effect the opiod receptors.  It will pass and you and your husband with feel even better.

     I am a little concerned about taking a 100 psi from a compressor to electric appliances.  Perhaps cans of electric parts cleaner from the auto parts store or plain canned air or canned ozone.  A mixer has wires and switches that a hard blast could dislodge.  Koshering Appliances and Utensils.  Koshering is a way of making sure there is no cross contamination between dairy and meat in a Jewish household.  I am sure those same instructions are sufficient for cross contamination of gluten and gluten free. And koshering for Passover is to clean any leavened food like bread from unleavened foods.  I am sure it is good enough for gluten.

      Many with Celiac Disease run into vitamin and mineral deficiencies around six months due to processed gluten free foods are not fortified to acccount for the nutritional deficiencies inherent in our western diets.  Processed foods that are not gluten free are.

     Since Celiac Disease causes malabsorption of nutrients through the small intestine it takes some time to bring your levels up, as you heal, so you may want to consider boosting your intake with nutrient pills for a while as you heal.  Low Vitamin D is virtually ubiquitous.  Unprotected sunshine in the summer or pills year round. 40% of US adults are low because of our national aversion to sun. There are 42 million Americans with autoimmune desease, not to mention bone loss, mental health, dental and compromised immune system; only one million with skin cancer.  There is very little vitamin D in food.  

Good luck with your journey.

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