Bread Mixer

[richieheleng]

I am pretty new to cooking and baking breads, What kind of mixer do yuo use for gluten free bread. I have a hand mixer that I use to make cakes, It is ok for bread or what kind it is good?

[ArtGirl]

I couldn't afford a stand mixer, and I burned out the motor of my small (and very old) hand mixer with the thick gluten-free doughs. I bought a heavy-duty KitchenAid, 5-speed hand mixer for $50 that comes with regular beaters and dough hooks. It's working out very well.

[Rikki Tikki]

I have a kitchen aid and just love it. My mom just got a bread machine from cuisinart with a cycle for gluten free and she seems to really like it

[larry mac]

I am pretty new to cooking and baking breads, What kind of mixer do yuo use for gluten free bread. I have a hand mixer that I use to make cakes, It is ok for bread or what kind it is good?

rh,

You might want to try your hand mixer and see what happens. The gluten-free bread recipes I have tried produce doughs that are much wetter and lighter than regular bread dough. At first I used my Sunbeam Mixmaster Heritage Series Legacy Edition stand mixer (a beautiful machine), but decided it just wasn't suitable enough for my needs (or wants, as the case may be). So I got a Kitchenaid Artisan stand mixer. My purchase was accelerated by the fact that I lucked into a deal too good to pass up. I saw a display model on a discontinued color (almond on almond) without a box or manual at a local department store (Kohl's) for $179.

I don't want to get too far into an evaluation of it here, as I want to start a new thread at some point titled Sunbeam vs. Kitchenaid Revisited. Suffice it to say it's met my expectations, I'm very impressed.

Theres plenty of research you can do for just a little effort. Do a search of this site for mixer, stand mixer, or hand mixer (that's 3 different searches). Go to the top of the page where it says "example search". In the little box, replace the words 'tomato sauce" with the word "mixer" or the other suggestions. Not all of the results will be a discussion of the mixers, some will be a part of recipe discussions.

Before actually buying a new mixer, or anything else really, I would suggest going to amazon .com or epinions.com and reading some reviews of the product.

best regards, lm

p.s. Valda, not being able to afford something hasn't deterred me yet!