Please tell me the last thing you used your fancy pants mixer for

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I have a mixer and food processor. Saved up for them both, coveted then for years but use them for bugger all!

I hear people say they use theirs all the time but for WHAT?

Processor last used to blitz pears for a cake.

KitchenAid used to make some more bird food (peanut butter and birdseed mix).

I seriously need to up my game! I cook from scratch but never make extras like bread / humous etc! I need to search for recipes!

Food processor is amazing for slicing veg for potato gratin or ratatouille!

Mashed potato. Revolutionary!

I thought I would use my mixer more regularly but I go through bursts of using it and then periods of it being more decorative than purposeful!

I have used it for making bread dough, pizza dough, banana bread, pancake batter, chocolate cake…I'm struggling to think of anything else and I've had it for nearly a year. Hopefully this thread will inspire me.

My food processor came with a cookbook that I made loads of things out of over the first few months I had it, until I realised that it was unnecessary for most as it was just to save chopping or grating veg, but didn't save much time when I factored in heaving it out of the cupboard (it's so heavy!), getting it all set up then washed and put away. These days I use it for soup or if I'm slicing lots of potatoes, or for big batches of veg preparation. I found it too bothersome even when making baby foods and bought a stick blender cheaply from Amazon instead, and that gets a good amount of use as it's lighter and quick to clean.

Oh also in the mixer I’ve made butter icing a few times and it is so light and delicious, miles better than any previous attempts I’d made without one.

And flapjacks, they were loads better too. I’m not a good baker and the mixer has hugely improved the texture of any cakes and flapjack/brownie type treats I make now. I deduce it was my lazy stirring, inability to gently fold and weak whisking that was letting me down!

I use my stand mixer most days for bread and cakes, it lives out on the work top. I find it great for baking with children as it leaves my hands free to supervise. It has a grating attachment which I only find worth the effort of using for bigger batches, for one or two apples / carrots etc by hand is faster.

I have a separate blender with big and little chopping / blending attachments. Things I've used it for on the last week are making pesto, making pastry, making breadcrumbs and chilling herbs.

Banana loaves

In my fancy pants Kitchenaid today
Bread dough
Chocolate cake
Chocolate butter icing

Stick blender used for
Butternut squash soup

A orange and sultana cake last Saturday and tomorrow a carrot cake. Yes before anyone asks, I am a fat bastard

Just today - crumble mix, then double batch of cookies without washing out in between. Have family staying and biscuit making was entertainment for 4 yo as well a treat food.

Washed up.bowl then 4 batches of play dough, each a different colour. Quickest method ever for making play dough - very happy nephew for about £1.50!

I have a 22 year old Magimix. Today I used it for scones and apricot biscuits. If I hadn't lost the grater discs I would use it every single day even though I need to shove a plastic chopstick in the lid to operate it.

I have an even older (possibly 25 years old) hand held whisk thing that I use often (once a week) and it lives in a drawer in its original pristine box. I am generally a careless person but these have been worth every penny.

I'm doing a cake stall this weekend; today I have made sticky toffee pudding, 3 types of shortbread, apple cake, Christmas cake bites. I've got loads more to do tomorrow. I am a late convert, and I have a KMix too.
Absolutely love it, though I always use a stick blender for soup.

I bought a cheapo version and it’s rubbish. I rarely use it because it’s quicker to make cakes by hand and less washing up after.

@MyMommyYourMommy you can buy replacement Magimix discs etc from BBS Ltd!

I have a Magimix 5200XL food processor and used it this week for:
Banana bread to use up brown bananas
Strawberry Victoria Sponge for Dad’s Birthday - used to make all-in-one cake & whip cream
Yorkshire pudding batter
Grating block of cheese - used some in macaroni cheese, toasted sandwiches and rest in fridge for another time.
Chopped green chillies, ginger & garlic then onion and then tomatoes for curry.
Cubed block of paneer for curry.
Made batch of dough for chapattis
Will use to make pizza dough later today.
Pavlova for Sunday family dinner
Will use to make a coffee & walnut cake and buttercream filling later for friend’s birthday!

I also have a mixer but I rarely use it as don’t have room to have it out on worktop and can do nearly everything with the Magimix anyway.

But I’m lusting after a Magimix CookExpert - like a Thermomix but better! I’ve seen the demonstrations and you can use it to chop, sauté and cook, your soup, stews, curries, make and prove dough, chop & stir fry, steam, whisk up mousses, varieties of buttercream, cakes, smoothies, make jam, lemon curd... All in one bowl!
But doubt that I will be getting one anytime soon! 😢

My Kitchenaid mixer mostly looks nice. I used it last week for cinnamon buns and it is good for bread and christmas cake, but I prefer the results from my hand mixer and pastry done in the food processor.

We have a mini grinder attachment and use it daily for grinding coffee. Use the blender for milkshakes for kids, blending soup weekly in the winter. Main mixer for bread, cakes. Processor for crumble, biscuit mixes and occasionally slicing onions.

I have arthritis so I use mine for things most people wouldn't, so most recently to grate parmesan.

Mine has a white disk that whips cream in seconds, so it is used for making cheesecake.

I don't do much baking so an expensive mixer would be left to gather dust.

I'm trying to use my kitchen gadgets more too,
Recently: Kitchen aid mixer - shredding cooked chicken breasts for sandwiches.
Cupcakes (super quick, better than buying palm oil laden cakes from supermarket for lunchboxes etc)

Last minute quick celebration Victoria sponge cake plus buttercream to ice it. (My cakes are much improved with the KA - had a cheap Wilko one before and the cheapy mixer was nowhere near as good, cakes are now much lighter, buttercream is less grainy)
Bread - Knocked up quick bread rolls to have with soup for lunch with friends.

High power Blender - breadcrumbs from the end of a loaf for reverse chicken Kievs.
Chopping onions and carrots for huge spag bol (chucked in instapot)
Lemon curd.
Choc spinach smoothie. (Just for me - Genuinely delicious).
Strawberry Ice cream (kids didn't like it, gah!)
Made bean burgers (this didn't work so well because I'd doubled the recipe, I think. It all just got stuck at the bottom and was a general PITA)
In the instapot - huge Spag bol for freezer. homemade foil beefburgers last night (Worked v well) Chilli. Want to try making yoghurt in it next.

I make yogurt regularly in my instant pot tutu, it's a breeze. I use UHT milk so no scalding required, just tip it in with the yogurt starter, press the button and leave overnight. I strain it through a piece of muslin in a colander with a pop up umbrella cake cover thing over it while I'm at work the next day to make it super thick.

I used the mixer to make brownies and blondies this week. Had to whip the eggs almost to meringue so worked well for that.

In the last month I have used it to make cookies, bundt cake and bread. I don't have a food processor.

Right... planning to make pizza dough in the mixer today. Can anyone share a tried and tested method pretty please?

I used Lisa Snowden's recipe, it worked really well, haven't got it to hand to pass on right now though.

@seeingasyouareclueless I'll look it up. Thank you!

I took my food processor to the charity shop earlier this year when I realised that I'd moved into this house and not used it since (five years). Goodness knows what I used it for in the last house either.