I just threw out my mixer

[susandennis]

My favorite cooking site - OneDishKitchen recently posted a very simple iced sugar cookie recipe. Today I decided to try it.

I love cookies. I particularly like plain vanilla cookies with butter cream icing. But nearly any kind of iced cookies will do.

So this sounded like a viable way to get to that goal.

I have a hand mixer that I hate. And that's where I should have stopped. It takes up too much storage and the damn beaters won't stay in and it's slowest speed is what they use at NASCAR.

So I made a huge fucking mess. But, I covered the cookie dough and put it into the fridge to make sure the butter got good and cold (all those hours of GBBO were not totally wasted). And I cleaned up the mess. Then I made the icing. Another fight with the mixer. Another huge mess. Icing that I'm not even sure is good.

Then the cookie dough was a mess to get into a ball and even worse to "slightly flatten".

I finally managed to get it into a log (covered in plastic). It's now in the freezer. The icing is in a baggie in the fridge. The mess is cleaned up. The mixer is in the trash. I may or may not throw the dough and icing in there tomorrow.

I was made to eat cookies, not make them.

Comments

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Amen

[vysila.livejournal.com]

Ha! We both had baking disasters today. And a mess was made by all.

[meowmensteen]

You made it this far, may as well see how the cookies turn out.

[susandennis]

easy for you to say, you, you, .... cookie maker!!

i did think of you. how the hell do you do it??

[meowmensteen]

how the hell do you do it??

Lots of failure. That's how I've learned what not to do.

[susandennis]

well, today I learned not to every attempt anything that requires a mixer, that's for sure. plus, it's mean of me to try and usurp the business of cookie makers anyway.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Hand held mixers are the work of the devil. It's a stand mixer or the cookie store.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it was time for that mixer to go!

[rhodielady-47.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, I actually prefer my food processor for mixing dough of any sort.
Like you, I found that mixers are just too unwieldy/uncontrolable to be useful.

I also agree: I was made to EAT cookies rather than MAKE them!
:^9.........

[holidayparrots.livejournal.com]

Ha! We both had baking disasters today. And a mess was made by all.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I'm still using Mom's Hobart built KitchenAid stand mixer for nearly everything. Near as I can tell it is 50+ years old and still doing its thing. But I also have a hand mixer for the easy stuff and it also does not have a low speed. I thought it was just the mixer I had but I'm obviously thinking differently now. For something like beating egg whites or making whip cream it is perfect. For nearly anything else it is useless as it starts, as you say, way too fast. No low end.

The GBBO has its share of similar experiences and every one of those people has been doing it all of their lives. And I saw a Master's class where Mary Berry nearly turned on the mixer with all the flour in. She stopped herself at the last second and proceeded cautiously but Hollywood was egging her on and laughing.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

Some mixers are better than others. I got a good one because it was originally my roomie's and he's a genius shopper, especially for kitchen gadgets, then when he moved in with his boyfriend he let me have his because his boyfriend has a standing mixer.