PSA
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:52 pmI'd like to offer the following public service announcement:
If your wife buys a Kitchen Aid mixer, read the directions and thoroughly familiarize yourself with its operation before using it. Some things to look out for:
1. There is a locking lever for the head on the right side, and a throttle on the left side. They are identical, and are both engaged by pulling towards you. If you have a bowl of flour and dry ingredients getting ready to make some more lemon zucchini bread, and you THINK you are pulling forward on the locking lever, but really pull the throttle all the way to its stop, you WILL have a Godawful mess to clean up.
2. Before you know/realize that there even IS a locking lever, if you try to make bread and have the bread kneading hook on, if the head is jumping up and down and the very heavy mixer is hopping all over the counter like a rodeo bull, this is not "how it's supposed to be", no matter how vigorously you tell your wife this when she comes downstairs to see what the hell is going on in the kitchen.
3. After she explains the locking mechanism, don't assume "you've got this". The head is VERY heavy, and VERY well balanced. It doesn't take much effort to tilt it down. It sort of just falls toward the bowl. If your pinky finger is in the hinge, it WILL pinch it, it WILL hurt like a bastard, and it WILL be very hard to calm down enough to reach across with your other hand and lift the damn thing back up.
The first just happened, which prompted me to share all of these pointers. Hopefully it will help someone. That is all. Have a good day.
If your wife buys a Kitchen Aid mixer, read the directions and thoroughly familiarize yourself with its operation before using it. Some things to look out for:
1. There is a locking lever for the head on the right side, and a throttle on the left side. They are identical, and are both engaged by pulling towards you. If you have a bowl of flour and dry ingredients getting ready to make some more lemon zucchini bread, and you THINK you are pulling forward on the locking lever, but really pull the throttle all the way to its stop, you WILL have a Godawful mess to clean up.
2. Before you know/realize that there even IS a locking lever, if you try to make bread and have the bread kneading hook on, if the head is jumping up and down and the very heavy mixer is hopping all over the counter like a rodeo bull, this is not "how it's supposed to be", no matter how vigorously you tell your wife this when she comes downstairs to see what the hell is going on in the kitchen.
3. After she explains the locking mechanism, don't assume "you've got this". The head is VERY heavy, and VERY well balanced. It doesn't take much effort to tilt it down. It sort of just falls toward the bowl. If your pinky finger is in the hinge, it WILL pinch it, it WILL hurt like a bastard, and it WILL be very hard to calm down enough to reach across with your other hand and lift the damn thing back up.
The first just happened, which prompted me to share all of these pointers. Hopefully it will help someone. That is all. Have a good day.
