Recipe to tear up the gears in a KA mixer

HungryMan

Follow the below recipe and strip the gears in your KA.
I guess if I cant fix it, it goes in the garbage.


Reinhart’s recipe (p. 114) calls for 5 cups of high-gluten flour, 1-1/2 T sugar, 3-1/2 tsp kosher salt, 1-1/2 tsp instant yeast, 3 T olive oil, and 1-3/4 cups room-temperature water. Mix all together in a stand mixer; knead with a dough hook at medium low speed until the dough passes the windowpane test. Next, divide the dough into three balls, coat with olive oil, and rest at room temp for 15 minutes. Place each oiled dough blob into a resealable plastic bag and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Remove it from the refrigerator a couple of hours before use. The dough will keep, refrigerated, for two to three days; it can be frozen after the 2-hour cold rest.

FearlessGrill

Hmm. I don't have the book handy, but that sounds like his pizza dough recipe. I use it all the time in my stand mixer without incident. Sucks about your mixer.

-John

Rascal

I've got 2 KA mixers and the toughest test for them over the years has been kneading a rather hearty, whole wheat dough. They huff & puff (even dance a bit) but always handle the task. Before you toss your unit you might want to consider refurbishing (motor replacement).

Florida Grillin Girl

To bad. I use my bread machine to make pizza dough.

Faith

HungryMan

5 cups of flour and cup and a half of water. That will do it.

HungryMan

i just took it apart. now I need to see if I can order the bad part and I'll be back in business.

HungryMan

I see the part I need to order. now I have to use the worst dough ever made in tampa. Publix

Unknown

I kiLled my KA mixer last week making pizza dough too. It was just the second time I had used it too! It was a refurbished model but it came with a 6month warranty anyway and they are shipping me a 'new' one next week. Now that's good customer service!

Some one posted a 'how-to' repair a KA mixer thread a couple months back. You should search for it. Maybe fixing KA mixers could be your new hobby??
TWEEV-TIP!!
ps off topic but I just bought my first car yesterday - it's awesome!

AZRP

Hey Al, Terry fixed his. -RP

http://www.eggheadforum.com/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&func=view&id=857452&catid=1

FearlessGrill

I checked the Reinhart book I use (Bread Baker's Apprentice), and the proportions are different than in yours, and seem a bit more normal. In that pizza dough recipe, he calls for 4.5 cups of flour, 1/4 cup of olive oil, and 1 3/4 cups water, along with the salt and yeast.

Hopefully you can fix the mixer.

-John

HungryMan

Thanks for the link Randy. I just took mine apart and ordered the new one. It was a different one from Terry's KA

eenie meenie

Al, I wish I had read your post earlier. I just got back from a tumor board in Greenville, OH where they make the Kitchen-Aid mixers. After stopping for a local Maid-Rite sandwich, I stopped by the Kitchen-Aid store and could of picked up the part. :(

Hope your pizza comes out great and that you are feeling better.

'Q Bruddah

I went to higher hydration doughs and longer bulk fermentaion. I use a big tub and a 60yr old gearless RALH* mixer and my KA is just collecting dust. It is real easy to use and a cinch to clean. Replacement parts are tough to come by though.



RALH right and left hand

lowercasebill

hi Al . i did not read responses but someone here [i think] repaired stripped gears successfully and posted pic and instructions.. thinking might have been sparky but i got crs.. i would search forum and do google and call K-A before putting it in the garage
bill

Capt Frank

Hi Al,
Somehow my friend, I get the idea that you could tear up a cannonball with a rubber mallet :P

Capt Frank,
Homosassa, FL

lowercasebill

http://www.eggheadforum.com/index.php?searchword=kitchen+aid+repair&dtstart=0&dtrange=0&orderby=score&pagelength=50&returnfirst=0&option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=112&func=search

it was bente,, if link fails just seach kitchen aid repair

HungryMan

Thanks bill. That is a different model. I took mine apart and found the bad gear. I already ordered a new one.

HungryMan

And Frank, you're correct.

HungryMan

It was your inspiration that caused me to make a pizza. I should have stuck with my go to recipe. This was way too much flour and little water. The KA is a lightweight. Stop working and read the posts more often.