Electrolux Assistent/ Magic Mill DLX Mixer

Mine came with two sets of tools; a roller/scraper and a dough hook. There are lot's of additional tools available such as a mixer/blender, citrus fruit press, vegetable slicer, meat mincer, hole discs+knifes+sausage pipe, strainer, grater, pasta attachment, flake mill, grain mill and more...

I mainly use mine to make bread doughs and for that I use - depending on the amount - either of the two tools that I bought mine with.

The roller/scraper is very efficient and you can adjust how much the roller can move inside the bowl when the bowl rotates. This is good for doughs up to one litre of liquid, for mixing ingredients for soft cakes, mixing minced meat with other ingredients, mincing potatoes/vegetables and raft of other things

The dough hook us useful for bigger doughs and for larger quantities of minced meat.

I havn't tried any of the other tools but I'm thinking of the pasta dough attachment to make fresh pasta :-)

A friend of mine got his unit from his grandmother who bought it some

Yes I can see it will do all the things you speak of, But what about adding dried fruit to the cake batter or even to bread dough, does it all get squished or does it stay whole.

thanks

I havn't tried pieces of fruit but I often make walnut bread - I add walnuts for the last 1-3 minutes and they come out OK; I might find a few small pieces of walnuts in the finished bread but almost all are in one piece

You can also adjust how close the roller can come to the side of the bowl. I usualy don't restrict it at all, but you can do that. That should keep any soft fruit pieces from being squished.

Thanks for info.

After all this bugging every one for information about the machine I have decided against it, the one I wanted was $469 but by the time it arrived here in Ontario it was going to cost me $750, with exchange, taxes, shipping etc. So I said ' No Thank you.

Wow! I got mine, at present dollar rate for abot 340 USD.

$469 is the cheapest white one I have seen in U S , change that to Canadian and at yesterdays exchange rate it would be $582, that's without all the extras to pay for. And most places charge for shipping out side the U S.

Peter,

Do you have any books or recipes that help in understanding how to use this mixer and roller/scraper to its potential?

Thanks,

Jim Maine

I have one, too. I very seldomly use it to mix cake batters, etc. but I use it to mix stiff heavy bread doughs every week. (It's about 2 years old now.) I never use the dough hook - I always use the roller/scraper combo. I think the machine works much better when mixing LARGE quantities of dough. I usually bake 5 - 6 pounds of bread at a time. It works with smaller quantities, too but you have to play with the distance of the roller to the edge of the bowl more then. I'm very happy with the machine, and it's extremely stable. I don't hesitate to place it within an inch or so of the edge of the counter & walk away from it because it doesn't move around on my (granite) counter at all!

If one bakes the full capacity of bread dough from this machine and raises all of the dough outside the refrigerator, would the loaves all come due approximately the same time and create a space problem in the oven for baking. Or do you have to stagger the fermentation of the loaves, say, a couple put back in the refrigerator to keep from being ready too soon -- or do you have a big, big oven to bake all the loaves at one time? thanks so much. Dee