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Title: Power Mixer
Review: This is my second one. The first I used to make bread almost exclusively and never, never, never used it at speed 2. Always at 4 or more. However, the other one had the plastic gear box and had been repaired several times for other problems until the gear box split and the gears seized up. I must say, Mixing dough at a higher speed gave better crumb to the bread, but that dough was usually more hydrated than your basic white-bread-in-a-pan recipe. The newer dough hook isn't as efficient with wetter doughs. It grabs the top half of the dough mixes it and rides over the bottom half, never quite engaging the whole mass. The old hook works better with wetter doughs. It grabs hold of the dough and turns it fine. Still, the mixing at speed 2 is not as good as I remember it with my previous mixer. I'm still playing with mixing times and will have to try each and every one of my bread recipes to see if Speed 2 can be accommodated.
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