Hello everyone,

I was looking for some cookies today and could not find any in the house.
How hard can it be to bake cookies? I like peanut butter cookies, I thought
I would give making them a try. Turns out, it is a lot more work than I
thought. If I had baked before, I might have been able to deduce that the
recipe was sized to make four thousand cookies and I could have reduced it.
I do remember watching my Mom make cookies when I was a young boy, and only
when it was too late did I realize I should have mixed the butter and sugar
first and not added the butter last. I broke the wooden spoon trying to mix
the butter with the peanut butter, sugar and eggs. I got out Katarina's toy
mixer, but it has no torque and was starting to give off a funny smell. I
was running through my mind what power tools I had that could help with
this. My DeWALT 300 RPM mixer drill was out on loan and my mortar mixing
paddle would take too long to clean anyway. Probably for the best, the
mortar paddle was not stainless steel, and who wants yellow paint in their
cookies. I found my Makita cordless drill. I blew it off with the compressor
and wiped it down. The mixer paddle was easy to chuck in the drill. I was
able to keep the RPM low and after trying unsuccessfully to mix in the
butter by hand for 15 minutes, I had it mixed in about three minutes. Since
the mixture was quite thick, I also used it to mix in the flour and other
dry ingredients.

I filled the baking pan a number of times, and when all was said and done,
instead of trimming windows today, I spent 5 hours baking cookies. It would
have been slightly shorter if I had made sure I had all the ingredients
before I started and didn't have to run to Mom's for "Magic Baking Powder".

I took a couple containers of cookies to my folks tonight for them and my
sisters' family. I will be taking bags of them to work for the next little
bit, so free cookies will be on the counter at Fed Tool for the next several
years.

Thanks for looking,

David.

Every Neighbourhood has one, in Mine I'm Him

David F. Eisan wrote:
Hello everyone,

I was looking for some cookies today and could not find any in the house.
How hard can it be to bake cookies? I like peanut butter cookies, I thought
I would give making them a try. Turns out, it is a lot more work than I
thought. If I had baked before, I might have been able to deduce that the
recipe was sized to make four thousand cookies and I could have reduced it.
I do remember watching my Mom make cookies when I was a young boy, and only
when it was too late did I realize I should have mixed the butter and sugar
first and not added the butter last. I broke the wooden spoon trying to mix
the butter with the peanut butter, sugar and eggs. I got out Katarina's toy
mixer, but it has no torque and was starting to give off a funny smell. I
was running through my mind what power tools I had that could help with
this. My DeWALT 300 RPM mixer drill was out on loan and my mortar mixing
paddle would take too long to clean anyway. Probably for the best, the
mortar paddle was not stainless steel, and who wants yellow paint in their
cookies. I found my Makita cordless drill. I blew it off with the compressor
and wiped it down. The mixer paddle was easy to chuck in the drill. I was
able to keep the RPM low and after trying unsuccessfully to mix in the
butter by hand for 15 minutes, I had it mixed in about three minutes. Since
the mixture was quite thick, I also used it to mix in the flour and other
dry ingredients.

I filled the baking pan a number of times, and when all was said and done,
instead of trimming windows today, I spent 5 hours baking cookies. It would
have been slightly shorter if I had made sure I had all the ingredients
before I started and didn't have to run to Mom's for "Magic Baking Powder".

I took a couple containers of cookies to my folks tonight for them and my
sisters' family. I will be taking bags of them to work for the next little
bit, so free cookies will be on the counter at Fed Tool for the next several
years.

Thanks for looking,

David.

Every Neighbourhood has one, in Mine I'm Him



Thats too funny. I think that maybe next time you could use the drill
press. It would be just like the Mix-Master. Whats next? Using the
RAS to cut the roast beef for dinner. Any way I probably would have
done the same thing.

Cheers Richard

THANK YOU !!!

in order to amuse her friends my wife constantly brings up stories of my
phase of using the B&D to mix up cheesecake.

it was 25 years ago, She makes out I'm some sort of eccentric and this is
"unusual" behaviour. It isn't and I can now show her pictures to prove I'm
not alone in this.

I must point out that I was limited to a fixed speed (2700) drill, so I had
to be careful to keep cheese off the ceiling. Easily done with a drilled
board over the jug.

Mechanism was an egg whisk chucked in a tube. The tube was essential cos the
prototype run sprained the wire-wound whisk handle as centrifugal force made
it try to turn into a spinning disc rather than it spinning on axis.

Made excellent cheesecake, custard and protein shakes. Guys down the gym
never batted an eye...

The other story she tries to embarrass me with is about my making my own
dish-washing liquid.
I still say a plane is the best tool for making soap flakes... but you have
to clean it up pretty thoroughly otherwise you ruin the taste of the cheese
curls.

BTW, did you know that a steam cleaner makes one hell of a cappucino?