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.

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbmix.jpg

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbbake.jpg

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 in message
news
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.

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbmix.jpg

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbbake.jpg

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


If I tried something like that at my house I would be SHOT!

David, I am dissapointed with you. Using some fancy, cordless drill to mix
cookies. Aren't you the guy who rehabilitates big iron? Surely you could
have converted some big WW I machine to do this task! G

Send some to Baltimore.
Marc

Hi de Hi there friends and neighbors
I too have brought power tools to the food service, first using a
sawzall to split and quarter deer. In the last year I started making
venison sausage and balogna, it started getting so darn spendy to get
the stuff made, so I made a smoker outta an old fridge (also used for
smoking salmon and trout) had a electric meat grinder but didn't do a
very good job at stuffing
so last fall purchased one with a little more h.p.
next problem how to mix the meat with spices and pork cut in. meat mixer
was kinda high priced so I pulled out my 1/2" variable speed drill with
a mud paddle and 5 gal bucket, maybe not the greatest method but cost
effective. I do about 25 lbs to batch, did 6 batchs for self and others
this passed season.
can't wait til summer so's I can go catch some trout and salmon again.
happy new year everyone
Ross (aquahalic)

"David F. Eisan" wrote in
news
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.

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbmix.jpg

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbbake.jpg

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



I threatened several times to buy my mother a drill press to use as a
mixer. The way I see it, those kind of tools are designed to run for 15
minutes straight to mix marshmallows (you're sorely deprived if you
haven't had homemade) unlike the cheap ones you get everywhere anymore.

Got her a Kitchenade stand mixer a few years ago, and she's enjoyed it
ever since. No holes have been drilled yet, though. ;-)

Puckdropper
--
On Usenet, no one can hear you laugh. That's a good thing, though, as
some writers are incorrigible.

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

Lee Michaels wrote:
"David F. Eisan" wrote in message
news
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.

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbmix.jpg

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbbake.jpg

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


If I tried something like that at my house I would be SHOT!

David, I am dissapointed with you. Using some fancy, cordless drill to mix
cookies. Aren't you the guy who rehabilitates big iron? Surely you could
have converted some big WW I machine to do this task! G




A spokeshave with a little elbow grease would have sufficed, methinks ...

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"Lee Michaels" wrote in message
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"David F. Eisan" wrote in message
news
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.

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbmix.jpg

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/pbbake.jpg

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


If I tried something like that at my house I would be SHOT!

David, I am dissapointed with you. Using some fancy, cordless drill to mix
cookies. Aren't you the guy who rehabilitates big iron? Surely you could
have converted some big WW I machine to do this task! G

Why bother with the kitchen? Drag the mixing bowl over to the Bridgeport.
Fire 'em in the glazing kiln.

When the Pharmacology Lab next to mine wore out their expensive "LAB
GRADE" tissue homogenizer drive unit I recommended that they replace
it with a drill press so I went to the local Delta dealer and selected
one with the speed range they needed and they bought it. Saved a lot
of money and I think it looks a lot more impressive than the official
machinery. Also, the drill press was much easier to use.
Marc
(who still wants cookies)

On Jan 1, 6:17*pm, "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.