Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Slight inconvenience

Things are not going as planned at the moment. My landlady has decided to sell our home and I've got to move in 3 weeks.

The good news is I've found a nicer flat, a bigger flat and the kitchen is amazing. I never mentioned it before but I hate my current kitchen. I mean it's all new and nicely decorated but it's small, there are only 4 available sockets and it's been fitted with the cheapest appliances on the market. The Becko washing machine is ok, and so is the Fridgidaire, but the Matsui dishwasher annoys me and the Belling electric cooker/ oven (no fan) is not worth me wasting valuable blogging space.

The new kitchen has a gas hob and a fan oven. BINGO! Best of both worlds.

The previously mentioned Belling oven has kind of prevented me from really experimenting, but my other half did buy me a stand mixer a little while back so I have done a couple of loafs (which the stupid oven burnt), and Pete has made a fruit cake which is in a box under the bed being force fed copious amounts of alcohol until we can bear it no more and will have to eat it!

KMix

Here is the new love of my life. My new Kenwood KMix. It does everything I could ask for except cook dinner. The attachments available are few and far between at the moment, but it's a new model and I'm sure there will be more released in the future. It's far more iconic and beautiful than the KitchenAid Artisan (which everyone seems to have nowadays). It was also modelled on the original Kenwood Chef as designed and produced in England by Mr Kenneth Wood himself. Eat that KitchenAid! Now gorge yourself in some lovely photos and a video.




Kenwood Chef. Circa 1950