re: #554 Vicious Babushka

I bought the Electrolux mixer to replace the Hobart that I have had for over 30 years. It still works great, I just needed a machine that could handle larger amounts of bread dough.

When Zedushka knocked the brand-new mixer off the counter, the fitting for the power socket was knocked out. I took it to the repair shop that serviced the old Hobart. The guy had never seen an Assistent before but replacing a power socket is no big deal.

He also told me that the newer KitchenAid mixers, the 6-qt. models, are a bunch of crap.

I got it home and once I was able to plug it in again, mixed up some bread.

Nice. So many products made today are just cheap disposable crap. Like the $9.99 coffee maker a person can pick up at WalMart; it’ll work for a few months, and then when it goes belly-up, folks will just buy a new one.

I have an old - really old - Tesla television (not to be confused with the electric auto manufacturer). B/W, still works, and I’m pretty sure that people were watching coverage of the JFK assassination on it, it’s so old. There’s no mark, but I’d date it to the early to mid 60s. It uses vacuum tubes, which you can still find around here.