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oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
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Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 14 5:08 am Post subject:

kGarden wrote:

......That's an A700 model (I now know) from the 1950's, didn't see any of those on eBay at the moment,.....which looks a bit of an uninteresting shape to me

We modernists think that the second image (A701?) is the best looking of the lot:

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kGarden

Joined: 01 Dec 2014
Posts: 178
Location: Suffolk, UK

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 14 12:14 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

We modernists think that the second image (A701?) is the best looking of the lot

I'm rubbish at "what looks good" in all sorts of areas - except perhaps the garden. Simple demarcation on choices with Mrs K responsible for interior d�cor and me for the garden

so I'm not surprised that the A701 is considered superior design.

I was brought up with the A700 and that may have been formative.

Having said that it weighed a ton, and the A701 looks lighter, and Forum chatter I read (including a 10 page theead on Money Saving Expert discussing the minutia!) favours the A701 as being bomb-proof.

I've ordered the Andrew James as being cheap & cheerful for now, and I'll take an executive decision on a replacement if it gets used a lot. Not sure about life-expectancy giving a Food Mixer as a Crimbles pressie two years running

Meantime I have some searches running on eBay and might make an impulse purchase during the year if something suitable comes up.

I can also see myself persuading myself that �200 would be well spent on restoring one to "better than new condition"

https://kenwoodchefrestore.co.uk/Restorations.htm

Mrs K is quite happy with practical gifts (before you ask

). I remember hearing on the radio, some years ago in the run up to Christmas, advice to men from a (female) Pundit - "Nothing for the kitchen, and nothing you saw on late night TV"

At that point I had already bought a kitchen table in readiness for XMas ... not to worry, Mrs K loved it. Years ago I bought her something that probably WOULD have been seen on Late Night TV ... not going to try that again though!!

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 14 12:35 pm Post subject:

kGarden wrote:

I've ordered the Andrew James as being cheap & cheerful for now, and I'll take an executive decision on a replacement if it gets used a lot.

That's probably a wise decision. At a guess, it won't be used that much, not like you are going to become a professional baker (are you?). In which case it will probably give years of service. If you do actually wear it out, then something nearer to professional kit would be an investment.

Duane Dibbley

Joined: 12 Nov 2009
Posts: 95
Location: Between Newbury and Andover

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 14 4:59 pm Post subject:
I have just sold a A701A on Ebay for a bargain �26

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 14 5:12 pm Post subject:
We've got an A 701 with various attachments that we use for everything but liquidising; and a Vitamix blender. Love them both. The Kenwood cost me about �30, is easy to fieldstrip and the parts are readily available.

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
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Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 14 5:53 pm Post subject:
My Kenwood (A701) has rarely been used for several years. With only the two of us at home, the amount of pastry that I make, I just do it by hand so there's very little washing up. However, youngest son who is a bit of a cook (signature dish: Beef bourguignon) says he'll get it restored and give it a good home - reckons that that particular model will give him great credibility with other cooks.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 18 11:45 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

I think I'd buy a twenty year old kenwood. They'll do another century and parts are available.

Just replaced the motor in our 20+ year old chef, loads and loads of usage over the years. Remarkable how much of the stuff we bought for our first house is still in regular use.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46247
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 18 12:13 pm Post subject:

29 yr old kitchenaid still fine. it gets a new rubber drive cog every few years bit everything else seems solid or mobile as intended.

we have gone through a few cheap stick blenders, waste of money, the last one survived about 10 ltrs of veg soup before the plastic drive gave out , the use of super glue got it as far as 4th use but "there was nothing more we could do for it" after the drive melted on pan 4

( shhhhh santa knows where an industrial one might be delivered )

2yr trade use gnt so i hope it might last a few years of domestic toil for the soup dragon.

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