I really should trust myself. Last night I made a whole wheat/onion bread recipe in my KitchenAid K45 mixer. Instead of kneading with the flat beater-paddle, I switched to the dough hook. First mistake. I've kneaded with the flat beater, and have had fine results. Why I changed a working routine, I will never know.
Second mistate: I have never used the dough hook. In fact, there was what looked like a spider web in the hook's connection area. Why I didn't double check, again, I don't know.
The bread turned out fine, and today it is quite good.
I cannot get the dough hook off the machine.
I called KitchenAid's 1-800 number, and after a comparatively short wait, I got a woman who was pleasant, and as helpful as she could be, which wasn't very.
She suggested that I attach one of my bowls to the base, and then put extremely hot water onto the connection area between the hook and the machine's shaft. I did so. I let it soak a while, I wiggled it some, waited a while longer, wiggled some more.
Auuuugh!
She also suggested Mineral Oil. I'm going to go to Walgreens in a few hours. I am not pleased with the thought of having to buy a whole bottle of mineral oil for a few drops, but oh and well.
I don't have the money for a new K45, and worse, they don't make them in Almond Cream any more, just in White.
Signed,
"Ineptly yours in Kent."
Second mistate: I have never used the dough hook. In fact, there was what looked like a spider web in the hook's connection area. Why I didn't double check, again, I don't know.
The bread turned out fine, and today it is quite good.
I cannot get the dough hook off the machine.
I called KitchenAid's 1-800 number, and after a comparatively short wait, I got a woman who was pleasant, and as helpful as she could be, which wasn't very.
She suggested that I attach one of my bowls to the base, and then put extremely hot water onto the connection area between the hook and the machine's shaft. I did so. I let it soak a while, I wiggled it some, waited a while longer, wiggled some more.
Auuuugh!
She also suggested Mineral Oil. I'm going to go to Walgreens in a few hours. I am not pleased with the thought of having to buy a whole bottle of mineral oil for a few drops, but oh and well.
I don't have the money for a new K45, and worse, they don't make them in Almond Cream any more, just in White.
Signed,
"Ineptly yours in Kent."