Late Fall Cleanup!

[stevet]

Cleaning out the garage Guys.. Here is the first item to go out to bid and you are always the first to know!

Original KitchenAid Cream Freezer for K5 Series mixers.
This was one of the last units ever sold by Hobart in the late 70's very early 80's. I ordered about 30 of them to clean out their stock when I ran the NYC parts Dept. Had tremendous calling for these and couldn't pass up having one of my own.

I used it maybe 6 times and it has been boxed up and moved from house to house with me.

This freezer will make nearly a gallon of Ice Cream or sherbet or gelato.
Unfortunately, I don't have the original recipe booklet which I left to my Mom and she cannot find it either.

It will fit the K45 series if you prop up the freezer on a telephone book to align it with the attachment hub.

This is a something you cannot buy new anymore or at least to fit the mixer line.

Make me an offer I cannot refuse and it is yours. I guess this woould be silent auction and I will wait until Tuesday at 9Pm EST to let you know who gets it!

Any questions, let me know
Steve

 

[retro-man]

Wow now that's an ice cream maker. I have never seen one so big before! Quiet down boys. I received in the mail this weekend a brochure from Kitchen Aid. They had alot of their attachements for my mixer for sale online. They have a new ice cream maker, but not at all as elaborate as the one that you have. Sorry but my waistline does not let me purchase said items.LOL
Jon

 

[stevet]

I feel your pain!

Jon, I used this cream freezer about a half dozen times back in the early 80's and have to say I had the best ice cream I ever tasted, but even back then it was darn expensive to make and at my current age, cannot afford to put all that dairy fat into my system, the Vytorin is expensive enough already!

It is a 4 qt freezer so it will make nearly a gallon at a time or any other quantity.

The units were actually made for Hobart by White Mountain Freezer Co. Up there in your backyard.

The reason why they were discontinued was that UL testing labs decided that any "electrically" powered ice cream freezer must have a thermal overload on the drive motor to prevent dangerous motor overheating or fire if the mix became too cold and started to stall or overtax the motor. Hobart did not want to redesign the mixer to make that change and the sales numbers certainly did not justify it. But back then there was still what seemed to be a huge demand for them. I know we must have sold nearly 100 of them in a 2 year period since I bought up the remaining consignment of them. We sold them to people all over the country and they went fast even by word of mouth.

But it was not to be after that so there are few who even know about these models and I would have to say the new attachment would be alot easier to use but nothing nostalgic about it at all.

One other thing I am amazed at is how little of the company history most people know or don't know when you question a current Kitchenaid employee. They have lots of interesting items in the K/A museum in Greenville, Oh but few of the people working upstairs really know much about the museum pieces.

 

[gredmondson]

ice cream freezer manual

I am pretty sure that I have the instruction manual (it is small) that came with that ice cream maker attachment. I still have the ice cream maker, too. There is a stand for it made of metal that you turned over to make the hub at the correct height for the two types of Kitchenaid mixers that were made back then (we has the K45). If anyone wants a copy of the manual, email me, and I'll make a copy of it and send it on to you.