Comments for ask jo http://askjo.com.au making ordinary food extraordinary Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on KitchenAid products by jo richardson http://askjo.com.au/kitchenaid-products/#comment-2381 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:07:30 +0000 http://askjo.com.au/?page_id=252#comment-2381 Hi laurel,
The answer is Yes & No!! The USA models require a transformer for them to work here. The transformer is an ugly large black box that will need to sit on your bench. It also makes a weird noise and the overall power thats reaches the standmixer is reduced :( Finally the transformers are not cheap.

The USA models will NOT have any waranty in Australia.

Keep the Aust version in your sites, you will so love the rubsut, effecirecy and quite direct drive motor. The Aust models come with a 5 year warranty.

I hope I have helped you
Jo

]]> Comment on KitchenAid products by Laurel http://askjo.com.au/kitchenaid-products/#comment-2380 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:06:12 +0000 http://askjo.com.au/?page_id=252#comment-2380 I would like to know if you buy a Kitchenaid mixer from amazon.com will it work in Australia due to the wattage difference?

]]> Comment on Ask Jo… by jo richardson http://askjo.com.au/how-to-contact-me/#comment-2379 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:31:21 +0000 http://askjo.wordpress.com/?page_id=29#comment-2379 Hi Sandra,
Oh dear, I feel for you. Please dont worry or stop using your standmixer I will HELP!! I have heard of your issue before and it has in every case been solved!

It is simply the different way the standmixer wirks, I feel you are uncreaming the butter and sugar and over mixing once the flour is aded.

Could I ask you please look at some of recipes on the “official” recipe website on http://www.kitchenaid.com.au Please look up the perfect cup cakes. They are completely delicious and you will achieve a perfect result.

There are also a couple posts I have written on my ask jo blog about cakes.
In the last blog about chocolate cake I have posted a step by step image (picture ) guide. Please have a look at this as it will show you how very light and fluffy the butter and sugar needs to be and the mixture as you beat the eggs in.

There is also a past blog about a lemon tea cake – this will also help.
Please let me know how you go, I will not let you down we will solve it. Please dont go back to your hand mixer/ or any other mixer!

Many very famous cake makers use KitchenAid – Martha Stewart, Nigella, Donna Hay, Stephanie Alexander, Belinda Jeffrey……. to name a few. I promise you, once you gave achieved your cupcakes, you will go on to be LOVE your mixer (pls note KitchenAid does NOT pay any celebrity or chef to use their product… it is used as they want it and love the way it works).

I hope to hear from you soon

Keep Baking
JO

]]> Comment on Ask Jo… by Sandra Varley http://askjo.com.au/how-to-contact-me/#comment-2378 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:44:46 +0000 http://askjo.wordpress.com/?page_id=29#comment-2378 Hi Jo,
Please help….I bake alot of cakes and am well known for my light fluffy cup cakes! My lovely husband gave me an artisan stand mixer for christmas – I was thrilled! however, every cake I have made with the new mixer has sunk in the centre when cooked. This has never happened to me before. I have tried everything, using the wire whisk to cream the butter and sugar, an all in one method recipe and tonight using the flat beater I made a lemon and yogurt cake which looked perfect until towards the end of cooking when it promptly sunk in the middle! My mixer came with the large glass bowl and because I was having problems I purchased a stainless steel bowl as our weather has been very warm lately. Still no success! Please help – I feel like I want to go back to my hand mixer or do I start making bunt cakes!!!!

]]> Comment on Ask Jo… by Reva Fitzgerald http://askjo.com.au/how-to-contact-me/#comment-2377 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:08:49 +0000 http://askjo.wordpress.com/?page_id=29#comment-2377 Thank you Jo for your tips re macaroons. Will wait till u bake them, especially the rich chocolate ones. Now to look up your famous chocolate cake.

]]> Comment on Ask Jo… by jo richardson http://askjo.com.au/how-to-contact-me/#comment-2372 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:14:06 +0000 http://askjo.wordpress.com/?page_id=29#comment-2372 Hi reva,
Lovely to hear you like your standmixer!

This months post on ask jo was all about the chocolate cake, the recipe is on there too. It also has a step by step image to follow, so your result will be perfct.

No sorry i have not as yet made macaroons, they are on my to do list… i have watched chefs make them abn the main tricks are
1. dont use fresh fresh eggs
2. the trick is in the piping of them to get the perfect shape
3. allow them to stand to form a skin (about 5 mins) bfre baking

I will do some soon, I would like to make rich chocolate ones I think!

Happy Baking
Jo

I also have many recipes to choose from, but sometimes find they do not work!

]]> Comment on Ask Jo… by Reva Fitzgerald http://askjo.com.au/how-to-contact-me/#comment-2371 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:06:43 +0000 http://askjo.wordpress.com/?page_id=29#comment-2371 Hi Jo, I did send an e-mail, which you said you didn’t get, and to repost. Is this correct?
At last.!! Thanks to your kind patience with me, “Perfect merangues” from your wisdom and my new wonderful “modern” machine. As said before, my grandchildren, love to visit, and watch me cook, and I am rather elederly, and they would like tosee me demonstrate my kitchenaide, with your fab choc cake, also could you give me a “perfect” recipe for macaroons. I know you hav e millions of readers, so I won’t pester you for recipes. I prefer yours to other books. I have two grandaughters with boyfriends ! taken by this machine, and have been waxing lyrical about mine to all insundry, and of course you. Thanks are not adequate eneough , for my merangues.

]]> Comment on KitchenAid products by jo richardson http://askjo.com.au/kitchenaid-products/#comment-2370 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:00:45 +0000 http://askjo.com.au/?page_id=252#comment-2370 Hi Trudie,
The K5 is a ‘more commercial’ model. It is generally found in resaurants and cafes. It has larger attachments which means it can mix a larger amount in the bowl.
We recommend if you are going to be baking bread and making pasta regularly , you would benefit form the larger size. It also has a ‘bowl lift’ lever in stead of the tilt head.
When creating recipes i work between both models.
The KSM150 has a total weight capacity of 1.5 kg
The K5 capacity is 1.7 kg

Both the KSM150 & the K5 are hand essembled in the USA, come with a 5 year warranty and are of solid metal construction and of course have the famous direct drive motor (no belts) and 67 points touched in the bowl, with the iconic planetary mixing action. The mixers are 94 years old in design this year.

Th KSM150 has many many choices in colour, the K5 are available in a few colours.

You might like to look at some of my many mnay (there are hundreds) of recipes on the website (www.kitchenaid.com.au) these will inspire you.

I do not know anything of the other brands to asist you with

I hope I have helped you
Jo

]]> Comment on Ask Jo… by jo richardson http://askjo.com.au/how-to-contact-me/#comment-2369 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:46:19 +0000 http://askjo.wordpress.com/?page_id=29#comment-2369 Sorry Reva I did not get another? please repost
J

]]> Comment on Ask Jo… by jo richardson http://askjo.com.au/how-to-contact-me/#comment-2368 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:44:58 +0000 http://askjo.wordpress.com/?page_id=29#comment-2368 Hi Sue,

Hmmm i think the buns where a nicer one simply found at the supermarket. No i did not make them for the segment. However I did all the other bread, cakes, all the other food was completley made by me and the food team.
Bread recipes there are some of the http://www.kitchenaid .com.au website

The barley bread is simpky delicious, but you will also find a simply classic bread on their too. Each month 3 new recipes are released… there are more coming!

The meat for the burger is down in the food grinder (it is so one of my favourite attachments)

Happy Cooking
Jo

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