Being old timers we have two Kitchen Aids (one for Pesach) and they have never failed us. I also have a good respect for the design having worked around the big Hobarts, the floor standing three phase big brother of the K-A. As the stand in for the woman of the house, I also treasure my trusty food processor, but for challa and other breads, only by hand. It helps that I am big and muscled (with chronic tennis elbow both sides) and that my sourdough mix is wet and soupy for the most of the essential mixing, but there is no reason a slighter person can not manage it, as our grandmothers did. Also there is a kabalistic notion that the time of kneading and forming of the bread is an eis ratzon. Why blur the spiritual space with the whine of an electric motor?
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