Gus
I think the Oaf has great taste
Here my rehab worker is calling to go for a walk and chatter
All socially distant and done properly
But a change all the same
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I made bread yesterday.
The Great Beast started to go graunch graunch and whirr at varying speed while making an unhappy noise.
Guess what? All lines to Kenwood UK are closed āduring the current crisisā.
Alas, it looks as if I shall be demanding my money back and getting a Magimix replacementā¦
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Oh soddit. Thatās a colossal pain.
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Someone at the National Trust with a sense of humour, or accidental?
https://twitter.com/nationaltrust/status/1261023776722083841
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What a Bugga anna Pity, Fishy
Will you use the breadmaker in the interim? It would be a pity to miss out on fresh bread & Hot Buttered Crustsā¦
That was Said With Feeling, BTWā¦
Carinthia.xx
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Or thereās Dan Lepardās āno kneading as suchā method, which is really v straightforward
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Oh Fishy wot a pain
Email might at least register the fault for when the world starts again
I found Kenwood very good at replacing faulty things
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Sadly it looks as if they are also fairly good at making the faulty things in the first place.
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I ended up having three food processor attachments when I managed to damage one bit
All working
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This is the third time the thing has broken in two years four months. I am inclined to ask for my money back and have a look to see what Magimix are like these days.
Meanwhile, we have at least one victory. The oven light had buist (broken filament, as it turns out) and the cover has been refusing to come off. This is apparently a design flaw with the Neff oven. But the application of WD40 and then a mole wrench to turn the ā rather pathetic, plastic ā tool for removal of the glass of the oven-light has worked and we have a light in the oven again. It is not essential, but it just does make cooking easier if you can see what colour things are.
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Hurrah!
Quite. Grr.
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Iām surprised. Iāve always found Kenwood very reliable - the Chef is pretty much indestructible. The only reason I bought a new one is that the one I used to have access to belonged to my ex - must be over thirty years old now and probably still going strong. [But what about the Kenwood? - Ed.]
The food processor - also a Kenwood - is of similar vintage. Not quite as robust (plastic rather than metal) but still no problems. I wonder if the attempt to cram in too many features has made the new ones a bit flaky?
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My cooking Chef is a happy workhorse of a machine - the bit of a gearbox that works the FP attatchment has a bit of plastic over the top that is delecate if you are not careful
I broke this by being clumsy so it was replaced with a FP for a different model but it does fit and work
When it was reported back to Kenwood that they had sent the wrong model they sent the right one and said keep the other so I have 3 FPs
AND AND AND
WE HAVE A HARE ON THE DRIVE!!!
I am thrilled by us offering a hare a garden to take refuge in
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Or to look at that another way, the hare reclaiming the land that is rightfully its own.
Donāt take it personal, Twellsy: Iām a bit hacked off with homo sapiens in general.
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I am happy to live a shared life with the beasties and birdies Gus
In fact I revel in the company of Fauna
Much nicer than a vast number of homo allegedly sapiensā¦
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You have a point there, Joe
My mother died 23 years ago, & Fambly Friend is still using her Kenwood Chef.
I have a Kenwood Slicer, a Wazzer,(Pace goldilocks ML), & an old, small Food Processor which all work perfectly, but arenāt up for anything resembling bread dough.
An sewing thread (!) I read recently was complaining about the Noo generation Singer machines which seem to be giving a lot of grief due to the amount of plastic breaking. Many repairers wonāt touch them.
Carinthia.xx
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Similarly, many people elsewhere rave about Magimix. But thatās Magimix of 10-20 years ago.
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ā¦and even cook-generals arenāt what they used to be.
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Well, in ten days or so we will find out whether a new Bosch is any good. I canāt fight it out with Kenwood until they condescend to talk to Us Mere Mortals, and I need to have a food processor. Magimix now has the ājust three buttons, the machine knows what you want without being toldā controls, and there is no way that I am interested in that.
Meanwhile, isnāt it satisfactory when you have thirty-nine inches of wool left at the end of a garment?
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Satisfactory yes, but hair-raising towards the end.
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