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Originally Posted by SteveDallas
Yeah, Kitchenaid mixers are built like tanks.
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Started in my hometown:
Posted - 04/10/2006 : 4:28:21 PM
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"The modern KitchenAid stand mixer began with a single drop of sweat off the end of a busy baker’s nose. The year was 1908, and Herbert Johnston, an engineer and later President of the Hobart Manufacturing Company in Troy, Ohio, was watching the baker mix bread dough with an age-old iron spoon. To help ease that burden, Johnston pioneered the development of an 80-quart mixer. By 1915 professional bakers had an easier, more thorough, and more sanitary way of mixing their wares.
In fact, that amazing, labor-saving machine caught on so quickly, the United States Navy ordered the Hobart mixers for its three new battleships - The California, The Tennessee, and The South Carolina. By 1917 the mixer was classified as “regular equipment” on all U.S. Navy ships.
The success of the commercial mixer gave Hobart engineers inspiration to create a mixer suitable for the home. but World War I interfered, and the concept of a home mixer was put on hold.
The first home stand mixer was born in 1919 at the Troy Metal Products Company, a subsidiary of the Hobart Manufacturing Company. The progeny of the large commercial food mixers, the Model H-5 was the first in a long line of quality home food preparers that utilized “planetary action.” Planetary action was a revolutionary design that rotated the beater in one direction while moving it around the bowl in the opposite direction."
My grandpa was a machinist at Hobart. I have a pic of me in a sweatshirt he gave me that said "I got smashed...in a kitchenaid trash compactor." There was a pic of a smashed and drunken looking (had a face) trash compactor bag.
Hobart also built a fair amount of steel houses around town. I've been inside one...very unusual.