Peke, I didn't even know they had one. I looked at the website. Turning the motor on its side, given that the housing is rounded and the arm is there, looks really awkward! Are you sure you want to do that given you already have a blender? The jar takes up more than half the space, so why do you want to get rid of yours? It's not like using the Anskarum would save you from manhandling the motor!

My mother had a Nu-Tone. That's a built-in motor with attachments for the different appliances, for those who don't know. The mixer was wimpy. The grinder, blender, and shredder were the best attachments. That is, the things that just had to go round and round. The expectations of a blender back then were similar to what you mentioned--milkshakes and daiquiris. If it worked fine on the Nu-Tone back when, it's sure to work fine on the mixer.

The question is whether it would do Vita-Mix/Blendtec level stuff, or if you'd even want that. I personally would rather have an old school basic blender than wrestle with the Anskarum motor. If you're going to wrestle with a motor, you might as well wrestle with the much more powerful BlendTec or Vita-Mix and get the additional function that an FP can't do (I have my Vita-Mix next to my Peel & Chop ;) ).

So that's my analysis from the comfort of my armchair. :)

I don’t have much to add, except that you made me Google “Ankarsrum.” Looks pretty cool.

There are six reviews of the blender on the Pleasant Hill Grain website and people like it.

Hey, Pillog, how is that armchair during the pandemic? The only piece of my Peel and Dice that I don't like, is cleaning the dicer blades. I tried to use the plastic thing that is supposed to clean our those tiny squares. It is difficult to clean.

I am just trying to consolidate and save space. I bet I have not used my blender is five years. I still want to have a blender, so I thought not having the blender motor itself would save some space. It is pretty easy to tip the Ankarsrum on to its side. I just don't know if they can crush ice. I have an Instant Pot so I got rid of my crock pot. I seem to have so many small appliances that only do one thing.

Eam44, it is great for bread making. Kitchen Aid mixers have some plastic parts now, and kneading dough kills them. Kitchen Aid is still good for whipping potatoes, etc. The Ankarsrum is not needed unless you bake bread every week. It is so gentle with its kneading that it doesn't raise the dough temperature. (Wrong temperature kills the yeast.)

Thanks, wdccruise. I will check it out.

One of the reviewers said that he spent $2,500.00 on a commercial Berkel 20 qt mixer, and he said he was much happier with the Ankarsrum blender. Others said it was powerful. I did not know the bowl was plastic. So, I am looking for more reviews.

I noticed they also have a flaker mill and a grain mill attachment. I don't know the difference between the two...maybe a flaker mill makes larger flakes??? I already have the grinder attachment and pasta disks. My Peel and Dice will do everything else except milk shakes and Daiquiris.

The description on Sur La Table says, "This useful attachment turns your Ankarsrum mixer into a flake mill that breaks soft grains like oats, barley and rye into flakes suitable for oatmeal, granola, muesli and more."

A regular grain mill makes flour.

Maybe you should just get this Ninja BN701 blender. Ninety bucks and people really like it.

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Jwvideo, there are many NEW stories on the internet about the plastic parts in some K.A. mixers. But, the more expensive K.A. mixers don't have the problem. There are several lower priced Wal-mart/Sam's mixers that have problems, but then again, maybe the people screwed up in some way. I want a K.A. for regular mixing in recipes the Ankarsrum doesn't do well with... I will figure out how to justify needing two mixers!! I went back and forth over buying a K.A. vs the Ankarsrum, but I settled on the Ankarsrum because of how much dough it could handle. Once I got it, I realized lifting it out of the cabinet would be my new exercise! LOL They are not as pretty as the K.A. mixers. I would have a hard time choosing a color.

Justifying having two mixers? How about, "I want them both" as the justification? ;>)

So, Peke, remind me why you want to lift the Anskarum out of the cabinet to make a daiquiri? When you already have a blender?

Re the KA, does the Anskarum have ceramic bowls? Quilted ones? Glass? The one can be your show kitchen and the other your workhorse... (I only make large batches of bread if I'm making holiday challah, and that's soft enough for the KA to handle three loaves).

BTW, I saw a TV ad for Thermomix in the USA, for the first time today, while you're at it. :)

I finally found this post! My posts are playing hide and seek. The Ankarsrum makes really large batches of bread. I have not heard about Thermom8x, but I will look for it.

Thanks.

Well, I figured out why my posts "appear" to be playing hide and seek. My password manager sometimes doesn't find my Houzz account, so it pops up with "login with google",

I wasn't paying attention so I had 2 logins.

Might not be my password manager though. My tablet sometimes messes up and adds characters that I didn't type. It also freezes and doesn't let me type anything at all. Just now, it wouldn't let me put a space before the capital I and wouldn't let me start a new paragraph. I had to put the cursor in different places where I had already typed before it would let me put a capitol I.

So the posts are not missing. My Samsung tablet is doing something stupid.

One thing to look for is accidental touches. Like if you're holding the tablet by the case, but your hand is close enough that it registers, all of a sudden as a touch and makes it act like you're using two fingers. Also, force closing all you apps, clearing some app caches, and power cycling (turn all the way off (not just screen locked), wait for a cool down period, the power back on) can help.

Did you ever resolve your appliances situation?

I will probably go with a Blend Tec or a Vitamix. Thanks.

A few weeks ago my small Blendtec twister jar went bust. Just the jar. I have used it a dozen times, sometimes more, every week for 4+ years. 3 year waranty. Not possible to just buy the jar alone so i started checking 'new listings' ebay. I think i paid 79$ free shipping. The jar new is 129$. So i scored a free blender base and have a lightly used jar. Nearly mint. I have a few larger jars i use for flours, bigger batches, etc....now i have a good blender for the beach home or travel.

So this came in the mail last night and the first thing i did was crush ice before going into the dishwasher...i was in cleaning-the-kitchen mode so did not try different pulsing...just the 'ice crush' button. Nor did i try the larger jars. Or play around with it.

'Crushed' to me is nice chunky crushed. Like i get with my obnoxious hand crank crusher. A vintage dealio i grabbed years ago from my mother's 'give-away' box.

This was on the way to snow in 2-3

seconds in the Blendtec.

Someting to think about. Maybe try to use a friend, neighbor, family members first. (?)

I think of crushed as slightly even crushed chunks.

Last nights bonus blender....

-I have the commercial Blendtec model built into my countertop. Since i have extra jars this was a good deal. I'm actually not a big fan of ebay but i wanted this recent annoyance solved without shelling out another 129$....for just a jar.

If plastic is an annoyance, Vitamix now has a stainless steel jar. $$$

Nice score! The crushed ice looks like what I want.