i was just wondering if it made a difference whether you mixed with an electric mixer or by hand, because i made snickerdoodles last night, using an electric mixer for the first time. i made them like 3 times before by hand and they turned out perfect, but for some reason this time they came out ugly and flat and didn't taste as good. i was wondering if it was because i used an electric mixer. thanks!
2007-08-19 16:31:28 · 10 answers · asked by moonstruck_xd 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Depends on what you're making, but an electric mixer puts more air into the batter, so that could be why they came out wrong. But I've never had anything taste funny-are you sure you remembered all the ingredients?
2007-08-19 16:40:13 · answer #1 · answered by Cheesy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An electric mixer will incorporate more air into your product, as well as sometimes over beat what you have in there if you're not careful.
I'm in culinary school, and for a test in our basic baking class, we had to make chocolate chip cookies.
We had weighed out our dry stuff the day before, and there were 4 people at my table and all of our cookies turned out flat, ugly, and tasted terrible.
Even our teacher (a certified master baker) couldn't tell us exactly what went wrong, but he said that we had mis-scaled our ingredients, most likely the butter.
My best guess is you may have measured something wrong on accident. We all made our chocolate chip cookies using an industrial stand mixer and about half the classes' cookies turned out properly, and the other half turned out like ours.
But... why fix what isn't broken. If they turn out when you mix them by hand, then by all means, mix them by hand.
2007-08-19 18:06:33 · answer #2 · answered by Chef J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You forgot to add something or "double" added something, I bet.
I use an electric mixer when the recipe says to do it by hand for a lot of things and never a problem. I think the warnings are overrated. Only on stuff such as apple pie crumb toppings does it matter.
Keep in mind that doing it by hand, people give up a little soon, so do the same with the mixer. IOW, just because you can mix it better, mix it just as much as you would probably do it by hand.
2007-08-19 16:39:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can certainly do it without an electric mixer - when I did domestic science at school we made cakes without mixers. But I would follow a recipe - it sounds a bit as though you were just going to do it any old how. Where it says 'beat together or cream together' .. for the butter and sugar .. you should use a wooden spoon and beat again with the wooden spoon when you add the eggs. However, when you add the sifted flour and cocoa you should fold those in carefully with a metal spoon, don't beat the mixture as you add the flour or you will get a very heavy cake. Good luck!
2016-04-01 08:12:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I usually mix cookies by hand and leave the mixers for cakes and egg whites etc. Was the recipe specific?
2007-08-19 16:41:50 · answer #5 · answered by tmom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it really depends on the recipe.if it requires to used mixer then go,but if not try your hands..if it is self made recipe try whats best..
2007-08-19 16:40:22 · answer #6 · answered by jojo c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mixing with my hand hurts my wrist and arm
an electric mixer it boring to sit there and hold it.
2007-08-19 17:31:35 · answer #7 · answered by ►Maddie◄ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In baked goods a lot of times if you overmix, more gluten develops from the flour and it makes them tough.
2007-08-19 16:39:06 · answer #8 · answered by barbara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably, somtimes electric beaters are to fast and too strong and will ruin the dish
2007-08-19 16:36:19 · answer #9 · answered by Brandon H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess would be you have either over or under beat your base.
2007-08-19 16:40:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋