KitchenAid KP26M1XDP Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer, Dark Pewter

The Professional 600 Series is KitchenAid's most powerful Stand Mixer. Redesigned for the serious home baker, this powerful Stand Mixer features a 575-watt motor with heavy-duty transmission and a 6 quart bowl combined to give you the power and capacity to mix 13 dozen cookies, 8 pounds of mashed potatoes, or over 8 loaves of bread. KitchenAid's unique planetary mixing action provides faster, more thorough blending of ingredients all the way to the edge of the bowl, without ever rotating it. The rugged, all-metal quality construction and Commercial-style motor protection assure a long life of trouble-free, dependable and quiet operation. Other features include a professional style bowl-lift that makes it easy to lift the bowl into the mixing position, 10-speed slide control ranges from a very fast whip to a very slow stir and a power hub for optional attachments. Included with the Stand Mixer, a burnished aluminum flat beater, PowerKnead spiral dough hook (designed to replicate hand-kneading to handle 20% more dough than previous models), a professional wire whip and pouring shield.

Replacing your appliances will cost you money right away as you have to pay for the appliances. But might it save you money in the long run? Many companies have focused on creating much more efficient appliances today, in the light of the environmental crisis.

If you have an old appliance that you replace with a new appliance, it will most likely be more electricity-efficient. With more efficiency, you can save money on your electricity bill every month once you have replaced the appliance. Maybe even a lot more than you think.

My girlfriend's parents had an old refrigerator. They were getting tired of it and wanted a new one. The new one cost $800, but they bought it on credit and made a deal where they paid $70 a month for one year. The next time they received their electricity bill, it had decreased from $44 to $9 or a monthly saving of $35. They didn't understand this, as it was a huge decrease. The next month, it was also at this low cost again. So, they investigated what had happened and discovered it was because the old refrigerator had used so much electricity. The result was that they in effect only paid $35 a month for the new refrigerator and after a year they would get a net saving of $35 every month for as long as the new refrigerator could be used. They got a great deal, even though that was not their focus.

This story was about a refrigerator. But you can replace the refrigerator of this story with many other appliances in your everyday life. Maybe it is a new TV or a new gas heater. You can also apply this with your car. With higher fuel prices, fuel efficiency suddenly becomes more important. If you really get into it, it might also be worth a consideration to invest in solar cells to produce your electricity. It might be a big investment, but consider whether it will pay off for you.

Before you run out and buy a new refrigerator, remember to make a calculation of the benefits first. Estimate how much electricity you will save and what it will cost you to replace the appliance. If you can break even in three to five years, it might be a good deal, even if you have to buy it on credit.

Don't forget that by reducing your electricity bill you not only help yourself. You also help the environment and thereby society, so it is a win-win situation.

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KitchenAid KP26M1XER Standup 6-Quart Mixer Professional 600, Empire Red

Designed with all-metal construction. The mixer can also churn through double batches of bread dough with the included PowerKnead spiral dough hook, which replicates hand kneading with a forceful punching and rolling action. The mixer's 10-speed slide control ranges from a very fast whip to a very slow stir, while its Soft Start mixing function helps minimize ingredient splatter and flour puff with gentle acceleration to the selected speed after start-up. An electronic speed sensor helps maintain a consistent mixing speed, even when adding ingredients. For commercial-style motor protection, the mixer automatically shuts off when overload is detected. The mixer includes a 6-quart-capacity stainless-steel mixing bowl with a contoured handle, as well as a professional wire whip, a burnished flat beater, a spiral dough hook, and a clear two-piece pouring shield. Its multipurpose attachment hub with a hinged hub cover flips open to allow for easy installation of attachments. The unit's professional bowl-lift design raises the bowl into the mixing position, and its solid, truly seamless one-piece motor head design cleans easily. The mixer features a premium satin-pearl custom finish that adds an elegant shimmer to any countertop

There is a new kitchen appliance that makes baking, grilling and other cooking chores faster and easier than ever before. Called an Infrawave oven, it uses infrared light technology to make cooking and baking up to 50% faster than with a conventional oven, a toaster oven or even a microwave.

The oven uses a higher frequency infrared lightwave to cook food and this results in brown and crispy foods where a microwave sometimes yields bland versions of the same dish. Meats are cooked on the inside and the outside at the same time. Chef-quality is how the food has been described by folks tasting it. The Infraware oven is more like a small convection oven than it is to a microwave.

The oven actually sends out two different types of infrared waves. The first are shorter, high frequency waves that cooks the surface of the food to make the food crispy. The other type are long, lower frequency waves that cook the inner sections of the food. What results are professional, chef-quality prepared fish, poultry and meats cooked in almost half the time a conventional oven would take. Your family will be enjoying faster and healthier meals in less time than ever before.

There's no preheating or thawing needed either. The Infrawave oven takes care of that as well. What a time-saving convenience that is. In fact, many frozen foods are completely cooked in under 20 minutes.

Not much larger than a toaster oven, the unit is small and compact with a footprint of only 15 inches wide by 14 inches deep.

It has a capacity of 0.7 cubic feet with inside dimensions of 10-5/16 inches x 11 inches x 6 inches tall. The oven is also equipped with a digital touch pad, a digital display and a slide out crumb tray. The especially unique aspects of the Infrawave are its ability to "know" how to cook your food based on the settings you choose. The unit is equipped with a touchpad that you use to program the oven for whatever type of food you are preparing.

You simply input the type of food that you're going to cook (steak, chicken, lasagna, potatoes, etc.) and the Infrawave oven automatically sets the cooking temperature and time. You can even set the oven to alert you at different cooking times, depending on the style of cooking you want.

For example, you can choose 'regular' and 'crispy' and then when the cooking time is done for the regular cycle, the oven will alert you and then when the cooking time is done for the crispy cycle it will alert you once again. There are a number of different preset options available as well so you won't be stuck looking for the perfect choice.

You don't need special cooking dishware either; any cookware that is suitable for a conventional oven is acceptable to use including ovenproof dishes without lids or metal or ceramic cookware. You need to make certain to keep the cookware and the food you're cooking at least one inch away from the upper heating elements.

All in all, any modern well-equipped kitchen will benefit from the addition of this appliance with its ability to produce chef-quality foods in less time than ever.

Would you like to know more about the Infrawave oven? Visit http://Infrawave-Oven.org to get more information and all the details you need to make a wise and informed decision.

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