Classic 21 Flame Decal Cover Kit red, orange, and yellow with blue trim, designed to fit all KitchenAid stand mixers, including Artisan, Ultra Power, 4, 5, 6 qt quart mixers, without accessory interference. ELIGIBLE FOR FREE SUPER SAVER SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $25

-----------With Hot Rod flames on your mixer, it gets tons of attention like your mixer should! Notice the nice color bleed, the pin stripping, and smell of envy it creates! Actual color bleeds and pin striping will be similar, but each is one of a kind due to printing variations. -----------This vinyl is meant to last 5 years outdoors(!) so it will last in your kitchen as long as your mixer does. -----------Basic installation instructions, cleaning pad, and trouble shooting guide included FREE with order. Please do not use harsh chemicals like 409 as it may damage the graphics. For added protection a layer of shellac (which is always food grade) is acceptable. -----------Installation is easy. Clean, mark the location, Take off the sticky paper, press the sticker on your mixer, remove the protective top paper. Anyone can do it and it makes a GREAT GIFT!------------The kit will not interfere with your accessories, the Pasta Roller Maker (PRA), Food Grinder (FGA), Juicer, Can Opener, Ice Cream Maker, Sausage Stuffer, Slicer Shredder (RVSA), Grain Mill, extra bowl, or pouring shield.------------The decal will look great on your color; Empire Red, Orange, yellow, blue, white, black, grey, brass, bronze, cobalt blue steel, Cinnamon, copper, licorice, pewter, meringue, nickel, pearl metallic, cayenne, sage, onyx black----------Note also if you send your mixer back to KitchenAid under warranty, so go your decals. This product is has no affiliation or endorsement by KitchenAid. The decal manufacturer is a third party vendor who likes and uses KitchenAid products but improves on their color scheme. Kitchenaid and the mixer shape are owned by Kitchenaid USA. *******Product includes the 1 large sized decal sheet, instructions, and cleaning pad.

Not only do toaster ovens toast bread and other food items, as the name would imply, but they are also more than capable of performing other culinary functions such as baking and broiling. Most people find that toaster ovens are indispensable for heating things such as pizza and sandwiches.

Black and Decker toaster ovens have smaller capacities than conventional table top ovens and are able to toast bread on both sides simultaneously whereas the conventional versions are not only much bigger but will only toast bread one side at a time. While some models have top and bottom elements for baking and broiling, like the Black and Decker Countertop 6 Slice Toaster-R-Oven CTO650, some older types only come with one element.

Black and Decker toaster ovens are practical for use as a second oven or even for replacing a large oven in order to cut down on energy consumption. Nevertheless, with obvious limited capacity compared to a conventional oven, food preparation results may differ in toaster ovens.

Toaster ovens by Black and Decker come in a range of different sizes, such as the larger versions like the Black & Decker TRO5050A Toast-R-Oven or the smaller, more inexpensive varieties like the Black and Decker Classic Chrome Toaster Oven TRO962. A few older models used to have a pop up feature for toast through the top of the appliance, very much like a standard toaster, but these are much less common nowadays. On the whole, most toaster ovens offer a slow-heat cooking, which comprises of low wattage current continually surging through the top and bottom elements, thereby enabling you to cook different foods concurrently, with a good example being the Black and Decker Toast-R-Oven Classic Countertop Oven/Broiler TRO392.

Another feature some models provide are two shelving settings which are ideal for baking, the Black & Decker 4-Slice Toast-R-Oven, Stainless Steel TRO700S a prime example of this type. Other toaster oven features can consist of special defrost cycles or a porcelain catalytic finish that is able to clean itself constantly under normal cooking temperatures. Close relatives of these toaster type table ovens/broilers are the broiler rotisseries and the smokeless broilers, both of which lack covering but are totally safe for indoor usage as they tend not to smoke or spatter. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, the infrared heating element attains temperatures much higher than the smoke range and in so doing surrounds the element with a heat shield, which means that when grease hits the element it disintegrates without creating any smoke. Secondly, a stainless steel reflector pan which is located beneath the broiler rack contains water which any dripping would fall into, thus no spattering.

Kyle Hahn
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KitchenAid Professional 600

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.

Before you go shopping for water purification devices, it's a good idea to learn a little bit about what they can do. A water purification device is something that every homeowner needs today, but for safety's sake, you need to shop carefully.

In order to remove the widest range of contaminants, water purification devices must contain numerous steps, similar to the number of steps used by public treatment facilities. The most common contaminants include chlorine, THMs, lead, pesticides, herbicides, drugs, hormones, parasites, bacteria and about 2400 hazardous chemicals.

You might wonder if it is even possible to remove them all. Well, rest assured, the right water purification device can handle the job.

If you are serviced by a public facility, most bacteria have been removed through chlorination and other disinfection steps. If you have a private well, you should have testing done to verify the steps necessary to guarantee your safety.

At times when bacterial contamination is a problem, for instance after a major flood, you should filter first and then boil. Boiling first would release dangerous chemicals into the air.

Certain parasites, specifically giardia and cryptosporidium, may be present at any time in the form of cysts, a very early stage of life. Cysts are resistant to most disinfection methods. They can be killed through boiling, but water purification devices with submicron filtration can remove them completely.

Chlorine is very simple to remove with carbon and the average water purification device does an adequate job, but in some cases, that's the only thing that they target. It is important that you understand that whenever chlorine is used for disinfection, THMs or trihalomethanes are created, as a byproduct.

THM exposure causes cancer and increases the risk of miscarriage and birth defects. Exposure can occur through drinking, showering or cooking without first using water purification devices with an adsorption step. Adsorption traps contaminants like THM on the surface of a block.

A multi media block can remove pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals. When combined with submicron filtration and carbon, almost everything mentioned above, including drugs and hormones are removed. Bacteria have already been covered. The only remaining threat is lead.

Lead can be present in any home. It is present in some groundwater and for many years most plumbing fixtures contained it. A water purification device must contain an ion exchange step to remove lead.

With ion exchange, lead and copper ions are exchanged for potassium and sodium ions. So, you have a better pH balance, the taste is fresher and you are safe from lead contamination, all in one step.

If you compare product performance data for the most popular water purification devices, you will see that most of them do not remove all of the contaminants mentioned in this article. There are only two products that I have seen that remove them all and one cost three times as much as the other.

To get the best price on a water purification device, you should buy direct from the factory. Retailers mark up accounts for the extreme difference in price.

One final suggestion; avoid the very inexpensive water purification devices. They simply don't do a very good job.

Larry Fletcher is an avid proponent of water purification and a passionate researcher on its health benefits. To get the facts on how to choose the best water purification system, visit http://www.pure-and-safe-water.com now.