I found the parts list below and thought it would be interesting to archive for posterity. Bosch still makes the big bowl show below. It is the [easyazon-link asin=”B0006DOROQ” locale=”us”]MUZ-6ER1 Stainless Steel Bowl[/easyazon-link]. Unfortunately, the small bowl with double beaters is no longer produced.
See my post for the original Bosch Stainless Bowl.
Following are links to PDF versions of the user’s manual for the Bosch Universal Food Mixer III. This is a UM 3 Model Series mixer.
Continuing my small-batch dough series, I’ve thrown together a challah loaf in my bottom-mount stainless bowl on my Bosch Universal mixer. This dough has 338 grams of flour and is about 60% hydration.
I’ll let you decide how the bottom-mount bowl handles a small batch, but will say the dough turned out smooth, elastic and gorgeous.
Note: always keep your lid on your bowl. I removed it for the video, but notice that it would be very easy for the dough to be slung out onto the floor without it!
People always ask if the huge 8 quart Assistent mixer can handle small dough batches. I took some quick video of my DLX Assistent kneading a pizza dough with only 294 grams of flour (about 2 cups). This is about a 55% hydration dough.
The beginning of the video shows a very inconsistent dough ball, but during kneading, it will smooth out nicely and become nice and elastic, as it should.
People always ask how the Bosch Universal mixer handles small batches of dough and whether the dough divider (also called the small-batch attachment) is necessary.
My opinion is that the mixer and small batches get along just fine and that the divider is unneeded. You can make up your own mind by watching my Universal knead a batch of challah dough that uses only 338 grams of flour: