L’Equip has released a new dough hook for Bosch’s Slicer-Shredder Bowl. You can already mix light batters in the slicer-shredder bowl using the [easyazon-link keywords=”bosch ts5 whisk” locale=”us”]mini whisk[/easyazon-link] assembly; now dough has moved to the small bowl.
I decided to take it for a test drive on some pizza dough. The recipe is a variation on Alton Brown’s pizza dough:
3/4 cup water
2 cups bread flour
2 T sugar
2 t salt
1 T yeast
2 T olive oil
I throw everything into the bowl and after it comes together, set the timer for 12 minutes and walk away.
If you want to watch the full-length, shot-from-above video from start to finish you can see it here.
“Back in the day” Bosch seems to have made some pretty interesting attachments for the Universal mixer!
Here is their food mill or strainer taken from a manual for the “Bosch Food Mixer III.” (From the picture I think that’s a UM3 Classic Universal.) The strainer only worked with the “deluxe” model. The deluxe model was the mixer that shipped with the original dough-only bowl.
L’Equip has made available a bowl scraper attachment for the Bosch Universal mixers. This attachment attaches to the whip drive of the Universal and turns with the whips or cookie paddles to scrape both the center post and the bowl sides. It does a great job!
You can see the bowl scraper at work in the video above. It’s attached to the metal whip drive and is being used with the cookie paddles in the SB4 stainless bowl on a Classic Universal (actually it’s the Bosch Comfort Plus – the Universal with a timer!).
The bowl scraper is model number[easyazon-link asin=”B006QOJQG8″ locale=”us”]MUZ6BS1[/easyazon-link].
L’Equip has allowed me to share the instruction sheet for the bowl scraper. Please read the instructions! They explain the proper procedure for using the bowl scraper without excessive wear of the scraper blades. If you don’t do it the right way you could grind down your scraper blades against the sides of the bowl. View it here.
My former Pastry Instructor was donating some cookies. The big Hobart was down and the KAs in the school bakery leave something to be desired (functionality in most cases), so I decided to take in a couple of DLXs and help out. I wish I had thought to take more than two short snippets of video, though.
Cookie dough in the DLX:
Just for fun, the DLX in motion:
A bad picture of some of the Snickerdoodles:
We also made some Peanut Butter Cookies:
Snickerdoodles
Yield: 40 Cookies, 1 oz. each
Dough:
AP flour
14 oz.
420 g
100%
Baking powder
0.14 oz. (1 tsp.)
4 g
1%
Cinnamon
0.25 oz. (3 1/2 tsp.)
8 g
2%
Unsalted butter, softened
8 oz.
240 g
57%
Sugar
6 oz.
180 g
43%
Brown sugar
8 oz.
240 g
57%
Eggs
3.3 oz. (2 eggs)
100 g
23%
Vanilla extract
0.5 fl oz.
15 ml
4%
Salt
0.4 oz. (2 tsp.)
12 g
3%
Total dough weight:
2 lb. 8 oz.
1219 g
290%
Topping:
Granulated sugar
2 oz.
60 g
Cinnamon
0.25 oz. (3 1/2 tsp.)
8 g
Mix together cinnamon and sugar
Sift together the flour, baking powder and cinnamon. Set aside.
Cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then add the vanilla and salt. Gradually add the flour mixture, beating just until well combined.
Drop the dough in 1-ounce mounds onto paper-lined pans. Sprinkle the cookies generously with the topping mixture.
Bake at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown but still moist, approximately 9 to 11 minutes.
Approximate values per cookie: Calories 90, Total fat 4 g, Saturated fat 2.5 g, Cholesterol 15 mg, Sodium 100 mg, Total carbohydrates 14 g, Protein 1 g
L’Equip is making two stainless steel all-purpose bowls for the Bosch Universal mixers: the MUZ6SB3 and the MUZ6SB4. Both bowls will fit either the classic Universals or the Universal Plus. Both come with a removable drive shaft for easy cleaning. Both are 5.5 quart bowls with a dough capacity of 12 pounds.
The difference between the SB3 and SB4 is the number of splash-ring locking pins. The SB3 has three pins that will allow it to use the 3-pin splash-rings of the MUZ6KR4 plastic bowl. The SB4 has four locking pins to match the Universal Plus’ MUZ6KR4UC plastic bowl.
Below is the SB4. Note the white bit of plastic on the splash-ring. It is a lock to keep the splash-ring from moving about while the mixer is running.
MUZ6ER2
Bosch makes the MUZ6ER2 stainless steel all-purpose bowl. It has 4 splash-ring locking pins and a removable drive shaft for easy cleaning. It is a 6.5 quart bowl with a 15 pound dough capacity.
