February Missed weeks... My New Hobart Mixer

So I've missed a few weeks I know! I honestly dont know what happened I've been busy thats all I can say.

I'm going to catch up with my weekly posts hopefully tonight but for the time being here's what me and my amazing dad produced last night for the bakery...

This is an almost 80 year old Hobart mixer, Hobart are world renound in the baking world for being the best and most reliable mixer out there. Thay're also known for also supplying spare parts no matter how old a mixer is, can you see my attraction??

When I started out I brought a little mixer similar to a Kitchen Aid to mix my dough for me as it's painfull to make more than 3 loaves of bread by hand. This little mixer has been making funny noises for a few weeks now and with the increase in demand a new mixer was in the pipelines. I found this one for a bargin due to all the work that was needed.

So here's how we did it...

We started by scratching any old stickers off and giving a thorough de-grease. I'm pretty sure this had never been done by the amount layered onto the front of the mixer.

Next we have a sand down with a wire wheel.

Then more sanding down to get ride of any marks with wet and dry sand paper.

A quick clean then we moved on to masking up any pieces that we couldn't take off and a thin layer of primer. In for dinner to let the primer dry..

Now we have the fun part, the first layer of paint. What do you think of the colour?

Second Layer..

Our third and final layer, just fixing the ID plate back on.

And that's that. Easier and quicker than I thought and it looks almost brand new.

January Week 4: Views....

.. So would you believe it but I think this is about my fourth blog, I always start them but always fall behind after a few weeks then give up. I've been tempted to drop this blog already as I've been finding it hard to find relative photos to the prompts and also baking. Here's the new plan... I'm going to blog once a week following the overall weekly prompt, this way I can keep the photos relevant but still be here. 


Here's my views for the year, first my kitchen. I've used a similar photo on here before but here's my kitchen seen from the doorway. If you haven't already noticed I'm a bit of an OCD'er (not officially) but I do like things organised. This can be seen by my lovely shelves over my hob full of labeled pouring containers. My boyfriend always laughs at me as I've managed to retain the prices of containers and certain products in the supermarkets, so when we go shopping I always have to see if anything's on special offer...

Here's a view from over by the friges, hopefully by next months photo I may have a new industrial mixer in the left hand corner.

Then we have my second view my cooling table. This is in a different room but I only use it for storing baking while it's cooling, the first photo is from my Thursday market where I mainly make sweet doughs like currently Hot Cross Buns and Tarts.

And here's a photo from my friday market where I mainly make bread and lots of tiffin.....

See you guys next week x