Wednesday 30 December 2009

World of Streetcomber - #3 the mighty Kenwood Chef


What we have in WOS this week is a Kenwood Chef A701. This,as all kitchen buffs will know, is the creme de la creme of the mixer world. Forget the Kitchenaid, forget the Sunbeam, forget the Moulinex; the Kenwood is where it's at. Well having said that it's really the older ones made between 1950 and the mid 70s - the 700, 701 and 901 series-that are the desirable models. These were built before the idea of planned obsolesence was developed and so were overengineered to the nth degree making them pretty much indestructable.And thus they are sought after and almost immortal .

So why is this in WOS, you are asking. Surely it couldn't have been streetcombed? 
But you would be wrong mon copain de cuisine.Because it was. And even more amazingly, you might be staggered to know, it was found with a twin.Yes,that's right;  two Kenwood Chefs sitting in the middle of a pavement in the municipal district of Tooting. 
Obviously they had been fly tipped by some unscrupulous house clearer who had no idea how truly versatile and long lived they are. Luckily I came across them before any sharp suited modernist who might have despatched them to a dark and oily fate in a landfill site, and having brought them home to the stately house of bear,I got them up and running in no time.And since then they have made many cakes, batters and, thanks to the wonder of the dough hook, breads and chapatis.Long live the Kenwood!

2 comments:

  1. Nah - not a patch on the hugely powerful and, typically American, over-engineered Kitchen Aid. These machines are robust enough to put a Pan-Head engine in and ride accross the States. I've owned both - the Kitchen Aid has my vote.
    http://www.dealbeeper.com/uploads/images/kitchen_aid_mixer.jpg

    hoyhoy

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  2. You both know far too much about kitchen products! The blue text is a bit hard to see with old eyes Graeme.

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