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This KitchenAid Artisan 5-Quart Stand Mixers is an excellent investment! I just love mine!

The dough hook attachment is the greatest invention ever. No more kneading! I used this wonderful machine to make 4 pounds of Pizza Geina dough without breaking a sweat. Add your ingredients, turn it on and it does the rest!

It has a very powerful motor and every part of this KitchenAid Mixer is excellent quality and well made.

It is simple to lock in the mixing bowl and it is also a breeze to clean. The different attachments are very easy to attach and remove. It would be impossible not to love it!

Did I mention how easy the clean up is? I love this KitchenAid Mixer so much I bought the KitchenAid quilted cover for it.

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I absolutely love this Boon Flair Pedestal Highchair With Pneumatic Lift.

The sleek look of Boon Flair Pedestal Highchair With Pneumatic Lift was the first thing to grab me as I researched, but the overall design really delivers: The footprint is nice-sized taking up less real estate than the splayed legs design of most high chairs, and its being on a hydraulic lift allows us to have the baby down at the kitchen table with us, or up at the breakfast bar. (and hydraulic? so cool and so smart)

The chair, seat pad and tray are all wipe-clean molded-plastic: no crevices for crumbs to collect and fester. The straps are really soft and the buckle is definitely nicer quality than on any other item we own (the vibro chair, the swing, the car seat).

The tray is simple to place and remove, and again, with smooth mechanics. Plus with the Boon Flair Pedestal Highchair With Pneumatic Lift being on wheels, I can just roll the baby over to the sink when the meal is finished to wash him and wipe the chair down.

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I bought this Breadman TR875 2-Pound Breadmaker, Stainless Steel from Amazon because it was on sale for $69 about two weeks ago. That seemed like a good price for what looked like a decent machine, so I ordered it.

I’m so glad that I did buy this Breadman TR875 2-Pound Breadmaker, Stainless Steel! I have made six loaves so far, all of which have come out perfectly. I tried two other machines before this model, both of which burnt or did other crazy things to the loaves and so required tons of monitoring and adjustments.

With this Breadman TR875 2-Pound Breadmaker, Stainless Steel, though, it really is as easy as throwing a few ingredients in the machine and pressing a button! So far I have made french bread, whole wheat bread, brown rice flour bread, irish potato brown bread, and more. The recipes that came with the machine work well, but I also picked up a few bread machine cookbooks for more variety.

In addition to making great bread, I love how quiet this Breadman TR875 2-Pound Breadmaker, Stainless Steel is (like another reviewer, I kept checking to see whether it was working the first time).

I also like that it’s a little smaller than equivalent 2 lb. machines and so easily fits under kitchen cabinets, and I love the way it looks in my kitchen (it’s not a huge, hideous white box!).

Overall, I am extremely happy with my purchase.

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I’ve had my Artisan 5 Quart Kitchenaid Stand Mixer for a few years now, and always thought that this KitchenAid KMCC1KB Stand Mixer Cloth Cover, Khaki With Black Trim was a bit of a luxury, and that I could easily find fifty other things to spend twenty-five bucks on.

Even for all of that, it occurred to me recently that, with cats in my house, a cover for my stand mixer would save me some pre-mixing clean-up time. Now that I’ve gotten my KitchenAid KMCC1KB Stand Mixer Cloth Cover, Khaki With Black Trim, I’m thrilled that I decided to buy it!

This KitchenAid KMCC1KB Stand Mixer Cloth Cover, Khaki With Black Trim is plenty big for my mixer. I leave all of the attachments in the bowl, as I’m sure your average Kitchenaid stand mixer owner does, and this cover fits over everything with plenty of room to spare. The bottom edge of the cover hits the countertop and covers every inch of my mixer, with no problem doing so.

I even put the KitchenAid KMCC1KB Stand Mixer Cloth Cover, Khaki With Black Trim in the washer and dryer after receiving it, to see how much it might shrink. Mine didn’t shrink at all, and the laundering got it fragrant and wrinkle-free.

Even though my stand mixer is white, I opted for the khaki cover, which blends in perfectly with my kitchen cabinets and counter tops.

This may not have been the absolute best thing I’ve ever gotten on Amazon for $25.00 or less (that’d be my Weber chimney starter – best damned $12.00 I’ve spent in a long time!!!), but this is right up there with the best of my best-buy-for-the-money purchases!

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I bought Aroma ARC820SW 10-Cup Rice Cooker – Makes 20 Cups Cooked Rice 18 months ago and use it everyday.

It looks and works great. The instruction manual has very useful hints.

The rice tastes great and no burn even I cook only 2 cups rice. This kind of rice cookers are the exactly kind rice cooker 1 billion people use everyday in China.

Some people also use Aroma ARC820SW 10-Cup Rice Cooker – Makes 20 Cups Cooked Rice to cook chicken, boil soup and make yogurt, yep, make yogurt.

My friend has a $200 rice cooker but her cooked rice never tastes better than mine! I just don’t understand why people spend hundreds bucks on those fancy rice cookers.

Aroma ARC820SW 10-Cup Rice Cooker – Makes 20 Cups Cooked Rice. Features Rice Cooker, Convenient Steam Tray, Measuring Cup and Rice Paddle, and Chef Martin Yan Recipe Book. Automatic Heating System Cooks rice to perfection every time. One-Touch Operation Convenient and simple to use Nonstick Cooking Pot Makes cleanup quick and easy Moisture Seal For ideal texture.

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