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Dropped $189 on a KitchenAid mixer at a garage sale and it still couldn't save my bread
I found a barely used KitchenAid at a garage sale in Phoenix last month for $189, half of what they go for new, and I thought my bread game was about to change forever. Turns out my dough was still coming out dense as a brick because I was killing the yeast with water that was way too hot. A $6 thermometer from the grocery store did more for my loaves than the fancy mixer ever did. So now I'm stuck wondering if I just bought a really expensive paperweight with a dough hook. Has anyone else spent real money on gear when the real problem was something dumb and cheap?
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fionanguyen3d ago
That line about the "really expensive paperweight with a dough hook" hit home because I used to be all about the gear. I spent years buying gadgets thinking the tool was the fix, but every single time the real problem was something basic I was too stubborn to learn, like water temp or how much I was kneading. You just learned more from a $6 thermometer than a $189 mixer could ever teach you, and that lesson sticks way harder than any shiny thing on your counter.
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