My mixer went down today with a bad bearing. Luckily last week I picked up a brand new HCM450 that I purchased on ebay. I had not installed it yet as I was waiting for a cheese blade that I bought separately to arrive. I had to bring it in this afternoon and learn to make dough in it. First batch was a sloppy mess and needed to be tossed but from there we seemed to turn out some good dough. Thanks to some posts on the think tank the learning curve wasn’t too difficult. Looks like I’ll be using the HCM through the weekend at least as the repair company will not be able to install the bearing till next week. Any of you who use a VCM or HCM just for grinding cheese should make sure you have a dough blade in case you need to use it as a backup.
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