Post #389666 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jun 26, 2008 12:21 AM

On 2008-06-25 14:53, GatorRob wrote:

On 2008-06-25 05:57, bigbrotiki wrote:
I think they are simply a forgotten tool, not even considered anymore. Not because of lack of quality, but for economic reasons.

I'm not sure cost is the reason. I walked through a good restaurant supply warehouse recently and saw several commercial top mixers. I don't recall the price, but I don't think it was too far off from the better blenders.

By "economic reasons" I mean that to most bars it did not make sense to pay for the TWO mixing tools, and the blender became the more used one, so the mixer got dropped by the wayside. That goes even more for the home front.

On 2008-06-25 15:30, martiki wrote:
Actually I talked with the writer about drink mixers at length- he probably didn't have the room for it and it was a little beyond the scope of the story. Since they're reaching out to home users, most have blenders and few have drink mixers. It's the same reason Jeff uses pulse blending in all of his recipe descriptions in his books- easier to do at home.

Further proof of the mixer being dropped for "convenience" reasons... :)