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Summary: Learn how to do beating techniques with a stand mixer in this free baking and kitchen appliance video lesson from our catering and standing mixer expert.
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Jennifer Cail Jennifer Cail has been cooking and baking since she could reach the stove at the age of 4. She has been studying pastry-making almost as long, going so far as... read more
For using the next higher speed on your mixer which would be number four this is great for light beating and mixing other ingredients. For instance creaming shortening, shortening is nice and soft enough for room temperature but you don't need super power in order to cream it. But it's also something necessary before incorporating sugar and other ingredients when you're making cake or cookies. So by having this on four you can see it rapidly creams the shortening. This is also good for beating cookie doughs. Something where you don't want tons of speed you just want to make sure that you are incorporating all of your ingredients together. Cookie doughs depending on how thick they are you are not going to be able to get up to the super high speeds when you're mixing them. So four is the perfect speed for nice thicker doughs that are still not nearly as thick as bread dough but are not nearly as loose as cake batter either.