Specialty Attachments for Your Hobart Mixer

 Slice, Grate and Shred with Your Hobart

Hobart’s 9 inch vegetable slicer or Alfa's GS-12 and VS-12 can help you slice vegetables consistently and for maximum flavor.  The slicer is adjustable and can produce slices that vary in thickness from 5/8” to shaved.  Use the larger settings for salads, slaws, home fries, German fries, and fruit and nuts.  The 9” slicer also comes with 4 shredder plates and a grater plate.  To shred or grate, remove the knife and shaft and use a plate instead.  Use the ½” plate for slaw, soup stock, blended salads, and hash browns.   Use the medium plates for salad vegetables, quick-cooking stir fries, and shredding cheeses like mozzarella. The grater is most useful for making bread crumbs, grating fresh spices, grating hard cheeses like Parmesan, and grating hard vegetables like carrots.

The proper speed for your slicer varies depending on your Hobart mixer model:

Never shred cheese on the highest setting on your mixer. After each use, disassemble your vegetable slicer and clean it thoroughly.

 Your Hobart Mixer Meat Chopper

Hobart meat choppers come with a 1/8” plate, but additional sizes are available in sizes ranging from 5/64” to 11/16”. The meat chopper attachment gives you the same results that stand-alone Hobart meat choppers do, making it an ideal attachment for commercial kitchens that need to save space. Always use your meat chopper on the mixer’s slower speeds. For best results:

• Never use your chopper without the feed pan.
• Before chopping, cut the meat into strips.
• Use the feed stomper only when it’s necessary. You should be able to feed the meat without it in most circumstances.
• Do not add breadcrumbs to your chopper. They can jam the chopper.
• Stop the mixer immediately if the chopper stalls.
• After stopping a stalled chopper, remove the adjusting ring, the knife, the plate and the worm.  Clean out the blockage before attempting to restart the mixer.
• Keep the drain holes clean.

  Other Labor-Saving Attachments for Your Hobart Mixer                         

Hobart also offers many other safety-enhancing and labor-saving attachments for their mixers, including:

• Splash covers. Splash covers reduce splatter and mess while mixing, especially at high speed. They also protect operators when they are mixing hot foods like mashed potatoes. Never fill the mixing bowl beyond capacity, even if you’re using a splash cover.
• Bowl extension rings. Bowl extension rings make the bowl taller to reduce splashing and splatters.
• Ingredient chutes. Use an ingredient chute to safely add ingredients to the bowl during the mixing process.
• Bowl scrapers. Bowl scrapers scrape the bowl continuously while the mixer runs.
• Bowl trucks. Wheeled bowl trucks make it safer and easier to move large batches of food. They can reduce labor and risk of worker injury for batches that weigh over 50 lbs.

With all of these attachments, you will maximize the production potential of your kitchen without sacrificing the most important aspect of food service – quality.  Next time, we give you a helpful guide that lists the maximum capacities of the HL series for many common food mixtures. Make sure to check it out and print a copy for use!