Lauren GillInterview
Pastry diva, facilitator of weirdness (Ag47)
Adapted from Lauren Gill's interview on Uses This, published 18 September 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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BAKING & SWEETS-MAKING: I am in a serious, committed relationship with my KitchenAid Mixer.
For pie crusts, purees, crumbles, chops, and dices, I let myself splurge on my second fanciest item and would suggest everyone do the same -- the Cuisinart 14 cup food processor.
If you really love to bake, buy a scale.
I have a very basic immersion blender that isn't even in stock anymore, but I do believe in their necessity.
For frozen treats, I use my Cuisinart machine, and have finally found a use for all those damn green-lidded Ikea tupperware containers I've bought (their long flat ones are PERFECT for storing frozen treats and giving you the most ample amount of runway for a good scoop!)
ART MAKING & FACILITATING: We are a donation based art collective, so we use everything from typewriters to write poems about the storms in our heads to cigar boxes to create personal puppet theatre kits to using an adult's MacBook Pro to show our girls how to make animated .gifs of their own drawings to acrylic, water color, and puff paints and beyond.