I Shall Call You Fireball

Voila! Our first official restaurant appliance. This is your basic KitchenAid stand mixer, but turbo-charged for heavy-duty commercial duty. See that important-looking orange power cord and spiffy NSF logo on the side? That's just like a BMW logo: you pay extra for that.

Actually, it's a pretty nice mixer, as mixers go, and it's got a 7-quart capacity; much bigger than the civilian model that we've been using upstairs for years. It came with all the usual beater attachments, although it's not compatible with some of the gizmos that plug into the top, like pasta rollers. No problem; we don't intend to use those anyway.

So far, Fireball is still clean and unused. We've yet to fix our first batch of scones in it, but I just know that day is coming.