That legendary stand mixer got its start in 1908 when Herbert Johnston, a Hobart engineer and one of the company’s founders, was watching a baker mixing dough by hand and believed there was a ...

When stores balked at carrying the home mixers, Hobart took to the streets to move units. A door-to-door sales force composed mostly of women lugged the hulking devices from one home to the next ...

The stand mixer was invented in the early 1910s by Herbert Johnson, an engineer at Hobart Manufacturing Company, after he observed a baker laboring over mixing dough. Determined to simplify the ...

This proved so useful in commercial bakeries that by 1917 the U.S. Navy outfitted all its ships with 80-quart Hobart mixers. Consumer interest drove development of a five-quart model — called ...

In my years as a professional pastry cook, my most trusted pieces of kitchen equipment were a 20-quart Hobart mixer and its smaller cousin, the 5-quart KitchenAid tabletop stand mixer. The 20 ...

Ten years before that, Herbert Johnson, an engineer, invented the mixer idea for bakeries. He made the Hobart, which held 80 quarts; then came the 5-quart countertop concept. "They didn't know ...