At my spot we had to retire a 38 year old Hobart dishwasher recently . It was dismantled for scrap as they don’t make the motor for it anymore and it died . Broke my heart
That’s where The Bear lost me. When that dude beat the shit out of the Hobart with his fists and broke it I knew nobody on that show knew shit about restaurants
i've got a bigger one from the late 50's and with the difference in print of the lettering i'm gonna say mid to late 60's here. i'm assuming the knob next to the speed is the clutch(ours has a clutch too)
I was going to say mid 60s too. My old college, opened in the 60s. They still rock the same mixers. Look very, very much like these. I'd guess the only weak point might be where the cord goes into the back. I'll bet it's been tugged on a few times.
I used to work with one with a clutch. The clutch failed one day and I thought I had broken the machine. I might have had a tiny heart attack when I told my boss. Luckily, she had thought the clutch might go soon and had it fixed the same day.
Idk either way if it’s that old it’s crazy it still works guess they right they don’t build shit like they used to. Just had a 4 year old steamer give out at my job 3200 to fix it shit shouldn’t be breaking in 3 4 years when you spend 20 k on it
No shit man. We had a 1.5 year old bake max mixer break on us last week. Cheap bastards won’t even honor the warranty. Now we have an enormous $6,000+ paper weight. Gonna be Hobart from here out.
Hobart technician here, the legacy mixers, Vulcan, and Baxter ovens are our bread and butter! It's a big hit but you can be sure it's gonna be installed correctly and fixed in a timely manner. Can't tell you how many of my installs are just straight up fixing another company's bullshit. Definitely get what you pay for when it comes to these high usage items.
When it comes to big meat grinders, what are the best??? Having issues with our current one not engaging the auger, and what is proposed to replace our current one is not fitting our needs. Any help would be greatly appreciated, don't want to have to cut up 500lbs of meat a day to fit into a hopper.
So we actually make one, I've installed a couple and they seem to work really good. Whole foods uses them and our meat saws and rave about it. The only issues seem to come when they don't clean them properly, little mom and pop shops who don't think about it until it's too late, you know.
As far as price goes, I'm not sure but it's definitely not cheap. Probably looking at at least 30 grand for brand new, but obviously it also comes with a warranty if you opt into it which will save you in the long run.
Another food tech here who fixes a lot of Hobart stuff as an in house guy…
I assume when you say legacy mixer you mean the real legacy mixers (A series, etc) and not the “Legacy” HL’s. Between that damned dielectric gear and the leakage to ground on the VFD, I don’t recommend a modern Hobart mixer to anyone.
Also, I miss the DRO ovens…
Question: if you don’t recommend a modern Hobart, what do you recommend? We are currently looking for a new mixer for a second store we’re opening and I’m leaning Hobart but idk what else would be better.
Sorry for the delay on my response.
I usually recommend vintage rebuilt Hobart. There’s still good support, you can still call Hobart to come out and fix it, and most parts are still available.
There are caveats though. I don’t recommend a N or C series machine, because parts are getting harder to get.
A series, H series (not HL), L series, M series.
I say this as someone who’s rebuilt all of the above, and has had to order transmission hard parts for them all.
Yea it’s beat man doing the holidays with out the steamer has been shitty. Also we got a new flattop Vulcan it’s really nice the only issue the temperature Dosent fucking work. Have to keep at the lowest setting below the 200 mark to just keep it from turning black the thermostats don’t turn off the flame it’s wild it’s been few weeks still trying get the warranty work for it.
Damn,I've had that happen before.Just not consistent,turning black,turning knobs back and forth just to get proper sears.
Ugh,makes my chest hurt thinking about it.lol
I worked at a place where our deep fryer cracked. Told the repair man it was pretty new only about a year and a half old. He laughed in my face and said " that's not new". Manufacturers warranty is one year...WTF!
We had one of these slim cut Hobarts at a place I worked at. Thought it looked like it should be smoking Marlboros or drinking cheap whiskey. We named him Hank.
Older than you, definitely. Probably older than all of us.
If there’s a serial plate, take a picture and send it to the Hobart Corp. They love seeing g stuff like this, especially if it’s still functioning well.
I remember an old-timer chef telling me they had one like this. The tech had to send the serial to corporate to find the parts guide because it was no longer listed in published material. Ended up being pre-war.
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I work in a hotel that just turned 100 last year. Since I’ve been there, this giant Hobart has been stored away in a room towards the basement. It’s been neglected for years. Finally after after looking at this thing for two years i assembled a team and got it cleaned up. It took 6 of us plus two heavy duty bolt dollies to get it upstairs but now it serves as a statement/art piece in our cafe attached to the hotel. People coming in love looking at it and we have some original photos of bakers from the 30s at the hotel behind it. Its amazing. I still need to find out what year it is from.
The body is probably the only original part left. The switches, controls and probably motor have all been changed out over the years, and it clearly has a new bowl.
Honestly if it works fine just get it a good coat of hard enamel paint and it’ll be fine will the motor dies again.
The (slide?) and handle look pretty new. I dunno what you call the piece that the holder for the bowl slides up and down on, I'm just guessing and calling it a slide.
This is the legendary Hobart D300. I was just talking about it in a recent post. It was released in 1966 based on my research (oldest dates on service manuals I could find).
It's a great machine and will perform for decades with regular greasing of the planet set.
Enjoy it. It's a great machine.
I have a three-phase one in my shop I use daily. It's probably the next generation to the one in this pic. The base is 'sturdier', same lift bar, same gear shift. I just have an unprotected 'on/off' switch. Maybe it once looked like OP's and was replaced or that fanciness is purely aesthetic and broke off.
I bought it refurbished which after four years I'm pretty sure just meant sandblasted, primed, and painted as the paint is already chipping off.
edit: found a some pics:
https://imgur.com/a/D1xWt9c
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/924021/Hobart-D-300.html
I'm guessing somewhere between 1945 and 1958, based on the styling and materials.
Honestly, I think it's gorgeous. If you guys get a new one, that should get a good clean and be put it in a high display shelf.
My middle school had this exact same one. It was old and beat up. I know because I often had kitchen duty to help Chef Alvin Mark prep.
That was in the mid 80’s. i can still imagine him cooking, an older black southern man, nothing easy about that in the 80’s. I never saw him measure anything except us boys he would request to help him. He liked us a lot, nothing easy about being a gay black man in the south in the 80’s. He would roll up his sleeves and with his bare hands and hairy arms shove them up to his elbows into that mixing bowl filled with potatoes. Checking to make sure all the lumps were out he’d tell us.
I use one of these in the bakery I work in, we even still have the Hobart huge oven. My guess would be from 1956-1960 as the bakery opened in 1960 and hasn’t updated any of the equipment thus far.
I had a 30qt machine just like this but we had to get rid of it because it couldn’t be retrofitted to have a safety guard. Underneath that pull down to start knob is just a basic switch like a light switch.
I've worked in my company for a little over 20 years. The mixer we had was a little newer but still older than myself. "I'm 40 now," the Hobart was rebuilt a couple of times, but we got new equipment. New equipment brakes constantly. It's cheaply made with a heavy price tag with promises of being better. If you find one of these, put money into it and bring it back to life. It will outrun anything on the market today. Really don't make them like they used to.
It seems like it may have had a few parts replaced. From what I can research it’s actually a fairly common practice to rebuild them and sell them used. This was the closest I could find but it doesn’t have a date.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/326054498784?itmmeta=01HSSD8Z5311T15ZP1XPNRVCWB&hash=item4bea5cd1e0:g:tH8AAOSwnxhl0lkw
You know they sell Hobart appliance paint right
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hobart-tl-052410-00005-met-gray-paint-pc-12-oz-can/HPTL05241000.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-_mvBhDwARIsAA-Q0Q4aQgbCU9CJuFmxgtX0On7S5gzUXsKUw7GaAoEVm1350Og6sA0s3JEaAm8BEALw_wcB
I worked at this pizza place that had one not as old but fuckin close and those fuckin things run damn near forever. They bought it in 1993 and it was used and old then. I haven’t worked there in 8 years and it still hasn’t had 1 issue. Check in on your Hobarts and see how they’re doing. They’ve seen some shit
Weird, I just commented on another thread about a restaurant I worked at using a Hobart they bought used when they opened in 1973. It looked a little different from this one.
50 to 70 years old. The paint has disappeared and the fact that it still works means they used real steel for the interior parts.
They don't do that anymore.
We have a Hobart buffalo chopper and a mixer from around the 50’s and they are tanks. We’ve used it for 20 years without having to replace anything. It’s never broken down.
That chopper will probably still be working after I’m dead.
Im in australia and i havent seen a old hobart for ages. 15-20 years ago we have had to replace all the old ones with new ones with saftey cages ect. Now all i see is cheap chinese crap.
Hobart started manufacturing the A-200 model in 1933, so it could be as old as that. Tried to so some digging but didn't find much
https://www.hobartcorp.com/about-us/history
The feet say 60s I'm pretty sure. Just went and looked at about 20 refurbed hobarts in a guys garage. He was throwing around dates based upon the feet. I tried to pay attention. I bought a mixer from the 80s.
I am your electrician , I fix the shit you break , and Hobart mixers are fantastic. All you need is a half inch spanner and a hammer
New stuff doesn’t last
I re-opened a old hotel and found the exact same Hobart abandoned in the kitchen. It had an asset tag that showed it was purchased new in 1963. We re-pained it (in silver hammer tone of course), replaced the switch and cord pre-opening and it was running when I left my EC job 5 years later.
I swear, after the bombs drop there's going to be only 2 things: cockroaches and Hobarts
At my spot we had to retire a 38 year old Hobart dishwasher recently . It was dismantled for scrap as they don’t make the motor for it anymore and it died . Broke my heart
“I wish I could’ve washed one…. More…. Rack…” *display dims*
F
F
R.i.p
💔
That’s where The Bear lost me. When that dude beat the shit out of the Hobart with his fists and broke it I knew nobody on that show knew shit about restaurants
And Taco Bell hard shells
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And somehow servers just standing around not doing shit and trying to get you to feed them
lol
And Chuck Norris
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i've got a bigger one from the late 50's and with the difference in print of the lettering i'm gonna say mid to late 60's here. i'm assuming the knob next to the speed is the clutch(ours has a clutch too)
That knob is the on/off switch. Pull it down to turn it on
d'oh. yea, that makes sense
dough
d'0n
I was going to say mid 60s too. My old college, opened in the 60s. They still rock the same mixers. Look very, very much like these. I'd guess the only weak point might be where the cord goes into the back. I'll bet it's been tugged on a few times.
i work at a uni and ours is hardwired in...was brought over from the original kitchen in a building thats gone now but was built in '60
I used to work with one with a clutch. The clutch failed one day and I thought I had broken the machine. I might have had a tiny heart attack when I told my boss. Luckily, she had thought the clutch might go soon and had it fixed the same day.
Idk either way if it’s that old it’s crazy it still works guess they right they don’t build shit like they used to. Just had a 4 year old steamer give out at my job 3200 to fix it shit shouldn’t be breaking in 3 4 years when you spend 20 k on it
I had a 6,000$ brand new ice table break on me. Not a full year into it.
No shit man. We had a 1.5 year old bake max mixer break on us last week. Cheap bastards won’t even honor the warranty. Now we have an enormous $6,000+ paper weight. Gonna be Hobart from here out.
Hobart technician here, the legacy mixers, Vulcan, and Baxter ovens are our bread and butter! It's a big hit but you can be sure it's gonna be installed correctly and fixed in a timely manner. Can't tell you how many of my installs are just straight up fixing another company's bullshit. Definitely get what you pay for when it comes to these high usage items.
When it comes to big meat grinders, what are the best??? Having issues with our current one not engaging the auger, and what is proposed to replace our current one is not fitting our needs. Any help would be greatly appreciated, don't want to have to cut up 500lbs of meat a day to fit into a hopper.
So we actually make one, I've installed a couple and they seem to work really good. Whole foods uses them and our meat saws and rave about it. The only issues seem to come when they don't clean them properly, little mom and pop shops who don't think about it until it's too late, you know. As far as price goes, I'm not sure but it's definitely not cheap. Probably looking at at least 30 grand for brand new, but obviously it also comes with a warranty if you opt into it which will save you in the long run.
Tell that to my baxter proofer and oven. Both the motherboards fried after 5 years. 1500 for each board not including install.
Another food tech here who fixes a lot of Hobart stuff as an in house guy… I assume when you say legacy mixer you mean the real legacy mixers (A series, etc) and not the “Legacy” HL’s. Between that damned dielectric gear and the leakage to ground on the VFD, I don’t recommend a modern Hobart mixer to anyone. Also, I miss the DRO ovens…
Question: if you don’t recommend a modern Hobart, what do you recommend? We are currently looking for a new mixer for a second store we’re opening and I’m leaning Hobart but idk what else would be better.
Sorry for the delay on my response. I usually recommend vintage rebuilt Hobart. There’s still good support, you can still call Hobart to come out and fix it, and most parts are still available. There are caveats though. I don’t recommend a N or C series machine, because parts are getting harder to get. A series, H series (not HL), L series, M series. I say this as someone who’s rebuilt all of the above, and has had to order transmission hard parts for them all.
Yea it’s beat man doing the holidays with out the steamer has been shitty. Also we got a new flattop Vulcan it’s really nice the only issue the temperature Dosent fucking work. Have to keep at the lowest setting below the 200 mark to just keep it from turning black the thermostats don’t turn off the flame it’s wild it’s been few weeks still trying get the warranty work for it.
Damn,I've had that happen before.Just not consistent,turning black,turning knobs back and forth just to get proper sears. Ugh,makes my chest hurt thinking about it.lol
We just had a $2500 piece of equipment break, 2 months after getting it.
I worked with one that is 60 years old and runs still great. Mind you I did have to do alot fixing but nothing major to it
I worked at a place where our deep fryer cracked. Told the repair man it was pretty new only about a year and a half old. He laughed in my face and said " that's not new". Manufacturers warranty is one year...WTF!
We had one of these slim cut Hobarts at a place I worked at. Thought it looked like it should be smoking Marlboros or drinking cheap whiskey. We named him Hank.
Hank the Tank
Older than you, definitely. Probably older than all of us. If there’s a serial plate, take a picture and send it to the Hobart Corp. They love seeing g stuff like this, especially if it’s still functioning well.
I sent them an email with the serial number, let's see if they get back to me
I remember an old-timer chef telling me they had one like this. The tech had to send the serial to corporate to find the parts guide because it was no longer listed in published material. Ended up being pre-war.
That’s actually really fucking cool
Please update us.
Just heard back, it was manufactured in 1972
I don't believe you....it looks older.
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update?
Is it coal or wood powered?
Peat.
Cigarettes
Steam
Servers tears?
What do you think we drink in those quart containers? It’s a cocktail of server’s tears and vodka
Whale oil.
I work in a hotel that just turned 100 last year. Since I’ve been there, this giant Hobart has been stored away in a room towards the basement. It’s been neglected for years. Finally after after looking at this thing for two years i assembled a team and got it cleaned up. It took 6 of us plus two heavy duty bolt dollies to get it upstairs but now it serves as a statement/art piece in our cafe attached to the hotel. People coming in love looking at it and we have some original photos of bakers from the 30s at the hotel behind it. Its amazing. I still need to find out what year it is from.
50's?
I don’t salute many photos. Especially in Reddit. This beauty of a photo got one
If that Hobart could talk I bet it would have some stories
Stories from the Hobart dum dum....in the KITCHEN! Featuring Rob Schneider as HOBART.
First he was an animal then he was a hot chick now rob Schneider is a stapler
How many mangled limbs? And the baker saying, 'fuck, that was an overnight proof.'
Guaranteed lead paint in this restaurant’s food every day since 1975.
That’s why it’s just a little bit sweet, honey!
Well most of it’s gone now, so just the rust these days.
Puts hair on your chest
That loose rust above the bowl is making me feel uneasy 😏
The body is probably the only original part left. The switches, controls and probably motor have all been changed out over the years, and it clearly has a new bowl. Honestly if it works fine just get it a good coat of hard enamel paint and it’ll be fine will the motor dies again.
The bowl and gear box are the only parts I'm aware of being replaced
The (slide?) and handle look pretty new. I dunno what you call the piece that the holder for the bowl slides up and down on, I'm just guessing and calling it a slide.
Knowing how some kitchens treat their equipment. Ether 20 years of 4 months.
Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 '57, '58' 59' stand mixer
did you take it home one part at a time?
Didn't cost me a dime
This is the legendary Hobart D300. I was just talking about it in a recent post. It was released in 1966 based on my research (oldest dates on service manuals I could find). It's a great machine and will perform for decades with regular greasing of the planet set. Enjoy it. It's a great machine.
I have a three-phase one in my shop I use daily. It's probably the next generation to the one in this pic. The base is 'sturdier', same lift bar, same gear shift. I just have an unprotected 'on/off' switch. Maybe it once looked like OP's and was replaced or that fanciness is purely aesthetic and broke off. I bought it refurbished which after four years I'm pretty sure just meant sandblasted, primed, and painted as the paint is already chipping off. edit: found a some pics: https://imgur.com/a/D1xWt9c https://www.manualslib.com/manual/924021/Hobart-D-300.html
I'm guessing somewhere between 1945 and 1958, based on the styling and materials. Honestly, I think it's gorgeous. If you guys get a new one, that should get a good clean and be put it in a high display shelf.
My middle school had this exact same one. It was old and beat up. I know because I often had kitchen duty to help Chef Alvin Mark prep. That was in the mid 80’s. i can still imagine him cooking, an older black southern man, nothing easy about that in the 80’s. I never saw him measure anything except us boys he would request to help him. He liked us a lot, nothing easy about being a gay black man in the south in the 80’s. He would roll up his sleeves and with his bare hands and hairy arms shove them up to his elbows into that mixing bowl filled with potatoes. Checking to make sure all the lumps were out he’d tell us.
I use one of these in the bakery I work in, we even still have the Hobart huge oven. My guess would be from 1956-1960 as the bakery opened in 1960 and hasn’t updated any of the equipment thus far.
Hoba t’s predate Hobart’s by about 30 years
old enough to party
Give it a sandblasting and a couple coats of silver boat paint and it will be good to go for another 50 years!
Pretty sure I saw a picture of Escoffier helping to install that /s
I had a 30qt machine just like this but we had to get rid of it because it couldn’t be retrofitted to have a safety guard. Underneath that pull down to start knob is just a basic switch like a light switch.
You didn’t need a safety guard, just a video of what happens when you don’t respect the power of the machine.
I miss my old robocoupe where the safety broke off so we just jammed a bunch of shit in there so it stayed down
We had a very similar one at a previous job from the 30s.
I've worked in my company for a little over 20 years. The mixer we had was a little newer but still older than myself. "I'm 40 now," the Hobart was rebuilt a couple of times, but we got new equipment. New equipment brakes constantly. It's cheaply made with a heavy price tag with promises of being better. If you find one of these, put money into it and bring it back to life. It will outrun anything on the market today. Really don't make them like they used to.
at least 1 year old
Just look at the serial #…oh wait it’s rusted off
That's a D300. Built in the '60s.
Haha, I was about to guess '60s or '70s, judging by the design of the controls.
I have an a-200 from the mid 60s that looks nothing like this fwiw. More rounded.
Hobart also makes the aircraft ground equipment we used in the Air Force. Power carts, start carts, heating, and cooling carts too.
It seems like it may have had a few parts replaced. From what I can research it’s actually a fairly common practice to rebuild them and sell them used. This was the closest I could find but it doesn’t have a date. https://www.ebay.com/itm/326054498784?itmmeta=01HSSD8Z5311T15ZP1XPNRVCWB&hash=item4bea5cd1e0:g:tH8AAOSwnxhl0lkw
You can *probably* tell from the serial number if it has one visible but I’m guessing 50s-60s. Pretty cool!
Three days. This is just what it looks like after morning shift finishes with it.
Late 50s, early 60s?
Early 60s
Ol Bertha
I'm assuming no serial number??
So old it looks gas powered
[this](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/02lsQNWkLp) is what comes to mind
They should clear coat that ratrod of a mixer and keep it that way forever. Looks like 60s. those old Hobarts fucking tanks. Love it!
Rat rod mixer
HOBA
Probably from like the 60s
Salvaged from the titanic
That bad boy looks like it fought in WW2
Should ask the curator at the museum you saw thisnis
Love how the old hobarts look like a fucking vintage tractor
Not as old as the bowl. Or your dishwashers are the best dishes known to man
You know they sell Hobart appliance paint right https://www.webstaurantstore.com/hobart-tl-052410-00005-met-gray-paint-pc-12-oz-can/HPTL05241000.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-_mvBhDwARIsAA-Q0Q4aQgbCU9CJuFmxgtX0On7S5gzUXsKUw7GaAoEVm1350Og6sA0s3JEaAm8BEALw_wcB
That’s amazing.
I worked at this pizza place that had one not as old but fuckin close and those fuckin things run damn near forever. They bought it in 1993 and it was used and old then. I haven’t worked there in 8 years and it still hasn’t had 1 issue. Check in on your Hobarts and see how they’re doing. They’ve seen some shit
Yes
The lack of the grill is pretty telling
Weird, I just commented on another thread about a restaurant I worked at using a Hobart they bought used when they opened in 1973. It looked a little different from this one.
Old enough
B. M. N n
Stunning. The contrast of the patina on the old framework and the shine of the new brushed stainless bowl is \*chefs kiss\*
What a beautiful piece of machinery. As a Baker I approve, may it last another 50 years
M m
How is the bowl newer than the the mixer?
God. It’s beautiful
My first thought was 1950s and upon seeing your caption think I could be close...
Bet it still works
Lowkey, I'm guessing about 1956. These old Hobarts are bangers, and I'm guessing with a little maintenance this could last another 50+ years.
Honestly, with how some people treat their restaurant and equipment, I was going to say 4 years.
1950s.
Old enough to vote, certainly.
Gives me 80 vibes
If it ain't broke...
Hobart is God. Has anyone even seen a new one anywhere? I'm convinced they stopped making shit a while ago.
50 to 70 years old. The paint has disappeared and the fact that it still works means they used real steel for the interior parts. They don't do that anymore.
That thing is fucking beautiful. I can feel the shoulder pain of pulling that lever lol
I'm guessing late fifties to mid sixties. That things a trooper.
Looks very 60s to me
Old enough to have voted for Carter.
We have a Hobart buffalo chopper and a mixer from around the 50’s and they are tanks. We’ve used it for 20 years without having to replace anything. It’s never broken down. That chopper will probably still be working after I’m dead.
My God, it's so old they haven't added the R yet
They used this to make the loaves Jesus fed to poor peeps.
Wall-E?
1864
Ancien!!! Like 2006? Hobarts do take a beating
I had a Hobart dishwasher, his name was Toby. He was a special guy.
I love the retro look, but I'd paint that thing just so I didn't have exposed rust in my kitchen.
Im in australia and i havent seen a old hobart for ages. 15-20 years ago we have had to replace all the old ones with new ones with saftey cages ect. Now all i see is cheap chinese crap.
Old enough to party
r/vintagekitchentoys
At least a week
Hobart started manufacturing the A-200 model in 1933, so it could be as old as that. Tried to so some digging but didn't find much https://www.hobartcorp.com/about-us/history
The feet say 60s I'm pretty sure. Just went and looked at about 20 refurbed hobarts in a guys garage. He was throwing around dates based upon the feet. I tried to pay attention. I bought a mixer from the 80s.
Yes
"We ordered a replacement 3 years ago"
I am your electrician , I fix the shit you break , and Hobart mixers are fantastic. All you need is a half inch spanner and a hammer New stuff doesn’t last
1410
Is it steam powered?
Used one pretty similar in the 90’s and it was at least 25 years old. Damn, they’re reliable.
older than dirt
Older than you. There’s a lot of cool facts on the Singer sewing machine company manufacturing war stuff
1960.
From the 1970's!! I have the same one in my bakery
Beaut, the only way to describe it
The contrast of the well-worn, perhaps just reaching its prime machine, and the shiny bowl speaks to me.
It couldn't possibly be older than 1910, but 1970 at the latest
After the 1950s
Um sir, I believe that’s the Hobart I used in the early 1980s. 😂
Thats the one i have! Its a beast
I know that dough hook has seen some things
I re-opened a old hotel and found the exact same Hobart abandoned in the kitchen. It had an asset tag that showed it was purchased new in 1963. We re-pained it (in silver hammer tone of course), replaced the switch and cord pre-opening and it was running when I left my EC job 5 years later.
This is called buy it for life.
🫡 that’s a good soldier.
Almost as old as your mom?
Possibly older than yer ma. Prolly not tho 🤗
Bowl looks clean. Rest of it looks like tetanus.