Mixers

Boy, those are huge!

I bet Lynne says that to all the boys. LoL.
Motts, They are big, how many cookies did they need to make?

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I don't think they made very many cookies.... they werent allowed that much milk... lol
Motts......I love when you show pics of the old equipment, this stuff is worth a lot of money, I'm never sure why someone didnt cash in on it!

Can't believe this stuff is left behind to rot....

Wow, just wow. The conversation within the comments add such a level of amusement and interest in these pictures. All the things these mixers could be used for. And I concurr, probably not many cookies, seeing as they strictly implimented their "One Milk Only" rule.

Doesn't look too decomposed to me(reminds me of when I was 18 and worked in the kitchen at an asylum,it was about 1991 I think),when was this place abandoned?

Soup boilers I pressume. More! You want MORE!

those are not mixers they are steam kettles some may have a mixer attachment but they are for making very large batches of gravys and soup ect

If it wasn't regulated patients would become morbidly obsese...

sorry, my last post has a lot of typos. delete it please, Motts. Here is the revision:

this is for silkster and Ed: the reason people dont take the stuff and sell it is because these places are "Government Property" and have a strict No Tresspassing rule, with haevy fines. its hard enough to get in and out regualarly, but imagine just carrying one and standing still, let alone carrying that heavy thing out of there without being caught. And i know your thinking: "just bring a truck" , right? no, most of the time, you can only get past the gates and guards on foot. and besides, isnt a truck sitting empty next to a no tresspassing zone kinda suspicious? they would most likely stay there to see who the owner was, and find out what he or she was doing.

I was thinking the "owner" when I posted "why didnt someone cash in on this stuff". My thoughts were that its silly to let it sit and rot... I agree with you Sam, it would be more than difficult to just go there and take them.

I wasn't talking about someone stealing this stuff and selling it,what I meant was, wouldn't it be better for it to be removed at closure and used elsewhere then just sitting there for theives or vandels.

Beautiful equipment! One of my first jobs was in a hospital kitchen; preparing plates, dishwashing, etc. We had a number of mixers & cookers that looked just like these.

What a shame, look at all that money gone to waste

a little barley a little hops.....

were they kitchen-aid lol

I have worked in a few kitchens, I hated these things. The school I used to cook at had these kettles and we cooked spaghetti in them, you had to stir the pasta with a steel paddle, it looks just like a canoe paddle only made of steel.
Let me tell you it wasn't an easy task, especially when you are only five feet tall!

Van Gogo: I know what you mean I worked at a place when I was in high school. We made soups and mac & Cheese in the one we had. and using that paddle to mix it with the cheese in it was not easy.....and I am 6'-1"!

thats alot of stainless steal and worth alot to a recycler

Just like at my old High school where i use to work. Ah !!Brings back memories

These large kettles are not mixer, but Steam Jacket Kettles. The kettles have an inner and outer shell and hot steam is pumped in the space between the shells to cook food. units like these, although more modern, are still in use today.

Bob

I live in one of the condos at Bennett College. I love the feeling of being where so much activities took place. I dread the day when the demolition will take place!

These big pot that you see are not mixers, they are steam jacket kettles for cooking. Large institutions were heated by steam from huge boilers from a central heating plant - or sometimes two. The steam was then piped all over the grounds to heat all the buildings. In the food service kitchens, expecially those that fed a large amount of people, the steam was used for cooking. The pots are double walled with a space in between. When the steam valve is turned on the steam - over 212 degress - would fill and circulate in the space inside the pots. The food was put in the pot and that is the way it was cooked. It is very efficient system. In newer places today that have access to steam, they use the same technology only on a smaller scale. I worked at Marquette University and a lot of the older kitchens have these same pots...some even larger. Likewise, I worked at Briggs & Stratton's main kitchen and they have 4 pots that are bigger that these.

Those look like the ones in the hospital kitchen I work in.

Often times when a place is owned by the government the cost of getting large kitchen equiptment out is more than they would re-coup by auctioning it off so it's more cost effective to let it rot. We do military base explorations and usually there's lots of kitchen stuff left behind because they didn't want to haul it out.