more bread in my future

I found an excellent deal on a Kitchen Aid 6qt professional mixer. DH & I have been talking for awhile about upgrading from the 4.5qt artisan that we have. So I bought it for xmas.  He was all about the superior motor of the professional model and the lifting mixing bowl.  Here is the thing we forgot - it is 1.5qts bigger than the one we have & 4.5qts is really pretty much perfect for us.  He made cookies last night & the beater barely beat the butter & eggs together because there was just so much more space than ingredients. I had the same problem with a loaf of bread & the dough hook.  But the solution is obvious.

Make twice as much & freeze half. If I have dough in the freezer, we'll get fresh bread more often. Plus the majority of my bread recipes are for 2 loaves & I have been halving them before mixing them (measuring out half tablespoons to divide 1 1/3 cups of milk) because our old mixer couldn't cope with a double batch of dough.  So tomorrow I am making swiss cheese bread & will make a double batch & after the first rise I will freeze half the dough.  This weekend I am making sandwich bread & wll do the same.  Last time I froze bread dough I had a dough explosion in my fridge when I thawed it. That was 3 years ago & I haven't tried since. So we'll see how it goes.