This is a great mixer offering more than you would expect from a hand-held devise, but still not requiring half an acre of counter space. The attachments are just what are required and the storage case is fabulously convenient and attractive.
Today's world is full of gadgets no bigger than your palm that can access the internet and play thousands of songs; you can take pictures on the same device and can also call anywhere in the world. In today's modern world, it's hard to imagine that the standing kitchen mixer was once considered cutting edge.
The first known patent for an electric mixer, as stated in the book by Dennis Thompson titled "Antique Electric Mixers", was awarded to Rufus W. Eastman in 1885. The machine was unique because it could be powered by either water or electricity. Herbert Johnston, an engineer, looked at a baker stirring bread dough with an iron spoon in 1908. This is how Johnston came up with the idea for the commercial standing mixer. By 1914, 80-quart commercial mixers were available and were quickly seen as a major labor saving device. The brand name was born when an executive's wife was testing the home version and she declared it to be the best electric mixer kitchen aid she had ever had. Ever since then, KitchenAid mixers have been the gold standard in home mixers. Confirming KitchenAid’s advertisement, which declared that its mixer with attachments could “do it all!”, today’s attachments can create pasta, make sausage, crumble food, squeeze citrus, and even produce ice cream.
Between 1928 and 1929, the Chicago Flexible Shaft Company/Sunbeam division patented its version of the standing mixer with two beaters that could be removed. In 1930 the MixMaster was mass produced at a fraction of what a KitchenAid cost. The MixMaster was so popular that the brand ended up being a symbol for any kind of standing mixer, similar to Kleenex being known for any kind of tissues, or adhesive bandages being known as a Band-Aid.
I recollect that my mom had a well made Sunbean MixMaster with an ivory motor cover, a black stand, and a glass bowl with a green color tint. We took pleasure in licking the cake batter off the beaters when the mixing was over, not knowing that the uncooked eggs in the batter were dangerous. A tribute to its longevity is that this is the only mixer I remember my mom using. She also had attachments for it, like a juicer and a food grinder.
After I left home, I had mixers that were all small and hand held, that could mix up a cake mix pretty well with homemade frosting, and occasionally mashed potatoes, but not much else. When my husband and I married he brought with him a Sunbeam MixMaster that was old and was almost just like the one my mom had. His was given to him by his mother.
My mother-in-law's old Sunbeam MixMaster served me well for years. At last, for one of my special birthdays, I requested a beautiful cobalt blue KitchenAid standing mixer with some elaborate accessories. I know that my mixer will be around for years to come, and someday I too will pass it down to someone I love.
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 Cuisinart HM-70 Power Advantage 7-Speed Hand Mixer, Stainless and White
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How can you thoroughly mix doughs or cookie mixes without an electric mixer?
I tried to make cookies the other day and didn't work at all because I couldn't mix it good enough because I don't an electric mixer.
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I was very disappointed in this mixer and it quit working the second time I used it. My previous mixer was an inexpensive one I’d had for ten or more years that had handled far heavier doughs for mixing so I expected this one to work as well if not better. I went back to buying a cheaper mixer.
This mixer has nice balance, plenty of power, and useable speed ranges. The automatic speed control is a great feature.
The brief overspeed upon startup is unusual, but probably a function of the electronic speed control which might have difficulty starting the motor from zero. The best approach is to start the mixer in the air, then plunge into the batter. This could be a problem with very loose batter that is already on the beaters, but so far we haven’t had a problem.
I’ve had my mixer for 10 years. My husband calls it my cement mixer. It is heavy. I don’t keep it on my counter because it takes up too much space, so I move it every time I need it from cupboard to counter. I don’t mind because this mixer is consistent in the way it beats! I only make cakes, icings and cookies, but it performs beautifully today as the day I received it. I’ve never had any problems. What makes this mixer even better are the additional attachments. On days when I ran out of ground beef or ground pork, I didn’t have to make a trip to the grocery store. I only had to reach into my freezer and pull out some sirloin or pork shoulder butt and then grab my meat grinder and within in no time, I had ground meat! Same for the pasta attachments. When I ran out of spaghetti, I only had to pull out the mixer, make some pasta dough and push it through the spaghetti attachment. This mixer is versatile and will not let you down. I love my mixer!
I have had two empire red Artisan mixers in the past five years. They are gorgeous BUT both have suffered from the same three serious problems: 1. the slow speed burned out in the first month on machine number 2 when I kneaded soft brioche dough and now the mixer has only two speeds: fast and faster. 2. the mixing bowl sticks to the metal plate so that dislodging it requires a healthy husband or a liberal amount of WD40 or both. 3. the pin holding the armature to the base slides out when the machine gyrates, which it does something fierce when kneading for more than three minutes. This is one of the worst engineered products I have ever owned, and Kitchen Aid’s service is not helpful. I’m going to buy a Breville next and abandon KA for good.
I’m glad I got this because once I started researching baking, I was no longer interested in retail baked goods (except for Dunkin Donuts’ Old Fashioned Donut). I plan on baking American classics with my kids just as a part of their childhood even though I plan on serving them an authentic Chinese menu otherwise. American desserts are just fun but there are too many bakeries that take liberties with using too much sugar and butter and sometimes artificial fillings to make children loyal customers. I’d rather bake at home than buy anything that tastes like they didn’t clean the sheet pans between bakings.
This mixer a bit heavy, but that is a small price to pay for a well built work horse.
Cuisinart HM-70 Power Advantage 7-Speed Hand Mixer, Stainless and White
The speed control is very sensitive and is located where your thumb rests when using the mixer. It is anoying to have the speeds change while using. Also it is louder than my previous mixer.
This is way more powerful than my previous mixer. You can tell that its voltage modulation capability really pays off in all different kinds of situations. It powered through lemon, molasses, oatmeal, and peanut-butter cookie doughs smoothly and efficiently. You can’t quite keep the blades totally submerged in a batch of peanut-butter cookie dough and expect them to keep turning, but then again, why on earth would you do such a thing?
The chef’s whisk which comes with it is very nice also. I’ve used it for salad dressings, mixing things into egg-batters, and whipping cream all of which it did effortlessly and thoroughly.
The swiveling of the chord which allows the mixer to sit up on the counter may seem like a small detail, but it is absolutely crucial. It works like a dream and now I can’t imagine a life in which I couldn’t stand my mixer on the counter without having it get all over everything.
The slowest setting really does seem slow to me, regardless of what other reviewers might say, but that’s just a subjective statement. What I can say objectively is that it works, and that it does so largely because of its self-modulating engine. You can clearly tell that it is constantly adjusting its power to adapt to the viscosity of whatever you’re working with, and it does it very nicely.
The only thing I have against it is that its “smooth start” doesn’t do what it’s supposed to. It does start smoothly, yes, but, as everyone else has pointed out, it overshoots its speed setting momentarily before settling into it. The result is that it flings the ingredients into the stratosphere. However, the slowest is slow enough that I just ended up letting it start in the air before quickly dousing it into the mix. This method has worked well for me with minimal to no splattering.
Over all, I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t get this mixer. I would encourage you to check your local stores for it before buying it on amazon, though. After buying it I just recently spotted it at my local grocery store for about the same price as it is here on Amazon.
I was very excited to order this mixer, after deciding that I would get a high quality hand mixer to hold me over until I made the leap to a stand mixer.
Well, after opening the box, I was greatly dissapointed. The mixer itself felt very cheap. The plastic housing was lighter and more cheap-feeling than my horrible Hamilton Beach mixer I was hoping to replace.
Needless to say, I quickly repackaged the mixer with full intentions of returning it to Amazon.
If I had seen this product in a store, I absolutley would not have paid $70 for it.
These are the best beaters I ever owned. I like the “no splash” start on the number 1 setting and the digital display to advance in increments all the way up to a powerful number 9 setting. Pretty light weight to handle yet very powerful. Does a wonderful job and the self contained see-through storage case is extremely attractive and convenient for storing everything neatly in one place. I highly recommend purchaing this product.
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