Honest sunbeam stand mixer reviews

I bought this Sunbeam mainly because I needed a second heavy-duty mixer (my first is a Kitchen Aide) for my second home. Didn’t want to put out a ton of money, so I thought I’d give this one a try. It is really a neat mixer for the money, mixing my favorite fluffy white frosting mix perfectly. The only negative thing I have to say is about the mixing bowls. They are GREAT quality, but too heavy (1/4″ glass bowls). I’m a bit older and they are hard to handle, but this has nothing to do with the quality of the mixer. Long story short, it’s a GREAT buy for the money, and will stand up to any mixing task.

I grew up with a Mixmaster and bought one myself many years ago. It performed flawlessly, although I never used the dough hooks or made cookie dough in it – most cookies are better made with a wooden spoon. It is a great mixer, and I don’t feel the need to get a huge expensive Cuisinart for 6 times the price – plus it’s harder to store.
My old mixer is still beautiful and looks brand new, but someone did not make sure the beater was all the way in and both beaters got a little bit bent. My husband fixed them, and it seemed just fine – until I used it and it didn’t sound right. I think the inside where you insert the inside beater is damaged and just not quite holding it right.
Sie la vie. It has served me for many many years and I’ll replace it with another. The whisks might come in handy for egg whites and mousse, although the beaters have worked just fine. I expect it will last as long as my first Mixmaster!

No matter how hard you try, the tab on the stand that’s supposed to hold the mixer won’t do it’s job, and no amount of wiggling will get it to snap into place. The mixer just falls off the stand.

The mixer itself works really well, but there’s no reason to buy this thing for the stand and bowl.

Had an old Sunbeam mixer on which the turntable wore out. It lasted about 10 years, so I thought to go with Sunbeam again. The new one worked for almost a month before the gears stripped out on its turntable. Don’t know if its covered under warranty or not, but that is not an acceptable life on the turntable. The only work it did was to make butter from 1 quart of cream 5 or 6 days a week.

I picked up one of these to make a birthday cake for my niece. I was visiting from another state and my Kitchen Aide wouldn’t fit it my suitcase(!), so I bought this model at a local store. What a hunk of junk! It could not mix a basic, from scratch, yellow cake batter. After wrestling with it for 3-4 times longer than it should have taken, I finally used my sister’s ancient & tiny handmixer to get the lumps out of the batter. I returned it the next day and was happy to get my money back. This is nothing like the mixer my mother used for years and years while I was growing up. Stay Away!

Purchased this mixer at a close out retail store for just under seventy dollars. It was brand new, not a refurbished unit. I thought even if it lasts only a year at this price, it would be a good deal. I was wrong.

The unit came well packaged, with all of the included accessories. Two stainless mixing bowls, and two sets of hooks – one dough hook set, and set of regular beaters. The chassis is all metal while the stand upon which the bowls rest is chrome painted plastic. The unit is heavy but not so heavy it can’t be manuevered easily. So far so good…..

I used this machine ONE TIME, after which the bowl plate stopped spinning. I did not say I used it for one recipe, I mean, I used it ONE TIME, and the plate stopped working. I tried to make a very light weight egg dough. I only got through step 1, of making the sponge. 1c. flour, 2 pkgs yeast, one cup warm milk, 1/2 cup sugar. That WAS IT. Not a heavy load, not a lot of volume. The unit did not heat up and smell. The unit did not give any indication that the plate would stop working. When I got to step 2, combine 2 egg yolks, 1/4 c. milk, 1/2 c. melted shortening, and 2 cups more flour, I turned on the machine to finish mixing and the bottom plate did not move at all. I finished the recipe by manually moving the bowl around and around (that’s how light the recipe was).

I then set about troubleshooting the unit. I tried to use the smaller bowl, the other hooks, with no luck. Smaller bowl, same hoooks, no dice. I tried turning on the machine with nothing on it, or in it. Nothing doing. I am EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED. This is going right back to the store. I will spend a little more on a mixer that is rated more highly. DO NOT BUY THIS UNIT!!!

This is a honey if all you want to do is make a simple cake mix. I tried creaming butter and sugar and all it does is sling everything to the sides! Thank goodness I had just bought a Kitchenaid hand mixer, I finished up my cookie dough with that and it handled that with ease! Don’t bother with this one, save up for a Kitchenaid stand mixer, that’s what I’m going to do!!