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Oster 4093 Classic Beehive Blender, Silver $59.50 Give your kitchen a modern appliance with retro styling. Enjoy healthy fruit smoothies in the a.m. and less innocent beverages in the p.m. The continuous speed and pulse along with a stainless steel cutting blade will have your ingredients chopped, blended, and purEed in next to no time…. |
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Sunbeam FPSBHS030 250-Watt 5-Speed Hand and Stand Mixer Combo This 250-watt mixer can be used in two ways – as a Hand Mixer and as a powerful Stand Mixer. With five speeds, you can have ultimate control. Features chrome beaters and dough hooks for mixing versatility…. |
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Sunbeam 2551 Heritage Series 6-Speed 250-Watt Hand Mixer, Silver $29.75 The Sunbeam 2551 Heritage Series 6-Speed 250-Watt Hand Mixer offers exceptional performance and mixing versatility. Includes chrome beaters, chrome dough hooks and chrome whisks for creative mixing as well as a stainless steel bowl and cover. Features an ergonomic soft grip open handle and Burst of Power. Has a brushed stainless steel finish and chromed hubcap with Heritage Series badge…. |
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200 Watt Hand Mixer $40.95 This mixer features a powerful 200-watt motor for exceptional performance with 6-speed control for mixing versatility and beater eject for easy clean-up. Heel bowl rest eliminates worries about the mixer tipping over while youre adding ingredients and makes it a great addition to any kitchen. Powerful 200-watt motor6 speed controlsHeel bowl rest eliminates worries about the mixer tipping over whil… |
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12 Speed MixMaster Stand Mixer $144.95 This unit has a powerful 350 watt motor for exceptional performance and 12 speeds for versatility. It has a soft grip handle and a tilt locking head for total control of the mixing process. It features a 4.0 qt. Stainless steel bowl and includes chrome beaters for creative mixing and dough hooks for bread. Black finish and chrome accents. 12 Variable Speed SettingsSoft Grip HandleBowl Selector Swi… |
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Hb Stand/hand Mixer $47.94 Powerful Hamilton Beach® Hand Mixers focus on versatility and ergonomics. You’ll see evidence of Good Thinking┢ throughout their thoughtful design. Most hand mixers have convenient snap-on storage cases, which keep attachments (and sometimes cords) together so you don’t have to search for them each time. A variety of attachments are available with different hand mixers, from traditional bea… |
Sunbeam Mixer Attachments!
Sunbeam Heritage Hand Mixer with Accessories
Sunbeam Mixer Attachments Questions
which kitchenaid mixer should I get?
Bowl-lift or tilt head? Stainless steel or glass bowl? All of the mixers seem to be pretty much the same to me. What are the big differences? I have a cheap Sunbeam stand mixer now and I am not happy with it. The motor is very loud, I also do not like that I have to stop and scrape the side of the bowl. ( I know I will not have to do this with the Kitchenaid) How loud would you say the mixer is? I do a lot of cookie dough so that will be my main use. I would like to use my mixer for other things such as making pasta. How well does the pasta attachment work?
I have a Kitchen Aid tilt head and love it. I have both a glass bowl and a stainless bowl. I also bought a beater attachment from “Chefs” catalog that has rubber ‘spatula type’ sides that reduce the amount of scraping down the sides of the bowl. You will still have to scrape down the bowl with a Kitchen Aid though to ensure that your ingredients are incorporated. The motor is powerful and not all that loud though you can’t talk on the phone while it is running.
I have the pasta attachment and love it. I also have the sausage attachment.
A Look at the History of the Standing Kitchen Mixer
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 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.
About the Author
As a chef, Rodger Haroar has many kitchen appliances at his disposal. Of course appliances used most often require replacement parts, such as meat grinder parts. Rodger shops for replacement parts at National Band Saw. He knows he can get Hobart replacement parts at a fraction of the cost of other distributors.
