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Best electric foodmixer/whisk?

Gingham_Ribbon
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I broke the whisk attachment for my kenwood food mixer yesterday because it was a stiff mixture. I'm looking for a decent tool that will do the job.

I just want it for general baking as I've a breadmaker arriving any day now (hopefully...)

Anyway, I'm a bit baffled by the options. It has to be hand held and easy to clean. I want it to make my life easier, not spend as long cleaning it as I would have beating things by hand!

Can anyone recommend a good one? I'm not setting myself a budget until I know how much an excellent one will cost, then I'll save up.

(It will get some heavy use as I make most things from scratch.)

Thanks all!
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  • Curry_Queen
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    I got one from Amazon a little while back which wasn't very expensive - less than £20 I'm sure - I'll go check and edit it back in.

    On the otherhand, if you have a spare couple of hundred quid knocking about you could always get yourself a KitchenAid ;)


    Edit: Ok, just found it here and I was right, just under £20, and it's a superb little hand mixer for doing those tiring arm-aching jobs like beating egg whites, cream, mixing cakes/dough etc. :)


    And of course, it's endorsed by my very favourite chef ;):D


    Edit 2: It doesn't show it in the picture but it also comes with a whisk attachement as well as the beaters and dough hooks.
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  • Gingham_Ribbon
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    Oh, that's much less than I expected! I thought it'd be twice that for a good one having looked in John Lewis'. Hmmm

    Maybe Santa will bring one...

    Thanks Curry Queen. You're a star!
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  • jaybee
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    I've used this Kenwood one for years and it works well for me Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home: Kenwood HM320 Hand Mixer White
  • squeaky
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    Gingham_Ribbon wrote:
    I broke the whisk attachment for my kenwood food mixer yesterday because it was a stiff mixture. I'm looking for a decent tool that will do the job.

    I just want it for general baking as I've a breadmaker arriving any day now (hopefully...)

    Anyway, I'm a bit baffled by the options. It has to be hand held and easy to clean. I want it to make my life easier, not spend as long cleaning it as I would have beating things by hand!

    Can anyone recommend a good one? I'm not setting myself a budget until I know how much an excellent one will cost, then I'll save up.

    (It will get some heavy use as I make most things from scratch.)

    Thanks all!
    I'm sorry but I'm too tired to look it up right now but there is a link somewhere to the Kenwwod site where you could order a replacement part for you machine. Someone must surely know where it is.
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  • Curry_Queen
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    squeaky wrote:
    I'm sorry but I'm too tired to look it up right now but there is a link somewhere to the Kenwwod site where you could order a replacement part for you machine. Someone must surely know where it is.


    Do you mean this one? It's the first one I came to on google so not checked any others yet as this looks like it could be useful :)
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  • squeaky
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    Curry_Queen wrote:
    Do you mean this one? It's the first one I came to on google so not checked any others yet as this looks like it could be useful :)
    Actually it wasn't. It wasn't as good as this one!! :D

    The one I had in mind was possibly a few pages earlier before they got down to the meaty stuff.

    Please remind me to add this one into the Manuals And Instruction Books thread.


    I'm off to bed in a minute. It's been a long few days :)
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  • Gingham_Ribbon
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    Thanks guys. The reason I'm looking for a good mixer is that the part broke because I hammer it a bit and it wasn't really up to the job. I want to make big lots of stuff and freeze it, so I'm not doing it as often.

    The kenwood is great, but not as big as a big mixing bowl, so I don't think it's worth replacing the part. I don't think it handles muffin mixes very well and it'd be useful to have something I could mix a big load at once with. The kenwood would still get a lot of use, though!
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  • bigmuffins
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    Sorry but using a mixer for muffins????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

    Ohmigod! Heresy!

    - am a bit of a muffin 'nerd' and only ever hand make them - in fact am about to start weighing ingredients ready to bake 60 tomorrow am for Macmillan Biggest Coffee morning in a sec.

    If you over mix the muffin mix they are leathery and not very appetising!
    I mix wet with dry ingredients with a few swooshes of spoon until there is no dry flour mix visible and that is it - looks lumpy but taste FANTASTIC!
    Whenever I do batches for cake sales etc I get a queue of people trailing behind and the muffins never hit the table! (I also make the last min so are FRESH out of oven! Smell probably helps too! :drool: )

    Anyway that is all I have to say - can't help with mixer question though!
    Thought Kenwood Chefs were the biz myself!
    Gotta dash - 5 lots of flour etc to weigh out!
  • Curry_Queen
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    Aye, I have to agree there about the muffins, they take hardly any mixing at all, just a few stirs, and the mix should be very lumpy! This is what gives them that rough texture when they bake! And talking of which, I really fancy a muffin now :drool: :p
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  • competitionscafe
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    I have this one - does the job and is cheap (£12.47 ):

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    http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008K612

    Got it because it was a Which? magazine best buy - I only use it for whisking (egg whites etc) so not sure how robust it is. (I have never used the dough hooks as I prefer to knead by hand or use the breadmaker).
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