The best kitchen gadget I’ve bought in ages is a hand held electric mixer. Everyone loves the smell of a freshly baked cake, pie, or sheet of cookies coming straight out of the oven. But making your favorite recipes can be a real chore if you have to mix all of the ingredients by hand. Let me show you the three I liked best and why I chose the one I did.
Before I do that, let me just paint a picture for you. It’s one that I’m sure you’ve possibly run into before too.
I was in the process of trying to bake some cookies from scratch for a get-together with some friends (I was in charge of bringing a dessert), and had all the ingredients ready to get started. As I was following the recipe, I got to the stage where I had to mix the wet and dry ingredients together.
As I was a new home owner at the time, I didn’t have a lot of kitchen appliances at my disposal.
So I searched through my kitchen drawers and found a manual whisk that I had lying around. As I am standing there whisking the ingredients together, cookie batter was flying all over the place, and the vigorous mixing was making my arm very tired. Not only did I realize what appliances I still needed to purchase, but also that my simple baking idea was more difficult than I originally thought.
Manually mixing usually requires some serious elbow grease, and can often leave you with a lumpy batter. Additionally, this method doesn’t always fully incorporate everything, possibly leaving you with bits of dry ingredients remaining, and your food can wind up with an uneven texture.
Having the right hand mixer can be a real time saver if you are a passionate cook or baker looking for ways to perform in the kitchen with efficiency.
Now, on to the three styles that I think are the best.
Hand Held Electric Mixer with Balloon Whisk
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Choosing the right kitchen appliance for the job is critical if you happen to love to bake and cook like I do. You have to make sure the motor is powerful enough to mix, whisk, and knead your ingredients with the least amount of effort as possible.
Ingredients such as eggs whites, frostings, and whipped cream require air to be incorporated into them to achieve beautiful, fluffy peaks, which is where a balloon whisk attachment comes in handy. Additionally, a slower speed setting is ideal for mixing gravy and mashing certain vegetables, while a higher speed is ideal for whipping egg whites and heavy creams.
I found this VonShef Hand Mixer to be very stylish, has many great ratings, includes five speed settings, plus a turbo boost, which allows you to adjust the power as needed, and comes with five impressive components (including a balloon whisk attachment) that allow you to perform a variety of cooking techniques with great ease and convenience.
All of the included accessories are dishwasher safe making clean up a breeze. This will leave you more time to enjoy your favorite foods, and less time hand washing and scrubbing dirty dishes and attachments!
Hand Held Electric Mixer with Bowl
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In comparison to their hand-held counterparts, stand mixers are generally larger, which can take up more countertop space, and which require a more powerful motor. Also attached to the base of the mixer is a special locked in bowl that can typically hold a larger quantity of ingredients during its operation.
Personally, the best hand held electric mixer with a bowl is this Hamilton Beach Stainless Steel Classic Stand Mixer.
It is a #1 Best Seller on Amazon with many great reviews, and comes with a versatile attachment set including traditional beaters, a whisk, and dough hooks.
Additionally, it comes programmed with 6 different speed settings, along with a powerful low setting. The mixer also detaches from the stand, which also allows it to be used as a hand mixer, making it extremely versatile.
There is also an attachment on the bottom of the mixer that allows the bowl to spin while you are mixing.
Hand Held Electric Mixer with Stand
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Stand mixers are some of the more versatile types of mixers out on the market today. The ingenious design allows for various mixing attachments to be used depending on the type of dish you intend to make. The most popular attachments, are the flat beater attachment (or paddle), which can be used for mixing and incorporating ingredients, the whisk attachment, which can be used for dishes where you may have to whip egg whites or heavy cream, and a dough hook, for your more heavier bread type doughs.
If you are working with similar ingredients and recipes, I think you’ll find this KitchenAid Stand Mixer is just the solution for you.
This particular model comes with a five quart stainless steel bowl, which given its larger volume and size, allows you easily handle more sizable jobs such as baking up multiple batches of cookies, or larger cakes.
Different recipes also call for different mixing speeds. If you are mixing wet ingredients together with dry ingredients, you may want a slow to medium speed, but if you are tasked with whipping heavy cream or kneading thick bread dough, you may want a faster, more powerful setting. With its 10 speed settings, this mixer allows you to be in complete control of any job.
In addition to the nylon coated flat beater, dough hook, and wire whip attachments, which are all included, the versatility of the power hub gives you the option to add even more attachments such as a food grinder, and even a pasta maker!
I’ll have mine in time for future parties and get-togethers when it comes to volunteering to make desserts again. No more manual stirring until my arm falls off!
Check out one of the three hand held electric mixers I’ve researched above and let me know what you think!