A Mixer from Amazon
I replaced my Kitchen Aid with this Sunbeam. I had always had a Sunbeam but my two daughters told me the Kitchen Aid was better. I HATED it. With the Sunbeam I could scrape the sides of the bowl as it was spinning. With the KA I could not. I could add liquids and/or dry ingredients with the Sunbeam. With the KA I had to pour it down a slot that was difficult to install. With the Sunbeam I can lift up the beaters to let them drain. With the KA I had to remove the plastic slot before I could lift the beaters. This Sunbeam brings back all the things I liked about my old one and is much better than the Kitchen Aid. The only difference between this one and my old one is that I have to push a button - sometimes hard to do - to lift the beaters; I have to push a button to release the beaters - also hard to do at times - and the old one allowed me to remove the beater head from the stand and take to another location. But...these inconveniences still make the Sunbeam my first choice.
broke the first time I used it
I have owned a Sunbeam mixmaster for several years and have been a huge promoter of the product. Unfortunately, it recently broke and I don't know how to get it fixed so I purchased a new one. The very first time I used the new one, smoke started coming out of it and now this one is broken too. So, instead of one broken mixmaster, I now have 2.
Not impressed!
For the past 20+ years I have owned a Krups stand mixer (removable head, small white plastic rotating bowl, and beater attachments that oscillate around and also move from side to center of bowl and back again-a nice design which doesn't seem to be offered anywhere these days). It's a great little machine which has served me well, but the bowl is just too small and, with larger recipes, clean-up becomes difficult when batter wells up into the motor. I'm not a professional baker by any means but I do a fair amount of cookies, cakes, tarts, etc (not much into breads though).
So I first purchased a KitchenAid - way too heavy unless kept on the counter but way too tall to fit under my cabinets on top of the counter. Also, the deep bowl design makes adding ingredients very difficult (I'm not a fan of the splatter shield - too tedious and more items to wash). Just not user-friendly in my opinion. So that went back to the store.
Next I tried the Breville stand...
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