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It’s time for cake, or cookies, or whatever. You pull out Grandma’s special recipe read the directions, and freak out when you read that you’re supposed to mix the concoction for 500 strokes, by hand.

Rest easy though – no longer are we in the days of log cabins, homespun woolens, and hand-mixed cakes from scratch. Be it a good thing or a bad thing, we live in the modern world and have modern conveniences. We can make our cake from a mix, and mix our batter with an electric mixer. Unless you’re planning to give yourself a good workout on your arms, I’d recommend the Kenmore KMX10T Hand Mixer.

Form and Function

I bought this mixer about a year ago when my old hand mixer decided to start smelling like fried wire. I had a few simple requirements - I wanted something powerful, easy to use, and… Umm… powerful. This mixer delivers on all counts. It has 200 Watts of power - which isn’t the most for a mixer, but it’s adequate for all but the most extreme mixing jobs.

Those 200 Watts power 10 different mixing speeds – 5 on a low setting, and 5 on a high setting. The lower speeds are excellent for delicate batters, things you don’t want a lot of air in, and even mixing just dry ingredients before adding the liquids. The highest speeds are great for whipping eggs or cream – anything you want to turn foamy and creamy. In between are the settings you’ll use for most routine mixing jobs – cake batters, cookie batters, cheesecake batters (yes, you’re noticing a trend here).

This mixer itself is nicely compact at about 8” front to back, 3-1/2” side to side and 6” from counter to handle. It came with both a standard set of beaters – bladed type, not wire type. I think the bladed type whip cream and eggs faster because they force more air into the mixture faster, but that’s just a theory. It also came with a set of dough hooks which are perfect for creating bread dough, pasta dough, or other jobs unsuitable for standard beaters. Both the beaters and the dough hooks are 7” long which makes them extend about 5” once they’re attached to the mixer.

Another big plus to the mixer is the 5’ long cord. It attaches with a swivel base and is long enough that I don’t clothsline myself if I fail to put it down before walking to the fridge to grab an extra egg. The mixer is also only a couple of pound in weight so all but the most frail individuals should be able to manipulate it easily.

Final Verdict

This is a very good and useful mixer. It’s not too heavy, it mixes well on a variety of settings, it’s a step up from the absolute basic mixer, and at only $25 it didn’t break the bank. Sure, I’d love to have one of those $300 enameled monsters, but really, this one does everything I need it to do and it’s easier to store.

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