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Last week a female friend came over with a gift: the Sunbeam Mixmaster Model No. 2485. She picked it up at a garage sale for just a dollar, even though it’s as brand new! Well, I was very excited to try it out in baking that night and soon had the look-alike beaters snapped into place after a wrong attempt. For a hand-held mixer it’s not heavy or cumbersome at all. Its clean white color is acceptable, too.

I concocted my recipe and followed it until I had an unmixed batter in the big Tupperware bowl. Plugging the Mixmaster in I nudged it on with my thumb, a button on the top, and then its neighbor button into the first level, Fold, so the 200 watt motor whirred into action. This was fast enough to completely mix the bananas, rhubarb, raisins, walnuts and the rest of the ingredients. There may be six speeds to Fold, Stir, Mix, Blend, Beat and Whip, but the higher speeds weren?t necessary. I tried all the speeds to make my morning smoothie, though, and the Mixmaster seemed less noisy by half and yet as capable as my Oster blender. To think someone just wanted a dollar for it!

Cleaning the beaters was easy. Make sure, of course, that the Mixmaster is unplugged before releasing the batter-filled beaters because accidentally switching it on is pretty easy. In the manual, which I read afterwards for this review, it cautions against that and many other things. Most things are obvious, like closely supervising children who use it.

This model has a feature I doubt I’ll try called Burst of Power, for special times like mixing dough. The Model 2486 has various accessories that sound lame for an extra five dollars, but check out nanct’s review if you’re interested.

The Beater Eject button is in front of the speeds for easy thumb access (and a little tricky if your finger is sticky from licking batter) with no definite “click” as the manual will confirm. The Comfort Handle is supposedly ergonomic and meant to prevent your hand from “fatigue” during arduous mixing tasks and the beaters are in the ‘open beater design’ and dishwasher safe.

The six speeds are explained in the manual and recommended for certain uses, followed by how to care for the Sunbeam Mixmaster. The ten or so subsequent recipes are an advertisement for Gold Medal all-purpose flour and not healthy at all. I will instead offer you the recipe I made using the Mixmaster. The cake turned out much higher with a less dense texture than usual, so I recommend you pick up this handy, little gem with a 2-year warranty and mix the batter on low like I did.

I would have preferred more rhubarb than bananas and suggest you use more rhubarb, but less bananas than I did. Rhubarb is a good source of calcium as well as being delicious. I need to also note that my organic cornmeal was crunchy baked and it needed to be soaked in the milk until it was mushy.

Rhubarb Banana Cake

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2 c. whole wheat pastry flour

1 c. cornmeal

2 Tbsp. oat bran

2 tsp. Baking powder

½ tsp. Baking soda

3 tsp. Cinnamon

Mix by hand and add:

1 c. mashed banana or cooked rhubarb

½ c. cooked rhubarb or mashed banana

½ c. walnut oil

¾ c. brown rice syrup

1 c. vanilla soy milk

2/3 c. raisins

½ c. chopped walnuts

2 Tbsp. real vanilla

Mix with Mixmaster and pour into ungreased, large cake pan. Bake for about 35 minutes or check to see if a dark golden brown firm to the touch and pulled away from edges slightly. Absolutely scrumptious!

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