Holy smokes! Mixmasters have insane torque!!!!

[Cybrvanr]

I was mixing up some Brownie batter for an easter dinner with the family for tomorrow using my Grandmother's old pre-war Mixmaster. I was using a spoon to make sure everything made it into the beater bars when I dropped the spoon into the bowl. In a split second, the spoon found it's way ito the beaters, and momentarily jammed them. Then, the powerhead of the mixer kicked up, flung the spoon across the room and continued by throwing batter EVERYWHERE around the kitchen, and all over me too. I yanked the plug out as soon as I dropped the spoon, but all this happened in that short period of time.

I went ahead and poured the remaining batter into a pan and baked it into the oven while I cleaned up all the batter. The spoon and the beaters were a mangled mess! It took me another half our to clean up the batter splatter. I didn't think about taking any pictures of the mess, but probably should have. You all would have gotten a good laugh. It looked like something off a TV sitcom!

Now, at this point, I was figuring on the worst outcome happening...This probably destroyed the transmission in the mixer, and would have probably spelled the end of it. Well, after I cleaned up, I turned on the mixer without the beaters in it. It hummed away nice and smoothly just like it always had for the past 70 years I am going to try and straighten the beater bars back out, but will probably be looking for a new set of them! Thankgoodness they built things good back then! I imagine if I did this to one of the new modern Chinese made clunkers it would have never survived!

 

[jasonl]

You would've stripped the plastic gears in a modern Chinese mixer.

 

[58limited]

Yes, Mixmasters are tough. My '57 is still going strong and I frequently make one recipe that has a really firm, semi-dry batter in it. My late model hand-held won't even come close to being able to mix it.

 

[mixfinder]

Torque

If you give me the model number, I'll send you a replacement set. Pre 1950, one size fits all and from 1951 to 1963 one size fits all. You either have a matched set of beaters or the famous Bowl-Fit beaters; one conical and one square.
Kelly

 

[paulg]

Grandma's TOUGH tools / made in Chicago.

Since that was a SUNBEAM mixer, it was probably made in Chicago.
Chicago... the home of strong shoulders, strong winds and strong Mixmasters!

 

[mixguy]

Flung Batter here too

A friend of mine that doesn't bake much was planning a dinner party. He decided to make a pound cake from a mix adding 4 eggs, 1/2 oil, and instant pudding, forgetting the 1 c. of water needed. He had a new Sunbeam Food Preparation Center that has the deeper, narrow bowls like the Sunbeam Power Plus Mixmasters. He just placed the ingredients in the bowl as directed but started the machine at medium speed. He walked away from the mixer to start attending to other things. Well, partially mixed batter gathered around the conical beater and caused the bowl to spin very fast, so much so that batter was thrown out the bowl in waves a foot away from the mixer! He tried to quickly shut off the machine only to be hit by a wave of batter! He called for me to rescue him, to come over & bake a cake for him. He had come by my place earlier that morning before work for coffee. When I arrived, he had changed clothes (he wore the new pants for the first time that day and was worried that the oil had stained them, I found them soaking in his bath tub) and just finished wiping up most of the mess. Ended up with a pound cake from scratch, and washed his pants, rubbing Wisk into the stained area, washed them in warm water, and removed any potential oil stain.

 

[kenwashesmonday]

Lots of power indeed!

We were making cookies last week. I didn't wait long enough for the butter to soften and bent the heck out of the beaters on my Sunbeam model 5 (1939).

Ken