Sunbeam Mixmaster Power Plus experience

[jetcone]

I just saw a ad for the Power Plus model with Shirley Jones from the 1980's. And the mixer looked huge but Shirley is stature challenged. Was it bigger than the model 12?

Then I read where it has 350 watts of power!! Never knew they made a mixer as powerful as the KA's!!

 

Anybody have experience with these?? Are they all plastic?? And does the mixer head come off the stand for hand mixing?? The one on ebay said it didn't.

 

 

[xraytech]

Well, My grandma Rose has had her PowerPlus MixMaster since 1979, she loves it.

it has 16 speeds instead of the usual 12.

The bowls are unique to that model as they are taller and more narrow, the beaters are the same way.

The casing of it is plastic, it does have a handy little work light under the mixer head. I'm unsure of the internal components are made of.

 

And yes the PowerPlus is a bit bigger in stature than a model 12.

 

Overall it is just a souped up MixMaster but I love it nonetheless, and grandma loves it too

 

[jetcone]

Wow

Thanks Sam. I'll have to look into one...

 

[xraytech]

Oh, I forgot to mention in my first post, the mixer head does NOT come off the base to use as a hand mixer

 

[simpsomatic]

Mixfinder, Mixfinder......where are you?

Have not seen you post for a while. I know you have a wealth of information about this mix master, maybe one in your collection. Your posts are always so informative and enlighting. Miss them much.

 

[mixguy]

Sunbeam Power Plus & Professional

Kelly has commented about these mixers sometime ago in the WACM forum. He mentions that bowl scraping was needed because one could not adjust bowl side- beater clearance.

The speed control electronics were not very durable.

Julia Child tested one when she was writing monthly cooking column in McCall's magazine during the 1970's and commented how loud it was when running at high speeds. She had tested one in making a genoise. She had a model 9 as a wedding present and commented about the bowl-beater design was not the most efficient in egg beating, not keeping the whole "mass in motion."