Vintage hand held electric mixers...like 'em?

[austinado16]

Couldn't pass up this little GE "Speed Control" mixer today at a yard sale for 2 bucks. It was filthy, but cleaned up nice.

Show off yours!

 

[xraytech]

great find,

I have one in the same color and love it.

I grew up using my grandmothers mixer like this, hers was avacado to match her kitchen.

I think the speed control is very conveniently set up

 

[1972lkdishwash]

Vintage hand held mixers..1975 HB & GE.

I have a great Hamilton Beach "Mixette" it is such a jewel...she was $2.00 at the St. Vincent dePaul outlet in Wheeling,cleaned up perfectly from>>>> much dried residue of Sweet Potato Pie mixture....Love her, Started housekeeping in 1978 with a Ge Hand held 3 Speed, still use her to this day, also...Two Sunbeam Mixmasters = 1940 and 1988.....one has a juicer attachment, the 1988 is high wattage, commercial motor, it says, and with dough hook.

 

[mixfinder]

The Best

The mixer you found is among the best of hand mixers ever made. Consumer Report gave it high ratings and suggested it in their Christmas Collection from 1966. I am not a fan of hnad mixers but the ones with governor controlled motors are stands and feet (ha) above the rest. I have a Sunbeam which I like.

 

[tolivac]

I have a couple of hand mixers I have found at swap shops or yard sales.So far 2 Ge's ,a Sunbeam,and a Hamilton Beach.Use them mostly for mashed potatoes.

 

[lordkenmore]

Nice find!

That mixer is almost exactly like the one my mother had. The only difference was that hers was blue, not white. I think she got it in the 60s. That mixer was used pretty regularly--we had no stand mixer or food processor--and it lasted until the late 80s. It stopped working--no idea why--and my mother went to Fred Meyer and got a new mixer. The cheapest they had at $13 if I recall right. 13 is at least symbolically a good number for that replacement mixer--everyone who used it hated it. It had no power compared to the GE, it was noisy running, and it didn't even live long enough to see its second birthday. At least, it gave a good lesson about the value of buying quality.

Today, I have one hand mixer--a fairly modern Krups. It strikes me as decent, although I'm not sure if when (if ever!) I last used it. Although that's less about the mixer than the nature of my cooking these days--about the only mixer task I ever have is bread dough, which automatically goes to the KitchenAid stand mixer. Years back, though, when I did more cooking, I considered a hand mixer well worth having, even with a KitchenAid stand mixer.

 

[tolivac]

I only use my hand mixers for mashed potatoes for the most part-Use my stand Viking or KA mixers for the baking jobs-usually ginger cookies during the holidays.At one time I burnt out a hand mixer-was my brothers-can't remember its brand-while preparing the ginger cookie dough at his house.We laughed at the blown mixer-he bought another one and we finished our cookie cooking session.So I don't use the hand mixers for dough.

 

[lordkenmore]

One real plus to that GE is that the beaters do not have have anything running down the inside, middle part of the beater at the end that goes into the mixing bowl. I think this empty inside makes the beater a lot easier to wash by hand. The difficulty of washing the beaters on the $13 Mixer of Evil I mentioned above was something else that was truly hate-worthy. (And while a dishwasher is preferable, we didn't have one. Besides, sometimes even those with one might decide to hand wash a few things to immediately reuse while on a big cooking binge.)

 

[mixfinder]

Mighty Might

There are a few hand mixers that work well but they cost a small fortune. I used my Kitchenaid hnadmixer for years making bread dough in larger quantities for catering and gatherings.

 

[petek]

Love little hand mixers all the colors and styles. I've been pretty good about not buying anymore stuff these past few months but I saw this little Sunbeam a few weeks ago and being pank I wasn't gonna let it stay there at Value Village so I bought it

 

[austinado16]

I'm digging the Sunbeam...

Love the grill-work and the gold. No idea what year it is, but it sure "feels" 1958.

 

[whirlcool]

We have a little "Pillsbury" brand hand mixer my mother bought me when I got out of college. This must have been around 72-73.
It still works, I use it for sauces, beating eggs, gravy, etc.
It came with it's own little stand and a mixing bowl. The stand broke years ago and I don't know what happened to the mixing bowl that goes with it.

 

[aquarius1984]

Depends what you call vintage

but yes I do!

I really ought to take some pics of the 70s and 80s and 90s Philips, Kenwood, Moulinex, Frigidaire to name a few.

Now if one was calling it "Retro" I would have to plug the Dualit handmixer I recently got off another member Richard, who didnt use it.

All are just fabulous though.

Cake anyone?

 

[norgeway]

I have!!!!

A hundred or so!!!

 

[norgeway]

Here

Are a few more!

 

[norgeway]

In Boxes

Also a few other in box appliances!

 

[austinado16]

I have one of yours!

In your first photo, 4th from the right, you have a yellow GE. My mom had that same mixer, but in white. I have it in Turquoise Blue and it's been our daily driver for years. Sadly, I don't have the correct beaters for it, so the eject button doesn't work.

I tried the beaters from my "new" acquisition and sure enough, they're the correct length, and the eject button works on them.

Now I just need to find a pair of beaters!

 

[petek]

Here's some of mine, ran outta shelf space for anymore.
I like the design of GE's on the top shelf the most.

 

[austinado16]

Those GE's make me think about the Jetsons!