What's worse was trying to incorporate the stuff at either end of the trough because you could only rock those beaters up so far before they started slinging batter all over hell's creation; OOO-WHEE, what a mess! Maybe you were supposed to use a rubber spatula to sorta push the slop at the ends into the slop in the center. It does not look large enough to make a cake from scratch, except for maybe a one egg cake, so maybe it was for box-mix cakes. How that idea made it into production can only be explained by a male only review panel; not that you could get many women to grab hold of that handle in public, let alone ask them to answer questions about how it feels, is it a comfortable size, can you get a good grip on it etc. I can hear someone like Aunt Esther goin' off right now.