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A stand mixer's cardio-friendly cousin, for people who like arm day with their cake.
means A small handheld electric appliance with removable beaters, used to whip, beat, or mix ingredients without the heft or cost of a stand mixer.
from Straightforward compound: 'hand' (held and operated by hand, as opposed to mounted on a stand) plus 'mixer,' itself from 'mix,' tracing back to the Latin 'miscere,' to mix or mingle. Electric hand mixers emerged in the early 20th century as a domestic scaling-down of industrial and commercial mixing machinery — the same miniaturization impulse that gave households portable versions of what used to require a factory or a strong forearm.
- beater design
- two interlocking blades, one offset to self-scrape bowl
- power range
- typically 150-300 watts, plenty for batter not bread dough
- origin year
- patented in 1856, over a century before stand mixers
- best use
- whipping egg whites or cream, not heavy kneading