On Mon 04 Aug 2008 12:20:15p, Jonathan Kamens told us...

> Greetings,
>
> At our house, we seem to go through an electric hand mixer
> (like, e.g.,
> http://www.shopkitchenaid.com/produc...xers&T1=KTA+KH
> M3WH) every 2-3 years. We don't use the mixer that
> often, maybe two or three times per month, and yet there
> always comes a time when the blades stop spinning and wisps of
> smoke come drifting out of the motor, along with the awful
> smell of a motor that shell spin its blades no more.
>
> Having once again smelled the smoke of hand-mixer doom, we are
> once again in the market for a new one, and so I thought I'd
> post and ask: is there a mixer on the market that won't give
> up the ghost after a few years (and if so where can we get
> it), or are we doomed to continue contributing to the
> ever-growing global waste disposal problem as long as we want
> to keep making chocolate chip cookies?
>
> (Yes, we could get it fixed, but I'm pretty certain that
> getting it fixed costs more than buying a new mixer.)
>
> (Yes, a real stand mixer would almost certainly solve this
> problem, but we wouldn't use one often enough to justify the
> expense, and besides, we don't have space for one in our
> kitchen.)
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can provide.
>

I would not be happy with anything currently on the market. However, some
of the older hand mixers have survived decades of use.

My dad bought my mother a "Dormey" hand mixer made by Dormeyer in 1954.
She used it until 1998 when she passed away. I now have it and use it
regularly, although I also have a KitchenAid stand mixer that I use for
heavier mixtures.

You can usually find one on eBay, in fact, they are several currently
listed now. Here is one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dormeyer-Dormey-...xer-Model-7500
_W0QQitemZ160267075932QQihZ006QQcategoryZ11653QQss PageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZ
ViewItem

OR

http://tinyurl.com/5zerga

If you don't mind buying something used, I can't recommend this highly
enough.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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