Why a 5 speed Hand Mixer? When beating cookie dough or mash potatoes, the mixture needs to come out with the right texture.
While a normal 1 or 2 speed hand held mixer may work, a 5 speed hand mixer will bring the dough or the mash potatoes to the right text for that special cooking finish. These hand held mixers are essential for bakers as well as moms in the kitchen, they are usually lightweight yet strong with quiet DC motors. They are usually comfortable ergonomically designed to ease mixing fatigue. Most unit features, Turbo Power Beaters, multiple dough hooks, blender rods, and quick access beater ejection button.
In our kitchen we had our Kitchenaid 5 Speed Hand Mixer for almost 3.5 years. We used it allot, and me personally I love it very much. The only thing wrong with it is that the beaters broke, and our dilemma is whether we should get new beaters or just by a new hand mixer. The only thing is I am not sure if they make replacement beaters for the them.
Let’s take a look at some popular 5 speed hand mixer that are the classic in the well equipped kitchen.
KitchenAid 5 Speed Hand Mixer White KHM5APWHe
The KitchenAid 5 Speed Hand Mixer is an ultra powerful kitchen mixer. It is a turbo beater with a range of accessories and is skillfully designed to be comfortable in the hand.
The easy to use 5 speed control is flexible and allows for accurate control of various types of mixtures. It boast a powerful yet lightweight motor. The power of this motor is very handy when handling extra heavy bread and cookie dough. The motor will automatically adjust its mixing power to handle light or extra heavy mixtures. This 5 speed hand mixer from Kitchen Aid comes with many accessories including Dough Hooks, Liquid Blender Rod, Non-Clogging Air Vents and an Oversize Beater Ejection Button The KitchenAid KHM5APWH accessories combine to give easy handling of dough, smoothies, soups, sauces, power shakes for the fitness buffs, and other drinks and mixtures.
This 5 speed hand mixer unit non-clogging air vents helps prevents clogging from the various mixtures which it can handle. The Oversize Beater Ejection Button allow for one hand beater ejection. When is time to clean up, the beaters can be washed in hot soapy water, and wiped with a damp cloth.
Additional features of the KitchenAid KHM5APWH includes, the comfortable handle, easy cleaning and heal rest. This 5 speed hand held mixer comes in white with chrome beaters and measures 7.5 by 6.5 inches and comes with a 1 Year Warranty from Kitchen Aid.
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The Cusinart 5 Speed Hand Mixer
Its called the Power Advantage hand mixer.
Why? because it boast 220Watts of power with automatic power feedback. It has an easy to use speed control features. The unit design comprise of white plastic construction with chrome beaters and accents on the body. It has 2 extra long self-cleaning beater. A convenient swivel cord compliments the ease of use The Cuisinart 5 Speed Hand Mixer comes with no center post between the beaters, a spatula and recipe book. It weights 3.3lbs, white in color and we could not tell if it comes with any form of warranty. Available at http://amazon.com
Black & Decker White MX300 Power Pro 5 Speed Hand Mixer
On the surface we could not tell if this was a 5 speed hand held mixer, but a little closer look at the black and Decker’s product description and indeed it was a 5 speed unit. Packing a whopping 250 watts of power, the powerful motors will hold up in speed under multiple mixtures from light to extra-heavy. This 5 speed hand mixer boast professional chrome wired beaters that are sturdy enough to take on heavy dough and make them squeal. The unit features the expected comfort grip and very convenient bowl rest. Expect nothing less from Black and Decker as they compliment this unit with spatula for double side scraping. The MX300 Power Pro 5 Speed Hand Mixer weighs in at the usual 4lbs for units in its class sand does come with a warranty, but the exact length was unknown at the time of this writing.
Ok, thats it, above are the 3 most popular 5 speed hand mixers we could find. Anyone of these would be good for the kitchen, but our preference is with the kitchen Aid Unit. Ciao!