On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:07:17 GMT, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:02:04 -0500, Jo Anne wrote:
>
>> I do not own an electric mixer of any type. For 35 years, I've been
>> beating egg whites and whipping cream with my rotary hand mixer. I
>> find it takes about 1 1/2 minutes to get the egg whites to stiff
>> peaks.
>
>Do you mean one of those double beaters with the gears and crank?
>I haven't thought about nor seen one of those for ages. That was
>one of my favorite toys when I was a kid.

You can still buy them new, you know. Mine looks kinda like this:

http://www.akitchen.com/store/media/egg-beater.jpg

Jo Anne