"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On 8/23/2015 9:34 AM, Doris Night wrote:
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>>> And I can't see in this day and age why anyone would own a hand beater.
>>
>> I own the same hand beater that I got I first was married 43 years
>> ago. (And I think I bought it used from a thrift store.) I also have
>> an electric mixer, a blender, a stick blender, and two food
>> processors, but if something is only going to take a minute or two, I
>> can't see the bother in getting them out.
>>
>> Doris
>>
>
> For us, the stick blender was a waste. I've used it once and I think my
> wife used it once. The KA mixer sits out all the time so it is always at
> the ready and the beaters go in the DW when done.
>
> Nothing against the hand beater, but ours got lost or broken many years
> ago and we just never replaced it. They do get the job done though.

I don't use mine very often. I will when making a pasta sauce where I left
the vegetables chunky because some people don't like chunky. And I
sometimes will in a bean soup although a potato masher is just as easy. I
think I have made a few sauces that called for it.