On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:34:20 -0400, Doris Night
> wrote:


>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

The bother is not in getting them out in my case, as the rotary beater
resides in the cupboard next to the hand mixer, but there are two
reasons I do not use the rotary for whipping cream:

- I use a freezer-chilled 16 oz Pyrex cup to make whipped cream, and
the rotary does not fit into it well. The hand mixer with ONE beater,
however, does a bang-up job.

-My rotary cannot go into the dishwasher as parts of my ancient one
are aluminum. That is a deal-breaker right there. If something cannot
go into the dishwasher, it is less likely to be used at my place.
Happy to use the appropriate tool when necessary, but always happier
if it cleans up without my intervention.