Norpro Egg Beater Classic Hand Crank Style 18/10 Stainless Steel Mixer 12 Inches

This is the classic old school beater. I almost didn't get it because reviews said it was difficult to get the crank moving. Out of the box it was very stiff but I just ran it under warm water while turning the handle and it began to run smoothly. It seems heavy duty. I am no fan of plastic but those parts are good quality. Seems pretty good.

Other than not being dishwasher safe, I have no complaints. This beater works quite well and is definitely built more solidly than a lot of the all-plastic beaters that are common here. I have no doubt that this one will last a decade or more.

Great mixer, much sturdier than other reviewers would have you believe. The main gear is some type of heavy, chrome covered metal, probably cast aluminum but I can't tell for sure. One reviewer complained that the blade gears are plastic which is not quite accurate. They are actually heavy duty nylon, the same kind of nylon gear you will find in most garage door lifts. If those gears can raise a 300lb garage door thousands of time, this egg beater will out last me. The blades are heavy gage bent metal rods which mix well and are very easy to clean. The crank handle is made out of the same metal as the main housing and the main gear. This mixer is solid. Very pleased with this purchase, especially after discovering that almost no retail stores carry hand mixers anymore--not the grocery store, Target, Walmart etc. I did find one in this configuration with the handle on top at a hardware store, but it was nearly as expensive as this one, and plainly of inferior quality and design which may explain why nobody seems to carry this type of mixer anymore. The OXO hand mixer, which is the only other mixer I could find at retail was not suitable for me because of my OA; I need to have a handle that I can grip from above, not from the side.

It’s very well made and sturdy but the only issue I have with it is the bottom bar across the two beaters hold the beaters off the bottom of the bowl. As a result if you are beating eggs, the egg whites hang onto this bar and do not get beaten in. In other words, the bar makes it sturdy but it is an issue if you use it primarily for eggs.

Works amazingly well! Quickly mixes. Very sturdy as well, which is hard to find! Not very easy to hand wash, but that's to be expected with all the different angles to it. Not the easiest to use if you have any sort of impairment in your arms, wrists, or hands, because you need to hold it still with a little force while mixing with the other(Which is also to be expected and I'm being extremely picky with that point). Bigger then I thought it would be, perfect size really, because you can mix small to large things quickly. Best hand mixer I've found in a long time!!

Received this today. It is NOT worth $30. If you hold it up in the air, the handle turns easily. If you put it in a bowl, the blades catch on each other. Very disappointed.I don not recomme d this product.

Living in an apartment, I have limited space in a small kitchen and needed something that would perform well without taking up too much room. This manual egg-beater reminds me very much of the one that my mother had before the electric mixers became popular. I already tried it and it seems to do the job! What's really good is that I can even fit this manual egg beater/mixer in my utensils jar! There is a message taped to the handle not to put in the dishwasher, so do what cooks & bakers did in the 'old days'...wash by hand which is easy enough to do!

When my forty year old egg beater died of old age, this style was precisely what I wanted. I love to cook, but am not one for baking, so I didn't want anything electrical - and all I could find locally, or inexpensively, was a whisk. I only have used it twice so far, and it is extremely difficult to get it to operate. I can crank it a few times, then it stops. It was the only one I could find in this style, but it operates poorly, and was not at all a good value.