There are few pieces of kitchen equipment with as much prestige and cachet as the stand mixer. In a head-to-head test, America’s Test Kitchen found that whipping whole eggs for a génoise cake took twice as long with a handheld mixer as its stand mixer competition. (The batter from the stand mixer ended up with a higher volume, although the cakes baked up nearly identical.) Often when I use a hand mixer, I hold the machine with one hand and the bowl with the other. A stand mixer doesn’t necessarily do everything better, and even if you have both, sometimes the little guy is preferable.

Source: Washington Post December 06, 2019 15:01 UTC