Plastic gears - Jim & Jenny - Michigan
We also bought the Sunbeam Mixmaster based on previous experience. It is unfortunate that the new products have sacrificed quality for cost. The drive gears for the beaters are now plastic and do not hold up to moderate load (Marshmallow Creme frosting??!??). I found that it stripped the teeth right off the head of the beater drive sleeve when I investigated. Of course I cannot find the parts to repair.
The wife and I are now going to go for quality instead of this low-cost alternative.
Don't knead bread dough with this mixer - bread montana -
This review is for a Sunbeam 2350 mixer. I used this mixer to knead bread dough, and it failed in less than five minutes. The gears are stripped, and the mixer no longer works for anything. This happened with a single loaf recipe and normal dough consistency, which leaves me wondering why the manufacturer included dough hooks with the mixer. In my opinion, for what this mixer does (or did, when it was working), a hand held mixer would be easier to use, and would take one-fourth the storage room.
Sunbeam is not so sunny! - a reader from - Denton TX
In many years of cooking and baking I'd never owned a stand mixer until last year when I asked for one for Christmas. My husband, the giver, wanted to get the Kitchen Aid but I suggested the less expensive Sunbeam, which I'd heard good things about. At first I thought my problems with it were caused by my inexperience with the stand mixer since I'd used a handmixer so long. But, no, it's the mixer. One aggravation is that ingredients don't get mixed in thoroughly without constantly stopping and mixing by hand. But the mixer's worst fault--and the reason I know it's a dud--is that at times the bowl just stops turning or the mixer itself stops. I have to turn the speed dial back and forth to make it start again and/or I have to spin the bowl by hand. Also, the tilt release button is in an awkward place and requires a serious push to make work. And once the beaters, though firmly seated, simply disengaged and fell into the bowl. Recently, I made meringue for pies with this mixer. It took twice as long as with a handmixer and the meringue was syrupy and did not have the volume I'm used to with a handmixer. And forget mixing bread with it. That was a complete disaster. I finished mixing and kneading the bread by hand.
I thought having a stand mixer would be so great, more efficient, convenient, freeing. But frankly, I hate this thing! I'm beyond disappointed. The shoddiness of this appliance, which was not cheap, is shameful. And from what I've read here, today's Kitchen Aids, though very expensive, may not be much better. Whatever happened to quality products?
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