Using stand mixer without a paddle

[Starkman]

Hello all,

Well, I have this Sunbeam Deluxe Mixmaster Mixer, which comes with bowls of two sizes, double dough hooks and double bowl-fit beaters (one's regular shaped and the other is conical shaped to run along the inner side of the bowl).

Anyway, there's no paddle attachment for this unit (I called Sunbeam and they verified such).

Question: is there a way, with the devices that came with it, to mimic the action of a paddle? I mean, if I can't, there's a lot of stuff I won't be able to make using the mixer, and that just doesn't seem...well, it seems odd!

Thanks,

Starkman

[Scout_21]

Whenever I've used a mixer that doesn't have paddles I've always used the beaters. These always give me the same results when making cookie, brownie, etc. doughs. Is there a reason you believe the beaters will not work when only paddle would? Just curious

[Kerry Beal]

I'm with Scout - the beaters work fine for everything.

[andiesenji]

My grandmother, mother and I all used Sunbeam mixmasters for beating cake batter, eggs and egg whites, the looser types of cookie doughs, and etc., etc., etc.,

For many, many years. The beaters do a fine job with certain restrictions.

They work just fine as long as you don't overload them with dough that is too stiff or dense.

If you have the dough hooks, you have a later model in which the motor was beefed up a bit to handle heavier jobs than the earlier models.

Some of the units sold in the late 1940s and through the '50s are still in use.

[Starkman]

Well, I'm glad to hear that the beaters will do the job.

I didn't know if not having a paddle would mean I'm up a creek with no...paddle (yeah, you could see that coming, eh!).

Anyway, I'm just starting to bake with a standing mixer, so I wasn't sure if I was out of luck without the paddle.

Thanks,

Starkman

[magdelinewest]

Yeah they work great. But as andiesenji said, be careful with any really dense mixtures in there.