10 Reasons People Laugh About Your Mixer

Sunbeam Heritage Review



Defective components for a couple of years.
CONS / This mixer didn't perform well with our bread dough or cookie cutter
dough tests.
VERDICT / The Sunbeam Heritage stand mixer should have
Performed well with its newer mixing techniques, but if push came to
Shove, the mixer simply couldn't keep up with this higher-ranked competition.
Sunbeam was the biggest competitor for KitchenAid at the first days of
Home stand mixers, along with also the Heritage series' stand mixer harkens back to
Those old days, in appearance at least.

directions.
A lever below the bowl, which moves the bowl a few degrees and
Repositions the beaters closer to the sides of the bowl.
ensure thorough mixing, but that's not what we found.
The design, while lovely, isn't functional.
Bumped, so you could accidentally shoot the beaters out into the bowl.
And the tilt-head button is on the side, making it difficult to reach.
The best part of the Plan, though, is that it is very easy to add
Ingredients to the bowl, because you can move the bowl from the center to
The side, providing you with easy access.
When we started the bread dough test, the dough hooks seemed capable of

The cookie dough test was only slightly more
Promising, because the dough was able to come together in the end, but it
Needed plenty of babysitting -- we had to manually turn the bowl and move
The bowl's position many times. In the end, the dough was pressed
Against the sides of the bowl and a little bit of dry flour was left in the center.

more than six times the original volume. It was surprising, because this
Mixer only comes with traditional beaters and corkscrew-like dough hooks
-- no whisk is included.
There are no extra features with this mixer, but you can choose among
Eight distinct colors. Even the lowest speed setting seems to be too fast to
fold ingredients together. The locking tilt head makes it easy to remove
beaters or dough hooks, though. And All the removable parts are
dishwasher safe.
Sunbeam includes a user manual on its website that also has recipes in the
back of the book. The company's warranty ensures that your mixer is free
of defects -- that includes the mixer parts and workmanship. You can
Contact customer support by a form on the internet or via phone.
Sunbeam Heritage
Summary
Although this Sunbeam Heritage stand mixer did not perform as well as
The very best stand mixers on our lineup, it impressed us with the egg-white
test. This mixer, with its eight color options, will look lovely on your
counter, and it will do well enough with cake batter and other looser
Batters and dough, but it just can't handle the heavier recipes.