A few weeks back I came across a product review for Beater Blade Plus by New Metro Design, on some invention news website. The idea seemed like one that I’ve had for a while — extend the blade attachment for the KitchenAid mixer to reach the bottom and walls of the bowl. Pretty simple.
The review said it worked, and it was only $30 on Amazon. We use our mixer a lot and if it could help even a bit, it was worth it.
It arrived a few days later and we immediately put it to the test. We made both a Red Velvet Cake and a Buttermilk Cake with it. Wow, we love it! You still need to scrape down the bowl once or so, but the batters and frostings combine much faster and much better. And definitely less scraping required.
We just wonder why KitchenAid never thought to make this themselves! It’s available for just about every KitchenAid model, plus Viking and DeLonghi as well. If you use your mixer, you need this!
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Nice–I love cool gadgets.
This is genius. It can be annoying to scrape down a bowl during beating, mixing, etc. Great gadget!
that is so cool! could you maybe post photos of results that you’ve encountered with the new beater blade plus, as opposed to the regular beaters?
Pearl, I will try to get some comparison photos.
I bought one for my ancient KitchenAid a few months back and all I could say was “wow.” Yes, mouth agape, “wow.” I had just purchased a Cuisinart because my KitchenAid has a 4.5 qt bowl and I wanted a larger bowl but was afraid to upgrade to the 6.0 qt because of all the bad reviews.
After trying the Beater Blade I contacted the company to see if they made one for Cuisinart. They do but only for the 7.0 qt bowl not the 5.5 which I had purchased. I begged, I pleaded but to no avail, so… I sent it back (the Cuisinart), no matter the more spacious bowl, which really was wonderful, but – I’m not scraping any more stinking stand mixer bowls. No, nay, never no more!
People they make these things for all sizes of the KitchenAids, the larger Cuisinart and, as stated above Viking (7.0 qt) and DeLonghi. BUY ONE!!!
Sorry it took me so long to compare more in depth. I just made the same cake in separate bowl, one with beater blade, one with regular paddle attachment. You can achieve the same end result, but the beater blade does combine is much less time, with much less scraping.
Pearl, I took some pics but just at the end, when the batters will end up looking the same. What I should have done is minute by minute photos, but basically the beater blade just does the same job much faster.