Cuisinart HM-70 Power Advantage 7-Speed Hand Mixer, Silver,White

I bought this hand mixer for my wife. She made fun of me for it when it first arrived -- I tend to buy a lot of kitchen toys, which I also enjoy using. However, she has complained bitterly in the past about food splattering out of the bowl while tring to mix or mash with a wand mixer. And it is usually not enough to bother mixing in our big countertop mixer. But after using our new Cuisinart HM-70 hand mixer last night to make mashed potatoes she had nothing but praise. There is really nothing to dislike about it. It is stylish-looking, has a cord that can be switched from one side to the other depending upon what works best for you, has 7 speeds with a slow initial start-up so food stays in the bowl when you first get started, and a nifty digital readout to tell you which speed you are using. It comes with beaters that have a nice long stem on them, a wisk, and even a small plastic spatula. If you are in the market for a hand mixer you cannot go wrong with this Cuisinart model. My wife and I are very pleased with it, and it was well worth the money spent. Amazon had a great price on it, and shipping was free. Again, what's not to like?

I took a risk purchasing this as I need a portable mixer, and reviews on amazon are very mixed about all of these handheld mixers. I settled on this one because it has a slow start feature and a high wattage power capability. And guess what? It has not disappointed me at all and I'm so glad I took a chance on it! Maybe some of the negative reviews were faulty models, or maybe those customers don't know how to use one of these properly? I don't know, but I couldn't be happier with mine - it starts up slowly, and hasn't made a plattery mess once so far, and I've mixed liquidy waffle and pancake batters almost every day with it since I got it. It really gets my batters homogenized very quickly! My eggs get beaten so nice and fluffy with it, that it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when I think of how this little gadget has saved my wrists (I have tendonitis in my wrists). I doubt this review will help anyone since there are so many reviews already, but I guess my advice would be that you just try this one or one of the others out if you have prime shipping and free returns, and as soon as you get it in the mail, just attach the beaters real quick, plug the mixer in, and turn it on (lowest setting first, then run it through higher settings just to be sure). If you just try it out right away without getting it dirty, and make sure that it works, then you will make sure that you don't get one of the lemons that those negative reviews are complaining about. I did that, and once I was sure that it worked, I cleaned and soaped off all of the attachments to get manufacturing residues or germs off, and then I was ready to start mixing for real with it, and it has helped me make some very tasty treats in way less time and less wrist pain! Happy mixing!

I bought the Cuisinart HM 70 Power Advantage after my old mixer (approximately 15 years old) decided to send smoke shooting out of its motor. I was looking for a good price and a good-quality product to replace it with, so I searched the Internet and compared mixers until I found the Cuisinart. This mixer is a joy to use in the kitchen. It's built with sturdiness in mind, yet it's not too heavy like the best mixers were in the "old" days. It's diverse in that it has 7 different speeds to whip up whatever you want to cook, and it manages to mix even my thickest cookie and pudding-pie batters with no effort at all. As a side note, my next door neighbor's mixer broke, so he borrowed my Cuisinart. He liked it so much he asked me where I got it, and he and his wife promptly got online and bought one of their own. I've owned my Cuisinart three years now and I've never had a problem with it. I know from reading other people's reviews that at least one person has had an unhappy experience with theirs, but I liken that to what happens with any appliance. Sometimes something simply isn't right with the same appliance that everybody else is in love with. In my case, I have no complaints about the Cuisinart, so therefore it's worth a 5-star review from me. I bought this mixer at full price and was not asked to do any reviews on it. I just felt like sharing my experience in case people are looking for upcoming Christmas gifts.

The new Cuisinart HM-70 Power Advantage 7-speed hand mixer is basically a redesign of Cuisinart's earlier retro-style CHM-7 Power Advantage 7-speed hand mixer. Besides the new modern look, the HM-70 control buttons have been rearranged more logically than the buttons on the CHM-7. Instead of the 4 illogically arranged touch pad buttons ("ON", "OFF", "+", "-") and a pushbutton "Eject" button on top of the CHM-7 handle, the new HM-70 has a spring "push-ON/push-OFF" button (where CHM-7 "Eject" button was), just 2 touch pad "+" and "-" speed buttons (logically arranged "front and back" instead of "left and right"), and a trigger-style "Eject" lever located below the handle. The HM-70, like the CHM-7, has a digital display which shows the mixer speed number, 1 to 7. The HM-70 comes with extra long wire beaters, a stainless steel whisk, and a spatula, but does not come with dough hooks. The 5-foot long, heavy-duty round power cord swivels to the left or right side of the mixer. The 7 speed settings offer an extremely wide range of control, with 3 slow speeds available, plus "Soft Start" that gradually increases motor speed on starting. The mixer always starts on the number "1" speed when turned on. There is no worry about about ingredients flying over the side of the bowl with this mixer. The mixer is attractive, light-weight, feels well-balanced, and is comfortable to use. The power and speeds are plenty adequate. Noise and TV-interference is much lower than from my previous hand mixer. Beaters and attachments from other mixers can be used with Cuisinart hand mixers, providing they have the little egg-shaped tips on the ends that snap into the beater holes. This includes attachments from Black and Decker, Sunbeam, Oster, Windmere/Corning, and other brands. KitchenAid has changed to "flat-tipped" beaters on its hand mixers, but older beaters may fit. This is good to know, because I am using the dough hooks from my previous mixer with my new HM-70. Dough hooks (CHM-DH) can be ordered from Cuisinart on its website for $5.00 plus shipping (see parts for the CHM-5SS hand mixer.) HEY CUISINART!!! -- YOU THINK MAYBE YOU MIGHT INCLUDE SOME DOUGH HOOKS INSTEAD OF A SPATULA THAT CAN BE BOUGHT IN ANY DIME STORE??? The HM-70 has one design flaw which keeps it from getting a top-rating. The "Eject" lever is flimsy and barely has enough leverage to eject the beaters. The ejector leverage is adequate for the Cuisinart beaters and whisk, but the dough hooks from my old mixer had a fit slightly snugger. The "Eject" lever did not have enough leverage to eject the non-Cuisinart dough hooks. I fixed this problem by carefully using a small, fine metal file to file down the diameter of the dough hook tips. Now they eject as easily as the Cuisinart beaters using the HM-70 "Eject" lever. Overall, I am happy with my Cuisinart HM-70, but I have only it once, so far. I can't say how well it will hold up after long-term regular use, but it does have a 3 year warranty. Because of the flimsy "Eject" lever and the lack of dough hooks, I have to give this mixer only 4 stars out of 5.

Is it kinky to say that you love your hand mixer? Oh c'mon, everyone - I am using it for cooking. After going through probably seven cheaper models in the last 10-12 years, I finally feel like I have a mixer that will last for a while. It is a little hefty weight-wise but comfortably balanced and I have not had a problem using it while holding onto a mixing bowl with the other hand. The three mixers I had prior to this one did not have slow speeds so I really appreciate the "slow start" feature. It makes cleanup of my work area much easier. I thought at first that the beaters themselves (with no center post) would be too flimsy for heavy cookie dough, etc. but they work just great - and clean up is easier because of that feature. The swivel cord is nice. It seems like I was always turning around before to reach for something and wrapping myself up in the cord. No such problem with this mixer. I have used it on cookie doughs, candies, quick breads, brownies, pancakes, waffles, mashing potatoes, gravies and sauces. It is a real workhorse of a mixer and as I said, I love it. It has been well worth the price. I am pretty sure I bought this mixer because of a recommendation I saw in Cook's Illustrated magazine, comparing different brands and models. Oh, noise wise - I am partially deaf so it doesn't seem overly loud to me. And no one in my family has said anything about the noise.

Very pretty ! 😃. Not too heavy, new style beaters & powerful speeds. Lives up to its name for quality ! Mixes very well for a hand held mixer. Highly recommend.

******See the end of this review for a 4 year update.****** I was in the market for a new hand held mixer after the KitchenAid that I got for Christmas a couple of years back died an ignominious death while making a simple batch of chocolate chip cookies. I have a twenty year old, Heavy Duty, 325 watt KitchenAid stand mixer that has never let me down and I expected better from their hand held mixer. I could go on, but that's another story. I had my search narrowed down to this seven speed Cuisinart and the Dualit (made in England) hand mixers and decided to go with the Cuisinart partly because it was lower in cost and partly because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get parts or repair support for the Dualit in case it ever needed it. Cuisinart is a major supplier of kitchen electrics in the USA and service centers are nearly everywhere. The Cuisinart boasts 7 speeds, and there are truly 7 different speeds. The first speed is quite slow, unlike the low speed of the Dualit, while the highest speed is quite brisk. All of the different speeds are achieved electronically through an electronic control circuit contained within the handle of the appliance. Initially, I was concerned about this. Old fashioned appliances, like my KitchenAid stand mixer, achieve different speeds by analog means in which a series of resistors (actually, a variable resistive coil) is used to control the voltage to the motor and, thereby, control the motors speed. This is a very simple and effective means of controlling no load speeds. However, the downside is that as the mixture that you are mixing becomes thicker, the machine will slow down as the amount of energy going to the motor stays constant unless you turn up the speed control. In an electronic control, the amount of energy going to the motor is changed not by changing the voltage to the motor but by changing the width of the energy pulse to the motor. As the load on the motor increases because of a thicker mixture, a feedback sensor detects the slowdown in the motor speed and adds more energy automatically to the motor in an attempt to keep the speed constant. (At this point in my attempt to describe how this thing works, my wife's eyes have now fully glazed over and she has transitioned into a catatonic state. No worries. What this mumbo-jumbo means is that if you want medium speed and your mixture is thin whipping cream, you get medium speed. Likewise, if you want medium speed and you have a thick refrigerator cookie dough, you get medium speed.) Another neat trick with electronic speed control is that you can control how fast the start up of the beaters are. In an old fashioned mixer, as soon as you turn on the switch, full power for that speed is delivered to the motor. In this electronic Cuisinart, the power is increased slowly until you get to the selected speed. This is the so-called "soft start" that the company advertises. And it really works, if imperfectly. I say imperfectly because the power up actually overshoots slightly the target speed before it slows down and stabilizes. This is not a big problem because the extra speed is only for a fraction of a second and, truth be told, most users won't notice this. The fact that it starts up slowly is a real advantage for not blowing around your ingredients when you first turn it on. The controls themselves are quite clean and elegant. There is a tall, push button on/off switch that is easily pressed and two push button membrane switches to adjust the speed up and down. All the switches are easily activated with your thumb without loss of control of the mixer. A single digit LED display tells you what speed you are in. When you turn it on, it automatically starts off in the slowest speed. The beater release is an index finger operated trigger instead of the more typical button on the top or lever on the bottom. The beater release works extremely well. So well, in fact, that I've accidentally ejected the beaters while trying to get a stronger grip on the handle when beating a thick cookie dough. I'm a fairly big guy with meaty hands and I have no trouble getting a good grip on the mixer. For those of smaller stature, just be aware that this is a beefy mixer and is definitely larger than the GE mixer that I had handed down to me by my mom over thirty years ago. The beater ejection trigger seems somewhat soft as it has some give on it before the beaters eject. However, I've given it a good pull with far more force than is needed to eject the beaters and don't believe that it will break without obvious abuse. The trigger itself bottoms out solidly in the opening of the mixer housing, so there is no reason to pull on it with more force once it has bottomed out. There are other nice touches on the mixer that shows that the designer of this appliance knew what he was doing. The cord is on a swivel so that it can be positioned out of the way for right or left handed users. The back is flat so that you can easily rest it on its end with the beaters above the bowl. All exterior surfaces are rounded off so that the mixer is easy to wipe clean without any crevices for splash-off to collect and slowly harden over the years. Even the beaters are designed so that there is no center post to complicate cleaning. The beaters work well as does the included whisk. I was actually kind of leery of the usefulness of the whisk at first because it seems so thin and flimsy compared to my hand held whisks. However, I whipped up two cups of heavy cream to stiff peaks in about two minutes. I started off at the lowest speed until the mixture thickened slightly and then gradually cranked up the speed until maximum. No muss, no fuss, and no drops of cream sprayed all over the table. The whisk looks flimsy but works well. As far as power goes, the mixer is listed at 225 watts, the same as some low end KitchenAid stand mixers. I mixed up a batch of stone cookies, my stiffest cookie dough recipe, with the hand mixer in order to test its power. (My thinking was that it was better to break it now and return it under warranty rather than find out later that it couldn't handle the dough.) It did an admirable job of handling the double recipe. I don't think I would use the hand mixer again, though, as it was too hard to hold the bowl steady with one hand and the mixer with the other. The dough was so stiff that I had a hard time controlling the mixer as it pushed its way through the dough and cut it into small pieces. The motor slowed down from its top speed (and full power) but it never bogged down completely. I had the mixer on at full power for about a minute and didn't notice any burning smell from an overheated motor. The engineers did a good job on this one. Now, I'm sure that if I had kept on mixing the dough for about ten minutes I would have burned out the motor from overheating it under heavy load. But I would consider this blatant abuse and to be an unrealistic expectation. Likewise, I wouldn't consider mixing bread dough with a hand mixer when a heavy duty stand mixer is the more appropriate solution. (Though I am sure that there are those out there that would use a pocket knife to try and cut down a tree.) The only negative that I will give this mixer is that it is somewhat noisy. The cooling fan is mounted on the motor shaft in the front of the mixer housing and lets out a high pitched whine when in the higher speeds. It sounds somewhat like a jet engine or a vacuum cleaner, but certainly much quieter than either. The fan does a good job of keeping the motor cool and long lived. Covering the air opening at the front of the mixer makes it almost silent but would, undoubtedly, cause the motor to overheat and shorten its life considerably. Overall, I give this mixer a full five stars for meeting my expectations. Only time will tell if the electronics and motor will hold up over time. But for now, this mixer works very well for what it was intended for. I'm always wary of electronic items because, generally, when they go bad the device is generally a throw-a-way as it would cost too much to fix. Such is the nature of electronics. FOUR YEAR UPDATE: Well, it's been four years since I wrote this review and it's time for an update. After living with this mixer for a while, I have some thoughts on improvements. The power cord has a swivel that lets the cord point to the left or right when it is set to rest on the table. Every time I tried to set the mixer down on its end, the cord would get in my way, as the cord would hang straight down, and I would have to flip it to the side so that the mixer wouldn't fall over. To solve this problem, I just hot glued the cord in place so that it stayed out of my way. If I was the designer, I would put a detent on the cord swivel so that it would stay in place when rotated to the right or left. Secondly, the cord does not stay wrapped around the body of the mixer when it is stored. I know that this is a nit, but I like to wrap my cord a couple of times around the mixer and somehow lock it in place. The current body design lets the cord slip off too easily when wrapped this way so I end of having to roll up the cord into a bundle and secure it with the cord tie. I don't have a quick fix for this. Surprisingly, Cuisinart has not updated this hand mixer with a design change. Usually, consumer goods are "restyled" after a couple of years, but this mixer seems unchanged. Which is probably a good thing since there is a lot that is "right" with this mixer that a redesign might possibly screw up. But then, it wouldn't take much to make this mixer "perfect" in my eyes. Aside from these nits, my mixer is still going strong with no problems. I would buy it again. Only time will tell if it will last as long as the hand me down GE hand mixer that my mom gave me when I went away to college. That mixer was probably 20 years old when she gave it to me and it lasted another twenty years before it died. FINALLY, what's up with the Amazon comments on reviews? There used to be over 40 comments on this review, some which had some very interesting information to add. All of a sudden, all the older reviews have disappeared. What's up with that?

I would echo many of the reviews that have been written so far about this product. The pros Excellent power- I have had no problems mixing up whatever I wanted to with this mixer. I'm not crazy with my mixer though. I'll use my big KitchenAid for big projects. I think it's ridiulous people try and use one product for everything. I say that because I needed to purchase a new mixer when my mother in law decided to make a double batch of roll dough with our old hand mixer... The whisk attachment- This thing rocks. It can whip cream and egg whites in no time. I would highly recommend a mixer with a which attachment. I also like that there is no central rod in the middle of the beater attachments. It makes it much easier to clean. I haven't noticed any degradation in quality by that either. (The replacements are fairly cheap, also) Cons The slow start... isn't as slow as I would have hoped. I actually bought this more expensive one for that very reason. Needless to say, I am a little disappointed. I wouldn't recommend buying this product if it's for the slow start. Overall, we love this mixer and would recommend it to anyone.

This mixer is fitted with the latest technology in motor speed control. If you set it on to it will only reach the maximum speed of two or if it needs to increase the power it will do that as well. Really like this mixer for that feature cord swivels And very reliable.

Très satisfaite, en 15 ans c'est mon 2e identique.

Nothing to dislike. I love my mixer. Would not want to be without it. It is my 2nd. And I highly recommend it.

A little on the heavy side but still can be used with ease. Great sleek looking and super easy to clean.

I had my doubts because this was a refurbished unit. But no issues, quick delivery, perfect, line new.