Customer Reviews

Black & Decker MX250 Power Pro Hand Mixer, White

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This mixer should be renamed to Black & Decker jet engine. On the lowest speed, it is as fast as any normal mixer. Settings 2-5 (as well as the extremely useless "power boost") are worthless. Save yourself the time and trouble and buy one that has a full range of useable speeds. As far as build quality, it does have decent construction. That doesn't make it useable, though.

I took the mixer out of the box, inserted the beaters and turned it on just to try it out. I was shocked at the "lowest" speed. It was like the highest speed on my old mixer. Upon first use I learned was right. I placed the beaters in the bowl to cream butter/sugar. I had butter flying all over the kitchen. Then I tried adding the dry ingredients. Flourstorm!! I had to mix it in by hand until it was wet before I could use the mixer again. I wondered if, at that speed, I was completely overworking the flour and my banana bread would be too tough. Definitely returning. I imagine it would be great for the hard to mix things like doughs, but there's no useable low speed.

I got it to replace an older, weak Sunbeam or summat that was rated at 100 watts, I broke that mixing some Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. I agree on the other reviews about it's speed, OMG it's so fast at 1!! I can't imagine why you would need the other 4 speeds (2-5) OR the POWER BOOST!..well maybe the BOOST on #1 for abit more torque/power on really thick dough. Try mixing up some flower and powdery stuff alone..you can do it, but I was worried that it would go flying everywhere.

Don't get me wrong, it worked through some Gingerbread cookie dough & another batch of C.C. cookie dough just fine...but OMG it is so fast.

These newer wire type whisks work great and clean up quick, hardly any of the dough stuck to them after a quick spin in the air. But I noticed when cleaning these B&D wisks that they seem to be a bit flimsy. I almost pulled one out of the socket/hole on the wisks shaft.

Other than that, it's a decent well built hand mixer. Just if they (B&D) lowered the speeds, and made the wisks more robust (and maybe with stainless steel), this would be a great buy.

If you want speed control, spend afew extra bucks on a Cuisinart or Kitchen Aid.

I purchased this from a local discount store. I made cookie dough once and it pooped out on me. I returned it to the store and they replaced it with the same mixer. Again, I took it home. I use my mixer at most once a month for cookie dough or cake mixes. I have had it for over 6 months, but it has quit on me again. I give up!

This item is severely overpowered. I thought at first that I had bought a lemon, but I see from other reviews that it was designed this way. The lowest speed is way too fast, and it has a Turbo button. Use it for a bass fishing motor--it can't be used for mixing.

As everyone else has said, the speed settings on this thing are ridiculous. You have five versions of "too fast" with a boost button to make things even worse. Black and Decker includes this alleged bowl scraper attachment, which they say is suppose to conveniently scrape the sides of the bowl while you mix. Closer to the truth is the flexible attachment that snaps onto the beaters helps to minimize food flying out of the bowl due to the overkill speeds. But it doesn't help enough. It's too fast and you lose control of the mixing process because of that.

This mixer sort of looks like a modified Kitchen Aid hand mixer. Believe me, it isn't. Don't waste your money on this one. You would think they took some leftover power drill works and modified them into a hand mixer.

If you want to use the dough hooks that are shown with the product, then Do not buy this product!!! I was interested in this product after seeing the dough hook attachments in a local Walmart. What was delivered had such flimsy beaters that they were damaged by bread dough!!! The product was advertised to have special bread dough attachments that are not part of what is delivered. I spent over an hour to find the attachments that were advertised to be part of the product. Buyer Beware!!!

I have owned this mixer for several years now. I'm currently looking online for replacement beaters as mine have rusted. It has been a very good quality mixer for the price, however as the other reviews have mentioned, way too fast on low setting. I have to turn it on then off several times even on low setting just to begin mixing dough.