Customer Reviews

Sunbeam 2371 MixMaster Stand Mixer, White

5 star:		(57)
4 star:		(21)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(15)

 

 

I refused to pay $300.00 for a standmixer, and am glad to have found this one ! The glass bowls are very roomy and the height of the mixer allows ample room to work. The assortment of beaters should allow everyone to mix away ! The 350 watts of power helped blend a peanut butter cookie which can become thick. I found clean up quite easy with the glass bowls and the shape of the beaters, not alot of crevices for sticking.

The only negative is I was expecting a metal cast mixer. This one has alot of plastic/pvc to it. This makes me nervous as far as durability over years of use, as mentioned in the other reviews I was looking for one just like my Mom had. So far it has performed as I expected.

After hard thought, I just bought this to replace a Sunbeam 2366 purchased a couple of years ago, which looks identical except for the size of the motor. My 2366 became unusable as a stand machine because I was too rough trying to attach the mixer to the stand and broke the rather fragile plastic thingies in the stand that supported the attachment lever (so I'll be more careful with the new one). If I'd paid $500, I would be deeply disgruntled.

But I didn't pay $500, I paid $79, and my simple math tells me I can buy 6 of these for the cost of one KitchenAid with metal gears (do read the reviews about the plastic gears if you are seriously looking at the less expensive KitchenAid!). If this machine is as good as its predessor, it will do as fine a job of mixing as my daughter's KitchenAid, it's head tilts, and you can add ingredients while it's running, all of which are important to me. I do not do bread with it, I use my incredible $39 Sunbeam bread machine for that.

Yes, the Mixmaster is less prestigious than a KitchenAid, yes, you can spatter stuff on the ceiling with it, and yes, you have to attend it or it can get up enuf spin speed to empty the bowl (an awesome experience). Yes, the bowls are heavy and I have gotten smears on my shirt pouring batter into a pan.

But altogether, I think it's a great machine for the price and deserves the 5 stars I gave it!

This is a nice basic mixer if you do not plan on tripling your recipe, etc.

Amazon was wonderful when I had to replace the first one within 30 days because it burned out when I tripled by cookie recipe. So even though it was more powerful than my previous mixer, it somehow doesn't do well in thick dough. And I had not even put in the last 1/3 of the flour. So be careful what you mix. It is what you pay for.

Needed a basic mixer that will actually mix what I throw at it. This does and I didn't have to spend 200 bucks to make me happy.

The Sunbeam mixer was purchased for my wife and this is her review.
I like it very much. It's quiet, includes dough hooks and whisks and most important, glass bowls. I prefer glass versus steel bowls because I believe the mixing is easier and better. This mixer is made well and for the price is hard to beat.

Great mixer, wonderful price...mixes up cookies, cakes, bars, you name it! It even does stiff dough like gingerbread and monster cookies.

We received a nearly identical Sunbeam mixer as a gift a little under a year ago. It was broken out-of-the-box. Even though it was unused, with all packaging, Sunbeam refused to repair or replace it. We needed a receipt. We opened it up, and fixed it. The mixer had been assembled incorrectly at the factory -- the knob in back was mounted improperly.

We've used the mixer for 10 months. The motor recently broke. I called Sunbeam again, to see if I could finagle repairs on the lightly used mixer without a receipt. Sunbeam replaced its telephone line with an automated services. You hit buttons for an insanely long time (much longer than any other company I've seen), and then... you get an automated recording. You can never get to an operator -- there are none. All you get is a massive (intentionally slow) navigation through their product line to tell them what product you have, followed by a long list of "helpful" hints (such as checking whether the product is plugged in -- press 2 if it is), and finally, the addresses of authorized service centers.

I called their main corporate line to complain. The operator gave me numbers for two of their people. Both went straight to voicemail. I left two friendly recording explaining the situation and asking for a callback. Neither called me back.

This mixes dough very well and is quite easy to use. Cleanup is a breeze. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is that the beaters break easily. I had to replace one after only 2 months of using it.

I'm sure not everyone is as lucky as I was to get this on sale for $69 and free shipping, but if you are, scarf it up fast. This is really nice and works beautiful. I remember my mothers when I was younger, and she loved it. I finally got myself one, and it works even better than I remember when I was growing up. You can't go wrong with this unit!

The mixer came exactly as promised and way before the committed delivery date. The mixer works like a champ and is much easier for my elderly mom to lift.