Hi Everyone,
CheapBargains have added the Sunbeam MX8500 Mixmaster to our range and we dropped the price to $199 + shipping. The Recommended Retail Price is $299.
The Mixmaster has a powerful 500 watt motor with 12 speed settings in a heavy duty die-cast metal body.
Available colours: Stainless Steel, Red Apple and Lemonade Yellow.
Cheers,
CheapBargains.
Yes it is. Sorry. Doing to many things at once. Has been corrected.
I saw these at the Good Guys for $199 less for cash. I got my from Target for $149 about 3 weeks ago.
I picked mine up from Target for $149 yesterday. Midland, WA still have some in stock. Few other WA located Target stores also. Have you made much use of yours yet?
Unpacked only and not used, and the red one looks great.
this or kitchenaid or kogan $99?
i knead it for dough
I have used a cheaper Sunbeam mixer (MX5950) for dough, making about 900g of pizza dough each week for two years (plus other stuff at times, but mainly dough). It still goes, but it has become apparent that it isn't really designed for it (I think it would keep going for a few years still).
This model is much better suited, with a metal body and bigger motor.
Having said that, a planetary mixer is supposedly much better suited for dough, and is what I will buy when I upgrade. Sunbeam make good stuff, particularly their higher end gear.
I bought one of these last year for $375 … put a single load of dough through it and it broke. Returned it for a full refund, and bought the Sunbeam hand-mixer for $60 …
Hand-mixer does everything this thing can do, and hasn't broken yet.
I got the impression from using it, that this model is a little more "plasticy" than the ones preceeding it. Also not stainless steel, despite looking so in the picture.
Would not recommend.
We have always made our bread by hand, but recently bought the planetary mixmaster MX9200 and it made the bread so much better and more consistent. Even with the 1000w motor it stull chugs a bit sometimes, but once it comes together it zooms through it.
Tread carefully with this Mixer. I wont neg this deal as it may have just been my extreme bad luck but I purchased one of these a few years ago and the motor literally 'popped' as soon as I turned it on. I took it back to DJs and swapped it for another as it was literally only about 5 minutes old… and the same thing happened! It took two more swaps until I got one that worked and there was nothing wrong with my power or anything! Searching the internet it seems others have had similar failures too so it seems it may have been a problem with one particular batch.
The working unit I kept worked pretty well apart from the motor sounding a bit 'crunchy'… that was until it got lost during a recent house move :( To put it bluntly I wont be buying another Sunbeam to replace it that's for sure.
errr.. isnt it Sunbeam?