On 12/18/2020 5:18 PM, wrote:
> On Friday, December 18, 2020 at 4:03:14 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> while I was out in the car I was listening to an
>> interview with a master gingerbread maker. She spoke about growing up in
>> Argentina and having to whip egg whites with a fork and the special
>> technique involved. Then one day her parents bought a mixer and how
>> thrilled she was to have this new technology that made beating egg
>> whites to much easier. It was a hand powered mixer. I remember those
>> things from my youth. I don't think I ever owned one myself, but my
>> mother had one.
>>
> https://i.postimg.cc/DzjHfdw0/Mixer.jpg
>
Now *that* is an old hand mixer. I do remember those. I think my Mom had
one a hundred years ago. I do have a 1980 electric hand mixer. It still
works too because I rarely use it. Mostly for making pancake batter
these days and I rarely do that.