The Best Hand Mixers Available in Canada of 2026

The Braun MultiMix wowed us with its speed and performance on almost all tests as well as its convenience. Cake batter was ready to go in the oven a full five minutes sooner than from almost every other mixer. And although it doesn’t come with a whisk, we got the highest volume while whipping egg whites by far using the mixing beaters. On this model, the weight of the motor is upfront and not under the handle, which makes it easy to hold during time-consuming tasks. However, this configuration also makes it tall, and therefore it moved less fluidly through thick oatmeal cookie dough than some of the others.

The speed dial is very easy to set from one to nine or Turbo boost before you turn the Braun on and if you stop to scrape or check on your progress you don’t have to reset the speed when you continue. This is the only mixer without air vents, making for easy cleanup with no batter to pick out of slots. All of the beaters can be safely cleaned in the dishwasher and you get a bag to store them in to prevent them from getting lost.

Everything from whipped cream to sponge cake to oatmeal cookies came out perfect when we used the KitchenAid 7-Speed. However, we found the controls unintuitive to set. There’s an on/off button that you press first. Then you select your speed with up and down arrows. The speeds themselves are displayed in bars on a lighted display above the on/off switch so you find yourself doing a lot of thinking about what you’re pressing. And every time you stop, you have to go through the whole process again. Even though this mixer costs a bundle (you can also choose from eight colours), it doesn’t come with dough hooks or a storage accessory of any kind. The manual is quite thorough, and the attachments can be popped in the dishwasher.

Breville’s the Handy Mix Scraper comes loaded with an impressive array of features. To operate it, you press “on” and then select one of nine speeds. As soon as mixing starts, a light shines down on the bowl and a timer starts counting up. There’s a pause button so that if you interrupt mixing to stir or add ingredients, you can keep track of your mixing time. While in theory this sounds like a great feature for when a recipe specifies a specific number of minutes, we found we often pressed “off” instead and lost track of time. (We kept a stopwatch going to capture our test results.) Speed recommendations are right on the body of the mixer. The beaters are coated with rubber and when beating, this mixer was the quietest of all we tested—in fact, it just about purrs.

According to Breville, the Handy Mix has Beater IQ that senses the attachments and adjusts the speed regardless of the setting. Despite this, we didn’t find that the Breville offered top-notch mixing performance. It was one of the slower models and the only one that struggled a bit to knead enough dough for two loaves of bread. Although it comes with two whisks instead of one, it didn’t whip up particularly airy egg whites. Plus, at more than 2 .5 pounds, it was heavy and hard to hold continuously for more than a minute or so. However, cookies, cake, and bread all rose high in the oven and came out evenly browned and tender.

With a trigger that makes it easy to release the beaters, a plug that’s easy to pull out of the socket, dishwasher safe attachments, and a storage case to corral all the parts, this mixer is easy to care for. But we’re not sure that all the benefits justify the very steep price tag for a hand mixer that’s not first in its class in mixing performance.

Talk about no-frills! The Hamilton Beach model even has the old-fashioned beaters with posts in the center rather than the wire ones that are now standard on most mixers. And dough hooks are not included. There’s simply one control that you push forward to both turn on and select one of the six speeds, and then push down to eject the beaters. However, this mixer gets the job done and was even faster than many at mixing sponge cake batter and oatmeal cookie dough. You have to hand wash the attachments, but cleaning is not particularly difficult even with the center post. The one extra you get is quite useful: a case for the attachments that the mixer snaps onto for neat storage.

There’s a lot to love about this five-speed hand mixer. The Black and Decker Helix is lightweight and ergonomic handle, it’s decidedly easy to hold. On whipping cream and egg whites and kneading bread dough, it was one of the fastest workers. However, in our testing, it had a fatal flaw: It spattered everywhere when we mixed up the cookie dough, spewing dough, oats, and raisins all over the counter and walls. The nylon-coated beaters are unusually designed in a helix formation. According to Black and Decker, they are supposed to mix in multiple directions, covering more ground. This may account for its speed but also for the splattering. For storage, the mixer snaps onto a case containing all the beaters that are top-rack dishwasher safe.

At first glance, the small, lightweight, brightly coloured Dash Go SmartStore mixer with a single set of beaters seems like a toy, not a serious appliance. But although it was one of the slower performers in our tests, it was able to competently handle all the mixing tasks we threw its way; it doesn’t include dough hooks so we didn’t even attempt to knead bread. The Dash didn’t create the fluffiest whipped cream and didn’t move as easily through cookie dough as we would have liked, but it still produced beautiful cookies as well as tender sponge cakes. The handle is not particularly ergonomic and there are only three speeds, which are not easy to differentiate between. However, on the plus side, the beaters snap onto the body for storage, making the mixer easy to stash away or carry with you. If a rock bottom price is your priority and you’re never going to try your hand at bread, this mixer is worth consideration.