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I don’t really like electrical appliances. I use a manual whisk (Google translate turns hjulpisker into auxiliary whisk) for everything “whisky” even though we have a vitamix thing that cost more than my MacBook Air.

So I’m an idiot like that, and you might expect me to use a manual drill (I guess it would be auxiliary drill if Google translate is right), and until I bought a house you would have been right. Now I own both an electrical drill and a drill hammer. So while my whipped cream still takes a few minutes more than an electro mixer you won’t ever find me drilling a hole without a power tool. It’s just not worth it.

Great article though, it’s nice to see all the options covered.

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How dumb of an idea would it be to somehow attach your electric drill to your manual whisk handle?

There’s an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown chucks a cordless drill onto a pepper grinder to pretty good effect.

I’ve done this with my coffee mill. The grind shaft is a hex and the chuck connects perfectly. I like to do it manually normally, but the kids get a kick out of turbo grind mode.

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I saw that episode and imitated with my Milwaukee cordless drill. It's very very good.

The whisk actually works like the electric ones. It has two “whisks” and then it has some sort of wheel that you turn around to make them spin. It’s really astonishing how something so simple can challenge my English so much lol. But you can get drills that work in a similar fashion, I know because we had them at carpentry class when I was in what we call folkeskolen, so maybe the school that you go to before high school?

I've done basically that but with a beater; you have to run the drill quite slow but it works.

It's tough to overemphasize just how good electric drills are. Even the hand tool obsessed people will use them.

I don't think the whisk technique would work to make mayo. Or you must be much, much stronger than I am.

Mayo is really not difficult to hand whisk. It's pretty much the only way I make it, which is once every week or two. Blenders are nice when you need a larger quantity, but for a small amount I find them to be a nuisance.

I use a stick blender in a 2-cup pyrex measuring cup. Seems to make the perfect amount in about 30s.

I've made mayo with a hand whisk, it doesn't require very vigorous beating as it does patience to not add the oil too quickly.

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