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egg beater vs whisk

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The Bob

I'd actually say an eggbeater is a separate tool from a whisk. An eggbeater has a crank (see wiki), while a whisk is entirely hand-powered.

That said, I understand if we don't want to get that granular. But eggbeater is a word.

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Veraducks

Eggbeater is already aliased to whisk and thus does not need to be nuked.
In addition, don't assume your google search is the same as everyone else's.

Lastly, I'm noticing that whisk and mixer_(cooking) need some cleanup. An egg beater is not a whisk, so that alias is a bit weird. And mixer is filled with blenders, spatulas, and whisks (post #4805887, post #5124127, post #3799428 respectively), so there's likely some kind of ESL barrier with these items.

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aquamarin

Veradux said:

Eggbeater is already aliased to whisk and thus does not need to be nuked.
In addition, don't assume your google search is the same as everyone else's.

In that very image you show, the search results say "Egg Beater", but I won't be anal about a single space. Dropping the nuke request.

The_Bob said:

I'd actually say an eggbeater is a separate tool from a whisk. An eggbeater has a crank (see wiki), while a whisk is entirely hand-powered.

That said, I understand if we don't want to get that granular. But eggbeater is a word.

I also found out egg beaters are technically different: https://smallkitchenguide.com/difference-between-a-whisk-egg-beater/
Should we bother distinguishing them? That would mean we should unalias eggbeater.

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Veraducks

Per the mixer_(cooking) wiki, both the electric and handheld eggbeaters are counted under that tag. Given that electric hand mixers are called, well, electric hand mixers as well as electric eggbeaters, it is a non-granularity that I am perfectly fine with.

...as soon as I finished gardening it to not be 50% blenders.

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