A mixer in cooking is a tool used to mix together ingredients such as by beating, whisking, kneading or stirring the ingredients.
Mixers are a kitchen appliance that combines together ingredients in order to achieve a desired consistency.
For example in baking mixers are a common tool, where the mixers are used to make cakes, pastries, breads, cookies etc.
Mixers can also be used to grind meat, shred chicken, make sausage and meatloaf etc.
Mixers can also be used to dice, spiralize and slice vegetables.
Mixers can also be used to cream butter and sugar until it's fluffy.
Mixers including hand mixers can also be used to mix and mash mashed potatoes after the potatoes have cooked and makes it faster than doing so by hand.
A stand mixer such as the KitchenAid Stand Mixer can also spiralize vegetables, dice vegetables, slice vegetables and shred chicken.
Stand mixers are very popular and are often used on baking shows and by bakeries to help make dough's, cakes, breads and pastries.
Mixers help to make the repetitive tasks of beating, whisking and stirring of ingredients much easier than doing so by hand.
When a mixer has a dough hook installed the mixer can also be used to knead bread dough.
Mixers can also be handheld and used to beat eggs and other ingredients as well.