A kitchen tool used for mixing or whipping ingredients, or anything that strikes or hits repeatedly.
Beater comes from 'beat' plus the agent suffix '-er' (one who beats). As kitchen equipment became standardized in the Victorian era, specific names like 'egg beater' and 'cake beater' emerged.
The electric egg beater was invented in 1859 and became wildly popular—it's one of those inventions that seems simple now but saved hours of arm-tiring manual whisking!
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