A handheld apparatus for mixing food product comprising a manual input and a drive structure comprising a drive input, wherein the manual input is operatively connected to the drive input to actuate the drive means, the drive means further comprising first and second drive outputs operatively coupled to the drive input and being arranged to simultaneously rotate the first drive output in a first direction and rotate the second drive output in a second direction and rotate both drive outputs in the second direction about the central axis of the apparatus, such that the number of revolutions completed by the first drive output is less than the number of revolutions completed by the second drive output each time the drive outputs complete a revolution about the central axis.

A combination whisk and spatula assembly includes a handle that has a flattened base and the handle is standable in an upright position having the flattened base resting on a horizontal support surface. A whisk is coupled to and extends away from the handle such that the whisk can be manipulated for mixing a fluid food material. A cup extends around the whisk and the cup captures fluid dripping from the whisk when the handle is stood upon the flattened base. A pair of blades is each coupled to the whisk and each of the blades has a curved profile. In this way each of the blades can be scraped against an inside surface of a mixing bowl for removing fluid food material from the inside surface of the mixing bowl.

A microwave whisk assembly for mixing food while in the microwave includes a whisk body having a top end and a bottom end. The bottom end has a receiving cavity extending towards the top end. A suction cup is coupled to the top end and is configured to selectively engage a roof of a microwave. Each of a plurality of whisk attachments includes an engagement shaft and a mixer extension. The engagement shaft has an upper end and a lower end. The engagement shall conforms to, and is selectively engageable with, the receiving cavity of the whisk body. The mixer extension is coupled to the lower end of the engagement shaft and is configured to mix the contents of a bowl rotating within the microwave.

A drinking straw has an outer straw member having a lower portion, an upper portion having a top, and a mixing element, the mixing element having radially expandable and retractable vane members defined by two longitudinal slits, an upper hinge attached to the upper portion and a lower hinge attached to the lower portion and an inner straw member located internal to said outer straw member, the inner straw member having a bottom and a top, wherein the lower portion of the outer straw member is attached to the inner straw member, the outer straw member movable between a retracted position and a deployed position where stop portions of both straw members engage with each other so that the mixing element vane members radially extend away from the inner straw member and wherein the vane members retract when the outer straw member is in its retracted position.

A device for mixing liquid material which a user shakes by hand up and down or left and right is provided. The device includes: a container that includes a space on an inner side extending in the longitudinal direction, and a grip shape on an outer side of the container; an opening-closing member; and a coil spring which has a constant winding diameter and moves freely inside the container in the longitudinal direction. Liquid material and the coil spring are contained in the container, the liquid material being obtained by mixing a material to be dispersed and liquid. A silencer is provided at the end of the coil spring. The device includes: a coil spring abutting part that abuts against and supports 80% of a planar spread formed by one winding of an end of the coil spring relative to the one winding; a first vertical wall and a second vertical wall which are two vertical walls which are perpendicular to the coil spring abutting part and also perpendicular to the coil constituting the coil spring, and are provided at limiting positions where the coil spring of the coil spring abutting part abuts; and a cylindrical wall that extends vertically opposite to the coil spring of the coil spring abutting part, and has an inner diameter set to be the outer diameter of the coil spring, wherein the first vertical wall and the second vertical wall each have two holes through which a coil constituting the coil spring can pass arranged side by side in a direction in which the coil spring extends.

An apparatus for agitating liquid foodstuff, comprising a whisk that includes a magnetic rotor of a brushless electromotor assembly, and a main body including a liquid foodstuff container in which the whisk is receivable such that it is rotatable around a rotation axis thereof, and a stator of the electromotor assembly. The stator is configured to electromagnetically drive the rotor in rotation, and includes at least one magnetic sensor configured to provide a signal that reflects positional changes of the magnetic rotor relative to the magnetic sensor. The main body also includes a controller configured to detect an initial, manually effected rotational movement of the whisk around its rotation axis from the signal of the magnetic sensor, and, once such initial movement of the whisk is detected, to operate the apparatus independent of said initial, movement.

A smoking skewer for imparting a smoke flavoring to an interior of a food item is disclosed. The smoking skewer includes an elongate hollow rod, a food penetrating point at the distal end and a handle is at the proximal end. An opening is also provided at the proximal end of the elongate hollow rod. A plurality of apertures are disposed in a spaced apart relation along the elongate hollow rod are dimensioned to convey a smoke source from the interior cavity to the exterior surface of the elongate hollow rod and the interior of a food item carried thereon. A mesh sleeve is carried within the interior cavity to contain ash and particulates from the smoke source. The smoke source may be a smoking stick, formed of a combustible material to generate a smoke flavoring combustion by product.

A small, non-powered, handheld and finger-manipulated mixing device adapted for stirring or mixing liquids or liquid/solid combinations in relatively small volume containers. The mixing device has an elongated rod-like main body with an agitation member disposed on its distal end. The main body is provided with a bounded shaft segment that is bounded proximally and distally by transition shoulders of greater diameter than the bounded shaft segment, thus providing a region to receive the thumb and finger of the user to spin the main body, with the transition shoulders preventing excessive movement in the axial direction during rotation.

The present invention is concerned with a culinary whisk with an elongate profile defining a longitudinal axis and having a proximal end and a distal end, comprising a handle portion and a utility portion, wherein the utility portion includes a plurality of wire loops, and wherein the wire loop has an asymmetric profile and includes an upper elongate leg portion and a lower foot portion and wherein each wire loop has a web member extending across a wire segment of the lower foot portion.

The present invention is concerned with a culinary whisk with an elongate profile defining a longitudinal axis and having a proximal end and a distal end, comprising a handle portion and a utility portion, wherein the utility portion includes a plurality of wire loops, and wherein the wire loop has an asymmetric profile and includes an upper elongate leg portion and a lower foot portion and wherein each wire loop has a web member extending across a wire segment of the lower foot portion.