StirMATE OMNI-XL Stainless Steel Stirrer attachment for up to 5-Gallon pots. (Updated Nov 2024)

I was simply amazed at how much better my life became with this stirrer. I make 10 quarts of yogurt every week that has to be heated to 180 degrees and has to be stirred often and better constantly. This baby allows me to do something else while it is heating. It does it so well that I was able to forget about heating one day and came into the kitchen to find it boiling and boiled over onto the stove. Ha! I thought my milk was ruined, but this stirrer kept it from scorching to complete burn and was still able to use the milk for my yogurt which was quite the surprise as the milk did not taste scorched. The brown stuff on the bottom of the pan didn’t get mixed into the milk due to the plastic pads on the stirrer and the brown stuff scrubbed off easily as opposed to a few past scorches I’ve had while stirring myself. I love this baby.

The stirmate device with this high temperature, large pot add-on worked perfectly for a huge pot of gumbo my husband made. Finally a way to brown the rue without standing over the stove the entire time. Highly recommended if you love thick gumbo, but lack patience.

The rubber tube's they provide are impossible to put on.

Once every few months I make a large (5 gallon) stock pot of soup, freezing in smaller portions when I am done. Many of the soups, like split pea soup, need constant stirring to avoid sticking to the bottom of the pot. If they do stick, they tend to burn easily ruining the whole pot of soup. If you have a stirMATE stirrer you know the value. If not, it automatically stirs your pot for you. This attachment is just the right size for the deeper and wider 5 gallon stock pots. Now when I am slowing cooking 5 gallons of soup, my stirMATE is constantly stirring the batch, allowing me to check on it periodically rather than standing there constantly manually stirring.

I was told by the manufacturer to buy this metal stirring wand to use for making caramel because the plastic one wand warped from the length of time stirring the hot caramel - even though the temperature never went above 230F. This metal wand has a small knob at the tip that doesn't allow the lowest stirring piece scrape the bottom of the pan. So you still have to stir the bottom of the pan. Disappointed to say the least.

The add for this item is misleading, it shows a photo of the motor and the stainless steel stirrer. I thought I was buying the both. So I had to order the Stirmate somewhere else, because it couldn't be shipped to my address.

I bought this to enhance my Stirmate when I am canning. It does a great job in the taller pot.

I absolutely LOVE this contraption! It works beautifully and I cannot imagine life as a farmers market vendor without it. I bought my StirMate a year ago and after a few uses had an issue with a center plastic piece melting. I called the number on the packaging and was amazed to be speaking with the inventor himself. He agreed that the original center piece had a flaw in its heating point and replaced it with the revised version. I’m back at the Salsa pot and happy to be doing my other Market chores while StirMate does my stirring for me.