StirMATE OMNI-XL Stainless Steel Stirrer attachment for up to 5-Gallon pots.

The stirrer worked flawlessly. I used it to make 3 quarts of roux, letting it run continuously for 9 hours, while the roux cooked on a low flame. Using the silicone tubes on the bottom metal paddle, the process left zero scratches. It was quite impressive. NOTE: I'm inquiring the size of the silicone tubing, as the Stirmate website offers no information, nor does it offer that item as a replacement part. It may be 1/4" food-grade high-heat tubing, but no confirmation as yet.

Works well, but expensive.

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

Make sure you have pots big enough. It works great on very large pots. The one that comes with the auto stirrer works great on most large pots.

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.

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.

This is unusable. The adapter keeps slipping off. See video. This adapter looks different than the one in the other videos. Did the manufacturer change something?

We were excited to try the StirMATE! I cook in large quantities owning 2 heavy 20 quart SS pots. The first try with this product was a large pot of chili. We used the bottom 2 sets of holes and 1 more paddle halfway up the pot. It looked like it was doing a good job, the top of the pot never looked unstirred. However since the large pot attachment does not wipe the bottom of the pot, we had more burnt chili on the bottom of the pan than ever before. So in this test, the results were worse than hand stirring. We did hand stir it a few times but failed. It might work for soup or tomato sauce. I doubt it would work on applesauce. Sadly a waste of our money hopefully StirMate will redesign the product, I know I will.