AKA electric RG28

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Hand mixer and mixer AKA electric RG28s

The AKA electric RG28 is an electric hand mixer and mixer that was manufactured in the VEB Elektrogerätewerk Suhl combine in the GDR and also sold in the Federal Republic of the Quelle mail order company under the Privilege brand .

Details

AKA electric was a brand name for electrical appliances from the German Democratic Republic. The letters "RG" stand for "mixer". With the RG28 you can not only stir, mix and puree , but also chop raw vegetables, grind scissors and open cans , for which additional accessories exist. The design comes from the product designer Kurt Boeser . A total of around 18 million copies were made, with both white, yellow and orange cases. After 1990 the production was stopped.

rating

Thanks to its robustness and durability, the RG28 is still in use in many households today. For a single device without accessories, at least 35 euros had to be paid in used goods shops in 2020, and 110 euros for a set with coffee grinder . In December 2020, in the test magazine of Stiftung Warentest , a 40-year-old RG28 received the ratings "very good" (1.0) for the load capacity, "good" (2.0) for the safety and "sufficient" (3.7 ) for the noise with which the RG28 could easily keep up with modern devices.

Video

  • In 2014, the DDR-TV-Archiv series released the double DVD Das Beste aus dem Ratgeber-TV , which contains the first episode of the cooking and household program HAPS from December 5, 1983, in which, among other things, the RG28 was presented.
  • The documentary Are Mixers Going to Heaven? by Reinhard Günzler from 2016, using the example of the RG28, dealt with the contrast between robust and durable household items and the planned obsolescence that is often encountered today in the throwaway society .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Why the GDR cult mixer RG 28 Stiftung Warentest is convincing. In: www.mdr.de. December 8, 2020, accessed December 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Report by T. Niemann, M. Weidner and D. Zocher in Umschau , broadcast by MDR TV , December 8, 2020 at 8:15 p.m.
  3. ↑ Picture of an RG 28s mixer. DDR Museum Berlin , accessed on January 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ GDR cult Mixer RG28: Hero of Labor. In: www.test.de. November 19, 2020, accessed December 8, 2020 .