How to use electric hand whisk in mixing bowl without huge mess

[LittleGreyFluffyCat]

I'd like to make this recipe here - www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/british/coffee-and-walnut-sponge-cake

She talks about a roomy mixing bowl and using an electric hand whisk. Last year I followed another recipe with a roomy bowl and electric whisk and the whisk just sprayed all the ingredients all around my kitchen and over my face and clothes!

Is there some kind of magic technique that makes it possible to use an electric hand whisk in a normal mixing bowl and not create a Jackson Pollock effect in the kitchen? I don't have one of those fancy Kitchen Aid things where the whisk is kind of in the bowl, just a separate, old-fashioned mixing bowl and a hand-held plug-in whisk.

It should be a deep rather than wide bowl
Keep the whisk near the bottom of the bowl and wait till the beaters stop moving before removing from the bowl.

Just a deep bowl is the answer. They're not expensive.

Take bowl, place electric whisk in. Wrap a clean tea towel around the bowl and over the whisk like a tent. You can hold that with one hand whilst operating the whisk with the other. Catches all the splashes and just goes in the wash.

Yes, the whisks need to be fully submerged under the mixture.

Start on a really slow speed and get the four wet. Then you can boost the speed up to finish. Turn the whisk off before you take it out the mix.

four is meant to say
Get the flour wet

My whisk doesn't have any speed settings. It's just on or off. I don't want to buy a new bowl, I love my deep mixing bowl, but it does have a wide aperture. I might try the tent thing though!

You could try mixing ingredients with a spoon or spatula so the wet and dry parts are mixed and then mix properly with the whisk. I often turn the bowl rather than moving the whisk about too much.

Keep the whisk right down at the bottom of the bowl whenever it's on. Ideally submerged in the mixture. It is just that simple.

I do a lot of baking. You either need one of these, or you can start off by mixing everything gently by hand to wet the flour then go in with the electric whisk.

Don't overbeat or the mixture won't rise as much because you develop the gluten in the flour.

OMG that splatter guard lid is just genius. Thanks so much @RampantIvy

No no you just literally place a tea towel around it.make buttercream all the time and have to avoid the air getting more icing sugar than the mix! You just place the towel around your mixer and hand and voila.

www.goodto.com/food/how-to-stop-an-electric-whisk-splattering-289872

Or you could get a plastic whisk protector