Stick blenders

tootles_2

Fed up with scrapping my fingers when I make breadcrumbs etc I am considering getting a stick blender, any recommendations, have looked at the Braun with a lidded pot and whisk at around £29.

comping_cat

I love my stick blender, its the one thing in the kitchen i wouldnt be without!!!! Ive got a very cheap one from Argos, about £9.99 (i think there is a cheaper one as well) and it does everything i need it to, including breadcrumbs!!!!
Catherine x

Jay-Jay_4

Weird.... we were just discussing these on another thread


I have a Braun Stick blender with the little lidded pot type thing for chopping and pureeing. It was bought for making baby food around 6 yrs ago and I find it really handy for purreing onions, garlic, soups, making yorkie pud batter, making pate etc. I use the chopping pot thingy as much as the stick part.

The bits can all be put in the dishwasher and the handle gets thrown in the utensil drawer. The blades are still sharp and it still works perfectly. I bought a friend of mine one as a wedding present 13 years ago and she still has it. I wouldn't be without mine now.

I'm not sure what the difference is between branded and unbranded ones though, maybe somoeone else will answer that.

purplegirluk1

I bought mine from Tesco, its a value one and cost £4.99, it does everything I need it to do and at such a low price too :j

kiwichick

Metoo, tesco value £4.99. It even came with a wall bracket and fixings to attatch is - BARGAIN!!!

suek_2

Free Blender at empirestores.co.uk
Get a Free Blender with your order from the Spring/Summer 2006 collection (no min. spend).

"Your stylish chrome blender whisks up soups, milkshakes, fruit smoothies and even cocktails in next to no time) RRP £19.99

jobbingmusician

If money is no object :rotfl: or if there are 2 blenders the same price, go for the one with a stainless steel guard to the blades - a friend of mine had the guard split when she used it in boiling soup.

But quite frankly the Tesco ones look excellent - and it's an even better idea to get a free one from empirestores :beer:

thetope

i have a moulinex one, wouldn't be without it, it's excellent for soups, purees etc, and i also find the chopping pot handy if you need to chop stuff like onions finely - does it in 2 seconds and you don't end up crying your eyes out. i love mine.

MATH

I was given a stick blenda in October for my birthday and I hated it with a passion. I couldn't make a sauce with it without covering myself in hot liquid, It wouldn't chop very well, was useless at breadcrumbs and was not very sucessful at pureeing soup (not in the qty's I make it anyway). One evening when I was particularly frustrated I opened the back door (cheese sauce dripping from my eyelashes) and the rotten blenda hit the garden wall with a satisfying crash:D

I have an ancient hand mixer which I use for almost everything including mashing potatoes and a big even older kenwood with blending goblet for mass cooking.

Jay-Jay_4

Lol MATH

Your supposed to make sure that the whole of the end of the stick is underwater before pressing the button otherwise *spladoosh*!

There's a knack to tilting the liquid and angling the head of the blender so that it sucks in air without splashing everywhere. It kind of gets 'sucked down' under the surface of the liquid and you have to 'pull against' it but not too hard. (ahem... all sounds a bit graphic upon reading it back )

Not as complicated as it sounds....... honest

Heth_2

I was given a cheap one (from a webb ivory catalogue i believe) as a present, and though the stick blender works fine, the chopping mini processor bit has broken, so i can't do breadcrumbs anymore. Not sure whether to buy a food processor next, or another stick blender and mini chopper, or a normal blender.