Kitchen Blenders

Silverman :

For me it work perfect, I got it speccially to make baby food, and get the job done! easy, fast and really well done! and plus, come with the wire attachment, so I can use it to blend milk shakes, egg whites, etc. the blades are fine, and the air chamber helps a lot, so no regrets!

Aldrich :

So far so good, have only used it once in place of blender, much easier and fewer things to wash. Have not used the wire whip.

Hefner :

I have been coveting a hand blender for some time. I postponed buying it because I have (ahem,) several kitchen appliances that I don’t really use. But, my daughter bought one for making baby food and I was saying how I wanted one & my wonderful momma bought me one of my own. And, I love it! Thanks, Momma!

I made carrot soup and it’s just awesome stuff! LOL–you can make gourmet soup from almost any veggie this way. Ditto fruit soup, and smoothies galore! Want a protein shake in the morning? Blend it up right in the glass! Voila!

Seriously, this thing is very easy to use (it has instructions, but it’s pretty simple to operate without a glance at them, although I would never recommend that!) And, the attachments are quite easy to clean — I just swoosh them in some soapy water. You could also put them in some water to soak for awhile if you’re in a rush. I would think if you mixed up something & let it dry on the attachments, you’d have to soak first to get it clean–so no need to turn a simple job into a pain.

My daughter makes baby food really fast with this blender, too. Just steam fruits, cereals, veggies, whatever, and then puree them with this blender–usually right in the same dish.

Highly recommended. You’ll find dozens of ways to use this affordable stick blender.

Piering :

I’m glad to see the great reviews on this item. I just bought it at Kohl’s for $24.99 & it has three attachments (some only had two)! What a find. Can’t wait to try it.

Ledesma :

I bought this hand blender for my daughter. She is one of those health nuts that likes to make fruit smoothies for snacks. She is always complaining of the mess and trouble to get out her big blender to make these and then the cleanup afterward. I checked out these hand blenders and read through all the comments from other users on Amazon and decided on this particular blender because it was rated very good and was priced right. As usual with Amazon purchases, the product was delivered promptly directly to my daughter’s house.

She loves it! It comes apart easily for cleaning and its 200-watt motor provides plenty of power in making smoothies where you add ice to the glass to make the smoothie thick and creamy. It comes with several attachments which can be used for other kinds of mixing and chopping tasks. I am very satisfied with this particular item and my daughter uses it almost every day.

Hayward :

2 main problems:

1) It only has 1 speed: high. This means that if you have it more than 2/3 full with a pretty fluid mixture (not something thick) it spins up the side and onto the counter. So either I have to do a lesser amount to do the actual blend, then add water (or whatever) afterwards then pulse it to mix the additional fluid - not a show-stopper, but a pain, OR you just pulse it from beginning to end so the fluid inside never spins too fast. Note that this is not a problem with smoothies, but I use this for my health to mix cod-liver oil with cranberry, stevia, and water - too liquidy to stay in the cup.

2) It also seems to suck air down through the center of the attachment if you keep it on long enough to get up to speed (which creates a vacuum by the blades) and you end up with tiny bubbles. Again, not a problem with smoothies, but for me the cod liver oil sticks to the bubbles and float to the top (a process called floculating). Gross.

The kitchen aid has 2 speeds so it doesn’t have these issues. Maybe that’s why it’s rated slightly better. Both of them are rated pretty high, but that has more to do with the fact that these hand blenders are pretty indispensible … not they they’re all designed exceptionally well. If I could afford it I’d the the braun, but at $250 .. ha!

Get the Kitchen aid.

Paulus :

i love this thing i can make my daughters slurppees @ home with fresh fruit instead of that sugary crap, also i went to make split pea wit ham n bacon , now with my old mixer it would splatter everywhere , with this it blended everything nicely with NO SPLATTER. this is my new fav kitchen toy

Hirano :

we got this immersion blender because of the price point and we wanted one for soups and baby food. we’re very pleased with this blender. it works really well for baby food and is able to blend stuff to the right consistency for our 6 month old baby. our only complaint with it is that after a while your finger hurts holding the “engage” button, as noted by someone else.

other than that one complaint, great immersion blender for twice the price.

Haun :

This blender is definitely not for anything major. I didn’t expect it to have such little power. It took ages to blend cooked vegetables in soup but would be OK for blending ice cream or a powdered drink. I had a Braun one that could blend raw fruit. There is no way this one would. Also you can’t immerse it very far so as I said if you’re looking to blend a big pot of soup, which is what I was hoping to do, you’re out of luck.