Owners of powerful food processors sometimes look down on blenders. Naturally, because their multifunctional apparatus can do everything that a blender can do, and much more. Of course, a blender cannot be compared to a food processor in terms of power or functionality, but once you have tried it, you may no longer want to use the “blender” functions of a food processor.
After all, a blender is much more convenient: it is small, lightweight, you do not need to look for a place for it, disassemble it and assemble it. This becomes a particularly noticeable advantage when it is necessary to cook a very small amount of product, and you do not want to install the whole combine for the sake of this smallness.
The buyer can choose one of two main types of blender - submersible or stationary.
1. The hand blender is held in hands and lowered into the container with the product. He can chop herbs, boiled meat, or puree.
2. A stationary blender is a container with knives at the bottom. It will help with shaking, beating eggs and mixing dough. Some can crack ice.
Blenders come with several attachments. The blender itself will help turn potatoes or vegetables into mashed potatoes, bringing the product to a homogeneous state. In old cookbooks, it was proposed to achieve a similar effect by rubbing the product through sieves, which, of course, is many times longer and physically more difficult.
If it is possible to choose a blender equipped with a whisk attachment, do not give up this useful feature, with its help you can do without a mixer. You can beat not only traditional egg whites. Try to beat the mashed potatoes that have already been ground with a blender - the reaction of those at home to this dish will pleasantly surprise you.
The chopper attachment will quickly and without tears chop onions or chop meat into minced meat.
The vacuum pump nozzle is indispensable for vacuum packing products into special containers, where they will keep fresh for a long time and will not deteriorate.
Almost all blender containers and attachments can be washed in the dishwasher.
As for the most reputable manufacturers, their names are the same as when choosing mixers or other kitchen appliances: Phillips, Bosch, Braun, Siemens. Tefal, Moulinex, and Scarlett also make good quality devices.
