Is it just me or does anyone else go through blenders and hand blenders as much as i seem to. In the past 2 years i have gone through 6 of them lol.
I've never found hand blenders do a smooth enough job of blending a base so I use a jug style liquidiser. A pot of base will fill 2 or 3 jugs but it seems to work OK.
might just have to upgrade my equipment - i've been lucky so far all the handblenders have gone back to the shop within the guarantee (about 4 in total).
i have been though 2 hand blender and 4 jug blenders and not bad brands neather. may look at proper kitchen stuff
the large catering quality hand blenders like they use in takeaways are available online but they cost several hundred quid. I probably wouldn't ever think of spending that amount of money, but I probably would consider buying a more powerful food processor if I had some spare cash.
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I find it best to let the base cool, yes it may take several hours but it is still cooking and breaking down the fibres.Then wizz,or pass it through a tammy,takes a little work but will last.
Regards
i guess the begging question is - is anyone really pleased with their blender whatever type that they want to recommend it.
Blending a big batch of base with a stick blender (a home one, I've not tried a commercial one) is always a bad idea. It takes ages, overheats and never gets it really fine. I use a cheap smoothie maker (one with a tap on the front at the bottom) at the moment as I broke the Kenwood.
For making garlic / ginger paste a stick blender is ideal. I find unless you are making a massive amount (3+ bulbs of garlic with equal ginger and lots of oil) the jug blenders really struggle to get going.
i tend to use smoothie makers because as mentioned home hand blenders are no good. Ill invest in a more powerfill one after having a brows around. maybe even go for one of them expensive chef ones. I can feel the wallet burning as i speak ;D
I've also had problems with hand blenders - not smooth enough and tend to overheat. I use a KitchenAid blender which seems to do the job okay.
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FYI, these little mini-blenders are great!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenwood-CH180-Mini-Chopper-Watts/dp/B0000C6WPC (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenwood-CH180-Mini-Chopper-Watts/dp/B0000C6WPC)
Perfect for making garlic & ginger paste, dicing onions, chilli's etc and bread crumbing a couple of slices of bread.
Cheers
just by chance one of the come dine's this week had chappy trying to blend strawberries in jug blender - he actually had to put a wooden spoon in to start the blending off (the ingredients just turned in the jug otherwise).
i use the cheapo hand blender from argos having had a kenwood chopper for many yrs which was brill until it broke and price to fix was horrendous (like solarsplace's - which looks good - just the vol at 350ml is a little too small for me to consider upgrading).
the big thing for me about the hand blender is the ease of use. i also know not all hand blenders are the same - i have expensive philips which is useless for curry work (it's used by the girls and they reckon it's brill - cakes etc).