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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: peteleton on September 13, 2010, 06:38 PM
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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.
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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.
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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).
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i have been though 2 hand blender and 4 jug blenders and not bad brands neather. may look at proper kitchen stuff
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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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Hi
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
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i guess the begging question is - is anyone really pleased with their blender whatever type that they want to recommend it.
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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.
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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
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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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Hi
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
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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).