Topic: Advice - Making base without a blender ?

[bilabonic]

Hi All

I am looking to make a base for first time and freeze a lot of it. I do not have a blender machine but do have a hand blender.

Can it still be done ?

Cheers

[solarsplace]

Hi

Do you mean one of these sorts of blender?



If so, then it should be fine. I think most people use this type of blender to blend their bases.

However you may struggle if it is a

[Ramirez]

Hand blender will be absolutely fine. I've used a super bargain basement one from Argos when my main one packed up and it was fine, although not as effective.

[emin-j]

Cheap hand blenders can get very hot and you have to rest the blender every couple of minutes,buy one with some grunt   ;D.

[loveitspicy]

Ive blended before now with a hand potato masher and some cloth to strain through and had very good results

best, Rich

[bilabonic]

Cheers Guys, got a good one with loads Oooommff....lol

Think i will start with Chewytikka one above, looked at the pressure cooker 1 hour but can not understand majority of it plus it does not give any quantities ?

[Peripatetic Phil]

looked at the pressure cooker 1 hour but can not understand majority of it plus it does not give any quantities ?

There's another pressure cooker base here, but it needs 2 1/2 hours and a blender ...
** Phil.

[Ramirez]

Think i will start with Chewytikka one above, looked at the pressure cooker 1 hour but can not understand majority of it plus it does not give any quantities ?

Quantities will be the same as the 3 hour version linked above (quantities are a few posts down in the thread).

[JerryM]

super bargain basement one from Argos

i use same and find they work a treat. they do get hot but don't affect performance. i particularly like the holes in the shroud will allow the blend to sort of cycle through the blade. it also traps the big stuff so you when your fully blended.

on general note - adding water to any bulk veg helps the blending significantly.

[Peripatetic Phil]

super bargain basement one from Argos

i use same and find they work a treat. they do get hot but don't affect performance

I think this is probably the same (very sound) theory that a carpenter friend explained to me many years ago : when I asked him why he used a domestic Black-and-Decker drill rather than a Bosch Professional, he said they both did exactly the same job but when the Black-and-Decker died, all he had to do was throw it away and buy another one.  With the Bosch Professional costing an arm and a leg, he would have felt obliged to have it repaired, and that would have cost more than just buying a new domestic Black-and-Decker.  I think the same is probably true for stick blenders : if you can buy them for GBP 3-99, you don't have to worry if/when they die from overheating; with a Bosch at around GBP 49-99, you couldn't afford to burn one out, you would therefore have to use it rather more cautiously, and it might take even longer to achieve the right consistency than using a cheapo without a care in the world !

** Phil (who has just spent GBP 99-00 on an ORP/Redox meter from American Marine, with a projected probe life of 18 months (replacement probe : GBP 49-99), but who now thinks it might have been better to buy half-a-dozen Hong Kong versions at GBP 16-90 and just throw each one away after it has been used for a year !).