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Need help choosing an immersion/hand/stick blender. KitchenAid or Bamix? I'm looking for a new gadget for my kitchen, and I've settled on an immersion blender. My research has led me to choose between either the KitchenAid KHB300 (http://www.amazon.com/...) or the Bamix Delux (http://www.cooking.com...). The KA would be $80, the Bamix would be $130. The Bamix is the industry-accepted top of the line immersion blender. The KitchenAid is the runner up. My question is addressed to any Bamix owners: Do the different blades really make any difference when performing different tasks? (like the whisk blade for mayo, the beater for smoothies, the mincer for soups, etc.) For those who have the KA; how does it perform with non-soup-blending activities? I have the KA and like it just fine. The way I see it is that it's a blender, and a counter top blender doesn't have all those attachments, so why bother on a hand held one. I went with keeping it simple - didn't want a bunch of attachments.

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Braun Immersion Blender - Best Hand Blender Ever

One of the most handy tools in my kitchen is my braun immersion blender, sometimes called a hand blender. Immersion blenders have been around for about ten years, and do just about everything that a regular blender does. I have one of the older models manufactured by Braun. Braun makes a number of little home appliances. I also have their coffee maker.
plastic cylinder ergonomically built to fit comfortably in your hand with a twirling blade at the bottom. To mix, mix or puree, all you have got to do is literally submerge the blade in your pot, cup or bowl and push the button.
Nothing else to clean but your cup, but of course you'd have that anyway. The new models come with a variety of accessories and range in price from around $15.00 to over $400.00 by firms such as Waring, KitchenAid, and Conair. If you are making hot soup that should be pureed, you have three options.
wait until it cools and then pour it in little batches into your traditional blender, pour the soup in hot and take the possibility of scalding yourself, or, with an immersion blender you can just put the blade into the pot and off you go.
When you are pureeing, be certain to keep the base of the mixer at an angle to the base of the pot. Depending on the depth of what you are mixing you need to keep the blade about an in. above the base of the pot, and you need to move the unit thru the liquid as if you were gently stirring it.

Braun Immersion Blender - Best Hand Blender Ever

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