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In the most recent test round, I prepared peanut butter, trying for the first time a two ingredients version (salt and nut) without oil, so I tested the lightly simpler version with a little peanut oil. I tested the blender’s ability to feed dense substances as shakes of walnut butter with protein powder and ice and its ability to develop fibrous vegetables such as cabbage. I made hot ingredients like a summer pumpkin soup or carrot ginger. To test small lots of more delicate emulsions, I prepared fresh egg mayonnaise. To test the vortex of each blender, I made carrots float in the water to see if the carrots suck. I prepared Frappè strawberry, because I like them. And I crushed the ice. So much ice. Part of this ice has been mixed in cocktail, because science.
The decibel levels are variable and depend on the ingredients, of course, and the ice is strong, it doesn’t matter. For the consistency that compares the noise of each blender, I tested the engine decibels levels while I was turning in the water. I do not prefer glass jar mixers, due to the risk of crushes, but I have verified that the plastic mixing jugs are without BPA.
The blenders tend to be more compact and much simpler than food transformers, which are equipped with multiple jars, blades and discs to carry out essential activities of transforming food.
Ask yourself what you need about the appliance. If your goal is to merge the smoothies or licenses the soups, then a blender is your point of reference. A blender also works well to crush ice and walnuts if they are experimented with milk (or margarite).
For a more creative food preparation in the kitchen how to cut, slice and julienning with fruit and vegetables, so a food processor will be better. Food transformers are excellent for grinding herbs and spices and mix and knead the dough for bread and cakes.
There is a wide range of powerful jug, hand and personal mixers to choose from online.
A ceiling blender or jug blender, It is probably the one who imagines when you hear the word “blender”. These traditional design, often 32 or 64 ounces, offer maximum volume and flexibility of all types of blender. They often have multifunctional bases that can accommodate variable and interchangeable blade dimensions. Some may also take hot liquids for abundant soup puree.
A Personal Blender It is essentially a single blender. It is ideal for mounting single portions of smoothies and smoothies and can be mixed in the same cup from which you drink it. If it comes with an exchangeable travel cover, it can be an excellent option to take to work or to the gym. Search for a separate guide to portable cord whispers this year.
A compact alternative is trusted Immersion blender– Otherwise I know as a sticker blender – which can be pulled out of the closet when it is necessary to mix the double cream for the top of the meringue dessert or mix smaller portions. Their dimensions make them easy to store in the closet or kitchen drawer to free space on your work surface.
Some more recent features that help differentiate blenders further include emptiness mixing technology, which reduces foam and also the oxidation that can change the character of the ingredients mixed over time. As apparently all in these days, many blenders are also with an intelligent app, although this is mostly good for recipe ideas.
How to get the most out of your blender
Suggestions by Ben Ebbrell, co -founder of the YouTube channel has solved the food and partner of the recipe app, as reported by the worker wired Emily Peck.
Prep as a professional: If you are hosting and you want to do more than one course, the soup (hot or cold) is your easy solution. Any sweaty and boiled seasonal vegetables with softened onion, garlic and stock constitutes the perfect base. Then mix with a little cream, fraîche cream, coconut milk or toasted nuts for a super silver consistency. It can be done one day in advance, therefore mixed and regulated for the seasoning and taste in your time. Then heat and serve.
Perfect your sauces: What often separates chefs and chefs in the house are smooth sauces, condiments and silky puree. Vibrating color and punching, are better made in a blender. Try a spoonful of smooth spiced apples chutney on a plate with a liver parfait (also made of a blender). O homemade ketchup to accompany the barbecue grilled meats. A good blender helps to bring your presentation to a completely new level.
Have fun at the hour of cocktail: When the sun is out, your blender is ideal for cocktails. Try to prepare an harsh Pisco in a blender with Peruvian Pisco, fresh lime juice, sugar syrup, egg white and ice. Handmade you will get two portions at a time, but the blender will give you that lousy foam with 10 portions simultaneously.
Freeze to avoid food waste: Create the smoothies with the fruit found on its last legs. Chop fruits such as pineapple, mango, fishing and banana and put it on the trays to freeze. Once frozen, put them in a sandwich bag and you have enough small pieces to merge with fruit juice or milk every time you need it.
Clean effectively: If you mixed strong flavors like garlic, make sure you give your blender a good clean before putting it away. Blend a cup of hot water with a drop of citrus juice. The citrus acid cuts the fat, garlic and spots, and this will get rid of the worst of the mess inside the blender, now ready to rinse with hot water unsaponed.
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Blender Kitchenaid K400 for $ 300: This Kitchenaid is a design classic, available in a rainbow of colors. The brand’s stand mixers are preferred for a reason. This 1.200 Watt beast offers intuitive checks, a stainless steel blade, an impulses option and a five -speed dial, as well as a steam vent for soups. It remains a nice blender. But most of these functional characteristics are found, in an updated version, in pure cheaper Power Blender but more powerful than Kitchenaid, released this year. Note that the high -end K400 has a five -year guarantee, however, compared to the simple one year of pure power guarantee.
The nucibullet pro+ for $ 135: The 1,200 watt Pro+ is a good personal blender that is not as well as the most expensive Ultra Nunetcullet. It has a 60 -minute runtime limit, it is a little noisy and does not manage walnut butter so well. But he is still a powerful blender at a low price and the setting of impulses gives him a lot of flexibility.
NUTRUTRUTRIET BLENDER COMBO for $ 150: The game of the Blender Juug of Nutribuullet is also quite strong, known, the wired auditor Emily Peck. At a rather low price, this 1200 watt multi-pitcher blender set offers a personal blender and launches a 64-ounce jug for start-up, complete with a heat vent at the top to allow soups. It is not exactly the quieter blender, but crushes the ice for dust, manages more plots from the soup to the guacamole and merges the raspberries without cries.
EXPORT E310 for $ 380: The Expriiorian is the medium price option of Vitamix, with a 48 ounce beer chamber and a 18 -inch manageable profile in height. It is still powerful enough and offers a simple speed dial that increases from one to 10. The stainless steel blades crush through the anacardi to make a silky milk in less than 10 seconds and produce almond milk without the need to penetrate the almonds. The ice cubes and frozen berries surrender to its “aerial level” blades, wrote Emily Peck, an auditor who contributes with bad guys. But he is also aloud of the planes in his highest settings, and his shorter profile and the wide bottom can mean that he is not so good at drawing dice or fruits in his blades. If you are a heavy user, the update Vitamix models may apply the update.
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Smeg Professional Blender for $ 380: For the prices of Vitamix, this Smeg offers a beautiful aesthetic of the mid -century, nine -speed control and a 1,400 watt motor ice, seeds and marrow. The preset options include buttons, smoothies, green smoothies, frozen desserts and ice crushing, as well as an automatic setting that provides short explosions of power up to a minute. It is not even too noisy, measuring 82 decibels on maximum speed while preparing walnut milk. A large strength for its high price was the possibility of adding an attachment of the emptiness pump destined to reduce oxidation during mixing, even if at the moment this accessory seems quite difficult to find.
Other tested blenders
Zwilling Enfinigy Power Blender for $ 250: This Enfinigy Zwilling has the intelligent LED display that is hidden when the blender is turned off and comes to life with a lap of the dial. His blade on board saws the seventeenth century through the almonds and the lid is easy to climb and turn off, an inexplicable point of problem for too many blenders. But it is also a little noisy and we have also noticed a series of online complaints on the duration and trend of the food to collect inside the cavity of the jug of the jug.
For kindness of Chefman
Chefman Corkiterator for $ 130: There is a lot to appreciate on the Chefman obliterator, especially at its price. It trains through smoothies containing ice and almond butter; Emulsifical the magnificently mayonnaise and offers a creamy consistency on peanut butter made of blender after a little scraping and multiple mixtures. The inclusion of both utility and personal mixing jugs is always a nice touch in this category of prices. But the design of the lid on the main mixing chamber was a little uncertain and had the tendency to open during the cleaning cycles or long mixtures, which means that you should keep it closed or suffer from terrible consequences and sketches.
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