Steel Wand NOT Plastic: One of the first things you need to consider is what you are going to use your Stick blender for. They come in very handy for blending hot soups as shown in the above picture. A normal blender would require you to place the hot soup in it a bit at a time and blend it then put in in a different pot. The Stick blender with a stainless steel wand will let you immerse it to the top of the wand and in some cases higher, letting you make a nice blended soup without removing it from the original pot. The steel wands are impervious to heat and clean up much easier than a plastic wand, but just holding under the tap for a quick rinse.
Lots of Power: Anything under 100 watts is gutless. We use stick blenders to mash potatoes, chop nuts and carrots and even pulverize ice, so they need some serious power and speed to do tasks like this!
Easy to Hold Handle: The Stick blenders hands should have a nice shape so that it is both easy to hold and run with one hand. Most of these blender have only an ON and OFF button so it make them easy to use single handed. The Bamix Hand held blender has both a low and high speed, one going 11,000 rpms and the other 17,000 rpms.
Convenient Accessories: The accessory we use the most is the mini food processor to chop 1 onion or
a bunch of garlic, or herbs and carrots or really anything you want to chop fine. All the Hand held blenders we carry come with this easy to use item. With the Bamix you put the whole wand on the top and the processor turns and does a great job of chopping herbs, or an onion or whatever small job you wish to do. For the larger chopping jobs you would use the chopping blade on the stick itself. Bamix also has a new powder disc grinder which will let you grind spices like pepper or cinnamon into a fine powder. Bamix also has a new slicing accessory called the Bamix SliceSy which will grate cheese or slice small amount
of vegetables like cucumbers or potatoes.
Changeable Blades: Since the hand-held blenders do such a variety of tasks, they come with different interchangeable blades on the better designed units. The "A" Blade for aerating or whipping, the "B" blade for beating things like muffin batter, and the "C" blade for chopping things like nuts or breadcrumbs, and the "M" blade for chopping meat.
Check out what Chef Gordon Ramsay thinks about the Bamix Immersion Blender
See Gordon Ramsay use the Bamix Immersion Blender to make
Fresh Tomato Soup, Spiced Bass, and a Raspberry Smoothie
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