Your Guide To Buying Blenders And Food Processors

Looking to buy blenders and food processors? Before you do, you need to understand what each appliance can do. This will help you buy both appliances in a way that they offer maximum function, without repetition in features or sizes so that your money is well spent. About electric hand blenders: Hand blenders handle lighter jobs �� blending together liquids, making purees, extracting soup, chopping a few vegetables and creating smooth uniform pastes. However, most hand blenders can only handle about 1litre of liquid at a time at max.

These are perfect for making spinach gravies, blending soups and dals, making batter for cakes and other savouries and chopping the basic onions and tomato that go in to your vegetable.

These are better than electric food processors because they handle smaller quantities a lot better. However, remember that hand food blenders will pulverize vegetables, not uniformly chop them to a specific size. Also, they cannot really handle a large quantity with ease, and are ideal for everyday use but not when you are doing bulk cooking. Also, though many hand blenders come with a juicer attachment and a cup, these can only make one glass of juice at a time and not juice for the entire family.

About electric food processors: Expensive kitchen appliance, food processors are worth the money you pay because they can do so much in the kitchen. They can chop, grate, knead, blend, makes juices, whisk and slice. They can save more time, even if you are bulk cooking and come in a large variety to suit your daily needs. Fact is that quality doesn’t come cheap; therefore the best food processors are those that offer you more features.

This is especially true if you entertain a lot and already have electric hand blenders for everyday small chores. When you buy food processors, you take care of lengthy tedious jobs like slicing vegetables and fruits in neat even slices, grating cheeses, vegetables and coconut, mixing and pureeing, kneading dough for chapattis and pizzas, making juices, whisking batter for dosas and cakes and much more.

Checklist when buying blenders and food processors: Before you buy blenders and food processors, you need to ascertain what features your chosen appliance will offer. Different sizes and models will have different attachments and you need to ensure that the machine you are buying will help you save time and effort in the kitchen.

Another important consideration is the space it occupies. Having a food processor that sits in a cupboard will make you turn to the hand blender a lot more often, for you don’t want to set up and then start. However, a blender that can stay plugged in at all times because you have ample counter space will remove the need to invest in the hand held blender.

Ensure that with both electric food processors and electric hand blenders, you buy models that come with sturdy Stainless steel blades. Also, the blade for hand blenders must be low lying when put in to a jar or a bowl, or the ingredients will not be mixed evenly. Electric food processors by Philips, Morphy Richards and Glen are great and similarly, Philips, Morphy Richards and Inalsa hand blenders mixers are a good buy.