Great Uses For Immersion Hand Blenders In Your Kitchen

Another name for the hand blender is the immersion blender.  The immersion blender is a wand-shaped device that has a blender blade at the bottom.  Due to the unique shape, the immersion blender is able to be placed into a pot or a tall glass in order to make blending easier.  With just the touch of a button the electric immersion blender will start mixing, blending, or pureeing your ingredients.

An immersion hand blender is great for making soups.  Instead of pouring your roasted ingredients into a large blender or food processor, taking up time, dirtying bowls, spoons, and spatulas, and losing half of the ingredients in the process you can simply put the immersion hand blender into the pot and puree the ingredients until they are the consistency you desire for your soup.  This saves time and tons of dirty dishes.  Plus, you won’t be left with half the soup because the other half is stuck inside the food blender or on the sides of bowls or spoons.

An immersion hand blender can also be used to puree tomatoes into a homemade sauce.  This will make your homemade spaghetti even better since you can play around with ingredients instead of buying sauce in a jar.  Another great use for the immersion hand blender is the ability to make individual smoothies.  Instead of wasting fruit, toss it into a glass when it is beginning to over ripen and it looks like you’ll be throwing it out.  Add whatever ingredients you want and blend together your own fruit smoothie right in the glass, no muss, no fuss.

The immersion hand blender is also great because not only does it save you from making extra messes, it is easy to clean up!  Most immersion hand blenders have a detachable wand that is dishwasher safe.  The shaft of the immersion hand blender (where the motor is kept) may be wiped off with a damp cloth to ensure its cleanliness.  The immersion hand blender is a very versatile tool that will save you time, money, messes, and space in your cabinets.