Immersion blender
A stick blender that goes into the pot rather than the pot into a jug
Motor on a shaft with a small blade at the end. Soup purees without decanting hot liquid. Mayonnaise and stable dressings come together in the container they will live in. It will not match a countertop blender for smoothness. The whisk and chopper bowl in the box see use about twice.
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- J. Kenji López-AltDoes it
Chef and food writer · The Food Lab
A Braun MultiQuick is the stick blender on his list of tools he actually uses. It shares that page with a Breville food processor and a stone molcajete, three ways of breaking things down that he keeps rather than picking between.
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