stewamax wrote:Tnx to all replies; I am now going for a handheld blender.
After a hard-fought discussion with my bank balance I have gone for a Kenwood HDP406 800W Hand Blender.
I pray that their term hand blender refers to hand-held and not to a Sweeney Todd ability to truncate my fingers.
Let us know how you get on, it looks a useful bit of kit.
We are not in the market for a new machine yet as our present ones have many years of use left in them:
11 years old Kitchen Aid Artisan food processor for which we recently replaced the bowl and lid. Powerful machine with an induction motor, used often. Especialy for hommous, onions, soup vegetables and breadcrumbs. Used to use it for pastry too before we got the Artisan mixer.
5 years Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer. Used mainly for pastry, cake mixing, yeast goods and meringues. We make our own ice cream and custard so have lots of egg whites to use up, sometimes too many.
15 years old Braun type 4249 blender. Used for smooth blending of soups and ginger/garlic paste.
8 years old Kenwood HM790 series whisk. Used frequently.
14 years old Waring WS833K commercial stick blender. Gets used the most for soups, dressings and marinades. Makes geat mayonnaise almost instantly using whole eggs.
41 (yes forty one) years old Braun MX 32 blender which is used very rarely with it's mincer attachment, the glass jug being too unwieldy plus it throws out the contents, which is why we replaced it with the Braun 4249. Yes, I could buy a mincer attachement for the kitchen Aid, but why spend the money? We have the cupboard space.
My wife also uses our 15 years old Panny for her superb multi seed whole wheat bread.
The ice cream machine is a Gelato Chef 2200 and gets plenty of use.
john