You Need This Immersion Blender in Your Life Welcome to Test Drive, in which we subject kitchen tools and equipment to the rigor of the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen—then judge which ones perform best. Just how much can you accomplish with an immersion blender? That all depends on which one you’ve got. These are the BA Test Kitchen’s top performers. A hand blender is ideal for puréeing soups, but that’s just the beginning. We keep one at the ready to blitz single-serving smoothies, emulsify mayonnaise (why dirty a giant blender for that?), and pulse sauces like Bolognese to just the right consistency. It also happens to be the best possible tool for whipping up our take on a Dairy Queen Blizzard, with homemade halvah. Chocolate Halvah and Dark Cherry Concrete, made with our new favorite immersion blender. How We Tested the Blenders • The Smoothie Test: How powerful is this thing? Can it pulverize frozen fruit? • The Soup Test: Am I going to get splattered?

How comfortable is it to hold for 5–10 minutes?Cats For Sale Augusta Ga • The Pesto Test: Are the blades sharp? Seabuckthorn Seed Oil For Weight LossIs there enough movement to process the herbs without bruising them?Kittens For Sale Vancouver Island Electrolux Masterpiece Collection Immersion Blender ($230; available for purchase mid-October) Sliding controls allow you to change speed (with one finger!) while you blend. And, the tri-blade design cuts more efficiently, producing a smoother texture in less time. AND, Titanium coating safeguards the razor-sharp edge. With its powerful (yet quiet) 300-watt motor and triple-blade design, this blender justified its price tag, pulverizing roasted veg into a velvety soup three times faster than most other hand blenders.

The “soft start” feature gradually brings it to full speed so that ingredients don’t go flying, while the extra-wide blade deck and footing made it the most stable and easiest to handle. Even while the blender shows all that muscle, its controls are comfortable to operate. A) The Work Horse: All Clad Immersion Blender ($100) This 600-watt blender aced our performance tests with a (literal) roar. In the minus column: It can jerk into action when starting, and the deeply recessed control button wasn’t the most comfortable to hold down. But the turbo feature provided that extra power that many other models lacked. B) The Value Proposition: Cuisinart Smart Stick 2-Speed Hand Blender ($60) If you’re blending on a budget, this is the one for you. The stick is light, compact, and intuitive to use, and a two-speed 200-watt motor gives you power when you need it. This is your tool for quick, simple tasks like mixing milkshakes or thinning a sauce. Now that you have an immersion blender, this is how you should be cooking your eggs.

And in other blitzing news, here’s how to find the right blender for for you:Hand Blenders: Expert and User Reviews Best Immersion BlendersCordless Immersion BlendersBuying GuideAmerica's Test Kitchen's Gadget Guru Tells All The Best & Worst Gadgets: America's Test Kitchen's Gadget Guru Tells All To earn a title like "Gadget Guru," you'd expect America's Test Kitchen's Lisa McManus to be a lover of unitaskers, but the opposite is true: she's anti-gadget. That's good news for followers of her reviews; to get a recommendation from her, a product has to be well-made and truly necessary. In an interview with the L.A. Weekly, she recently shared her thoughts on a few of the best and worst gadgets on the market — and why a strawberry huller is worth it. McManus has a lot to say about the badly designed but popular gadgets out there. She is especially hard on the brand Joseph Joseph, which makes good-looking, appealing gadgets that she finds "always disappointing" when it comes to function.

Most gimmicky chopping tools also get a thumbs down. Instead, she says, "Just pick up your knife!" A strawberry huller from Chef'n gets the pass, though. While McManus would normally just pull out her paring knife to get the job done, she realized the huller's usefulness when a group of 9-year-olds helped out in her kitchen and were able to hull strawberries in seconds, a task she wouldn't have given to them with a sharp paring knife. No big surprises with her other favorite kitchen tools: her All-Clad 12-inch stainless tri-ply frying pan, 12-inch Lodge cast iron skillet and OXO tongs. Even the Gadget Guru trusts the tried-and-true over the new and flashy. Read more: Q & A With Lisa McManus at the L.A. Weekly What are your favorite (or least favorite) kitchen gadgets? Related: Making Multitaskers of Unitaskers: Share Your Stories!Organize your Favorites With Collections Favorite Collections let you organize your favorite ATK content. Are you building a menu for an upcoming birthday dinner?

You can keep those recipes in a collection called "John’s 50th Birthday," for example. Your collections can include more than just recipes, too. Add how-to articles, videos clips or equipment reviews into the same collection. Create your first collection below to get started. No thanks, I’ll create a Collection later. The following is a list of episodes of the public television cooking show America's Test Kitchen in the United States. The program started with 13 shows in 2001, its first season.[1] Beginning with the second season (2002), the show grew to 26 episodes per season. Kalorik MS-18676L Sunny Morning 200-Watt Immersion Handheld 2-Speed Blender, Lime 3.9 x 3.9 x 14.8 inches #206,114 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen) #158 in Kitchen & Dining > Small Appliances > Blenders > Hand Blenders See all 125 customer reviews See all 125 customer reviews (newest first) bought it a few years ago and it still works like new.