Hand held Blender/Blitzer

I have once bought just a cheap one from Arg*s worked fine. Think you can buy one with an extra attachment..

I make a fair bit of soup, have a brilliant, easy to clean one from Lidl! The thing is, they don't have them in all the time, so if you see them in store, get one. Mine was about £12, has different speed settings, would really recommend it.

I got mine from Tesco, very cheap, I also have their hand mixer.

I imagine you are talking about a stick blender. I have a Kenwood one which has a couple of attachments - one of which is an ingenious potato masher - does really smooth mash. I do use it for soups etc and it is OK for small amounts but if I have a lot I pop it into the blender jug.

Thanks All for your suggestions. Yes Welshwife I do want a stick blender. The price under £15 is ideal.

I shall get one this week and start blitzing.

I've got a kenwood too which is quite old but it has balloon whisk attachment which is really useful. The attachments go in the dishwasher.

I have this model - cost under £5 and still going strong after 10 years.

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Thanks Kitty

Under £5 Riverwalk it gets better and better.

Another Kenwood Stick owner here, had it for years. The balloon whisk handy for cream/egg whites etc.

I think that you can be very lucky with cheap electrical gadgets but if I have ever bought any things which are almost unlabelled in a supermarket etc I have found they last only a very short time.
I had a Kenwood hand held mixer - like a whisk with two heads - which lasted for almost thirty years - I replaced it with a Russel Hobbs and a Breville - neither of which lasted any time at all - DH took them apart and they both had plastic gears which just wore away in a few months.
I bit the bullet and paid twice the price for a Dualit one over ten years ago and so far so good - they are also good if there are problems with any of their products and will resolve them for you.

The Rolks Royce of them all is the Bamix. More expensive but well worth it. It does everything!

I got one from Lidl a few years ago its still going strong . I think it was £7.

I had a Bamix for years but wasn't prepared to pay the price this time round.

Mine cost about £2 at Tesco's many years ago.
Make sure you try to get the best bargain... wait until parents start stocking their children for Uni. Wonderful bargains then!

Hello
I have a Braun stick blender. Had it for some years now and very happy with it. It has a balloon whisk attachment and a mini blender, too. Both also useful.

I have a Braun electric hand blender. I don't know if the still make them as I bought it to blend solid food for my daughter when she was a baby and she is now 33. It has a few little cracks but I still use it to blend soup.

I have had a Bamix which I bought from Lakeland many many years ago. It was very expensive, but brilliant to use. If & when it packs up, I would buy a less expensive one, as there is so much choice on the market, which there wasn't back then.

best to look out for one with a high wattage motor, rather than name. it really is much of a muchness comparing brands, also look for add ons , eg whisk

I have recently had to purchase a new one as the one I've been using for almost 40 years finally decided it had, had enough. It gave great service and was used for everything from mashing up baby food, puppy food, cake mix and even wallpaper paste!
You don't need to spend a lot of money, but my only recommendation would be to buy a model that has variable settings. I speak from experience having used one that had one setting (too) HIGH and splattered the kitchen with Instant Whip!

Mine's a Siemens and it works perfectly. It came with attachments for a small mincer and a whisk. The only problem is that you have to remember to stand the mixing bowl on a piece of non-slip rubber or on a damp cloth if you need to use one hand for pouring oil when making mayonnaise or similar jobs, otherwise you have to hold the bowl to stop it careering across the kitchen table!

Look for one where you can detach the working parts so you can wash them without risking water getting into the electrical parts of the blender.

I bought mine in Sainsbury's a few Christmases ago. It's very good, and you can blitz hot things with it as the blade end is metal.

If you buy a stick blender make sure it has a metal stick, not plastic- then it will last longer. My ancient kenwood hand mixer gave up the ghost recently and I opted to replace with a Dualit, a very solid machine.

I Just brought a stick one a few weeks back in lidil and its fantastic best blender I have ever had. It comes with attachments and was really cheap.