Celery soup is pureed with an immersion blender. Food styling by Lisa Cherkasky.Rey Lopez for The Washington Pos / Rey Lopez / The Washington Post Q: I recently purchased a stick blender.

For example, if you’re blending tomatoes for a puree, if processed on high ... you might run the blades of the hand blender through water after using, it is important that you use kitchen detergent to ...

For this review, we mostly focused on full-size blenders with large pitchers ... In a round pitcher, the same ingredients might stick to the sides and spin around the blade, like your body ...

A hand blender, also referred to as an immersion or stick blender, is one of the most useful appliances in the modern kitchen. This small kitchen tool was initially created mainly to puree soups right ...

But my (perhaps peculiar) preference is one of the things that makes me particularly qualified to test and recommend immersion blenders for home cooks. Sometimes called stick blenders or hand ...

You can blend everything from pureed soups to silky-smooth whipped ... in daily use and controlled tests, Breville's stick blender is the best hand blender I've locked my grip around, and it's ...

In general, as long as you stick to the order of operations ... redeemed itself at blitzing frozen fruit into a smooth puree. This is a blender’s raison d'être, after all, and if you need ...

In fact, the appliance has over 4,300 five-star ratings A quality stick blender is essential — especially as we enter soup season — that allows you to puree ingredients directly in the pot.