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Immersion/Stick Blenders

Marlene

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lindag

lindag

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43 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

 

 

The Breville handled 700g of flour with ease, the machine didn't even shake, and also handled the smaller amount without issues.  

It is heavy.  But that is a good thing.  And it is easy to clean. 

 

 

Do you use the dough blade for this?

Ann_T

Ann_T

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8 minutes ago, lindag said:

Do you use the dough blade for this?

I used the dough blade the other day, but today I used the regular metal blade.   Both work, but I like the metal blade better.

But I believe it heats up quicker.   

And ignore my WHY. I misread your "enable". 

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JoNorvelleWalker

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5 hours ago, Ann_T said:

@JoNorvelleWalker,  Well, the way everything is suppose to be stored is with the slicing blade under the bowl, and the main blade and the shredding blade in the bowl with the

lid on.   The potato masher, the motor and the blender standing up in the allot spots and the whisk lays down between the shoot and gear box on the lid. 

I choose to keep the shredding blade and the potato masher in a separate place and just store the whisk in the spot where the potato masher is suppose to go.  

Being lazy, I don't want to have to remove the shredder blade every time I want to use the FP. 

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You might also want to get the mini bowl with lid. I use this one often when making bread crumbs or grating up parmesan cheese.  

I have found most of their parts/accessories, not to badly priced. 

 

 

 

I already moved the shredding disc to the overflow storage area for my Cuisinart discs, of which I have about eleven.  I don't anticipate much use for the shredding disc.  I didn't expect much use for the potato masher either but I am still surprised how well it works.

 

The bigger question is where to store the unit.  I have a dedicated place in the bedroom for the motor.  The rest of the parts I've been moving between the dining room table and the bed, depending if I'm sleeping.

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

JoNorvelleWalker

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25 minutes ago, Ann_T said:

@JoNorvelleWalker, I have space for the All in One accessories in a cupboard that I store, a few other small appliances.

My issue is figuring out where to store the storage container for the Breville 16 Cup.  

 

My big Cuisinart lives in the bedroom, and mostly stays there as I don't feel like lifting it.  The Cuisinart parts are all over:  some are in the kitchen, some are in the dining room.  The citrus juicing attachment is on a bedroom closet shelf.  I haven't seen the whipping attachment for a while.

 

The only thing I've dragged the Cuisinart out for since banishing it from the counter where my Ninja CREAMi now sits is making pasta dough.  My hope is the new Breville will suffice for that.

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

JoNorvelleWalker

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I can report the Breville All In One works well for a small (4.5 ounce flour) batch of pasta dough.  Better than my Cuisinart.

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

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On 10/15/2022 at 8:06 AM, Ann_T said:

@JoNorvelleWalker, I've only sliced hard salami on it, not fresh sausage.  But a dried chorizo should be okay.  I did slice a leftover steak on it as well.

 

 

At the time I bought mine I was also in the market for a new immersion blender and that is how I ended up with the All in One. 

 

Funny, I had never tried the mashed potato attachment until recently.  I found that after the accident using the potato ricer was uncomfortable so I tried the masher.  It is quick and easy. 

I tend to put my potatoes back in the pot when I drain them and let them dry a bit on the burner before

adding butter and cream or milk, and I mash right in the pot so I haven't found that they get cold. 

 

The little bowl is great for chopping larger quantities of garlic, or making bread crumbs and grating up parmesan cheese.  

I cracked the small bowl once so I ordered a replacement and while i was at it I backed up a few other parts just in case.  Their prices for accessories I found to be reasonable. 

 

I haven't tried mixing a dough using the All in One.  Will be interested in your experience. 

 

I found some dried out soppressata in the back of the refrigerator.  The Breville All In One sliced it perfectly on thickness setting 1.  I was amazed, and continue to be stupefied by what this little device can do.

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

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Help!

 

I employed the Breville tonight for mashed potatoes.  Potatoes were fine.  Problem is I cannot disassemble the mashing leg.  The instruction book was not much use.

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

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3 hours ago, lemniscate said:

Maybe this helps?

 

Thanks.  I had forgotten the blade had a reverse thread.  This afternoon I couldn't get the gearbox back on (possibly due to overnight-hardened mashed potatoes).  What worked were round nose pliers.  All seems good.  And there are leftover mashed potatoes.

 

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afs

afs

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I picked up the Breville BSB510XL Control Grip Immersion Blender.  It worked really well for a while, and then it died.  Which made me quite sad, because it has a very comfortable grip and it has like 10 levels of speed settings.

I ended up moving into the prosumer/commercial realm and picked up a Bamix instead.  It's a bit of a pain to clean, and it only has two speeds, but boy is it reliable.  [They have a few models, and a few attachments for frothing vs mixing, etc.]

Bamix G200 Gastro Pro-2 Professional Immersion Hand Blender  (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)


I'm a big Breville fan (and use a Control Freak for most of my cooking).  Maybe I just got a bad unit, or maybe most consumer electronics are just designed to last "until the warranty expires, and a bit longer."  I really don't know.  Your results may and probably will vary.

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Katie Meadow

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12 hours ago, afs said:

I picked up the Breville BSB510XL Control Grip Immersion Blender.  It worked really well for a while, and then it died.  Which made me quite sad, because it has a very comfortable grip and it has like 10 levels of speed settings.

I ended up moving into the prosumer/commercial realm and picked up a Bamix instead.  It's a bit of a pain to clean, and it only has two speeds, but boy is it reliable.  [They have a few models, and a few attachments for frothing vs mixing, etc.]

Bamix G200 Gastro Pro-2 Professional Immersion Hand Blender  (eG-friendly Amazon.com link)


I'm a big Breville fan (and use a Control Freak for most of my cooking).  Maybe I just got a bad unit, or maybe most consumer electronics are just designed to last "until the warranty expires, and a bit longer."  I really don't know.  Your results may and probably will vary.

afs

I did almost no research when I bought my Bamix. I totally love how simple it is. We've had it for a year, mostly for mashed potatoes and things or for creamed soups. My husband seems to think it's very fun and has never found it hard to clean. Rarely does our  blender make an appearance. When I read about the Breville my eyes glaze over. For better or worse I gravitate toward appliances with fewer functions rather than more. Talk about hard to clean: a standard blender.

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afs

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4 minutes ago, Katie Meadow said:

I did almost no research when I bought my Bamix. I totally love how simple it is. We've had it for a year, mostly for mashed potatoes and things or for creamed soups. My husband seems to think it's very fun and has never found it hard to clean. Rarely does our  blender make an appearance. When I read about the Breville my eyes glaze over. For better or worse I gravitate toward appliances with fewer functions rather than more. Talk about hard to clean: a standard blender.


I'm totally with you on the whole cleaning thing.  For cleaning my blender, I ended my frustration by buying a Blendtec Stealth.  Usually all I have to do to clean it is put a little soap and water in the blender jar and then "blend" the water for a few seconds and rinse.  In worst-case scenario (i.e. peanut butter) I just clean the thing like I would an open-top water jug.  Still...not as quick as cleaning an immersion blender :)

On the topic of immersion blenders, someone mentioned the Robot Coupe MicroMix a few pages back.  I love Robot Coupe's slicers, and I had no idea they made an immersion blender.  And it has a detachable wand, the one thing I wish my Bamix had--plus it looks like it has a bunch of speed options like the Breville.  Unfortunately it also has the price of a nice Bamix :(

Has anyone used the MicroMix immersion blender by any chance?  I'm really tempted to put it on my wish list for 2023, but I have no idea if Robot Coupe does as good of a job with their immersion blenders as they do with some of their other equipment.

rotuts

rotuts

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""  Talk about hard to clean: a standard blender ""

 

I add hot water and a tiny bit os liquid detergrnt to the 

 

blender and give it a whirl   pour out

 

maybe again w hot water 

 

done.   

 

make sure its only a tiny bit of that detergent 

 

BTW

 

same for a tick blender :  

 

a jar of hot water and a drop of detergent.   rinse etc

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EatingBen

EatingBen

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After killing I don’t know how many stick blenders I got a Bamix last week, it’s something I’ve wanted for years. It blended pumpkins to soup in less time and less effort then any previously it also blended the pumpkins, carrots and onion to a nice smooth texture, it wasn’t the high powered blender fine but it was darn near close and tons better then any other I’ve used (never used a professional version for commercial kitchens)

 

extremely happy with it :)

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EatingBen

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So thought I might put down what I’ve made so far. 
 

mayonnaise, I’ve made flavoured, black garlic, cranberries, chipotle chilli, avo, kewpie (chefsteps) 

still about 2 dozen other mayos on the list. Each time it’s taken longer to put everything in the cup and prep for oil if needed (blend chillies, mix in extra lecithin, whatever) making the emulsion is 30 seconds or less and then add a little water where needed.

 

soup, like I said above not as smooth as the high speed blender or the thermomix but once the xanthan gum is added you can’t actually detect the vegetables as well anyway so it’s sufficient. Pumpkin soup and tomato soup so far.

 

toum, incredibly easy blended a few tablespoons of oil with the garlic added more oil lost interest and dumped the rest of the oil in and let it blend for 30 seconds and it was done. 
 

Incorporate stuff into milk, hot chocolate, whipping in air. No effort. 
 

whipped egg whites that where leftover from something else. Was almost as fast as mayo, added sugar no effort at all no time at all as good as the stand mixer. 
 

made pasta carbonara, after rendering the bacon and frying pumpkin ravioli in a little butter I used the oil and butter in with the eggs and blended it lol together with water and some cheese (plus salt, msg) and dumped it into the pan with the ravioli and let it thicken adjusted seasoning added pepper and done. Smooth perfect and completely unnecessary to use a Bamix with but the oil being sheered into the yolk and egg was nice and warmed up the egg. Ridiculously calorie dense and delicious

 

ice, crushed. 
 

don’t need it, love having it, won’t give it up and so far it’s everything I’ve hoped for! Bamix blades absolutely all perform differently and are somewhat interchangeable! Absolutely worth it!

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Kerry Beal

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I use my long stemmed Bamix with the cutting blade to make bubble solution in a 4 liter wide mouth lab nalgene jar. Allows me to blend in the guar gum suspended in 99% isopropyl without a gloppy mess and waiting a couple of days for the guar to hydrate. 

 

 

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lemniscate

lemniscate

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3 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

I use my long stemmed Bamix with the cutting blade to make bubble solution in a 4 liter wide mouth lab nalgene jar. Allows me to blend in the guar gum suspended in 99% isopropyl without a gloppy mess and waiting a couple of days for the guar to hydrate. 

 

 

 

Now this piques my interest.  Can you post your bubble solution recipe ( url link or DM it to me?)  I think it would be fun to make bubbles for Christmas parties.   I have guar gum sitting here.

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JoNorvelleWalker

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Last night's dinner was a purple peep.  That and a disastrously half raw anovaed oven chicken thigh, mashed potatoes, and a few frozen peas.  Don't laugh, most extensive cooking I've assayed in some months.  Note, although tempting, I had not cooked the purple peep.

 

For the mashed potatoes I had intended to use the Breville potato mashing attachment, which has always served me well.  Nothing happened.  It was dead.  I came here to bad mouth Breville.  Turns out, as you may well have guessed, it was user error.

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

JoNorvelleWalker

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Earlier this week I set myself the task to shred some napa cabbage.  Not feeling up to knife work, I assayed the shredder attachment for my Ankarsrum mixer.  What a mess.  Then I thought of my little Breville BSB530XL immersion blender.  I used the food processor attachment for the BSB530XL.  Perfectly shredded cabbage in seconds.

 

Little wonder Breville is doing well in the kitchen appliance market.  Yesterday I read an article in Bloomberg Businessweek on the success of Breville's business model.  One of the few products they have not yet cracked is the kitchen mixer.  But I have to say they have the immersion blender down perfect!

 

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Whatever you crave, there's a dumpling for you. -- Hsiao-Ching Chou

weinoo

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19 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Little wonder Breville is doing well in the kitchen appliance market.  Yesterday I read an article in Bloomberg Businessweek on the success of Breville's business model.  One of the few products they have not yet cracked is the kitchen mixer.  But I have to say they have the immersion blender down perfect!

 

Big fan of the Breville products.  

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59 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

Earlier this week I set myself the task to shred some napa cabbage.  Not feeling up to knife work, I assayed the shredder attachment for my Ankarsrum mixer.  What a mess.  Then I thought of my little Breville BSB530XL immersion blender.  I used the food processor attachment for the BSB530XL.  Perfectly shredded cabbage in seconds.

 

Little wonder Breville is doing well in the kitchen appliance market.  Yesterday I read an article in Bloomberg Businessweek on the success of Breville's business model.  One of the few products they have not yet cracked is the kitchen mixer.  But I have to say they have the immersion blender down perfect!

 

 

I'm having great difficulty imagining how the immersion blender utilizes the food processor.  Or vice versa.

blue_dolphin

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23 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

 

I'm having great difficulty imagining how the immersion blender utilizes the food processor.  Or vice versa.

 

Maybe this video will help: 

 

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