On 05/12/2012 12:13 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/4/2012 9:20 PM, z z wrote:
>> Cheap enough to not feel guilty about trying it.
>>
>> I, too, have been hemming and hawing about getting a stick blender-my
>> quandary is that I really want to buy the ?Oster? rechargeable stick
>> blender (handle rotates into a gun shape also) because it is cordless
>> but I am afraid it will turn out to be weak and more of a drinks blender
>> than a processor.
>>
> Stick blenders are for *blending*. If you want a food processor, buy a
> food processor.


If they were just for blending they would probably have wider paddles
and would be a lot slower. I just used mine a few minutes ago to puree
a batch of butternut squash soup. It was a heck of a lot easier to plug
in the stick blender, puree the soup with it, wash it and put it back
than it would have been to get out the food processor and pour the soup
into to it and then pour it back into the pot. That would have meant the
work of getting out the FP, using it, washing all the parts, drying them
and putting everything away again. It was so much easier to use the
stick blender.