Having the right mixers and blenders in your kitchen and bar can make the biggest difference between succeeding and failing when cooking and making drinks. Let’s take a look at the varied types and see what will work well for your in your kitchen.

You can basically buy 3 types of mixers and blenders : the hand mixer, the stand mixer and the blender. Allow me to explain the difference between them and their purposes, then you can decide if you want one, 2 or all 3.

The hand mixer is of course held in the hand. Two beaters are attached to it and they rotate around to mix up the food that you have in a bowl. The food could be something whipped up light and airy like cream or eggs. Or the food might be heavier like a cake mix. The heaviest thing a hand mixer could handle would be a small batch of cookies.

2 benefits of hand mixers : they do not take up much room, can slot in a drawer and are less expensive than a stand mixer. The stand mixer is on a stand that may sit permanently on your worktop. It incorporates 3 standard attachments : the paddle, dough hook and wire whisk. These perform different jobs.

The paddle is the universal attachment. It is for mixing everything that’s not bread dough, egg whites or double cream. It is superb for cake mixes, cookie dough and other doughs, and pureed potatoes.

The dough hook is for bread dough and other awfully thick heavy doughs. The wire whisk is for light and ethereal egg whites for meringue or souffle and whipping cream.

There are a couple of downsides to purchasing stand mixers. They’re not extremely portable, they take up room on your countertop, and they’re costly.

But there are a couple of benefits : they do a fabulous job, you can set them and do other things while they do the work, and they really cause you to feel like a pro cook!

Blenders have their own uses in the kitchen and bar. They can cut up foods in uneven pieces but I like a good old knife.The blender’s main purpose is to blend and puree liquids. The liquids might be a soup base or gravy but most often the liquids are drinks like milkshakes, smoothies and mixed alcoholic drinks.

This should give you a good idea of what you want for your kitchen. I have all 3. I use my hand mixer for fast jobs or jobs that are not on my worktop. I have got a stand mixer for everything. The stand mixer is the single thing that can deal with bread dough and gigantic batches of cookies. I’ve a blender for drinks and soup purees. Click here : http://braunmultimix.com/ and braun hand mixer for more information.