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Warpy

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9. I find the blender will do most of what I want it to
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 06:38 PM
Feb 2013

and a good stick blender is even better. You can chop and puree things in a plastic baggie with a stick blender and save yourself another dish to wash and do smoothies right in the glass. The main advantage of a stick blender over a standing blender is that you aren't left transferring hot liquids back and forth when you need to puree a soup. I still use the standing blender for things like pureed tomatillos and hot chiles for the local cuisine, force of habit.

If you decide on the traditional blender with a jar, less is usually more. Go for the one with the simple control (high, low, pulse) over the one with 20 buttons that all basically do the same thing. Those buttons are a PIA to clean.

Nothing beats a food processor when it comes to making bread crumbs or cutting fat into flour for pastry, but those can be accomplished by other means. I actually use the blender more often.

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