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Seriously considering one since all I have right now is a Magic Bullet. Trying to decide if I want the Immersion Blender or one of the regular blenders.
Any thoughts???
Follow-up question: Which would be better for making smoothies and daiquiris?
Last edited by clb239; September 16, 2023, 07:39 AM.
I bought a Vitamix on sale a few years ago and I love it! Great for both grinding dried stuff such as dried peppers and blending liquids to any consistency.
clb239 I have both and use them both a lot. The immersion blender is used mostly while cooking - safer than trying to use a regular blender with hot foods.
(Video is 16 minutes, with a one-minute ad in the middle. Brian is a former restaurant chef and has pureed hundreds of gallons of soups in blenders, so he brings a practiced eye to such things.)
The results were interesting, and sometimes surprising and subtle.
I think the video Michael_in_TX posted is pretty accurate, just in my experience. I love my Vitamix. I bought first one in 1990s (I remember where I lived) when it had a metal container and it could not go into the dishwasher. I don't do "no dishwasher" so I put it in there anyway, and over time it started to rust around the bottom. I was a little crunchy vegetarian then, I did everything from grind whole grains into flour, and whir up veg discards to pour over plants, when I didn't live in a place I could compost. When they came out with the plastic container that was dishwasher safe, I gave away the original and got that. I replaced about five years ago when the motor started making odd sounds and then flipped a breaker. That is a "no go, no second chances" in my house, so got new one. I love it, and I have since added a second container when Costco had them on sale. I make smoothies to drink on way to work, and I am total blackberry addict. It whizzes the blackberry seeds into nothing. I still occ grind grains, although I don't do the grains like I used to. I have used a Ninja, and also a Bullett, at various people's houses when visiting, and although they are fine, I prefer my Vitamix.
I also have an immersion blender, I don't use it as much, and it is a Cuisinart, not a Vitamix. For blending soups and sauces, I find it safer (as a lifelong klutz) to blend in the pot/pan, rather than pour hot liquid into the VM. You also, like the video says, have to hold down the lid on the VM when blending hot stuff, because it doesn't lock. Still, for me, Vitamix rules.
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