All About Blenders

BLENDERBlender is a kitchen appliance used

to combine or puree food ingredients. Typically used for crushing ice, creating smoothies and puree, powdering small solids into liquids and blending them.

First electric blender is patented by Stephen J. Poplawski in 1922. Since then many different models of blenders have become available in the globe.

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There are two types of blender, the Countertop Blender is the traditional stationary design and the Handheld Blenders or most popularly known as Immersion Blender it is a small and lightweight commonly used for blending soups and pureeing vegetables.

The blender has a several parts, the lids and fill caps, the jar, the jar base, the blades and the base.

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Parts of a Blender Lids and fill caps - Blender lids are usually made of rubber and often contain a hole in the center for a plastic fill cap. The fill cap is a removable insert that allows more items to be added to the jar without removing the entire lid. Jar - the blender jar is the main unit into which the items intended for blending are placed. They can be made of glass or plastic and are topped off with a lid. 4

Jar base - this round unit with a hole in the center screws onto the bottom of the blender jar. Blades - are usually constructed of stainless steel and consist of two or more blades held in place by a central piece the whirls around for cutting. Base - the blender base is the mechanical heart of the unit and houses a motor that turns the blades. The base holds the jar in place and is outfitted with controls to adjust the speed and type of blending desired.

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Lid and Fill

Caps

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Jar

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Jar Base

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Blades

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Base

A blender is one of those wonderful versatile kitchen appliances that can save time and effort in food preparation and also enable a cook to create imaginative and delicious concoctions. It corporates the fruits and vegetables into diet. Blenders offers many benefits in the kitchen. They can chop, dice, mix, blend and puree with ease that cannot accomplish with hand, thus it’s reducing food preparation time.

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Salad Dressing

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Countertop Blender

Handheld / Immersion

Blender