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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Blender usefulness

One thing no-one should be without is a blender. It can be made use of in many ways and for many things in the kitchen. Pushed for time or in a hurry? Blenders are brilliant for using to make quick and easy meals. And with very little time spent actually cooking! Another great use for your blender is making pesto. Everyone has their own favourite way of making it so look up some recipes on Google or your preferred search engine.

Homemade mayonnaise with a blender

With this recipe you can use either a kitchen blender or an immersion hand blender. If you use a standing kitchen blender, all you need is the jar. If you are using an immersion hand blender you will need a wide mouth jar.

Ingredients

• 2 egg yolks
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon powdered mustard
• 1/8 teaspoon sugar
• Pinch cayenne pepper
• 4 to 5 teaspoons of lemon juice or white vinegar
• 1-1/2 cups olive oil or canola oil (some people like to do half and half)
• 4 teaspoons of hot water

Why we need a Blender?

What would we do without the blender? No more smoothies or fancy drinks and no easy way to create pureed foods for both variety in the kitchen and special diets in the hospital. There would even be limits on scientific research as the blender is an important tool in the laboratory, used by such scientists as Jonas Salk in his search for the answer to polio.

Buying a Blender consider this

Many standard commercial blenders have a very short lifespan. Their motors can't take more than a few berries before they start sputtering and leave you with a lumpy smoothie. Most glass blender containers chip and scratch. Worst of all, the blender blade usually comes apart in 10 different pieces, all of which are easy to lose and hard to clean, which means you end up replacing expensive parts over and over again. Stop replacing those expensive rubber gaskets, lids, and dull blades! Consider buying a blender that you'll never have to replace again.

CONCLUSION

Blending is a must but very cumbersome if one wants to do it well. But the perfect cook will never compromise on these details owing to constraints whatever they may be. So, in come the kitchen aid blenders to help you whip and blend food stuff, juices, drinks, batter and anything that possibly comes to mind, better.