Making the best use of an immersion blender

[ParallelLines]

@Johnny_Bravo

@Chefguy

Otherwise, I’d have to pour the pot contents into a blender,

Yes, often in batches. Sure, that’s “all it does,” but it’s such a time saver.

It’s also got a tiny footprint. A lot of unitaskers take up much more space than they’re worth but you can just toss the immersion blender in a drawer.

Love mine. Maybe my favorite kitchen gadget of all time.

So much this. For us we use it most when we get the tomato bonanza for a few months in summer to make quarts of fresh tomato sauce, and any other high volume hot soup (or in my case, slow cooker saag). And like @Johnny_Bravo I can untwist the working head and wash it fast, unlike breaking down my blender or food processor which takes up a lot of space in use and in cleaning.

I have a blender, a food processor, and an immersion blender (thankfully I have a house), and right now if I had to downsize it’d be the food processor. Not that I don’t use it (probably every other week) but because it’s the hardest to clean and takes up the most space, and the other two are smaller and still versatile.

[Johnny_Bravo]

@ParallelLines

slow cooker saag

It’s absolutely wild how quickly the immersion blender turns a pot of digusting leaf glop into delicious, perfectly blended saag.

[Dewey_Finn]

To be honest, I like saag paneer, but the color can be off-putting.

[ParallelLines]

Dammit, now I have a craving. If it weren’t snowing, I’d go and get the fixings and do a skillet sized batch…

[dwyr]

Toum!