What is the blender and with what it "eat"?
You also love a thin gourmet for a breakfast thawing in a mouth air fruit творожок or an exotic cocktail-ice-cream with the smallest кристалликами chipped ice, you wish to indulge daily the child easy creams, mousses, a souffle and fruktovo-vegetable mashed potatoes?To mix, shake up, prick and crush products – all it under force and to a mixer, and a kitchen combine, however for today in an arsenal of the kitchen industry there is easier and compact device uniting in of function two previous – a name to it "blender".
The first blenders have appeared about hundred years ago. However, then these devices were able to prepare only cocktails and bore a strong resemblance to a shaker. Later 15 years the advanced model of a blender has been presented at an exhibition of the restaurant equipment to Chicago and made the big success already at wine makers. Owners of factories of sparkling wines mixed rewandering grape juice of crops of different years by means of a blender and thus received excellent champagne. Besides, this device has found wide application at restaurants where it used for mixing of cocktails. In 70th years of the XX-th century American Charles Sonthajmer has designed the first kitchen combine which has got at once huge popularity on the basis of a blender and on quarter of the century has completely superseded the predecessor. Today's interest to blenders has revived in connection with a fashion on a healthy food, first of all, the children's. The kitchen combine has appeared improper for these purposes: kids «open a mouth» only for completely not big portions, to prepare which in two, and even in three-litre bowls of a combine simply it is not convenient. Besides, advantages of a blender have estimated and in connection with its functional affinity with a mixer. So such universal and device rather easy in use a-lja «and швец, and the reaper, and in дуду игрец» as is impossible by the way has had to a court yard to the modern tempted masters culinary изысков.
According to the destination blenders happen different, and all of them "are necessary and important" for performance of certain manipulations and reception of new desirable qualities of products.
Кувшинчик for gourmets
Such blender with capacity – a jug or a glass – volume usually 1,5-2 litres and the knifes-nozzles located below at the basis of a bowl is called as stationary. With its help it is possible to feel for a while the barman or the eminent cook of a French cuisine. Various cocktails, every possible mashed potatoes including soups-mashed potatoes and sauces, a cream, chipped ice, the liquid dough for fritters it is far not the full list of accessible delicacies by means of such blender. Is better the device works with liquid and semi-fluid mixes. To use a stationary blender for crushing of an onions, pepper or greens it is not so convenient, because small slices of vegetables scatter on bowl walls. To use such tool simply: in a jug accurately, not to the edges liquid components are poured, the cut slices of fruit or vegetables and the device are pawned joins in a network. Vegetables-fruit it is necessary to cut preliminary that they have not got stuck between knifes and a bowl and were better ground. Average capacity of stationary blenders – from 300 to 400 Вт. But at some models in which there is a function are caustic ice for cocktails, the capacity indicator, as a rule, is more – an order 550 Вт.
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ДИП WITH THE WHITE STRING BEAN This дип approaches and to dip in it bread, and as sauce to fish or meat. To make sauce, dissolve with its broth and warm up. On 350 ml: To merge 400 гр to bank of a tinned white string bean and to put in a blender together with 2 cleared зубчиками the garlic, a grated dried peel of a lemon, salt and black pepper. To chop in mashed potatoes and then to add leaves of fresh parsley. To continue to shake up, gradually pouring in 150 ml of an olive oil. To add hardly sauce Табаско and it is a little lemon juice to taste. |
This kitchen tool outwardly similar to a pestle, with двухлопастной a nozzle-grinder from stainless steel, is called погружным as a blender. The knifes which are in this nozzle, also perform all work when them lower in capacity with products. Feature of this blender that capacity – the: it can be a usual house bowl, a pan, утятница, say, the capacity which had near at hand at the mistress. The device is put in action by the button located on the case. And unlike stationary, погружной the blender in an operating time needs to be held in hands. But with its help it is possible easily, improbably quickly and to the necessary degree to crush a "teargas" onions, garlic, greens, nuts. As mashed potatoes, sauces and подливы conveniently mix up, creams and cocktails are shaken up. Is better such погружная a mill copes with small portions, therefore it is simply irreplaceable at preparation of a children's food. Time of continuous work, speed of rotation of nozzles and possibility перемалывания firm products depend on capacity which can be from 350 to 750 Вт.
The multicar
Recently the increasing popularity win погружные blenders with additional nozzles thanks to which the multipurpose device turns out. There are different variants of their names: « Blender-mixer "," vertical mixer "," multiset »and even"minicombine". So, such design consists from погружного a blender, a nimbus for beating, a nozzle-knife in the closed capacity, a measured glass and can be completed with one more additional capacity большего the size. Such devices quite often have some speeds of rotation of nozzles. The Nozzle-nimbus allows to shake up creams, egg whites, cocktails and the semi-fluid dough. In the presence of a special knife and high capacity the device can crush even ice for cocktails and if in the complete set there is a big capacity the unit turns to a stationary blender. Presence of different capacities creates additional conveniences, for example, the small bowl with a cover approaches for meat crushing (in фаршеобразную weight), an onions, garlic, vegetables, nuts, spices. Thus, distribution of specific smells decreases.
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SPICY SAUCE КРЫЖОВНИКОВЫЙ TO FISH On 350 ml: 500 гр a gooseberry, 1 зубчик the garlic, the crushed, 1 item of l. Salts, 2 ч.л. Dry горчицы (powder), 150 ml of white wine vinegar, 175 гр sugar, 50 гр raisin, 150 ml of water To put all components in a pan, to finish to boiling, then to cook 40 mines, stirring slowly. To cool it is a little, then to pour in a blender and to make homogeneous mashed potatoes, to pass through a sieve that will get rid of stones. To submit cold or hot with the baked herring and with a mackerel. |
Well and, of course, the main thing are nozzles. At a blender can be: knifes for the crushing, a traditional nozzle-blender in steam with a special transparent volumetric glass for mixing of cocktails, a nozzle for are caustic ice, a nimbus for beating, the vacuum pump with which help it is possible to store products very much and very long. Choose them depending on for what functions you plan to use a blender more often.
What blenders are offered today by the market?
"Eldorado"
The most simple models погружных blenders power consumption 200 Вт stand here from 199 roubles. If you want in addition a minihospital and a small measured glass – count already on 450-540 roubles, with a metal nimbus for beating – 800-900 roubles, with a strainer for berries – 940 roubles. Three-four high-speed blenders average capacity 600 Вт, volume of a bowl from 0,5 to 2 litres stand accordingly from 1400 to 2390 roubles. Such blenders, but with fastening on a wall, stand from 2300 roubles. Большее quantity of speeds, plus knifes from stainless steel and a nozzle for are caustic ice – on the average from 3 thousand. Complete sets into which enter also the container for storage of made production – from 3990 roubles. The most functional and expensive variant of a blender with the vacuum pump, турборежимом, 12th speeds, a metal nozzle "nimbus", a plastic nozzle "blender", the pump-grinder and two capacious containers costs 6000 roubles.
In "M.Video" it is a lot of blenders high-speed and with smooth management. Погружной, with a metal nimbus for beating, a minigrinder and a measured glass costs here from 1490 roubles. Stationary blenders 5-7 high-speed, with smooth management and a pulse mode fluctuate in the price from 1190 to 2390 roubles. The same blender, but in addition with an aperture for components costs 2550 roubles. There are stationary blenders working from the accumulator with a nozzle for are caustic ice – in area of 3 thousand. Multi-blenders from 6 till 12 speeds, with a grater, шинковкой, 2 litre plastic glass and погружным a blender with прорезиненной the handle are on sale for 3090 roubles. Firm shop Samsung specialises only on multiblenders. Sets two in one «a mixer and a blender» with smooth regulation from 1000 to 13000 thousand turns a minute, adjustable speed, турборежимом, manual погружной a nozzle, the big nozzle-grinder, a nozzle for crushing of ice and a metal nimbus stand from 3655 roubles.
To take or not to take?
All of you still doubt, whether this kitchen assistant is necessary to you, and your husband shrugs shoulders and foggy hints at superfluous expenditure? In vain. The blender will allow you to open for itself such изыск as soups-mashed potatoes, you see, while they still are considered as exotic. Try to prepare:
Pea soup with crackling bacon
For 4 portions:
700 гр. The frozen peas
1,2 l of a vegetable broth
1 items of l. An olive oil
1 cut bulb
1/2 lemons, only juice
8 pieces of bacon
1 items of l. A paprika
2 sticks of a celery
What to make:
1. To warm up oil in a frying pan. To fry a bulb and a celery on slow fire of 10-15 minutes to Add a paprika and to prepare still 1 minute to Add peas.
2. To add a broth, to finish to boiling. To lower fire and to extinguish 10-12 minutes to Pour in a blender (or a mixer) to scroll to uniformity.
3. To pour soup in a pure pan, to warm up, then to add a lemon juice and seasonings. To fry bacon to golden colour and a crisp.
4. To pour soup on plates, from above to put bacon slices.
Agree, after such culinary experiments members of household will treat favourably any purchase.
Alisa Winter
