A blender is a household appliance that allows you to liquefy food : that is, make solid foods become liquid . The most common thing is that they are used to prepare fruit smoothies .
A motorized appliance
Before moving forward, it is important to remember that an appliance is a device for home use that runs on electricity. This group, in addition to the blender, includes machines such as the refrigerator (also known as a refrigerator , refrigerator or refrigerator), the vacuum cleaner (which in some countries is called a vacuum cleaner ) and the blender , for example. A smoothie , meanwhile, is a drink that is obtained by blending a fruit with milk or water.
The blender has a motor that is located inside a casing, which is connected through a shaft to a container that has propeller-like blades at the bottom. In this way, when food is placed in the blender and the motor is turned on, the blades begin to rotate at high speed, grinding what was deposited in the glass.
Typically, the blender can work at different speeds, defined by the engine revolutions . The higher the power, the higher the rotation speed of the blades.
Suppose a person wants to drink a peach smoothie . To do this, you can peel the fruit, remove the pit (or stone ), cut it, put the pieces in the blender glass and add water . After a few seconds of operation, the blades will have liquefied the peach. The banana smoothie , on the other hand, is usually prepared by incorporating milk instead of water into the blender, with the vegetarian alternative of a soy, almond or other product of plant origin.
juice extractor
Although the word blender makes us think of a device for crushing fruit and turning it into a drink, in one of its meanings it specifically refers to one that is capable of separating the juice from the pulp . In other words, in addition to liquefying, it leaves the solid components aside, offering a perfectly liquid result.
To do this, it has a metal filter that traps the pulp or any other solid part. Furthermore, since it is very powerful, it can extract juice from vegetables and fruits such as carrots and apples, among others whose consistency does not seem very suitable for this type of recipes.
hand blender
A blender or hand mixer , also called a mini blender , is similar to a conventional blender, although it does not need a special glass to work. It simply must be activated inside the container in which the food is placed.
This feature makes it very versatile, since it is independent of any other accessory. Of course, this does not mean that hand blenders are not sold with their own glasses, of different sizes and shapes; But even in those more complete packages we are not obliged to use them, since the pieces are completely individual.
Unlike a traditional blender, the handheld one allows us to use it even in a deep dish, as long as we activate it at a moderate speed . We can make mayonnaise, a fruit smoothie, puree different vegetables, as well as grind seeds and sugar, among many other things. And all this with the added convenience of an easy cleaning process.
This last point is another of the advantages of the hand blender, because to wash it, simply remove its blades from the base where the motor is located and wash them with tap water . It is a relatively small piece and very easy to manipulate in the sink , unlike the parts of a tabletop blender, which are larger and more cumbersome.