Cuisinart CSB-76BC SmartStick 200-Watt Immersion Hand Blender, Brushed Chrome
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cuisinart CSB-76BC SmartStick 200-Watt Immersion Hand Blender, Brushed Chrome
Customer Review: Wonderful for making Mochas
Summary: 5 Stars
I make a wonderful mocha every morning with this machine. I start out by using a coffee pressBodum New Kenya 8 Cup Coffee Press, Black, 1.0 l, 34 oz. and adding three heaping tablespoons of coffee. Next, I boil some water and pour it into the press and put the top on.
My next step is to take a large coffee mug (24 oz) Copco Big Joe 24-Ounce Thermal Travel Mugs, Set of 2 and take 1/2 square of baker's chocolate Baker's Baking Chocolate Squares 8oz and put it in the bottom of the cup. Add sweetener Splenda No Calorie Sweetener, Granular, Individual Packets, 700-Count Box to taste (I add 5 packages).
Press down the stopper on the coffee press about 1/4 of the way down. Pour the coffee from the press to the cup until it is half full. Let it sit for 5 minutes (the boiling hot coffee softens the chocolate) and then stick the SmartStick in and blend for 30 seconds. Pull the SmartStick out of the coffee mug and fill the rest with the coffee.
Customer Review: Great addition to my kitchen!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've shied away from making purees for years. Just didn't want to dirty the food processor (pain to clean) and my hand mixer is the mixer from hell. When using it, I end up wearing more than is in the bowl. Anyhow, decided to get an immersion blender and this Cuisinart seemed reasonably priced and well regarded. I can tell you that I'm thoroughly pleased with mine and am finding more uses for it every week. The stainless steel cutter attachment is a breeze to clean. I'm using it quite successfully in my non-stick Circulon cookware (another wonderful Amazon purchase) and have had no surface scratching issues. The way the cutter head and shield are made, the only way to damage cookware is to bear down on the bottom of the pan. Since the blender works best at an intermediate immersion level, damaging your cookware is just out of the question unless you are ham fisted. I've used it to make pureed soups with assorted greens and potatoes, salsa to can, and a few other recipes. It's just a great kitchen tool, quiet and neat to use, does everything within reason that you ask. Read the manual (i.e. don't plan on having it blend ice cubes into your smoothies - crush the ice first) then put it to work on the jobs it was meant to handle.Customer Review: Great Purchase
Summary: 5 Stars
I really love this blender. Since it has arrived I haven't had much use for my old standard blender. It's powerful as other reviewers have said.
Another reviewer said they bent the blades on frozen strawberries. With this in mind I have been careful but I find it hard to believe that this would happen with normal use. This person must have been laying on the blender trying to force it down through the strawberries. I blend frozen fruits and find it to cause no problems. One trick that I use it I add the frozen fruit early on in the smoothie so they have a chance to sit in the liquid while I add the rest of my ingredients. This gives the fruit a little bit of time to thaw out just a bit.
I also love the ease with which you can clean it. After you finish you just pop off the wand and it's as easy to clean as rinsing it off. The shaft is seal so water doesn't get inside. So easy.
I like how quickly you can switch between tasks. My wife doesn't like protein in her drinks so I can maker her a smoothie with no protein, make a chocolate one for my kids and make a smoothie for me with vanilla protein.
If you are looking for a powerful and well made blender look no further.
Customer Review: I didn't realize hand blenders could be this good.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my second hand blender; the first was a two-speed Oster, and it worked fine but was kind of a mess. It spattered a lot while running, it made a lot of noise, and it took a while to really get things done.
This one is about as basic as it gets. One speed, no whisks or other attachments, just a one-speed hand blender. And this thing does the job. It's very quiet, very powerful, and is very clean -- it doesn't spatter very much. After my last one I just assumed they all did. I made a salad dressing out of persimmon and whole garlic cloves and oil and whatnot in the plastic cup the blender comes with, and I had it full past the markings and it didn't overflow at all. And it really liquefied everything to a perfectly smooth puree. My last hand blender, the results were always kind of so-so compared to using my real stand blender, but this one is just as good. Plus, so much easier to clean!
The only reason I considered giving it four stars instead of five is that it's not actually "brushed chrome," it's plastic that has been spray-painted silver, and so looks kind of cheap. But it *is* cheap, and yet works really well, and I decided I'm not *quite* shallow enough to dock it a star for its paint.
Customer Review: Ah hah, I'm all shook up!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well ok, maybe I am not all shook up so much as BLENDED up. I purchased this immersion blender after my older no name brand unit purchased at Wally World died in the middle of blending a pot of hot soup. I like that you can wash the blenders blade assembly in the dishwasher and the stainless steel shaft is not stained like so many of the ALL PLASTIC models. Another thing I love is the power of the unit and the sharpness of the blades; they will reduce a pot of cream of broccoli soup to a smooth consistency in nothing flat.
Oh and when I say broccoli soup folks, I MEAN broccoli soup. I put nearly two bunches of steamed broccoli in my soup and I only chunk it prior to blending with the immersion blender. This blender will puree` the soup to a perfect creamy texture in nothing flat. (Reserve a few pieces of the chunked broccoli to add back to the soup for texture purposes) I have also used it on my potato and asparagus soups with equally great results.
If you are looking for an immersion blender with lots of power and a "NO STAIN" Stainless Steel shaft then IMO, you cannot go wrong with this model from Cusinart.
Happy Blending!
Ciao!