Cuisinart CSB-76W SmartStick 200-Watt Immersion Hand Blender, White
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cuisinart CSB-76W SmartStick 200-Watt Immersion Hand Blender, White
Customer Review: Wonderful addition to any cook's kitchen!
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this after having wanted a hand blender for quite some time, and reading a LOT of reviews. It does everything promised, and does it well.
I have used it for mixing up a frothy mocha a lait in the morning, and have also used it for turning sugar into a fine grain....it's a little bit more difficult to make sure that all the sugar is ground, but it works quite well and saved me from breaking out my blender or food processor.
The power is excellent for doing just about anything you would need a hand blender for, and the included cup makes it easy to blend small amounts of liquid together. In fact, using the hand blender in the cup makes a small suction, so that the blender will not come out easily.
All in all, an excellent buy for the price and well worth having. It has become one of my "necessary" tools rather than one of the items that gets put in a dark cupboard, never to be seen again! I keep it out and ready to use...
Customer Review: That's TEN STARS on this great blender!
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW, this is an exceptional tool. I have owned a Braun, Rival, Sunbeam and an Oster all of which failed within a year or less, the Oster being by far the worse. I was so surprised that this blender was so powerful, even on ice mixed with liquid. The biggest surprise was that after you are done blending you just leave the blender in the cup and push a button to release the lower half of the unit making it totally mess free moving it to the sink for easy clean up! I didn't expect that feature and I would have chosen it just for that feature had I known. This unit is light and very powerful far better then any other brand I have tried. In this price range this is the only choice, I can't imagine any blender even in the over 100 dollar range working any better. Get it you will love it!
UPDATE:I've now owned this for several months and use it several times a day and I still give it TEN STARS!
Customer Review: LOVED it until it broke WAY TOO SOON!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Let me preface my comments by telling you that I am a Cuisinart fan and a stick blender convert. My disappointment here is that Cuisinart has let me down with a shoddy product that used to work well; now, after only 1.5 years of minimal, lightweight use, their stick blender has let me down!
Although most of the small appliances that I own are Cuisinart, and they have been wonderful and dependable and I love them, the first stick blender that I ever bought was an inexpensive Braun model. It worked well, was not fancy, easily made smoothies and pureed soups (which is all I wanted it to do), and it lasted for about 7 years. When it was time to replace the Braun, I decided to go with this model of Cuisinart's inexpensive stick blender; it has performed just like the Braun, which is all I needed, and done the same tasks, which is all that I wanted it to do. However, the Cuisinart stick blender only lasted 1.5 years! What a bust!
Customer Review: powerful and easy to clean
Summary: 5 Stars
this is my second birthday-gift-immersion-blender. [people know i like to cook]
the first was a $10 piece of crap from bed bath & beyond that wouldn't come apart for washing after a grand total of 2 uses. and the motor smelled like burning.
that said, the cuisinart is a very powerful blender for a very reasonable price! so far i have used it to blend onions for pasta sauce, spinach [partially frozen] for stuffed shells, emulsion of vinegar/oil salad dressing, and a braising sauce with whole garlic cloves. it is surprisingly quiet for a blender and i have thus far avoided any splatter explosions. the included measuring/mixing cup is perfect for all of my above-listed uses and both it and the blender attachment hand-wash very easily as i am lacking a dishwasher.
i definitely recommend this blender to anyone looking for a cheap, reliable, durable product!
Customer Review: Changed our lives!
Summary: 5 Stars
We make yogurt smoothies every morning with frozen fruit. We've tried blenders (too big for 3 smoothies, too annoying to clean all the parts). We went with the food processor for a while (too big, hard to clean, and it's disturbing to blend your food in that toxic nalgene-type plastic each morning). Then we went to the magic bullet, which was a nice size, yet it was that bad kind of plastic again, and it never really got clean in all the nooks and crannies. Thankfully the magic bullet broke after about a year of use and as we shopped around for different options we came across this, most wonderful thing. We blend our smoothies right in the glasses we drink out of. It's SO easy to clean. I also use this to make hummus, blend soups right in the pot, AND make pesto (containing walnuts)! It's so small and compact to store right in the knife drawer. Best purchase of a small appliance ever.