KitchenAid KHB300WH Hand Blender, White
KitchenAid KHB300WH Hand Blender, White
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Product Description
This immersion blender provides efficient powerful blending at any speed, as well as chopping and whisking. Its motor is designed for quiet, long-life operation and thoroughly blends both hot and cold foods. The stainless steel blending attachment features a splashguard with air slots to increase flow during blending. Unlike plastic attachments, it won't stain when you work with tomatoes, curries, and berries. Its 8" length allows you to blend in deep pots or pitchers. You'll find this an extremely handy tool for pureeing soups, vegetables, baby food, and beverages. With the whisk and chopper attachments you can also create whipped desserts, dressings, dips, and chopped nuts, veggies, meat and other foods.
Details
- Measures 17 by 3 by 6-inch; 1-year, hassle-free, replacement warranty.
- Accessory bag with drawstring keeps all components together
- 4-Cup mixing beaker with snap-lock lid for storing foods
- Includes wire whisk and nut chopper attachments
- Ergonomic, fashion-colored housing with no-slip grip
Tagged with: blender • chopper • Hand • hand blender • hand mixer • immersion blender • KHB300WH • kitchenaid • White
Filed under: Kitchenaid hand blender
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I just got my blender and used it for the first time. I made a soup of pureed vegetables. Previously I would have to pour some of the cooked veggies and broth into the countertop blender, then put that blended batch in a separate container while I added more from the main pot on the stove and so on. Generally slopping things around as I did it. Tonight, I cooked the veggies in the broth, then put the immersion blender in and whirred it all up right there in the pot. Perfect. Rinse the easily removeable blender attachment and viola! done! It was everything I wanted and more. It’s powerful and quiet and beautiful.
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After tearing through 2 stick blenders in 6 years, I tried this one — and let me tell you — the KitchenAid takes the prize. The motor (the highest powered I found on the market) is tough enough for batters and heavy mixing, and still with the multiple speeds and whisk attachment, is light-handed enough for making fast work of whipping cream, and egg whites.
The chopper is worth the upgrade from the stick alone as it will do everything the old counter-top hogging food processors ever dreamed of doing, but with half the clean up time. It also makes it easy for chopping just enough for one or two servings without breaking out the heavy hardware.
Unless you use a mixer for tons of cookie dough or to knead bread (in which case you want the biggest and toughest counter-top kitchenAid stand mixer you can afford…) then this is the best I’ve seen. Stick this blender down into a bubbling hot soup pot full of veggies, beans and meat — it will puree the whole pot into a smoothe and beautiful soup in a matter of 2-3 minutes.
A great product (and a great gift.)
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I learned a long time ago, if you go KitchenAid, you go for life. They make the highest quality, longest life products I have ever seen. This hand mixer is the third of its kind I’ve owned. I’ve had two of the Braun models and they died out after about a year of average use. I finally got the KitchenAid and it has been going strong for a few years now. I really like having the ability to go down to the bottom of a large pot, a full 8″. Even though it is of substantial weight, it fits your hand like a glove. I found it far superior to the Braun, as a matter of fact, it doesn’t even compare.
The plastic cup with lid makes an excellent accessory since you can mix and store without wasting time. The chopper is the most efficient I have seen, does a better job that a food processor. I especially like the multi-speed dial. It goes from 1 to 9 so it has the power you need, when you need it. Egg white or whip cream doesn’t even challenge it, the whipping attachment makes sure of that. This baby handles like a pro. There are times when you don’t need the big mixer and the immersion blender really fills in nicely. You won’t be disappointed with the quality, power or its sleek look.
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I bought this because I didn’t want my little precious eating preservatives or additives or any of that junk. This works like a charm making mush out of squash, making pancakes, smoothies, everything i have tried so far it works like a champ. Cleanup is rinsing it under the sink. I love this thing!
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If you want to make smoothies, stick with your old fashioned standing bar blender; this blender is designed for people who cook. I use my hand blender every day, usually the little food processor attachment to chop steak for our baby or chop herbs from my garden. I also like to use that attachment to puree vegetables like broccoli so I can sneak them into food I know the baby will eat. The whisk attachment makes making waffles in the morning effortless; I just whip the egg whites in the included mixing container without even really being awake. The actual blender attachment is great for making sauces out of pan drippings and aromatic veggies, mashed potatoes, and fruit purees.
My favorite appliance!
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I’m at a point in my life where I am developing a taste for quality, and can finally afford the kind of quality I desire. I like to dabble in the kitchen, so I’ve been building my arsenal of kitchenware recently. I’ve invested in some high-quality cookware and utensils, and started working on some appliances. I’ve got an 11-cup Cuisinart food processor, but that tends to be overkill for a lot of smaller jobs – I hate all the cleanup involved with making a cup of guacamole dip, for instance. I like to use peeled whole tomatoes to make tomato sauce for pasta dishes, but my wife doesn’t care for chunks of tomato in the finished sauce. No problem… I just dunk the stick blender right into the can of tomatoes and out comes a nice thick puree with all the rich flavor that pre-made sauces seem to lack.
This stick blender came highly recommended by an acquaintance, and it doesn’t disappoint. With its high-power motor, variable speed settings and versatile accessories, this is a compact and high-impact kitchen tool. Easy to clean, too. I would urge caution if you’ve never used one of these before, especially when working with very watery liquids as they can end up getting blown right out of your container if you’re not careful.
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There are many rave reviews here, so I won’t bore you more than necesssary. They’re all true.
I use the chopper all the time. We never ate so much guacamole. That’s my favorite part.
My husband uses the blender daily for his protein shakes.
My sister the chef, and my dear friend, use the whisk attachment all the time. Omelets, cream, etc.
You can’t lose with this set.
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I have had this for almost 5 months and use this for almost everything. The chopping accessory is great for onions, tomatoes, etc. I do a lot of Indian cooking and this is a huge time saver. Easy to clean. A ton of power. Have had to use my regular hand blender as this has so many accessories. The balloon wisk is great for whipped cream, and egg whites, etc. Cannot recc. this enough. Use this every time I cook.
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This exceeded my expectations – I have now put the food processor and blender into the cupboard. I am glad that I got the attachments – do use the chopper a lot and the bowls are quite heavy and stable and very easy cleanup. I am trying to limit “kitchen stuff” to only the truly multipurpose tools and this really fits the bill.
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Is this KitchenAid mixer worth the extra money above lower priced models? Yes, the blade placement is optimized in this model, together with the powerful and quiet motor, it makes a noticeable difference.
KHB100 and 300 use the same hand set (same motor); the only difference is the kit contents. KHB300 comes with a chopper and a whisk attachment in addition to KHB100, the basic immersion blender kit. (They all have the same instruction booklet and specs, except for the description of the kit contents.)
Is KitchenAid KHB300 worth the extra money above KHB100? Yes for me, and most likely yes for many others. The chopper is more powerful, quieter and faster chopping and easier cleaning than dedicated choppers of similar prices I’ve used. I don’t really use the wisk attachment much but it works well and requires no more cleaning work than a regular wisk.
One obvious advantage of KitchenAid immersion blender is when making thick herbal sauces (like pesto) in a measuring cup. Because you hold the blender and press against the herb, you can puree a lot of herb with a small amount of liquid relatively easily. All you need to do is to remove thick stalks, and put the herbs in the measuring cup, put other ingredients, and blend, while you wiggle the blender a bit so that it grabs the herbs into the viscous liquid phase. If you do this in a chopper or a upright blender, you’ll have to shake the chopper or push down the stuff in the blender so that the blade takes the herb in to the liquid phase. Even then, I could make thicker herbal sauces using this immersion blender than any other gadget I’ve used before, except for motor and pestle.
Another advantage of immersion blender is when making soups and stews, especially when thickened with roux. As a test, I simply cooked a couple tablespoons of flour in butter, and then added it to boiling broth, without loosening it first, and mixed with this blender to see how easy it is to make a uniformly thickened soup without any lumps. Piece of cake. Besides, it was very easy to make cream of broccoli soup without any large bit of broccoli, using this blender.
When using the immersion blender in a sauce pan or other relatively shallow vessel, it often helps to immerse the head while powered on with a slow speed (speed dial at 1), and also at an angle to the liquid surfce, and then speed up after the head is completely immersed. If you immerse the head before turning on, there can be some air trapped in the head that may cause big splatter in small containers. In large containers, with large volume of liquid, this is not a problem. When pulling the head, it’s always best to turn off the blender before withdrawing.
KHB300 includes a mixing cup you can use with the blender attachment. This cup is made from cheap plastic and not very useful. You should find a pyrex or other heat resistant glass container, so that you can see how the ingredients are blended, and then take the vessel right on stove or microwave oven. For example, I could easily make bread dips by mixing garlic, hot pepper and olive oil, blend in the pyrex cup, heat up in microwave oven, mix with some more fresh olive oil, and pour it into plates. Some may prefer to use a glass jar with lids, to make sauce in a similar way and save the leftover.
Perhaps the largest criticism I have about KHB300 is its chopper attachment. The lid of the attachment is held in place by friction but this is very easy to get stuck and very often hard to remove after chopping the ingredients. The lid of the chopper attachment is a hollow structure, and water can leak into it during use and cleaning, and I don’t know if there is a way to open up the lid to remove the leaked water. It is not a very good feeling to use this thing for cooking when I can hear the water when I shake the lid, yet I can’t see it or remove it. These things need some improvement. (Addendum: a portable appliance consultant at KitchenAid Customer experience center responded to my email, and she described that the chopper attachment is not dishwasher safe and should not be immersed in water.)