Welcome to your environment! You can order everything from your assortment with your personal budget here.

You can always return to the normal Coolblue website by clicking here.

Your outstanding budget (incl. VAT) is always visible here, so you know exactly how much you can spend.

Coolblue home
Written by Lisanne

The differences between a stand mixer and an immersion blender

It may not seem like it, but a stand mixer and an immersion blender are 2 different kitchen machines. A stand mixer is a real powerhouse you can use to prepare light and heavy mixtures. An immersion blender is light, compact, and ideal to puree ingredients. Continue reading to find out what you can use a stand mixer and an immersion blender for.

Stand mixer and immersion blender comparison

Stand mixer Immersion blender
Whisking, kneading, mixing Daily use, main function. For occasional use, you sometimes need an accessory.
Chopping, cutting, grating Regular use, sometimes you need an accessory. Regular use, sometimes you need an accessory.
Mashing For occasional use, you sometimes need an accessory. Daily use, main function.
Thick juices Regular use, sometimes you need an accessory. Not suitable
Thin juices Regular use, sometimes you need an accessory. Not suitable
Making pasta Regular use, sometimes you need an accessory. Not suitable
Prepare meat Regular use, sometimes you need an accessory. Not suitable

Whisk, knead, and mix

Kenwood stand mixer

Stand mixer: best choice for kneading

The most important functions of a stand mixer are that it whips, kneads, and mixes. This powerhouse includes a whisk, mixing hook, and dough hook by default to whip, knead, and mix for you. So you can take your time cleaning up the kitchen while your stand mixer kneads the dough.

Immersion blender whip cream

Immersion blender: useful for thin batter

An immersion blender is ideal to whisk thin batter. While you whisk and mix, you keep the immersion blender in your hand. You need 2 hands to knead dough, because it takes quite some strength. An immersion blender isn't suitable for large amounts of cake or pizza dough.

Chop, cut, and grate

Stand mixer chop and grate

Stand mixer: useful cutting aid

You can easily expand the options of a stand mixer with special blender and food chopper attachments. This does depend on the sturdiness of the attachments. The sharpness of the blades are especially important with very hard ingredients like nuts and chocolate or very soft ingredients like cheese.

Immersion blender cut

Immersion blender: useful cutting tool for small amounts

There are many attachments for an immersion blender that allow you to chop, cut, and grate vegetables. So you can easily turn it into a food chopper. The included mixing bowls of an immersion blender are usually quite small. If you make a salad for more than 4 people, you have to empty the mixing bowl in between.

Mashing

Stand mixer puree

Stand mixer: useful for sauce

If you want to make a sauce or dip every once in a while, the best machine to use is a stand mixer. You can use the included blender attachment for this. You can make thick sauces directly in the mixing bowl, such as mayonnaise. You do have to make large batches, or the ingredients won't mix properly.

Immersion blender puree

Stand mixer: best choice to puree

The immersion blender is by far the best kitchen machine to puree baby food, soup, sauces, and dips with. That's because you can puree food with it very well, so everything turns into a liquid mass. Thanks to its compact size, you can puree with the immersion blender directly in the pan.

Extra accessories

Stand mixer meat grinder

Stand mixer: lots of accessories to choose from

If you want to make a thin juice, use a juicer attachment with your stand mixer. With a blender attachment, you can make thicker juices, such as smoothie. You can also use a pasta or meat grinder attachment with a stand mixer so you can make fresh pasta or minced meat yourself.

Immersion blender accessories

Immersion blender: limited accessories to choose from

An immersion blender has many possible attachments, such as a food processor or food chopper. Unfortunately, a juicer, pasta maker, or meat grinder aren't among the options.

Conclusion

You can use a stand mixer for all kinds of preparations. This powerful kitchen machine is the best choice for you if you want to knead dough. And with the right attachments, you can also use it as a blender or even a pasta maker. You can't puree with it very well. That's what you use an immersion blender for. The immersion blender is very suitable for making all kinds of sauces and dips, because you can accurately make the preparation. It's especially useful for soup, because you can puree it directly in the pan without having to pour the warm soup out of the pan first.

Lisanne
Article by:
Lisanne Stand Mixer and Immersion Blender Expert.
Personal chat Digitalk.
You're now chatting with Coolblue customer service
This chat is closed
foo
Oeps File size is larger than 5MB. Upload a smaller file.