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    Kenwood Hand Blender

    HB724 is absolutely immense! Ours finally arrived yesterday, after being out of stock since Christmas, and it is a wonderful thing. The mashed potato we got last night was the best I've ever had (sorry Mum...) and the build quality is top notch. I might even be tempted to start 'creating'...

    I know I'm not much of a foodie, but I just had to share my excitement...

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    You've totally put me in the mood of mashed potatoes. Heat the milk first for fluffier mash

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    We need a new potato masher. I want one of these anyway.

    Win win!

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    From the title, I thought I was going to have to delete this thread for the posting of grotesque pictures/videos.
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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    I've still got my Mother's old one - it's about 15 years old and still works like a charm.

    I've also got a newer philips one which is a multi function which is also fab.

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    From the title, I thought I was going to have to delete this thread for the posting of grotesque pictures/videos.
    Fascist, etc, etc..

    I can't get near the thing now, but my wife is making me a lot of cake/soup etc. Which is nice.

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    The wife has the kenwood and loves it. In fact all our kenwood kitchen stuff is superb!

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    Quote Originally Posted by Smudger View Post
    ....

    The mashed potato we got last night was the best I've ever had (sorry Mum...) and the build quality is top notch. I might even be tempted to start 'creating'...

    I know I'm not much of a foodie, but I just had to share my excitement...
    You do realise, I hope, that a remark like that is the equivalent of going into an Apple forum and saying "iPhones suck", or perhaps into the Celtic ground on match day wearing a Rangers scarf? i.e. something between a good way to start a fight and an inventive form of suicide.

    Mashed potatoes? With a blender?


    Okay, I'll preface my remarks by saying, quite categorically, it's personal taste. If that's genuinely how you like your mash, then it's how you like you mash. And so be it.

    But, and I suspect the cheffy types around here will agree (and will be interested to see what they say), it's FAR from the recommended method.

    The logic is that potatoes are basic just a bag containing starch, some sugars, water and a few nutrients (the latter mainly in the skin). And if you want light, airy mashed, you need to be quite careful in how you do, and don't, prepare them. But most people will tell you that the art is in not destroying the starch molecules, but in keeping them together, whilst getting some butter/milk/cream/cheese/other flavourings (delete to taste) to coat the potato evenly, and while getting air in to keep them light.

    Lots of people will tell you the best method is a firm, wire masher. Others swear by ricers. Others like a slow hand-mixer, but most will tell you that a blender is FAR too aggressive for a "proper", smooth but light mash, because the high-speed blades destroy those starch molecules and you can be left with a gloppy mess. How gloppy depends, in part at least, on how you cooked the potatoes and probably even more, on what potatoes you used to start.


    So, once again, I'll stress .... if you like the mash you get as a result, then you do. Period. Just as long as you've tried it the "proper" way, and prefer the effect of the blender. I've tried it, and don't.

    And to be clear, blenders are phenomenally useful little devices, and that Kenwood is probably as good as most and better than many. I find a little more effort (and the blender method is certainly easy) pays off in the result.

    Nonetheless ..... blender .... mash? MASH! Sacrilege.

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    Looks like my Bamix. I tried making mash with that, and found it came out waaay too slimy. Proper masher for me every time!

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    You do realise, I hope, that a remark like that is the equivalent of going into an Apple forum and saying "iPhones suck", or perhaps into the Celtic ground on match day wearing a Rangers scarf? i.e. something between a good way to start a fight and an inventive form of suicide.

    Mashed potatoes? With a blender?


    Okay, I'll preface my remarks by saying, quite categorically, it's personal taste. If that's genuinely how you like your mash, then it's how you like you mash. And so be it.

    But, and I suspect the cheffy types around here will agree (and will be interested to see what they say), it's FAR from the recommended method.

    The logic is that potatoes are basic just a bag containing starch, some sugars, water and a few nutrients (the latter mainly in the skin). And if you want light, airy mashed, you need to be quite careful in how you do, and don't, prepare them. But most people will tell you that the art is in not destroying the starch molecules, but in keeping them together, whilst getting some butter/milk/cream/cheese/other flavourings (delete to taste) to coat the potato evenly, and while getting air in to keep them light.

    Lots of people will tell you the best method is a firm, wire masher. Others swear by ricers. Others like a slow hand-mixer, but most will tell you that a blender is FAR too aggressive for a "proper", smooth but light mash, because the high-speed blades destroy those starch molecules and you can be left with a gloppy mess. How gloppy depends, in part at least, on how you cooked the potatoes and probably even more, on what potatoes you used to start.


    So, once again, I'll stress .... if you like the mash you get as a result, then you do. Period. Just as long as you've tried it the "proper" way, and prefer the effect of the blender. I've tried it, and don't.

    And to be clear, blenders are phenomenally useful little devices, and that Kenwood is probably as good as most and better than many. I find a little more effort (and the blender method is certainly easy) pays off in the result.

    Nonetheless ..... blender .... mash? MASH! Sacrilege.
    Now, you see, it has a special mashing attachment, which is basically like a ricer, with a plastic paddle which forces the spud through the ricer. The results so far have been top notch, lovely and fluffy, with no sloppiness...

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

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    lovely and fluffy, with no sloppiness...
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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    Quote Originally Posted by Smudger View Post
    Now, you see, it has a special mashing attachment, which is basically like a ricer, with a plastic paddle which forces the spud through the ricer. The results so far have been top notch, lovely and fluffy, with no sloppiness...
    Interesting. If it's easy and effective, it'd suit me. I'm a mash fan. Best price a cursory look brings up is £55. Not band for a high-end blender.

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    That's about a tenner less than we paid for it...

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    Quote Originally Posted by Smudger View Post
    That's about a tenner less than we paid for it...


    Oops. Sorry 'bout that. It was Argos (£15 off, so it may be a new offer - don't know when you ordered) so I just assumed you'd have checked them. It's one of my benchmarks ..... before I price-match at John Lewis.

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    We got it off Amazon about 2 months ago. Just checked, and it was £60, so a fiver more doesn't make me feel so cheated...

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    Re: Kenwood Hand Blender

    Quote Originally Posted by Smudger View Post
    We got it off Amazon about 2 months ago. Just checked, and it was £60, so a fiver more doesn't make me feel so cheated...
    Phew. Made me feel a bit guilty for mentioning it, 'cos I hate it when I buy something and someone promptly says "it's £x cheaper at ....£ or the price immediately drops. Oh, £56 at Currys now, too, it seems.

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