Commercial immersion blenders are a great equipment choice for the busy foodservice operation or restaurant kitchen. Available in a wide variety of sizes and with multiple attachments, these powerful blenders make blending, chopping, mixing, emulsifying and pureeing quick and easy.
Do you have a commercial immersion blender and feel like you’re not utilizing it’s potential? Or perhaps you are considering adding a commercial immersion blender, also referred to as an emulsion blender or stick blender, but not sure your menu justifies the investment? We have a list of ten menu items that are ideal for an immersion blender.
These ten foods will be perfectly blended with an immersion blender:
1. Smoothies and Milkshakes – your immersion blender will easily blend fresh fruit with ice cubes into the perfect smoothie or milkshake
2. Scrambled eggs or omelets – you can easily blend eggs and milk and any other ingredients together for frothy light eggs and much faster and easier than you can whisk by hand
3. Pancake batter – dump all the ingredients together in your mixing bowl and blend away with the immersion blender for light fluffy pancakes every time
4. Pureed Soups – one of the most popular features of an immersion blender is that you can use it right in the pot with hot ingredients for delicious pureed soups or vegetables
5. Whipped cream – with a handy immersion blender, you’ll be able to whip up a batch of whip cream faster than you can take out the stand mixer and change to the whipping attachment
6. Mayonnaise – got five minutes? Egg yolks, lemon juice, oil and your immersion blender and you can have delicious scratch mayonnaise.
7. Pesto sauce – immersion blenders are hand held power houses when it comes to chopping and blending hard ingredients like pine nuts and it works just as well on delicate items like tomatoes.
8. Salad dressing – as well as being easy to handle, a second great benefit of many immersion or emulsion blenders is that they can very easily accommodate small batches of ingredients and this makes them ideal for blending up customized salad dressings so your salads will compliment your menu of the day
9. Hummus – replace your food processor with an immersion blender to get perfectly blended hummus in a snap
10. Pureed Tomato Sauce – quickly and easily blend up a batch of smooth and delicious tomato sauce by running your immersion blender through the pot as it simmers.
You can find immersion blending products from several quality manufacturers, like Waring Immersion Blenders, Robot Coupe Immersion Blenders or Hamilton Beach Immersion Blenders, each with various shaft sizes and capacities to support even the most demanding high volume food mixing requirements.
