High Speed Blenders
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A good blender is an essential kitchen appliance in today’s age of healthy food and conscious eating choices, not to mention the convenience that these amazing machines offer.
A high speed blender will go a long way in helping you prepare the most sensational and healthy smoothies with very little preparation time and much lesser effort. A blender in the hands of a versatile cook can also be used to prepare hot as well as cold meals in additions to side dishes and mojitos that you wouldn’t even think were possible to make at home. The technology that goes into these machines today allows them, to chop, blend, puree, emulsify, liquefy, froth, grind and process absolutely anything that you throw into one of these.
Making your own meals, pasta sauces and drinks allows you to take full control of the ingredients that are used. Using fresh ingredients and a high speed blender you can whip up food that is not only tasty, but also allows you the many benefits of health and nutrition that fresh fruit and raw vegetables have to offer. The most obvious benefit of blenders over juicers is the added benefit of high fiber content which not only fills you up, but also helps in digestion.
While a conventional blender may be ideal when it comes to simple raw food recipes, high speed blenders are exactly what you need to step up your culinary skills to the next level. They are used to make some of the healthiest smoothies, sauces, dressings, puddings, frosting as well as spreads and nut butters, all with the most natural and controlled ingredients possible. While an icy smoothie is the firs thing that comes to mind when one thinks of high speed blenders, they are extremely versatile and can grind sun dried tomatoes, dried mushrooms and flax seeds into a power which you can use in creating some of the most scrumptious pasta dressings.
A high speed blender can puree fruits and vegetables into a consistent and creamy smoothie without leaving being any lumps or graininess. The large containers that these high speed blenders come with are ideal for making large sized servings which you can serve to your guests or store for later. Unlike standard food blenders high speed blenders even tear through the cells of tomatoes and carrots, releasing the lycopene and beta-carotene into the juice allowing your body to absorb the nutrients present in vegetables and fruits much more easily.
Even the cheapest high speed blender is a ravenous beast, capable of tearing through ice and fruit in a matter of seconds. Some of the better can make you your favorite drinks in under 15 seconds flat. To make a frozen margarita for instance, just shave some ice or throw in ice cubes if you’re lazy add in the fruit, an orange, banana and apple in this case and a dash of margarita mix and spin, whip and blend for about 5 seconds and you’re done.
High speed blenders have recently gained immense popularity owing to a series of viral videos that go by the moniker “Will it blend?”. These videos involve taking objects from one’s daily lives, putting them in a blender and seeing if they will blend – literally and figuratively. These videos, which have featured all sorts of things from iPods to golf balls are thrown into high speed blenders and given a quick whirl making mince meat out of everything but the kitchen sink.
