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I try to keep my kitchen appliances and gadgets at a minimum, if I don't use it I want to get rid of it.
Do I need to keep my electric hand mixer if I have a Kitchenaid and an immersion blender?
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I try to keep my kitchen appliances and gadgets at a minimum, if I don't use it I want to get rid of it.
Do I need to keep my electric hand mixer if I have a Kitchenaid and an immersion blender?
There are times when, while making a cake, I wish I had a second KA bowl to whip egg whites without washing the first bowl. That's when my electric hand mixer comes in handy.
I try to keep my kitchen appliances and gadgets at a minimum, if I don't use it I want to get rid of it.
Do I need to keep my electric hand mixer if I have a Kitchenaid and an immersion blender?
You mean a Kitchenaid stand mixer? I have a Kitchenaid stand mixer as well as a Kitchenaid hand mixer. I consider both to be necessary in my kitchen - they are used for different recipes - not at all the same uses. I feel the same about the immersion blender. I would want to keep all three.
I got rid of the immersion blender and kept the KA handmixer. The immersion blender wasn't a KA - but it wasn't all that powerful and couldn't seem to accomplish what I wanted.
I do wish that KA would come out with a beater attachment for the handmixer that was a little longer than the standard beaters. It would make it easier to make use of the handmixer as an immersion.
I don't want you to get the idea that I cook like this all the time, but for a special occasion I made a cake with frosting from scratch. There was a point in the frosting recipe where I was supposed to blend it at slow speed, while cooking over a low heat in a double boiler. Can't do that with a stand mixer (which I have). So I thought "what the heck, my great-grandmother did this with a fork and elbow grease"... well, that didn't work out so well. About the third batch I managed to get the trick of heating for a bit then taking it to the stand mixer and back and forth, but it was a huge PITA. I understood why my grandmother had bought a hand held mixer as soon as ever she could. (unfortunately it developed a terminal case of bad insulation as I discovered after being damn near electrocuted, so had to throw it away.) I think the little immersion hand held blender would be way too fast and inadequately powered.
I would vote for hanging on to the hand held blender. The best one was the one my grandmother had (pre-electrocution, that is) which could mount to a stand with a dovetail mount, or be taken off it and used hand held. We have the immersion blender, but honestly I have not found that it's much of an improvement over a potato masher for breaking up stuff in soups which is what we bought it for. If you really felt compelled to get rid of one I would get rid of that one and keep the hand held.
YMMV, as they say, so keep in mind that's just one opinion.
I would keep them all but then I am a kitchen gadget junkie (and I have 2 KAs, 2 hand mixers, and 2 immersion blenders (plus a Vitamix and a Thermomix - either of which can also be used for some baking tasks in a pinch). It's a sickness.
In your case though, why get rid of the little things that you probably will at some time have a use for and curse the day you got rid of them? The KA is the big thing that might make a space difference if you got rid of it, but the others are relatively small. If you were asking whether to also buy a hand mixer if you didn't already have one perhaps the answer would be no .. for what you say you may need it for .. but I would not get rid of one that you already own if possible. I am pretty sure you may regret it some day if you don't keep it.
Immersion blenders need to be used from the bottom up .. in other words, put the base on the bottom of the pan and lift it slowly till you reach the surface and then put it back down under again and repeat. I cannot imagine, unless the one you have is a dud, that it would not work MUCH better than a hand masher for soups if you do it right.
I got rid of my hand mixer about four years after I got the kitchenaid. The hand mixer was actually one with a stand and bowls that detached to use as a hand mixer, but I just never used it so I gave it away.
I have a big red KitchenAid mixer and a KitchenAid hand mixer. I'd get rid of the stand mixer first. Big and heavy.
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