whats the difference between a hand blender and a hand mixer?
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at
8:46 AM
can i still use the hand blender when making cookies?
because the recipe says to cream the butter with the hand mixer but i only have a hand blender. is it okay if i use the hand blender instead?
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They are the same thing.
Oh, unless the thing you have has a blade. If it has a blade, you are better off making them by hand. Happy cookie making!
You probably can for the early stages, but it wouldn’t be good for the dough after you’ve added the flour. A blender makes a much finer puree than a mixer would. A mixer doesn’t cut things like blender blades can and should. You can use it to cream butter and sugar, but then switch to a wooden spoon very shortly thereafter.
yea have fun
a hand mixer has two beaters that will whip more air into the butter and sugar while you are creaming it together
a hand blender is a wand with one changable attachment often used for pureeing soups etc. sometimes called a stab blender.
you will not get quite the same results if you use the blender. I would use a wooden spoon in preference. you need to get the butter changing colour to a very pale yellow, almost white and if you are creaming the butter and sugar together, the sugar needs to be pretty much dissolved.
hope this helps
well, I would try, it might not work since the whiskers in a handmixer are diffrent from a hand blender. I sure would give it a try – please let us know how it went.
They’re much different
hand mixer: http://www.google.com/images?q=hand+mixer&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS233US233
hand blender: http://www.google.com/images?q=hand+blender&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS233US233
You could use the hand blender or just whisk it by hand. I don’t think the hand blender will hurt the mixture (butter and sugar), but if you were mixing something like cake batter, it would probably be too harsh. If something like that happens, just stir it manually.