Why we love our stick blender

There are so many reasons to love a stick blender. It won’t entirely replace a food processor as you need that for slightly different purposes – for bigger-batch in-bowl blending, for example. And a good processor comes with a bunch of cutting and grating discs which can be incredibly fast and useful when you need them. But for processing small quantities of something like pesto, or for when you want the convenience of shoving a stick blender straight into a pot of soup to puree without having to transfer, a so-called ‘immersion’ blender is hard to go past. Here’s why we are big fans of this appliance.