Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's Kitchen. Today we're going to be talking about stick
blenders or stick mixers, I think they're one of the essential tools in the
kitchen. I had to go out and buy one today, the prices have gone up a little
bit since I bought one last time. I used to recommend about 40 to 60 dollars, this
one was just a little bit shy of a hundred, it does come with lots of little
attachments and I think that's why the price has gone up somewhat. There still
are some cheaper models out there but I find the build quality is not so good,
for instance I went into Aldi and Lidl, they have some of these a lot cheaper
but they just didn't feel as good. I opened this in the store and had a look
and the build quality seemed great, it is of course
Breville again., I'm a big fan of Breville it wasn't intentional that I bought
Breville this time but we went for it and I'm going to unbox it now and show you
why. Now it's a lovely box as always with the Breville, I love this sort of plum
color, let's get and open this, it should be quite simple, I just pull out the
cardboard. I've got this lovely cherry red or plum red the Breville control
grip manual, plug in, turn on, pull trigger. We won't be using that now. It's all kind
of simple I won't bore you with pulling this all out, I'll get it out and you can
join me in a second. Here is the control unit, I've got a jug here and inside is a
little pot which I think, haven't actually unwrapped that yet, it's got a
little food processor, let me take the plastic cover off, it's got a little food
processing blade there and I think one of the things they sell this product as
is that this fits inside here, so it keeps it all nice and compact.
You have the whisk attachment, I've never really used this part of the machine, I
think whisking is far too easy to do by hand but it's another little extra
attachment. I got a feeling this is a sort of, combines as a sort of base and a
lid, let's just pull that off again and a little lid for the jug so you can keep
things fresh in there if you decide to store it in the fridge but this is the
piece that I'm interested in. This is the stick blender, we've got a very nice long
cable on here which is useful when you're working in the kitchen, a little
protective they on the blade and then of course
pinch these two together and the base of this unit comes off and that is for easy
cleaning. Now this is nice, this is a really solid sort of chrome built base
unit, it should be quite easy to keep clean. We've got the top grip unit, the
Breville grip control here. I think that just clips on, I don't think you need to
squeeze the sides, it's quite ergonomic, it's got an adjustable speed on the top
here. Now this is a 700 watt motor let's just plug it in and have a little listen.
Now a word of warning, keep your fingers away from the end of these machines
they're for immersion blending really and let's just give this a little listen. So
not too noisy, okay so that's going down to the the slowest spin and up to the
fastest spin. Now for most of what I'm doing I'm going to be using the faster
spin on this, so I'll probably just set it up high and use it like that. The idea
of these stick blenders is they're quite versatile, you can take the base stick
off and clip this onto this little food processor unit and if you come in here
you'll see and that's ideal for doing herbs or pesto's, I believe you could
even make a nut butter with this. As I say you've got a whisk attachment as
well, oh that's a noisy little thing but I'll be honest I'm probably never going
to use this I like to hand whisk, you get much better control. I love the little
measuring jugs that come with these, I've got a few of these now and they're great.
They've got the milliliters and the fluid ounces on the side, I always think
when I unbox something like this I should give it a go, so lets get and make
a nice simple pancake batter to test this thing. We'll keep this nice and simple,
I've got a cup of flour, that's about 125 grams. I'm going to add into there a cup
of full cream milk, you could use butter milk of course, would work really well.
We're sweetening our batter with a tablespoon of sugar, a quarter teaspoon
of salt, a teaspoon of baking powder and 1 egg. Now we'll take that stick mixer,
pop it in to the mixture
and we're just going to blend that up until we get a nice smooth Airy batter. Now
disconnect the bottom of the stick mixer and that'll go nice and easy into the
wash. Now it's always going to be a good idea to let your batter develop a little
bit, let the flour bloom, maybe about 20 minutes 30 minutes, before you start
making the pancakes. Get your pan or skillet nice and hot, a
tiny little bit of butter or oil, not too much and then I'm going to pour a little
bit of my pancake batter into the center of the pan and just wait until you see
those little bubbles start to appear, which means the pancakes cooking through
and then you can flip it over, cook the other side and then you can stack these
lovely Airy pancakes up into a nice Tower, a little knob of butter and then
some maple syrup or honey, if you like and they are going to taste just fantastic.
So pop my butter back on top and I'm just going to cut through this stack of
pancakes. Now of course there's way too many here I'll just take a little bit
off the top two, let's give these pancakes a try. Mmm so good but this
video is not about pancakes and we, finished that mouthful, this video is
about an unboxing, your first look at the Breville, what is it, control grip, now had
to just check them for a moment, the Breville control grip. It's a nice unit,
pretty solid I'll be using it a lot throughout the upcoming videos and as I
say I paid a little shy of $100 Australian for this, which I thought was
a little expensive but it does feel pretty solid. I'd love to know in the
comments down below how much this costs where you are because I know in the US
they pay quite a bit less for this sort of equipment. Anyway share the love, give
this video the thumbs up and we will see you for a video featuring this and other
things very shortly, take care.