GE - Immersion 2-Speed Handheld Blender (4 Piece Set) - Stainless Steel

I've been testing this out for about a week now. I'm not much of a cook and never used a handheld blender before, but after a few messy mishaps, I got a hang of it and it sped up my prep time. This handheld comes with three attachment options: a whisk, food processor, and blender. I tried the whisk first while mixing up batter and made a little bit of a mess. I learned you need to use a deeper bowl and start slow. :) After cleaning up all the powdered batter that got all over the counter, I tried again and it worked much better. The food processor is straight-forward to use. I used it to make some blended salsa. Add the vegetables and let it run for 30 seconds or until you find the consistency you want. Very easy to use and clean up was easy as everything is dishwasher safe. Lastly, I used the hand blender on a cake mix. Just be careful to use the deep bowl and get the mix started with the liquid first so that you don't have flour everywhere. Overall, I would recommend this hand blender.

This GE hand immersion blender is replacing a stick blender that I’ve been using for many years now but has cracked near the blending blade due to the housing being made of plastic. I like that the GE immersion blender is made mostly of stainless steel, including the blender stick attachment, so it feels a lot more durable, and I also don’t have to worry about plastic melting or leeching into hot foods during use. There are, however, still a couple plastic parts that don’t contact your food, like the attachment point for the accessories on both the motor and attachment sides. I like having the additional attachment options of the chopping base and whisk since kitchen storage space is at a premium, and I just don’t have the room for a lot of single-function kitchen gadgets. This stick blender has two speeds, high and low, which are controlled with separate buttons on the handle grip. The upper button is low speed and the lower button is high, which for me was counterintuitive, and I had to get used to remembering which one to press. The tool isn’t that heavy though, and it can be operated using one-hand which is convenient. Even at low speeds though, the motor is quite powerful. On more than one occasion, for example when using the whisk attachment to beat eggs and whip heavy cream, some of the contents spattered out of the bowl as soon as the whisk started spinning since there’s no gradual ramp up in speed. This also happened when I pureed chunks of cooked, whole pumpkin using the blender attachment directly in a hot pot of spiced pumpkin soup. Therefore, I recommend using a fairly tall and deep vessel with the whisk and starting with and keeping the mixing blade submerged when pureeing foods in liquid to reduce spillover and spatter. The blender blade was able to quickly shred cooked chicken breast finely, for use in chicken salad, without making much of a mess. I really liked using the chopping cup for preparing small quantities of foods rather than lugging out my full-size food processor. The chopper on low speed is perfect for making a single-serving bowl of guacamole and chutneys with just a few pulses; on high speed, it churned a handful of toasted almonds into deliciously creamy and smooth almond butter in a matter of minutes. The chopper container is made of clear plastic so you can see the contents while chopping, and you can stop the blades as soon as your food reaches the desired consistency. The base of the cup is also rubberized and doesn’t slide about your countertop if you put a little downward pressure on the wand when blending. Overall, I’m happy to add this versatile cooking tool to my kitchen, though I do wish there was a clearer distinction between the high and low speeds, since the low speed, it seems to me, is still a bit overpowered.

Perfect! Tons of power and I love that it's compact, I use this instead of my blender, stand mixer, etc.

I like how it feels when use. Very powerful. It does its job.

It’s a very applicant Handy Powerful Very long life Durable and strong I recommended to many of my friends

Never thought of using an Immersion blender, but this has been really great to use. It’s small so it doesn’t take up a ton of space, but is pretty powerful to handle most tasks. I especially enjoy the bowl attachment to keep things contained and mess freeish. The overall build quality seems up to par for GE, has a nice non slip grip area near the top where the buttons are located and pretty comfortable to handle. Has a nice weight to it so it feels sturdy.

PERFECT! IT WORKS LIKE I EXPECTED. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Simple to use and works well. Like the 2 other attachments as well.

Purchased this for my daughter & her fiancee as they enjoy cooking together; they love it!