Serious Eats
Love Song to a Hand Blender
I've long been a fan of Regina Schrambling's Gastropoda, which is refreshingly acidic when many food blogs are nothing but saccharine, so I got an extra big kick out of reading what is essentially a paean to her newly-purchased immersion blender in the LA Times. She cops to immediately "going as crazy as a Martha Stewart groupie who has just discovered the glue gun"—she "[whips] through pesto, tapenade, asparagus soup, red pepper purée and hummus, while also grinding walnuts into flour and converting a hard roll into fluffy bread crumbs" in a mere forty-five minutes after ripping her blender out of its box!
Schrambling points out that you can easily drop a few hundred dollars on blenders graded for use in professional kitchens, but why bother when she's so clearly happy with her new KitchenAid KHB100, which goes for $42.99 (after a $5 rebate) on Amazon? I think I know what my next kitchen equipment purchase is going to be.