Frigidaire Professional Immersion Hand Blender/Mixer

Quality Product with Limitations
PACKAGE CONTAINS
Frigidaire has produced a decent quality handheld mixer/blender--with limitations. The product is well-made with both metal and plastic components. The power stick houses the 200 watts motor, making it the heaviest of all the pieces. It has parts that click into place and are removed by holding in a button on the power stick. Pushing the button while simultaneously attaching/detaching a part may prove a bit difficult if your hands are weak. In addition, there are: small, metal, double beaters; a plastic beaker for mixing; a plastic bowl with a tiny, metal blade (for chopping); and a long, metal immersion stick for blending (in the beaker, in a pot, etc.).

GOOD for LIMITED SPACE
For the price, you are getting three kitchen helpers: a blender, a mixer, and a food processor. That's a good deal if you lack money to buy all three products and/or are short on kitchen storage space. The Frigidaire Professional Immersion Hand Blender/Mixer is...

Smoother
I used to use the Miallegro 9080 Mitutto 450-Watt Immersion Hand Blender, so any comparisons is based on my experience with that product. I must say I am impressed with how smooth my dips and soups are coming out with this Frigidaire. My Miallegro would still leave things somewhat grainy or tiny flecks of herbs left, but things get much more pulverized/mixed with this Frigidaire. I like that the gaps in the metal at the base of the immersion blender arm are bigger than the Miallegro so it allows larger chunks to get pulled in through the gaps and chopped up without having to tilt the end of blender around to fit chunks under the blade to chop it up. Being able to keep the blender upright instead of tilting cuts back on the splashback a bit. The arm gives you about 7.5" blending depth to work with - the Miallegro only gave about 6.5". With the gaps larger at the bottom, I also find it easier to work a sponge around...

Powerful and versatile and maybe overkill for the average user
This is the third immersion blender we've used over the past six or so years (the others are still working and being used in different parts of the house). It's also the one that seems designed to be used by heavy-duty users and/or professional chefs/cooks (as in a restaurant or other type of professional establishment).

Depending on your needs and usage, this is either overpriced overkill or one of the best additions to your food-prep appliance line-up.

From my perspective as an at-home, non-commercial cook who uses an immersion blender several times a week, here are the pros and cons:

Pros:
* Clean, stylized design. Most folks would have no problem keeping this on display (A plastic vertical, wall mounting unit is included.)

* Ease of adding and using attachments. Unlike some immersion blenders, the whipping whisks and the main knife piece are easily attached to and deattached from the power base.

The extra long 10-inch...

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