blender (sometimes called liquidiser in English English) is a kitchen and laboratory tool used to mix, purify, or emulsify food and other substances. The stationary blender consists of a blender tube with a rotating metal knife on the bottom, which is driven by an electric motor at the base. Some powerful models can also destroy ice. Newer immersive blender configurations have motors at the top connected by the shaft to a rotating blade at the bottom, which can be used with any container.
Video Blender
Characteristics
Different blenders have different functions and features but product testing shows that many blenders, even cheaper ones, are useful to meet many consumer needs. Features consumers consider when buying a blender are as follows:
- measurement marks look great
- ease of use
- low noise during use
- power usage (typically 300-1000 watts)
- easy to clean Options
- for quick "pulse" mixing
Blender countertop
Countertop blenders use a 1-2 liter (4-8 cup) mixing container made of glass, plastic, stainless steel. Glass blender is heavier and more stable. Plastics are prone to scratching and absorbing the smell of mixed food. Stainless steel is preferred because of its appearance, but the visibility limit of such foods is mixed.
Blender countertops usually offer 3-16 speed settings, but having more options in speed settings is not an indication of increased utility for all users.
In cases where the bar is removed, the container must have an o-ring or gasket between the container body and the base to seal the container and prevent the contents from leaking. The mixing container is generally formed in a way that pushes the material to circulate through the blade, not just spinning.
The container rests on a base containing the motor to rotate the blade assembly and has control on its surface. The most modern blender offers a number of speed possibilities. Low powered blender requires the addition of several liquids to operate properly. In this blender, the liquid helps move the solids around the tubes, bringing them in contact with the blades. The vane creates a whirlpool effect that moves solids from top to bottom, ensuring even contact with a knife. This creates a homogeneous mixture. The high powered blender is able to grind the grain and destroy the ice without such help.
Immersion blender
Blender immersi handheld or stick blender does not have its own container, but has a mixing head with a rotary blade that can be immersed in a container. Immersion blenders are convenient for homogenizing volumes that are too large to put in a stationary blender bowl or, as in the case of soup, too hot to pour into a bowl.
Immersion blender operation requires the user to press a button as long as the bar operates, which can be tiring for the user.
The handheld blender is ideal for small and specific tasks, but does not have as many uses as a table blender.
Maps Blender
Apps
Blender countertop is designed to mix, purify, and cut food. Their power is such that the ability to destroy ice is an expected feature.
Blenders are used both in home and commercial kitchens for various purposes, including for:
- Combine ice cream, milk, and sweet sauce to make milkshakes
- Mix and crush ice in cocktails like Zombies, piÃÆ' Â ± coladas and frozen margarita
- Destroy ice and other ingredients in non-alcoholic drinks such as frappuccino and smoothies
- Mixed emulsion
- Make fine purà © from semi-solid materials, such as cooked vegetables and meat
- Reduce small solids like spices and seeds to powder or peanut butter
- Mix whole powder, granular, and/or liquid mixture
- Helps dissolve solids into liquids
Blender also has various applications in the field of microbiology and food science. In addition to the standard food blender standard, there are various other blender configurations for the lab.
Development
North America
Stephen J. Poplawski of the Polish-American, the owner of Stevens Electric Company, began designing a mixer drink in 1919 under contract with Arnold Electric Company, and patented a beverage mixer in 1922 that had been designed to make Horlicks malt milkshakes in soda water. He also introduced a melting blender in 1922.
In the 1930s, L. Hamilton, Chester Beach and Fred Osius, produced the Poplawski invention under the brand name Hamilton Beach Company. Fred Osius fixed the tool, made another type of blender. He approached Fred Waring, a popular musician, who financed and promoted the "Miracle Mixer", released in 1933. But this tool has some problems to be solved about bottle seals and knife axes, so Fred Waring redesigned the tool and released his own blender in 1937, Waring Blendor with Waring popularized the smoothie in the 1940s. Waring Products was sold to Dynamics Corporation of America in 1957 and acquired by Conair in 1998. The old waring uses the trademark spell "Blendor" for its products; trademark has expired.
Also in 1937, W.G. Barnard, founder of Vitamix, introduced a product called "The Blender," which is functionally a blender reinforced with stainless steel tubes instead of Pyrex glass bottles used by Waring.
In 1946, John Oster, owner of Oster barber equipment company, bought Stevens Electric Co. and designs its own blender, which Oster is commercialized under the trademark Osterizer . Oster was purchased by Sunbeam Products in 1960. It released various types of blenders, as the Imperial series and still makes the traditional blender Osterizer .
Europe
In Europe, Swiss Traugott Oertli developed a blender based on the technical construction and concept of the first Waring Blendor design style (1937-1942), which was released in 1943 on Turmix Standmixer. Based on the blender, Traugott also developed another type of tool to extract juice from any fresh fruit or vegetable, Turmix Juicer, which is also available as a separate accessory for use in Turmix blenders, Turmix Junior juicers >. Turmix has promoted the benefits of drinking natural juices made with fruits and vegetables, with recipes using juice to promote blenders and juicers. After World War II, other companies released more blenders in Europe; the first is the popular Starmix Standmixer (1948), from the German Electrostar Company, which has many accessories, such as coffee grinder, cake mixer, ice cream maker, food processor, glass tube, centrifugal milk, juicer, and meat grinder; and Braun Multimix (1950) from Max Braun, which has an attachment with a glass bowl to make bread dough and centrifugue juicer as developed by Turmix.
South America
In Brazil, Waldemar Clemente, a former employee of General Electric and owner of Walita electrical appliance since 1939, designed a blender based on Turmix Standmixer and released in 1944 blender Walita Neutron. Clemente also created the name of the liquidificador , which has since been designated as a blender in Brazil. Soon after, Walita obtained the Turmix patent in Brazil and also released the Turmix juicer, calling it CentrÃÆ'fuga Walita and other Turmix accessories for use with a blender motor, as a fruit peeler, grinder, crusher and mixer dough. Using the same marketing strategy as Turmix in Europe, Walita managed to sell the millions of blenders sold several years later in the early 1950s. Walita was the first manufacturer to release a wide range of blenders in the 1940s. In the 1950s, Walita made a blender for Siemens, Turmix, Philips, and Sears (Kenmore), among others. In 1960 Royal Philips Co. approached Walita, acquired the company in 1971, becoming a division of Royal Philips kitchen appliance developer specializing in blenders, which were sold under the Philips brand outside Brazil.
Austrian Immigrant Hanz Arno, owner of an electric motor factory in Brazil since the 1940s, released a blender in 1947, based on a blender made by Hamilton Beach and Oster. The Liquidificador Arno is exported to other South American countries. Because Arno has Electrolux shares, the brand is used in blenders in some countries. Then in 1997 Arno was purchased by Groupe SEB, owner of Moulinex, T-Fal, Rowenta, and other home appliance brands.
Increased flexibility
With the increasing popularity of smoothies, Frappucinos and other frozen drinks prepared in front of customers, new commercial blender models often include enclosures that reduce sound and computerized control.
Special blenders for making smoothies become popular, especially resembling regular models with spigot added for quick presentation. Some models also have a balanced stirrer rod installed on the lid, which is constructed so that the mixture can be stirred as the engine runs without the possibility of stirrers littering the propeller.
In 1996 Tom Dickson, founder and CEO of Blendtec, introduced the WildSide mixer bottle - a unique design that eliminates the need for stirrer and plunger sticks to create a thicker mix. This technology is so effective that Vita-Mix decides to use the design in the company's commercial mixing container. In 2010 the US court system concluded that Vita-Mix had deliberately violated the patent, which ultimately gave Blendtec $ 24 million in damages.
Mechanical operation
Blender consists of home, motor, blades, and food containers. A fan-cooled electric motor is secured into the housing by means of a vibration damper, and a small output shaft pierces the upper house and blends with the blades. Typically, a small rubber washer provides a seal around the output shaft to prevent fluid from entering the motor. Most blenders today have a lot of speed. As a typical blender does not have a gearbox, some speeds are often implemented using a universal motor with dual stator windings and/or multi-tapped stator windings; in a blender with electromechanical controls, buttons (or devices or other electrical transfer positions) for each different speed will connect the different stator windings or combinations thereof. Each different combination of energy coils produces a different torque from the motor, which results in different balance speeds in balance against the drag (resistance to rotation) of the blade assembly in contact with the material inside the food container. The notable exceptions of the mid-1960s are the Oster Model 412 Classic VIII (with single knob) which provides the lowest speed (Stir) using the above mentioned tap method but gives higher speed ( higher continuous variables speed range marked Puree to Liquify) by using a mechanical speed regulator that balances the force given by flyweight against the spring force that varies by the control knob when diverted to a higher speed range. With this arrangement, when not set to Stir speed, the motor speed is constant even with the load varying to the point where the power demanded by the load is equal to the motor power capability at a given speed. A more modern version of this arrangement is the electronic speed control found in some units.
In culture
In 1949, the Vitamix Company advertised their blender on one of the first television commercials. The sales pitch lasts 25 minutes, showing that the blender is used to make breadcrumbs, potato pancakes, lavender spinach drinks, and desserts featuring all raw eggs and shells, which the host claims will be enjoyed like Malt's milk.
See also
- Blade grinder
- Food processors
- Homogenization (chemistry)
- Homogenizer
- List of food preparation equipment
- Mixer (cooking)
- Will It Be Mixed?
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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