To celebrate the launch of Appliance Addict, we have a stand mixer worth $499 to give away to one lucky reader, thanks to our friends at Bodum. Better still, you can choose from these four colours to complement your kitchen!
Best known for its iconic French Press coffee plunger (I remember buying my first in the 90s and thinking I was very posh and grown up) and, more recently, its double-walled tea and coffee glasses, Bodum also has a surprisingly wide range of good-looking kitchen appliances including kettles, toasters, blenders, coffee machines and coffee bean grinders.
Bodum BISTRO stand mixer specs:
- 700-watt, 7 speed mixer with tilt-up head
- Stainless steel mixing bowl holds 4.7l
- Includes dough hook, beater and whisk
- Measures 234 x 397 x 343 mm.
To be in with a chance of winning, simply comment below and tell us about your favourite recipe, which you’d love to make in your new mixer, then make sure you’re signed up to our weekly newsletter here.ย You must complete both steps for your entry to count. Competition closes at midnight on Wednesday 5 June 2012. Winner will be notified by email. Open to Australian residents only.
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I would use my Bodum stand mixer for my perfect birthday cake! http://everythingandnothing.typepad.com/mississippi/2005/07/the_secret_to_a.html
Congrats on the launch of the new site. I’m a kitchen gadget freak and am looking forward to reading your posts!
I have been attending Greek cooking classes and have just learnt how to make ‘ korabiethes’, traditional shortbread covered in icing sugar. They are absolutely delicious! At the moment, I don’t have a mix master so my hands are incredibly sore!!! I would love to win this mix master so I can practice all this baking I have taken so long to learn!
I would make my great Nana’s sponge cake as a treat for my Grandma who loves a good sponge
Fab idea Jen, loving your new blog (although my bank card may not!!!). I would love a gorgeous white mix master for my wannabe provincial style kitchen. With two little munchkins and dreams of an event planning business, it would definitely be well used for birthday cakes (and hubby’s fave choc bud bikkies!). Congrats on your new venture xx
I’d love to make my secret recipe cheesecake …. It would come up a treat using the Bobum green mixer!!
I am one of those disgustingly lucky women who have a husband who LOVES to cook and he is outstanding at it! I also have to eat gluten free so he whips me up amazing cakes, bikkies and other treats all the time. His carrot cake is a family favourite (think layers with cream cheese frosting…) so this would be first on the list!
My Mum’s pavlova; every time I use my hand blender (even for half an hour) the sugar still doesn’t dissolve properly. I plan to make the “perfect pav” for family & friends. ๐
I’d make my famous butter free cupcakes…..they are the moistest little cakes ever and are even better by day 2!
Since moving away from my family i have missed my Mum’s baking more than anything. If I won the Bodum stand mixer i would learn how to make my all time favourite treat, my Mum’s Bakewell tarts!
Congrats on the new blog Jen and Damian!
I would love to make my favourite French bread using the bodum mixer.. Lurve bodum!!
Love this new blog Jen!
I’m dying to make a cheesecake for the family…. the winter weather has rekindled my love for baking:)
Congrats again on this new and exciting venture.
Bec Bardoel x
I would definitely make these fun funfetti cupcakes. Been wanting to make them for awhile, and what better way to encourage me than a new Bodum!!! http://chocolateandcarrots.com/2012/03/funfetti-cupcakes-for-two
Love the new site, fabulous idea!
I would make a yummy chocolate cake with cream cheese icing!
I’d make a pav – have never made one as I don’t have the proper appliances and I cannot whisk that fast!
Definitely my mum’s golden syrup steamed pudding recipe. So many good memories from my childhood of light fluffy pudding with a golden-syrup-soaked top and creamy vanilla ice cream. But to make it well, you’ve got to whip it.. whip it.. whip it good!! Om nom nom nom nom nom. I can haz seconds?
I am the dessert queen (and SWEAR) I have, what I call, a “DESSERT STOMACH” – where no matter how much dinner I eat and no matter how full I am I can always fit in dessert ๐
I saw this recipe the other day for a birthday cake with a hidden message inside each slice! How amazing is that!? I can’t wait to try it out and see everyone’s reaction…all that’s missing is the one appliance that would make the cooking process so much easier…….
http://www.incrediblethings.com/food/say-it-with-a-typography-cake/
Oooooo I need a mixer bad to keep up with making cakes for my mums group catch ups. I’m serious. They’re producing 5 star goods and I’m lagging behind due to not having a mixer. Help a mother out here ๐ thanks in advance, shamed cake mother. X
Sweet mystery of life, I think I found you. That is it then. I am an addict.
Perfect for making italian meringues for macaroons! Epic fail the first 2 times I have tried – but I blame it on the mixer I have- not my skills! Im sure they would work out a treat using one of these Bodum mixers! Otherwise, there is nothing left to blame but myself!
Well I can’t say I am the best baker but the bodum stand mixer would definitely get my creative baking juices flowing! And I would of course send you guys at appliance addict my first batch !!!
A Triple Choc Brownie – yup, 3 types of chocolate!
My go-to cookie recipe, containing cranberries, toffee, oats and chocolate chips!
if I was lucky enough to win the prize I would make flourless pear torte, banana gluten free muffins, and so many more scrumptious delights mmmmmm
My fabulous CHOCOLATE CAKE. What’s not to love, it’s chocolate and it’s cake. There’s very rarely a situation that a piece of delicious chocolate cake can’t fix. Whether it be a break up, bad hair cut or just a guilty indulgence. YUM – bring on the Bodum!
I love baking and went crazy for my daughter’s first birthday (made madeleines, several flans, canelรฉs, meringues and cupcakes. It took a full week of prep!). I only own a hand-held mixer, so this ultra good-looking BODUM stand mixer would just be amazing. If I won it, my first cake would be Nigella’s chocolate cloud cake (with Cointreau of course). Have you tried it?
I would bake my famous choc chip cookies , when I bake them my so sais our house smells like a real house should …. Delicious and homely , and who wouldn’t want that . Makes me realize I’m making a home for my sons and creating warm memories .
Nothing beats making cookies with my niece and nephews when they sleep over at my house! Its so much fun and we have yummy cookies to eat at the end of it too! White choc chip cookies for my 7 year old nephew (he doesn’t like chocolate) and anything chocolate for my niece!
A whole range of things! My friend teaches me how to make amazing dishes using hers at her place, but when I get home I can’t try the recipes as I dont have one and Im not skilled enough yet to adapt her methods. I oogle hers all thr time with envy. Hehe
I would SO love to have one of these for my Nan’s sponge cake! I remember Nan making her famous sponge and using an original (light blue) mix master. She swore it was the secret to her sponge success, and since I’ve never been able to master it maybe she was right! Perhaps the Bodum stand mixer is just what I need to achieve sponge greatness?! PS. I’ll post the recipe if I win!
Ages ago, I bookmarked a beautiful recipe for a multi-layered Hazelnut Meringue Cake. I haven’t tried it yet because it is begging to be made with a fabulous Bodum stand mixer, and there’s no way I could do it with a hand-held (and my puny arms!).
Thanks for the great giveaway. Love the new site!
i would make my white chocolate and caramel rasperry cake!
i made this cake by absolute accident when i put big chunks of white chocolate through a raspberry butter cake i love to make. some of the chocolate pieces sunk to the bottom of the tin and the cake came out with a delicious, sticky, caramel layer on the base.
now everyone in the family requests this cake on their birthdays and i always personalise the icing to whoever is receiving it ๐
my latest creation was a golf theme for my father in law with green ganache grass icing and a white chocolate and coconut sand bunker – complete with a flag in the hole and silver cashou golf balls!
I would make 3 things with my Bodum… #1 a Pavlova – eggwhites fluffed to perfection. #2 a crunchy loaf of bread for my Husbo and #3 a Birthday cake for me!
I would love to recreate my grandmothers pavalova. I would be a pleasure to flick a switch rather than hand wisk as I do now. With an ample serving of luscious double cream whipped up and ripe and juicy berries perfect for entertaining or a special treat.
The first thing I will make is my mothers Floating Islands (รฎle flottante)
I love all the new colour appliances.. appeals to my matchy matchy side.. I make banana bread weekly and proper bread on the weekends so this would be an absolute god send ๐
I’m not a good cook to be honest but I think my results would improve dramatically with an appliance of this calibre! Perhaps I would attempt to make my own 50th birthday cake!
Great new site, congrats. How about a blog on the “Special T” machine from Nestle (& a petition to launch here!)…it broke my heart a little to leave mine behind when I moved back to Sydney from Switzerland but not practical trying to source pods. The first use for a fab Bodum stand mixer would be meringues – in desperation I have been known to whip egg whites in a salad dressing shaker – true story (it works, eventually).
I love to make everyday cakes, so would probably bust out my Orange Cake or Lemon & Sour Cream loaf cake. Great to know Bodum make this machine, sadly a Kitchenaid is out of my price range.
Congratulations on the new blog Jen, look forward to lots of lustworthy posts!
Having one of these Bodum BISTRO stand mixers would open up a new world of baking heaven to me – I’m thinking some kind of chocolate tart – maybe even a chocolate pastry could be whizzed up with ease and I’d love to explore breadmaking too. As an enthusiastic home cook and lover of baked treats, maybe having this kind of mixer is all that stands between me and being a baking goddess! Just posting this is making me hungry!
Annette
I so love your blogs, and love kitchen gadgets as much as stationery, LOL.
I would love to make an old favourite from my primary school cooking days; a Ginger Fluff cake.
Oh the sweet memories.
Congrats. Sandra ๐
If I won the mixer I’d use it to make up a batch of rosewater flavoured meringues.
Lemon Meringue Tart! The Bodum would be perfect for making that!!
I would use it to make the family fav, Old Fashion Chocolate Cake made with sour cream. So yum. It’s a Nigella recipe that I have tweaked a little so it hasn’t got so much fat but is just as yummy.
I have been avoiding making cakes that call for egg whites because my arm gets sore from beating the eggs! i love to make meringues, chocolate mousse and anything with light and fluffy egg whites.
If I won the mixer, I wouldn’t know what recipe to start with – there’s just too many to count! I would probably use the mixer to make some fresh challah bread dough so that I can pop it into the oven and bake it for my sunday morning breakfast (perfect for french toast). More importantly, I would make Brown-Eyed Baker’s classic brownies recipe (because I attempted it last night and it failed horribly – I account it to lack of a real mixer), and then once baked (and cooled), I would seal it up tight and mail some over to you, Jen, as a thank you for picking me ๐
I would retire my mothers old Mixmaster that I have been using for a million years and do her memory proud with the best Banana Passionfruit Cream Pie ever !!!
It’s a no brainer I would host a high tea with sponges and cup cakes! Never have before but the new Bodum. appliance would inspire me.
Awesome prize and awesome new blog Jen- I will be following this one closely as I LOVE appliances…my favourite recipe would be an almond meal and dried sour cherry cake that I love to make. The almond meal somehow seems healthier than normal flour…I might be deluding myself, who knows ๐
I make raw granola bars for quick and easy breakfasts during the week. They take suuuuuuuch a long time to mix by hand, but that’s my only choice right now! Enter my saviour: the Bodum stand mixer. (*crowd goes wild*)
Desperate 52 year old seeking solid stand mixer for on-going relationship. Must be able to mix batters and cake mix, Having never had a solid stand mixer I am not sure what to expect from this relationship, but am looking forward to embarking on a baking frenzy with the right mixer. First recipe off the blocks would be my mother’s chocolate hazelnut torte. Made with “noisette” jam this brings back memories of teenage birthday parties in the 70s.
Sunday night is Pizza night, and that means getting out the dough hook. Of late I’ve been varying the recipe: 20% semolina and 80% flour means a much crisper base without using a pizza stone, but can also make the dough inelastic. That’s a problem when doing calzones, which I do for school lunches from the same batch of dough I suspect our current mixer being a bit old isn’t helping. Enter a nice new red Bodum. *Crosses fingers*
I love making lovely little meringues but my arm gets so sore holding the beaters!! I would love a Bodum stand mixter to relive my poor arm! Once the meringues are in the oven cooking I like to mix up a fresh berry coulis to go on top. Not to mention whipping the cream which would also be taken care of with the Bodum. I have one red wall in my kitchen and LOVE collecting red applicances to go in there too. Thanks for the new site- I am in love!
First stop: bagels! Specifically blueberry bagels, to be served with cream cheese, fresh blueberries, and a cup of earl grey. Divine!
I would love to mix up some lemon cake as well as pavlova with lemon sauce, I love lemon! I haven’t been making them for long yet when I do everyone loves it. Pavlova with lemon sauce will be a tradition in my future family, perhaps with lemon cake on the side just because we can.
I would make a chocolate and beetroot cake. It sounds like an odd combination but the beetroot makes the chocolate cake so moist and gives it a lovely maroon colour (kind of like a red velvet cake) Topped with a fresh cream / cream cheese icing… it is just divine!
I am a sucker for Nigella’s Chocolate Rasberry Pav – it is my go to for any occasion you can think of. I’ve made it for Birthdays and Christmas, but it is really the best when you just want to celebrate being happy! Oh the added joy of having such a gorgeous looking stand mixer to make it with!
I would use the mixer to make my mum’s delicious flourless chocolate cake – as a thank you to her for all the help and support she’s shown me in recent months as I make my own nest outside the family home!
I’d then go wild with creativity and make my own recipes ๐
I’m just starting to set up home and learning what it means to house-proud! Although living in a rental and on a tight budget means I need to be creative as I can ๐
I would make a winter warming sticky date pudding, with oodles of toffee sauce and vanilla bean ice cream to top it all off – a winner for everyone in our family!
Plain & simple, all though I must admit its not an interesting or creative recipe. I have had unimaginable cravings for crepes all day, somehow I can’t get the thought of thin yummy batter gently frying in pan out of my head, I would deffinately whip up the batter in a new Bodum mixer,…if I had one. Topped with a dash of lemon and a sprinkle of sugar, My craving would be at peace. Best of luck everyone!
My friend Kerry has a red mixer which I covet since the night she made fabulous pizza dough that rose right over the top of the bowl. The pizza base was the best any of us had ever tasted. I used the same recipe but did it the traditional was, kneeding the dough by hand on the bench. Still a great recipe but the dough was just missing that little bit extra from having been done in that awesome red mixer. I now covet the green one for my kitchen addition ;o)
My Oma (Grandmother)’s Pletskeskoek. I am originally from The Netherlands and moved here 7 years ago. Last year my Oma passed away unexpectedly, just 4 months before we were due to go there. She always made us Pletseskoek which is a traditional cake from the area she grew up in. I would love to make it according to her recipe, it will remind me of my childhood and the wonderful times we had with her.
I would love a Bodum stand mixer, There is heaps of recipes l would love to try with it as my hand held mixer and l don’t have a great reputation. But l would definitely use it to make my banana bread. There is nothing fancy about the banana bread, and it uses the usual ingredients of flour, sugar, cinnamon, milk, eggs, butter and of course bananas. But it is easy and the kids love it so it is the best lunch box filler.
I would use it to make my friends wedding cake which I somehow got roped into making. The old handheld mixer just can’t handle the big batches of buttercream that I am going to need to make.
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Oh my what a stylish addition to my kitchen. With the Bodum mixer, I will make my sinless sticky toffee pecan pudding. It’s a little bit gooey a little bit sweet and goes well with a dollop of creamy vanilla bean ice cream on the side.
I would use the mixer to make my Grandma’s pavlova recipe, it’s been a family favourite since I can remember and I’m pretty sure I could eat it every day. Until recently I had been making it with my Grandma’s hand-me-down mixer from the seventies (!) but it finally gave up on me, so I would love to have a brand new shiny one!
I make Sicilian almond biscuits for friends and family, with an $8 hand mixer I bought at our local markets… I don’t mean to be ungrateful, but boy howdy would that mixer make my egg whites easier to beat!
I would make Nigella Lawson’s old fashioned chocolate cake. I make it with my hand mixer but it just doesn’t turn out as well as with a proper mixer. I would love one of the Bodium mixers!
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/old-fashioned-chocolate-cake-119
Ethereal to the tongue, bright and pleasing to the eye, the dainty Parisian pastries known as macarons are tiny bites of luxury. Dissolving in the mouth, they give way to fillings of beguiling and delicious variety: ganache, butter-cream or citrus- and whiskey-soaked concoctions dancing with complexity.
My favourite recipe that would use this stand mixer would be an apple teacake. I would cream the butter and sugar with the stand mixer while cooking the apples with butter.
The chunks of apple would have with cinnamon and sugar. Pour in the lovely vanilla batter on top. It’s just divine and I keep coming back to it as it is so yummy!
3 words = baked lemon cheesecake!
I have 3 kids so, the mixer would make my routine cup cake duty much easier.
I would love to make my coconut cupcakes! A reciepe I have developed for my partner who loves coconut! It has coconut milk in the batter and buttercream as well as moist coconut flakes sprinkled on top. The stand mixer would help with the many ingredients being added at different times! The need to multitask while preparing these cupcakes is crucial!
What a fab looking mixer! One thing my kitchen is missing ๐ and as a result my belly is missing lemon meringue pie! One with a tangy lemon base and a sticky meringue top. MMMMMMMMMM
Hands down my red velvet cupcakes (well The Hummingbird Bakery recipe that is!) would be my favourite recipe. And everyone I’ve ever baked them for will agree. These little red treasures are a tasty treat and just a little bit fancy – the perfect combo to come out of this handsome Bodum mixer.
I would make my favourite eggless tiramisu! My current mixer is an ancient Kenwood which I inherited from my husband’s grandmother – it sounds like a 747 taking off in the kitchen when its running and it is starting to give off a funny burning smell when I use it. I think it’s days are numbered!!! It’s so loud it drowns out the TV in another room. My kids love what it makes but hate when I use it.
Oh!! I would LOVE one of these mixers – its on my wish list! I make my mother’s recipe of Irish soda bread and this would be just the thing to help make it as beautiful as she used to ๐ Thank you x
My favourite recipe I would make in the Bodum mixer would be my mums Pavlova! No matter what season everyone is always ready for a delicious piece of fluffy and crunchy meringue layered with cream, strawberries and passion fruit! โค
I would love this mixer! It would be churning out cookies and cupcakes like nobody’s business.. I would have the happiest kids in town!
I love a banana, coconut and lime cake – a little tropical holiday for the taste buds… that is, if the kids don’t eat all the mix before it gets to the oven!
I’ve never used one but always wanted one – I can’t even imagine where I’d begin, but I’m sure it’s not too late to start baking up a storm.
The first thing I’d have to make is some of my all time fav vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting, recipe care of The Hummingbird Bakery. They never fail to impress.
As a mother of a toddler who is now about to give up full time work to enjoy time with my little fireman/dinosaur/acrobat… Cooking is on my agenda to get stuck into with him. My grandmothers traditional German Honey biscuits will be so much easier in this awesome looking machine. The decorating will need the special little hand technique of one said toddler though!!
My 3 year old son and I have special time together in the
Kitchen, and we make our favourite banana muffins!!
The bodum mixer would just blow him away, I think we would
Have to find a lot more recipes because I am sure he would want
To do it a lot more!!! Fabulous blog you run ; )
How cool are the Bodum mixers….love them!!!
I would cook everything and anything. I have two budding chefs (2 & 4) and they love baking with me.
As the temp drops we are baking more and more, lots of yummy comfort food. We are particularly loving a fruit cobbler at the moment, berries, apple and rhubarb mmmmm yum!
Love your comps, love the websites and love your blogs…Thanks Jen
My mixer has finally,given up on me after thirteen years. Unlucky I guess. It really struggled to whip up the cheesecake last week. I have two packets of Zumbarons in my pantry to make very soon and a powerful new mixer would ensure a perfect product,
I would use the mixer to make amazing perfectly light and airy rose scented macarons with a whipped ganache center…..yumm
My mother used to have a Mixer similar to this, so I grew up eating many dishes and cakes made from it .. I’m just about to purchase my first apartment and I would love the Bodum Mixer to prepare many of my favourite sweet recipes, including my lemon, ricotta and rosemary pudding .. thanks for sharing Jen
I’d be making my Mum’s super incredible chocolate and cherry brownies.
They really are something special. I’ve attempted it mixing by hand, but it’s just not the same.
Can’t get that smooth melty texture.
My go to desert to impress – white chocolate cheesecake with mixed berries on top! Never fails and takes less then 30 minutes to make. And of course it’s fat free ๐
What an exciting giveaway to launch your fabulous new blog!!
I’d love to use this amazing and stylish mixer to help me cook the three course meal I have planned for Dad’s birthday next month. I’m sure the Bodum Mixer would make pastry a breeze and help with the perfect meringue!
I’d love to make the most indulgent citrusy lemon tarts with a soft and silky meringue topping in a spanking brand new Bodum Stand Mixer. I absolutely adore the green as it’s the same colour as our sofas. How cool it would look sitting on the bench in our open plan kitchen, dining, living!
I would make my hubby his favourite dessert: lemon meringue pie ๐ It’s been seven years’ of promising…. and I think the white Bodum stand mixer would work a treat (yep, pun intended)!!
Congratulations on the new blog Jen, looking forward to lots posts!
Having a Bodum BISTRO stand mixer would not only stop my tuck shop arm development with my hand mixing and whisking technique but would also give rise to my Strawberry and Cream Sponge Family Receipe entering different cake competitions!!! Easter Show would be a dream! I would be in direct competition with my CWA Aunt and Grandmother!
Hi Jen,
I love baking with my kids, it’s crazy and messy but they love it so I would use the Bodum mixer to bake patty cakes in every flavour and colour you could imagine, but especially vanilla choc chip. After the kids are tucked away in bed, I would use it to bake Raspberry and Macadamia Blondies, which are to die for and everyone asks for the recipe when I make it. And mud cakes for all the birthdays. And much more ๐
Thanks, Alison
I am new to all of this and I am loving the internet and what it has to offer.
Where have I been???????????
My favourite recipe I would use for the Bodum Mixer would be the family favourite – Orange Poppy Seed Cake – made with whole oranges. It never lasts longer than 2 days (at the most).
I would try to make a pavlova. My family is cursed – we cannot whip egg whites! But with a Bodum Stand Mixer, I would be emboldened to break this voodoo, and whip egg whites til they’re white and fluffy, then the cream to go on top. And if it worked, I would move onto all the meringue-y goodness my family is barred from (unless we buy it). (Which isn’t the same).
If I won this gorgeous piece of kitchen machinery, I would whip up a batch of “Guilt-free Coconut & Peppermint Creams”….. and I might even leave some crumbs for my flatmates!!
I would definitely make my families favourite, home made chewy cookies! They’re everyone’s favourite, and I currently make them by hand on a weekly basis ๐ So a Bodum mixer would for sure make this weekly ritual easier!
I would definitely make these – http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/17754/lemon+meringue+puddings
With golden meringue on top, these soft lemon puddings will make everyone smile. The only way to get the meringue soft, fluffy & glossy is to whip it in one of the Bodum BISTRO stand mixers ( I would have the fresh lime green colour to liven up my kitchen).
The first thing I’d try would be meringues and pavlova using my mum’s recipe. I’ve been waiting until I finally get a mixmaster up to the job rather than my poor old handheld electric beaters ~ still chugging away but they have more patience than I do. To have one of these beautiful Bodums in white would be the icing on the cake. {I guess that’s the second recipe I’d bake!} Congratulations on your newest blog, Jen.
Love this new blog! If I was to win this mixer I know I would definetly make a loaf of all natural banana bread for my boys. It’s a favourite in our house but as I have no mixer to speak of it takes me ages to make by hand. Would absolutely be amazing! The baking possibilities for me from then would be endless!
Oooh! I would bake my butt off with one of these bad boys! My 3 yr old daughter loves being in the kitchen. Our favorite thing to make is mini cupcakes but I’d like to expand her repertoire and teach her how to cook BIG cakes like a sponge. All the best with the new venture!
Congrats on the new blog! I love it Jen.
The recipe i’d love to make is a Butter Cake recipe handed down to me from my mum. She gave me a vintage Women’s Weekly recipe box, with hundreds of recipes she collected over time back when i was a kid. And my all time fav recipe is the butter cake, its so soft a lush straight out of the oven, my family devour a whole batch while still warm ๐
Love love loving this blog! I lurveeee gadgets but can never afford the ones I want!! I’d be stoked to win a black and silver mixer to make my favourite sticky date pudding! A perfect dessert (or ok, maybe sometimes i just have it for dinner and dont wait for dessert) my sticky date pudding is usually drenched with my homemade thick caramel sauce and served with a scoop (or maybe 3) of vanilla icecream – one of my favourite ways to spend a cold winter evening of which there seem to be many lately!!
I presently own a bodum bistro hand blender myself and it is pretty awesome. I have been using it for the past 20 years and has not failed me.