I think we might have found the holy-grail of kitchen accessories. Yesterday we were on our way in to our favourite cafe, (the one on the top floor of Steamer Trading Cookshop in Brighton.) We always have a quick look and a drool at all their beautiful kitchenware on the way upstairs, but recently we'd been talking about replacing our aging Braun handblender, as we use it every day, and it was starting to show it's age... so we took a look at the handblenders they had in stock. Gordon, one of the guys who works at the Cookshop, showed us the hand blender of all hand blenders... the professional mixer with the professional price tag: the Gordon Ramsay edition Bamix Deluxe hand blender.
At first I wasn't interested. Only two speed settings? Endorsed by a celebrity chef? A hundred quid?!? Until Gord started telling us about the amazing things it can do, like crush ice and turn nutmeg into powder... and how it has a 10 year guarantee. TEN years! We said we'd think about it, and we went upstairs to sit in the cafe.
The lovely husband and I decided we would spend our time in the cafe looking up reviews of this blender on our laptop. Could it really be as good as he said it was? Everywhere we looked, the reviews were incredible. Even on Amazon, every single reviewer gave it 5 stars. We use our feeble Braun hand blender every day, It would be a worth while investment, and something that would get a lot of use. So we decided to get it. (!!!)
We could barely control our excitement when we got home and read through the recipe book it came with, and watched the cheesy DVD of Gordon Ramsay in his kitchen. The first thing we tried was the function we least believed: the mixer can actually turn skimmed milk into thick cream.
Forget turning water into wine... this is heaps better.
We've spent all weekend whipping up skimmed milk and mixing it with things like pureed mango and stewed rhubarb. It's unbelievable to eat skimmed milk with a spoon, and it you feel so guilty while you're eating it, it really tastes like double cream!
We've done some other things with it, like make breadcrumbs, salad dressing, chop onions in 2 seconds flat - everything we've used the Bamix for so far has been impressive. But I think I might be developing a serious cream addiction. Which is okay - it's fat free! Long live the Bamix hand blender!!!


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