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Russell Hobbs Desire 3 in 1 Hand Blender and Hand Mixer (RRP £47.98) Review and Giveaway

June 7, 2012

I’m back to road test the Russell Hobbs Desire Collection. Yesterday, I wrote about the Desire Food Processor and hosted a giveaway, today I am featuring the Desire 3 in 1 Hand Blender and the Desire Hand Mixer. The Russell Hobbs Desire collection is matt black in colour with red accents. I think of all the range, this combination of products are the two I am most likely to use on an everyday basis.

 

Desire 3 in 1 Hand Blender

I find that 3 in 1 one hand blenders are great because you get one main piece/handle (fitted with a cord) with three different attachments – all of them useful for different jobs for faster food preparation.

The first attachment is an electric whisk. You would mainly use this for whisking double or whipping cream, or perhaps for whisking together eggs and sugar if you were making a custard. Really, any occasion where you would ordinarily use a manual balloon whisk, but want to save yourself the hassle of standing there and whisking for a while.

The second (middle attachment in the picture above) is a wand with a blade – essentially a whizzer (that you can either use with the plastic beaker provided) or stick straight into a pan of whatever you are cooking to puree or pulse. I always use my stick blender to whizz my Bolognese sauce, a trick which I find makes the sauce more palatable and less lumpy for kids. To do this with a stick blender, you simply cook your Bolognese sauce and then use the stick blender to pulse the meat just three or four times. You aren’t trying to get a puree (unless you are weaning) you are just using the stick blender to breakdown some of the meat. You can, of course, use the stick blender to make purees for babies, or you could use it to make a super-quick smoothie, a blended soup or to puree or remove the lumps from a sauce. 

The third attachment is a kitchen genius – the chopper. Using the same main handle, you screw the handle onto the bowl lid with the chopper blade in place and you have a mini-chopper. This has a multitude of uses. I use mine to finely chop nuts, make pesto, whizz biscuits to make a cheesecake base or to make quick homemade breadcrumbs out of stale bread.

I have found the 3 in 1 Hand Blender to be so useful in the kitchen. It is easy to use and all three parts make life much easier when preparing food.

You get a small, basic instruction manual  – sadly only with one recipe, a coriander pesto, the same recipe that came with the food processor! There are more recipes on the Russell Hobbs website.

Desire Hand Whisk

I have decided to feature these two items side by side because I found that they take up minimal space, but between them have the most functions and uses. I don’t think I could be without an electric hand whisk in my kitchen. I have tried (and still use) a Russell Hobbs Allure Hand Blender that was sent to me to test. The Desire Hand Whisk I found to be a little more basic (it doesn’t have a nicely back-lit electric display) but it is more than half the price (£17.99 versus £39.99). In any case, the Desire Hand Whisk is sturdy and has a flat base so that when you have finished whisking you can stand it to one side. It has five speed settings and means that you can whizz up a cakes, bakes and biscuits pretty pronto.  If you want to try your hand at making bread or perhaps a pizza dough, the whisk also comes with a two dough hook attachments.

Again, a small manual is included with one recipe for biscuits!

Not my manicured hand!

Giveaway

Time for your chance to win both products –

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

Discloure: I was sent the Russell Hobbs Desire Collection range to test/review along with a second set to giveway. No incentive was given to write a positive review. All opinions are my own. No monetary compensation was received in order for this product to be featured on Fabulicious Food!

 

Part Three of my Russell Hobbs Desire Collection Giveaway is still to come.

Enter to win a Desire Food Processor here!

 

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About Ren

Ren Behan is a British-born food writer of Polish descent. She is a mum to three young children (13, 10 and 5) and spends lots of time with them in the kitchen. Ren writes about seasonal, family-friendly food on her blog www.renbehan.com. She also contributes recipes and articles to online and print food publications, such as Food52.com, GreatBritishChefs.com, Huff Post Food and JamieOliver.com. She holds a Diploma in Food Journalism with Distinction and has completed a Food Styling course at Leiths School of Food and Wine.

Ren’s cookbook, Wild Honey and Rye: Modern Polish Recipes, draws upon her Polish heritage and regular travels to Poland.

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Comments

  1. Herb says

    July 6, 2012 at 12:35 am

    for blending soups, sauces and delicious health shakes

    Reply
  2. karen hutchinson says

    July 5, 2012 at 8:01 pm

    mixing cake mixture

    Reply
  3. Lou @ Bloggomy says

    July 4, 2012 at 12:33 am

    I would use it to make fruit smoothies to get used to it and then use it to do all the jobs that take me ages with a hand whisk at the moment! @Bobbity666

    Reply
  4. Rach J says

    July 3, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    Fantastic – thanks very much for your review, haven’t come across a 3 in 1 before – it sounds brilliant! I use my 1 in 1 (!) for soups mostly but I’d use this to make a strawberry cheesecake. Think the chopping part sounds very useful!

    Reply
  5. Angela M says

    July 1, 2012 at 12:16 am

    A Lemon Meringue Pie 🙂

    Reply
  6. Dee Dmonte says

    June 29, 2012 at 5:53 am

    Mayonnaise from our own chickens eggs 🙂

    Reply
  7. Becky Willis says

    June 28, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    I’d use it to create all sorts of soups, sauces and baby foods!

    Reply
  8. Amanda Valenti says

    June 28, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    I would use it to make my families favorite lemon cupcakes!

    Thank you!
    Amanda
    avalenti6936 at yahoo dot com

    Reply
  9. M Ahmed says

    June 26, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    The 3in1 blender will be used daily to make my finger licking curries.
    The hand whisk would be an absolute treat for my 12 year old daughter, she loves baking, cup cakes, birthday cakes, by the time it comes to making buttercream icing her arm aches. Bless she doesn’t stop till the jobs done.

    Reply
  10. Tracey Anne Berry says

    June 23, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    I’d make the fluffiest most loveliest most whitest meringues – love love love meringues but u cant make them without a powerful whisk – do u think this could handle the job? LOL

    Reply
  11. Caroline says

    June 21, 2012 at 9:54 am

    I think it would be really good to use to make soup!

    Reply
  12. Corina says

    June 19, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    I’d make a healthy soup with the hand blender and then a cake with the hand mixer!

    Reply
  13. Jan Beal says

    June 18, 2012 at 10:25 pm

    I’d make a Hazelnut cake, the 3 in 1 would take all the work out of grinding the hazelnuts and the hand whisk would make the batter in no time. Lovely with icecream and fruit!

    Reply
  14. Janice says

    June 17, 2012 at 8:28 pm

    My hand whisk is on it’s last legs, it is making a funny noise. I use it all the time and if I won a new one I would make a lovely Victoria Sponge to celebrate!

    Reply
  15. Alison says

    June 17, 2012 at 7:51 pm

    I would use it for mixing up cakes, I love making cakes

    Reply
  16. Hazel Christopher says

    June 16, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    I would use it to make soups 🙂

    Reply
  17. Felicity says

    June 15, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    I would use it to make soups.

    Reply
  18. Lucy Pasifull says

    June 15, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    What wouldn’t I use it for! The hand blender I bought when my daughter was a baby has given up the ghost and I didn’t realise how much I used it. Soups are impossible without one.

    Reply
  19. Kulwinder Lombardelli says

    June 14, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    I would use it to make my daughter a chocolate cake

    Reply
  20. C Hui says

    June 14, 2012 at 8:56 am

    Would be simple pancakes for me 🙂

    Reply
  21. Diana Cotter says

    June 13, 2012 at 10:54 pm

    It would be invaluable for egg dishes and sauces.

    Reply
  22. Lucy says

    June 13, 2012 at 9:52 am

    Ooh I’d use it for everything! During the week it’d be breakfast smoothies, homemade soups for lunch and sauces for dinner (so many options!) and then at the weekend I’d indulge my love of baking – cupcakes, sponge cake, pavlova, cheesecake, brownies… mmmmmm 🙂

    Reply
  23. @BlueBearWood says

    June 13, 2012 at 9:17 am

    Gosh so many things. Definitely pavlova, cake, more cake, soup, smoothies … getting hungry now!

    Reply
  24. Emma says

    June 12, 2012 at 10:12 pm

    Tomato soup!

    Reply
  25. Alison Broadley says

    June 12, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    I would make Slimming World’s chocolate log with the whisk and Slimming World Colcannon with the blender!

    With such cool equipment in your kitchen, there’s less excuse for sticking to a diet because it’s easier to make different recipes all the time, so you don’t get bored or stuck in a rut!

    Reply
  26. Claire says

    June 12, 2012 at 4:14 am

    i’d use them to whisk up the ingredients when I’m baking cakes

    Reply
  27. Carolin says

    June 11, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    I would make pancakes, my 2 year old is crazy for them at the moment 🙂

    Reply
  28. Hannah Moody says

    June 11, 2012 at 1:04 pm

    I’d use to to make scrummy smoothies for my 19 month old! He loves fruit and think it’d be great to be more inventive with it for him 🙂

    Reply
  29. Jill Mann says

    June 11, 2012 at 12:43 am

    I would use the hand mixer to make extra batches of plain cupcakes to put in the freezer. (ideal for icing and decorating at a later date)

    Reply
  30. Amelia Tucker says

    June 10, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    Anything to do with egg-whites! I have pathetic arm muscles and whisking them by hand just leaves me exhausted! I swear, meringue is a health-hazard!

    Reply
  31. Clare says

    June 10, 2012 at 8:39 pm

    HI Ren, I would make a lovely meringue topping for some pie, or just whip up some cream to enjoy with strawberries whenever the sun comes out!

    Reply
  32. Katrina Day-Reilly says

    June 10, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    I would make cakes first

    Reply
  33. Laura loves cakes says

    June 10, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    P.S I’d use it to make Meringues too! 🙂

    Reply
  34. Laura loves cakes says

    June 10, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    What a great giveaway…I could really use these! They look fab too! 🙂

    Reply
  35. JoJo Young says

    June 10, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    Some delicious little fairy cakes

    Reply
  36. Sam says

    June 10, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    I’d use it when making cakes 🙂

    Reply
  37. Jane Townson says

    June 10, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    I’d use it for cakes and biscuits.

    Reply
  38. Phyllis Ellett says

    June 10, 2012 at 6:18 am

    I would use it wherever I would have needed a wooden spoon. Getting old I find mixing by hand is becoming very difficult. Oh and the chopper I would use for garlic as I can never get them finely chopped by hand.

    Reply
  39. Maxine says

    June 9, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    a lemon meringue pie! got a craving for one at the moment …

    Reply
  40. helen rhoads says

    June 9, 2012 at 9:06 am

    making yummy vegetarian soups

    Reply
  41. Victoria leedham says

    June 8, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    I’d use it for making cakes, would save me a lot of wrist ache, today I made 80 cupcakes and two big cakes for a coffee morning

    Reply
  42. ali thorpe says

    June 8, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    Firstly, I would use it for soups. I make a fab homegrown tomato and red pepper but I know I need to try other recipes, branch out a little bit! I’m thinking something potatoey and warming (it’s the rain tricking me into wanting comfort food!)

    Reply
  43. Choclette says

    June 8, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    Ahh, I want that hand blender. We use ours all the time but it has only the blender and doesn’t detach so it is a pain to clean. We use it for soups, which we make a lot. The mini chopper looks great and I’d use that for nuts and possibly chocolate!

    Reply
  44. Jean Bolsover says

    June 8, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    Soups and cakes, not at the same time though!

    Reply
  45. Gillian Holmes says

    June 8, 2012 at 10:17 am

    Hummous

    Reply
  46. brenda heads says

    June 8, 2012 at 8:41 am

    I would use it to blend the babyies food – much better and cheaper than using jars of baby food all the time.

    Reply
  47. Magnolia Verandah says

    June 8, 2012 at 8:38 am

    I would love to give my porridge a good “once over” with this little beauty. At the moment I pour the cooked porridge into my blender to make it silky smooth – this would save all the washing up.

    Reply
  48. Cat H Adams says

    June 8, 2012 at 8:05 am

    I would initially use it to mix Cambridge diet sachets…I lost 8 stone to help me conceive my little boy whilst having fertility treatment, unfortunately gained a lot having him and so would like to do it again and fit back into all my lovely small ‘new’clothes that I only wore for a few months as got pregnant. I would also use it to make some fabulous recipes for my son to eat, he loves his food and is as yet unfussy!

    Reply
  49. bakingaddict says

    June 7, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    Whisking egg whites so I don’t have to wash my kitchenaid twice when baking. I would also use it to chop nuts and blitz biscuits if required for a recipe.

    Reply
  50. Hazel says

    June 7, 2012 at 10:12 pm

    Making cupcakes!

    Reply
  51. Rainie Bish says

    June 7, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    I would use the hand whisk for mixing cakes

    Reply
  52. Dorothee77 says

    June 7, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    I would use it to blend soups, my kids love soups!
    @Dorothee77

    Reply
  53. Lynne OConnor says

    June 7, 2012 at 9:05 pm

    I’d use the blender to prepare meatballs and make the tomato sauce

    Reply
  54. Rikka B. says

    June 7, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    A Pavlova, I could whisk up the egg whites, and also the cream with it

    Reply
  55. milliepaw says

    June 7, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    I’d make curry pastes.

    Reply
  56. Cate says

    June 7, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    I like your idea of whizzing the Spag Bol to romove “bits” – it seems lots of my cooking has bits and is inedible so I reckon will be very useful!

    Reply
  57. Maureen Grainger says

    June 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    I’d use them to whisk up the ingredients when I’m baking cakes, (which I do a lot of, with a spoon at the moment)

    Reply
  58. Christine Bray says

    June 7, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    I use mine amongst other things to remove lumps from custard or gravy!

    Reply
  59. HELEN says

    June 7, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    I would use it for chopping biscuits for cheesecake & blending soups

    Reply
  60. Ashleigh says

    June 7, 2012 at 7:54 pm

    i would use it to make meringues with fresh cream and strawberries!

    Reply
  61. Sarah James says

    June 7, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Make mayonnaise – so easy with a stick blender

    Reply

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