Types of small kitchen appliance

A kettle is essential for any kitchen, providing everyday functionality. With a wide range of colours and styles available it’s easy to coordinate your kitchen style, but there are a number of other factors to consider.

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Make sure you get your 5-a-day and add extra vitamins and minerals to your diet with a juicer or blender. This guide will help you understand the differences between juicers and blenders so you can decide which one is best for your needs.

Removing pulp and fibre means that nutrients are absorbed quickly into the bloodstream as they don’t need to be broken down and digested like food. Drinking fresh juice is also an easy way of getting more fruit and vegetables into your diet.

Blenders pulverise whole pieces of fruit and vegetables (including the skin, pith and pips) for a nutritious smoothie that’s packed full of nutrients and fibre. Blenders can also be used to make soups, sauces, and cocktails using a variety of ingredients.

Blending fruit and vegetables keeps all of the fibre locked into the smoothie. Fibre aids digestion and helps your body to avoid sugar spikes and energy crashes by slowing down your body’s absorption of sugar.

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Kneading, mixing, whisking, chopping…we have an great range of Food Processors and Mixers to suit any budding chef or stylish kitchen. This guide will help you choose just the right one for you.

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Should you choose a food processor or a mixer?

Processor

A food processor really takes the hard work out of preparing meals. From chopping and grating to blending and mixing, a good food mixer will help you whizz through any meal prep.

Its primary function is to chop ingredients, although the average food processor can do so much more. Additional attachments let you mix ingredients, slice vegetables, blend liquids, mince meat, and grate food.

A mini chopper is ideal for smaller food preparation tasks such as chopping onions for a meal.

Mixer

A food mixer is ideal if you love to bake – it makes mixing, whipping, and creaming so much quicker and easier, taking the strain out of hand mixing.

There are two types of food mixers – a stand mixer which includes a bowl and is mainly used for baking tasks such as kneading dough, and a hand mixer which is a handheld model and is ideal for smaller tasks such as whisking eggs.

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