K-Tec Champ HP3 Blender
December 28th, 2007
My parents had a fun gift for each of the kids this year, K-Tec blenders. These are the same basic blenders that you can see doing crazy things as the Blend-Tec Blender on Will It Blend? On this site they blend up things like 50 glass marbles, a video camera, glow sticks, etc. It is fun to watch them go at it, but I wouldn’t do it with mine.
I’ve learned over the years that you wind up not spending much more to just get a good product at first. Unfortunately, that usually cost some money. In this case, a Champ HP3 is around $330. I figure that I’ve spent around $150 for the various blenders than never really worked over the years. What I’ve been using lately is an immersion blender, because I could force it into the thick smoothies. Regular blenders just peel out. Well, the peel out is over.
What will this blender do? Well, I was out of flour and needed to thicken a soup. So I dumped in a half cup of uncooked rice and blended it into a rice flour. I put in a cup of milk, a little sugar, and two cups of frozen strawberries. Hit cycle 4 and then scoop out the ice cream. (Really an ice milk.) Smoothies are completely blended in under 40 second, silky smooth, even from frozen fruits.
In short, this blender ROCKS. I’m sure you will hear more about it as I play in the kitchen.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:49 am
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