Best immersion blender 2024: top hand blenders tested by our experts (2025)

If you want the perfect appliance for making delicious seasonal soups and scratch salad dressings, look no further than the best immersion blender. Also known as stick blenders or hand blenders, these lightweight, portable devices are perfect for making smoothies and fresh drinks, too.

Immersion blenders with attachments are also fantastic for whisking heavy cream or kneading cookie dough, and while they can't do everything the more traditional buys on our best blenders list can, their small size makes them an ideal addition to a busy kitchen or a must-have for smaller kitchens with little storage space for larger appliances.

Our list of best immersion blenders is compiled after hard-won testing. We used them to make sauces for pasta dishes and dips such as hummus and baba ganoush. We even used some of our favorite models with mini chopper attachments to chop onion and garlic.

If you want the perfect appliance for making delicious seasonal soups and salad dressings from scratch, look no further than an immersion blender. Also known as stick blenders or hand blenders, these lightweight, portable devices are perfect for making smoothies and fresh drinks, too.

Immersion blenders with attachments are also fantastic for whisking heavy cream or kneading cookie dough, and while they can't do everything the more traditional buys on our best blenders list can, their small size makes them an ideal addition to a busy kitchen or a must-have for smaller kitchens with little storage space for larger appliances.

Our list of best immersion blenders is compiled after lots of testing. We used them to make sauces for pasta dishes and dips such as hummus and baba ganoush. We even used some of our favorite models with mini chopper attachments to chop onion and garlic.After considering price, warranty, and value for money, these are the best immersion blenders you can buy.

The quick list

If you're keen to get blending, here's the high-speed headlines for these immersion blenders. We go into more detail further down the buying guide.

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The best immersion blenders we recommend in 2024

The best immersion overall

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The Braun MultiQuick 9 Immersion Hand Blender comes with a variety of attachments: a blending wand, whisk, and masher for making creamy potatoes and pure and a 2- Cup Chopper with Ice Crush Knife for crushed ice.

The blending wand is particularly innovative, with an easily-controlled flexible blending shaft that moves up and down with the press of a button to have even more reach around your bowl or pitcher as you blend. In our testing, this is the immersion blender that packed the most power, hands-down. It won on our soup consistency tests, and it also made some of the speediest and smoothest pestos of the machines we tested.

It's a mixed bag though, with the whisk taking one of the longest times to create stiff peaks from egg whites. This was also pretty flimsy in comparison to models from KitchenAid. The mashed potato maker worked well, but we found that it jammed unless we fully peeled our potatoes.

The pitcher is 20oz and the attachments are safe for dishwashing. You can also make the most of the splash control technology, which cuts down on suction and therefore reduces the risk of splashing when blending wet ingredients for soups and smoothies.

Read more: Braun MultiQuick Immersion Hand Blender review

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The best premium immersion blender

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Bamix are well-known for their excellent blenders, and this is exactly why they have a stella reputation.

On test, it blended tomatoes and onions into a perfect tomato sauce for pizzas, made a silky smooth hummus and a delicious carrot soup. It also made a great smoothie, so if you can't stretch to the budget of a full-size blender, this could be a cost-saving alternative.It comes with a handy stand to hold the blender when it's not in use and you'll get a spice grinder (which I used for nut butter) and a range of blades.

However, bear in mind that this immersion blender isn't dishwasher safe. We felt a little nervous changing the blades to begin with, but quickly worked it out.

Read more: Bamix Immersion Blender review

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The best cordless immersion blender

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Immersion blenders don't always work well with non-stick pans because they can scuff up the coating with their metal blending wands. Enter the KitchenAid Variable Speed Corded Hand Blender, which has a plastic cover dubbed a pan guard that keeps the 8" removable blending arm with a 4-point stainless steel blade far away from the base of your pan to give you some extra peace of mind when cooking.

We found in testing that this immersion blender was a little more comfortable for our right-handed tested than our left-handed tester. It did second-best in our soup blending test, with very seamless blending and the variable blending paddle coming in helpful to start smoothly before amping up the power.

The 3-cup blending jar comes with a lid, perfect for storing sauces or soup in the fridge, and we were taken with the style of the design which could slot easily into any kitchen, with a number of colors to choose from.

Read more: KitchenAid Variable Speed corded hand blender review

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The best cordless immersion blender

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The KitchenAid Cordless Variable Speed Hand Blender liberates even the best immersion blenders of a cord.

It takes only two hours to charge this immersion blender to its full 20-minute run time. The attachments are generous, too. There's a jug with a 4-cup capacity, as well as a mini chopper and whisk.

Great touches include the scratch-resistant cap for the blender head and the variable speed trigger.We really liked the blending cup, which has a lid with a removable insert so you can add your blending attachment to make mayonnaise or sauces without any splashing or mess.

This immersion blender also comes in a range of colors including black, red, blue velvet, and white. Our best portable blender guide has more examples.

This immersion blender is with our testers and these are our initial thoughts

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The most stylish immersion blender

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Smeg are always supremely stylish and luxurious. Their hand blender ticks all the boxes for someone who is looking to kit out a luxury kitchen, as well as those who need a hard-working appliance too.

Laura, one of our expert testers, bought this when she moved into an urban apartment. She's been using it continuously for over half a year and says that it's the most used appliance in her kitchen; it's compact and incredibly competent. The food chopper is fantastic for everything from hummus to oat flour. She's also found the whisk and mashing functions extremely useful alongside the blender jug too. Each accessory covers a range of kitchen functions as if it were designed for purely that use.

The only thing we could fault was how well it blended smoothies compared to the best blenders on the market. Although this was generally excellent, when it needed to really chop up spinach, there was still some crunch left behind.

The accessories are all really useful, but they require more storage space. Smeg offer cable storage and some pieces slot together, but Laura has still had to devote some considerable cupboard space to storing hers.

Laura has a review for this blender coming soon

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The best immersion blender for budgets

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Pick the Cuisinart EvolutionX Cordless Rechargeable Hand Blender if you want a cordless hand blender that doesn't cost the earth. It's surprisingly well priced given its premium looks and powerful lithium-ion motor.When we used it to make soup the blender didn't give us the smoothest consistency overall, but it handled a variety of ingredients very well and was one of the fastest to reach stiff peaks when we used the whisk attachment on egg whites.

The freedom of cordless immersion blenders is something you'll never realize you needed, but it means you can move around your entire kitchen and even blend your soups directly in the pot you cooked them in, with far easier cleaning after, too.The 30oz blending cup is large enough to make a morning smoothie, and it has a 20-minute runtime with only 2 hours of charging time.

In testing our one gripe was the safety lock, which certainly keeps the immersion blender a lot safer, but needs to be re-activated even if you momentarily take your finger off the trigger.

This immersion blender is with our testers and these are our initial thoughts

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The ones that missed the list

We don't want to overwhelm you with choice, but if you didn't quite find what you were looking for, here are three more options that we tested and loved.

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How to choose the best immersion blender for you:

Finding the best immersion blender is all about knowing what you need to use it for. While we were taken by some multi-taskers, there is no point in buying an immersion blender with a mini blender or masher attachment if you don't plan on using it. That's especially the case if you're paying a premium for the added attachments.

Some will already have machines in the home that are designed to take the place of these attachments, and many food processors also come with mini chopper attachments, so take a good look at what you already have, from a hand mixer to an extra-large jug for blending into, and then evaluate what is missing from your kitchen or needs replacing.

Power is important, so take a look at what motor power is. While soups blend up very easily, and heavy cream won't take much power to whip up nicely, there is a case to be made for opting for a powerful model if you intend of making purees, dips, or thick sauces.

How we tested these immersion blenders

At Homes & Gardens, we put a lot of thought into how we test, and for our best immersion blender guide we decided to bring our candidates into our testing facility and compare them side-by-side.

There was a lot of discussions about which soup would be best suited to seeing how capable an immersion blender is, and we settled on a humble English pea and mint soup. Peas come with small but noticeable skins, and mint can be quite a harsh herb to blend, so we felt that we would be able to taste the difference in power and effectiveness with this recipe. We cooked up a big batch, divided it between all of the blenders, and ran them for the same amount of time before doing a blind taste-test to see which was the smoothest.

Not all immersion blenders come with added attachments, but we tested those that did. Whisks were tested with egg whites, seeing how long it would take for the whisk to create stiff peaks of an equal amount of egg white in each test. When an immersion blender came with a mini chopper, we used that to make a pesto. Some came out like a smooth sauce and others like a roughly chopped dip, which could be good or bad depending on what you plan on cooking.

We also took into account how easy the products were to clean, and how it felt to use them.

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