Please help me with this question- How useful is a blender when making baked products?

Question

I've never used a blender in baking before, never even heard that you could use it for baking til i got this Question for Homwork!!

Anyway how useful is it and what are the outcomes of a blender.... when making baked products?

Answer 1

I only use a mixer for baking. Blenders are for pureeing things, making milkshakes, smoothies, etc.

Answer 2

I wonder if the question might mean more of a food processor, and not actually a blender. I rarely use my blender, and when I do, it's usually for some sort of drink... never for the baking process. I don't see what the benefit (if any) could possibly be in using a blender for the purpose you state.

Answer 3

I would never use a blender at least not mine because everything sticks at the bottom of it and it is hard to get it out without having to take the whole thing apart. And depending on what your making the blender could be a pain to clean.

Answer 4

I would say not useful at all. When I think of baking I think of flour, and with as fast the blades spin it would just overmix the flour and develop too much gluten and become tough, unless you were making french bread and then that would be a good thing, but still a blender would not be practical.

Answer 5

the only thing I use my blender for is pureeing soups and making margaritas and smoothies. other than that it is a useless piece of equipement that takes up room on my coutner.

if your baking recipe calls for anything that is pureed. That would be the time. Otherwise, to me a food processor is far better for baking than a blender. you can make pastry dough in a food processor.

Answer 6

Are you certain the question is about an electric blender? There's a device called a Pastry Blender- it has a handle with a half circle of wires attached: http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=112461&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%2Fsearch%3Fsearch%3Dpastry%2Bblender%26ei%3Dutf%2D8%26fr%3Dks%2Dans%26ico%2Dyahoo%2Dsearch%2Dvalue%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252frds%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%252f%5Fylt%253dah5xlujmbbz5u8t8atxdeimazkix%253b%5Fylv%253d0%252fsig%253d11i8hm2fp%252fexp%253d1194639308%252f%2A%2Dhttp%25253a%252f%252fsearch%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%252fsearch%26ico%2Dwikipedia%2Dsearch%2Dvalue%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252frds%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%252f%5Fylt%253dal8prsxc2wlekqrw8xqizaaazkix%253b%5Fylv%253d0%252fsig%253d121kshh5o%252fexp%253d1194639308%252f%2A%2Dhttp%25253a%252f%252fen%2Ewikipedia%2Eorg%252fwiki%252fspecial%25253asearch%26p%3Dpastry%2Bblender
and it's very useful for mixing dough, creaming butter and sugar, lots of things.

An electric blender wouldn't be very useful, except maybe for crushing graham cracker crumbs. It IS good for making ground cloves if you only have whole ones.

Answer 7

The only use that i can think of that i have heard people do (i don't know why) is use it to make sugar more fine...basically into powdered sugar...
so then i ask, well why don't you just use powdered sugar instead....but whatever....
otherwise you could possibly use it to puree fruit that you are using as a filling in like a cake recipe...or even in the cake itself...