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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #918 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: Stainless Steel
• Brand: Cuisinart
• Model: CSB-79
• Dimensions: 12.99" h x 5.51" w x 8.46" l,

Features

• Brushed stainless steel housing with embossed Cuisinart logo
• Includes blending, whisk, and chopper/grinder attachment
• Also includes 16-ounce mixing/measuring beaker
• Powerful 200-watt motor
• Push-button control for continuous or pulse action; comfort grip handle

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Great stick blender with attachments that can replace (almost) a food processor
By Joanna Daneman
This is the upgraded Cuisinart Smart Stick that has accessories. The basic unit does not come with the chopper unit or the whisk; both of these accessories are very useful.

The chopper will handle small amounts of herbs such as parsley or rosemary, and easily chop half an onion or some garlic. This means that if you don't have a small bowl attachment for your food processor (or don't have a food processor) you still can do small chopping tasks that are messy on a cutting board.

The whisk allows you to beat egg whites to stiff peaks, necessary for meringues or cakes. As long as your bowl is clean of grease, it is short work to make up perfectly whipped egg whites and a lot easier on the wrist than the traditional way of using a balloon whisk and beating by hand. If I am making a batch of waffles that uses one egg, I separate the egg and whisk up the egg white separately, then fold it in at the end of making the batter. This makes those very light and crisp waffles in a Belgian waffler, and it's the secret to getting very light GLUTEN-FREE waffles. (The gluten free flour mixes can tend to be heavy.)

The stick itself is well-designed. A button on the unit releases the bottom half for cleaning. This will let you do a thorough job without immersing the electrical (upper) part where the motor resides. So if you have something particularly sticky that needs a soak, you can easily do that with the bottom blade portion. Removing the lower portion also lets you attach whisk or insert into the chopper unit.

A beaker also comes with the Smart Stick, for beating up smoothies or other liquids.

The housing around the blade is metal. I've had units in past that had plastic housing, and eventually, if you drop them or they just get very old, the housing cracks. That won't happen with the metal.

The unit has a low and high speed.

Summary: this is a really good stick blender, with all the right notes. If you like to puree your soups, chop nuts, make pesto, and beat egg whites, this unit will do it all.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
I love it
By Beatrice
With this I made three smoothies so far and I am 120% satisfied. I have a food processor so I thought I wouldn't need a hand blender but after I realized that the food processor licks if I work with liquidy stuff, I bought this one. At first, I was going to buy another model from Cusinart (the one with lots of color choice). Yet I saw it in Macy's and I realized the body is made out of plastic and looks not sturdy. So, after reading many reviews in Amazon, I chose this one. This hand blender makes my life twice easier! It is sturdy and very easy to clean. I haven't used the whisk attachment and the chopper one, yet I'm already fully satisfied.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great blender
By angel
Been looking to buy for a long time.A friend brought on to a dinner we were doing and it was great. I bought one the next day.Everyone should have one in.