24th Aug 2010
What is the pulse feature on the blender for?
The best explanation of this feature that I can give out is the one I heard a few weeks back from the speed blender salesman who was working the floor at the local Best Buy. He said the pulse feature was there to keep the blending going on without waking the baby – just blend in shorter and smaller bursts and you won’t make as much of a noise. After he got off the stage I asked him if it was true. His reply? For the Vita Mix 1300 TurboBlend 4500 (the same blender model and make that he was demoing) it is true. I laughed out around and he sensed the slight sarcasm in my laugh and told me that really was the truth. With the kind of motor that this blender was supporting, it was easily possible to mince meat with the pulse feature. Now if that isn’t power, what is?
For those who don’t know, the pulse setting is the same as the low power setting on the blender that you’ve got in your kitchen. The ‘pulse’ is just a fancy way of saying that. The pulse feature on any blender, no matter how big it is, can be used to do a bunch of amazing things that will save you a lot of time in the kitchen.
You can use it to chop onions and save yourself from all those tears that an exercise in that direction usually produces. If you use a small blade and press the pulse button a couple of times (check to see if it the onion requires any more chopping – you’ll get better with practice I swear) and you’re done. If you want to experiment with other things like dicing carrots and slicing cucumbers the go right ahead. Just make sure to go slow the first time – blenders that have motors measured in horse power can be brutal to veggies.
The best explanation of this feature that I can give out is the one I heard a few weeks back from the speed blender salesman who was working the floor at the local Best Buy. He said the pulse feature was there to keep the blending going on without waking the baby – just blend in shorter and smaller bursts and you won’t make as much of a noise. After he got off the stage I asked him if it was true. His reply? For the Vita Mix 1300 TurboBlend 4500 (the same blender model and make that he was demoing) it is true. I laughed out around and he sensed the slight sarcasm in my laugh and told me that really was the truth. With the kind of motor that this blender was supporting, it was easily possible to mince meat with the pulse feature. Now if that isn’t power, what is?
For those who don’t know, the pulse setting is the same as the low power setting on the blender that you’ve got in your kitchen. The ‘pulse’ is just a fancy way of saying that. The pulse feature on any blender, no matter how big it is, can be used to do a bunch of amazing things that will save you a lot of time in the kitchen.
You can use it to chop onions and save yourself from all those tears that an exercise in that direction usually produces. If you use a small blade and press the pulse button a couple of times (check to see if it the onion requires any more chopping – you’ll get better with practice I swear) and you’re done. If you want to experiment with other things like dicing carrots and slicing cucumbers the go right ahead. Just make sure to go slow the first time – blenders that have motors measured in horse power can be brutal to veggies.
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