cooking blenders is sizeable, powerful, and have professional-looking . cooks mixers to operate, you immerse the shaft in a container, depress and hold the power button on top, and move the blender up, down, and around to purée. Although hand blenders have roughly half the horsepower of the average countertop blender, the good ones are just as effective, able to roil a pot of food like a tornado. And if you’ve ever had to jiggle your countertop blender to get it to purée evenly, you’ll appreciate the maneuverability of the hand blender, which makes it easy to chase down rogue chunks of food.