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The Best Immersion Blenders Will Save Anyone Who Gets Them Money and Space (2026)

Bon Appétit | Published: June 2, 2026 | By Emily Farris, Mark Marino
The Best Immersion Blenders Will Save Anyone Who Gets Them Money and Space (2026)

A blender is a recognizable kitchen essential, but don’t sleep on the immersion blender. Also known as a hand blender or stick blender, an immersion blender is an invaluable meal prep tool that can speedily purée soups and smoothies, whip egg whites, and emulsify salad dressings that are better than anything you’d buy at the store. While an immersion blender doesn’t pack the same power as a countertop Vitamix, its compact size offers more convenience. You can blend directly in a pot, bowl, or container, so there’s less mess to clean up afterward, and it’s small enough to stash away in a drawer between uses.

Our top picks

To find the best immersion blender, we tested 13 popular models from major brands, putting each through a number of kitchen tasks: puréeing a silky carrot soup, blending a creamy fruit smoothie, whipping up fluffy whipped cream, and emulsifying a rich garlic aioli. We considered power, noise, ease of use, how well each handled tough ingredients, and how quickly we could clean the blade. We also factored in how easy it was to attach and operate any included accessories and how well they worked. In the end, we actually only found two immersion blenders worth taking for a spin.

New in this update: We’ve got all new recommendations after testing new models from Braun and Nutribullet that gave impressive results. We also tested models from Ninja and the Walmart-only Beautiful Brand backed by Drew Barrymore that did not.

Best immersion blender overall: Braun MultiQuick 7 Immersion Blender

Braun MultiQuick 7077

Braun

William Sonoma

Amazon

Pros and cons

Pros:

  • Simple speed control
  • Rubberized, no-slip handle
  • Lightweight
  • Powerful motor
  • Includes useful attachments and accessories

Cons:

  • All the attachments and accessories eat up storage space

Specs

Blending depth: 8"
Power: 500 watts
Power settings: Variable speeds
Included attachments: Whisk and puree attachments, blending beaker, food processor bowl with french fry disk
Warranty: 3 years

Braun’s 500-watt MultiQuick 7 is the Goldilocks of immersion blenders and a meal-prep MVP. It’s powerful, lightweight, has a comfortable grip, makes speed adjustments ridiculously easy, and excelled at all of the tests we put it through with no splashing and very little noise. It also comes with a number of attachments that only add to its versatility.

What we love: If we had to choose one word to describe the Braun MultiQuick 7 immersion blender, it’s easy. Everything about it makes meal-prep breezy and less of a chore. Unlike the All-Clad Corded Immersion Blender that topped this review in past years, the MultiQuick 7 is extremely lightweight and we never felt fatigued, even while performing multiple jobs in a row. The rubberized ergonomic handle provided a firm, comfortable grip as we powered through tasks, and Braun’s Easy SmartSpeed technology made switching speeds a snap: Squeeze the trigger-like control button tighter to speed things up and loosen your grip to slow things down.

The MultiQuick 7’s ActiveBlade technology, which allows the blade to move up and down during operation instead of remaining static, proved an incredible upgrade when prepping our soup and smoothies. The spinning stainless steel blade created a swirling vortex that effortlessly broke down carrots and frozen fruit without any suctioning to the bottom of the pot or the included blending container—an issue we experienced with several other models we tested.

Besides the container, the MultiQuick 7 comes with a whisk attachment, a puree attachment, and a food processor bowl. The whisk, which attached to the handle with a simple click, quickly produced a mountain of fluffy whipped cream and a creamy, perfectly emulsified aioli with no separation. It took just a few pulses of the chopper to create a heap of finely chopped onions for our carrot soup (more on that below). Is the chopper better than a knife? Not necessarily, but we liked the added convenience.

What we’d leave: There really isn’t much we didn’t love about the MultiQuick 7 immersion blender; the blade and whisk both did a superior job in our tests. The chopper attachment, however, can be a little overzealous. Even though we only gave it a few pulses, our chopped onions were slightly mushy. They were fine for our carrot soup recipe, but be careful if you want more crunch in something like a salsa.

Speaking of attachments, this stick blender comes with a lot of extras and no container or bag for storing them. Immersion blenders are typically space savers, but these can actually clutter up a cabinet.

Best budget immersion blender: Nutribullet Lite Immersion Blender

Nutribullet Lite

Nutribullet

Amazon

Target

Macys

Pros and cons

Pros:

  • Affordable
  • Simple design
  • Ergonomic handle
  • Blending jar doubles as measuring cup

Cons:

  • Less powerful motor
  • Requires more effort to break down hard, fibrous fruits and vegetables

Specs

Blending depth: 8"
Power: 300 watts
Power settings: 2
Attachments: Whisk attachment, measuring mixing cup
Warranty: Limited 1-year warranty

The brand behind our favorite cheap blender also makes our favorite cheap immersion blender. The Nutribullet Lite has a 300-watt motor and a $60 price tag but performed just as well as some of the pricier models with more power. It’s easy to operate, durable, and comes with a whisk attachment and a 30-ounce measuring mixing cup—what more could you ask for?

What we love: You get a lot of bang for your buck with the Nutribullet Lite immersion blender. It’s a high-quality tool that costs a fraction of the price of the Braun MultiQuick 7 yet yielded results that were nearly identical. It has a no-frills design with just two speed buttons—high and low—but they did the job and did it well.

The Nutribullet Lite’s motor is only 300 watts, so root vegetables, frozen fruit, and leafy greens aren’t necessarily its strong suit. But with a little extra effort, the sharp blade buzzed through the tougher ingredients, ultimately producing a wonderfully velvety soup and smoothie with no chunks or unblended bits left behind.

When it came time to make whipped cream and aioli, we simply twisted off the stainless steel blending arm and replaced it with the whisk attachment. With assistance from the included measuring mixing cup, we quickly churned out batches that rivaled those made with the Braun. The aioli was thick and creamy, and the whipped cream light and fluffy.

What we’d leave: As mentioned, root vegetables were a challenge for the Nutribullet Lite. Most of the immersion blenders we tested swiftly puréed cooked carrots with a few swirls around the pot, but the Nutribullet Lite took a little more work. We initially had to press the blending head onto the carrots a few times so that the blades could process them; once they were sufficiently broken down, the swirling could begin. We also experienced some suctioning while pressing the carrots in the pot. Overall, it took a little more time and energy but eventually soup still turned out silky smooth.

How we tested immersion blenders

To test how well our immersion blenders performed, we used each to execute a number of meal-prep tasks, including making a creamy carrot-coconut soup and a thick smoothie with frozen fruit, oat milk, fresh spinach, and peanut butter. We also put any included attachments to work. If the blender came with a chopper attachment, we used it to chop onions for our carrot soup. Most blenders came with a whisk attachment, which we used to make batches of whipped cream and garlicky aioli.

A lot of carrots were sacrificed to find the best immersion blender.

What to look for in an immersion blender

Power

The best immersion blenders can handle a multitude of meal-prep jobs, including puréeing soups and blending smoothies. An immersion blender’s power is determined by its motor’s wattage; the higher the number of watts, the more powerful it is. Blending tough, leafy greens and frozen fruit typically requires a minimum of 500 watts; anything lower is best for lighter jobs like making dressings and batters, and puréeing soft fruits and vegetables. We tested models that ranged from 100 to 1,000 watts to see how they performed.

Multiple speed settings

The power of blender shows itself in two ways. One is its ability to keep those blades turning through the resistance of things like frozen fruit. The other is its ability to spin the blades faster and faster. Every model we tested offered a minimum of two speed settings, which we used for puréeing, pulverizing, and emulsifying. We used lower speeds to kick things off with a splatter-free start, and higher speeds to make quick and easy work of tricky tasks like breaking down cooked carrots.

Features and attachments

Immersion blenders are multipurpose kitchen tools, and many include attachments and accessories that take their versatility to the next level. Whisk attachments are handy for mixing batters, beating egg whites into stiff peaks, and, for our testing purposes, making whipped cream and aioli. Some immersion blenders also come with chopper attachments, which can be time savers for small tasks like chopping garlic, onions, herbs, and vegetables, as well as grating cheese. We also looked for features that make the blending and cleaning experience better, such as a plastic rim on a blade guard to protect nonstick and enameled cast-iron cookware from scratches, a blade cover for safe storage, and a lock to prevent anyone from accidentally turning on the blender.

Quality construction

We liked immersion blenders that managed to toe the line between quality materials (often heavier) and a comfortable weight in hand that didn’t leave us with tired arms after working with them. Sharp, stainless-steel blades were an absolute must, as were attachments that locked securely in place and provided stability.

Ease of use

We looked for models that provided a comfortable grip in action and made speed adjustments simple. We also favored models that made it effortless to add and remove attachments.

Little noise

Like full-size blenders, immersion blenders can be noisy. We were fine with the fact that most of our models made slight buzzing and whirring sounds while performing certain tasks, but some, such as the All-Clad Corded Blender and Mueller Ultra-Stick, were quite loud, even when blending soft ingredients.

Easy cleaning

Among the many benefits of immersion blenders compared to is that they’re easy to clean. Just fill a blending jar or bowl with warm water and a drop of dish soap, run the blender, then give it a rinse with hot water. Some models have dishwasher-safe blade shafts, but we don’t recommend putting them in the dishwasher because repeated runs will dull the blades. However, other dishwasher-safe cups and attachments included with the blender are fair game.

Other immersion blenders we like

All-Clad Stainless Steel Immersion Hand Blender

All-Clad

William Sonoma

Amazon

All-Clad’s handheld blender was our best overall pick last year, and it remains an excellent option. It took seconds for its powerful 600-watt motor to purée the cooked carrots in our soup and pulverize the frozen fruit in our smoothie. The blender does not come with a whisk attachment—or any attachments, for that matter—so we used the blending head to make whipped cream and aioli. Both came together more quickly than the batches we made using immersion blenders with whisk attachments.

So why didn’t it earn our top spot? For starters, it’s heavier than the Braun MultiQuick 7 (and all the other immersion blenders we tested). It felt cumbersome sometimes to maneuver it around a pot or in a container. The blender also made quite a bit of noise while performing each task and we experienced some splattering, even when using a lower speed setting. Lastly, this gadget is expensive and doesn’t include any extras. The Braun MultiQuick 7, which aced all of our tests and comes with a slew of useful attachments, is a better value for your money.

Breville The Control Grip

Breville

William Sonoma

Amazon

Sur la table

The Breville Control Grip immersion blender includes high-quality whisk and chopper attachments, and a large blending jar that was the best of the bunch for prepping food inside—it’s durable, spacious, and has a tight-fitting lid for storing leftovers. This is our favorite immersion blender for small batches, because of Breville’s “anti-suction blending technology,” which doesn’t create the same kind of vortex other immersion blenders do and prevents its powerful suction from moving the container around the countertop as you blend.

It also helps minimize the chance of clogs and splatters as you’re working, and, because there’s no vortex, you do need to move the blender up and down more frequently as you blend. That said, the blender doesn’t have an incredibly powerful motor, so it took longer than other models to make smoothies and break down frozen strawberries.

Cuisinart Smart Stick® Variable Speed Hand Blender

Cuisinart

Amazon

Walmart

The Smart Stick was a previous budget category winner, and we still recommend it. It has a 300-watt motor, and its stainless steel blades can adequately break down frozen smoothie ingredients and purée soups. It also comes with a whisk attachment, a 3-cup chopper/grinder attachment, and a 2-cup measuring mixing cup that’s great for smaller blending jobs like salad dressing. The variable speed dial on the top of the handle is inconvenient to use while you’re blending, but it does offer three distinct blending speeds.

This immersion blender’s handle includes a lock button you need to press before you can turn on the blender, which means it takes two hands to operate the machine with (you can let go of the lock once you’ve started blending). While we appreciate the thoughtful safety precaution, it makes the blender feel wonky and cumbersome to use. But for $90 (the price at the time of publishing), this blender is a pretty good deal.

Vitamix 5-Speed Immersion Blender

Vitamix

Amazon

For something so powerful, the Vitamix Immersion Blender sure is quiet. This 5-speed handheld blender (from the maker of the full-size blender we’ve been enthusiastically recommending for years) has a 625-watt motor to power through even the biggest chunks of frozen fruit. And while most immersion blenders shouldn’t be run continuously for more than about a minute, the Vitamix can run up to three minutes straight. The only real drawback of this immersion blender is the price—the base model comes with no attachments and at the time of publishing, costs $145. On the other hand, if your issue is space, not price, this is actually a very good option for home cooks with small kitchens; you can purchase additional attachments (or bundles) that turn this simple stick blender into a great multipurpose kitchen tool that can eliminate the need for a separate full-size blender, a hand mixer, and a food processor.

Immersion blenders we don’t recommend

Beautiful by Drew 2-Speed Immersion Blender

We’re big fans of the Beautiful by Drew Personal Blender, but the 2-speed immersion blender? Not so much. We appreciate that it’s stylish, it’s affordable ($38 at the time of publishing), it comes with useful attachments, and it did a decent job chopping onions and whisking whipped cream and aioli. But blending smoothies? Not so much. In fact, it struggled to power through the frozen fruit and peanut butter in our test. Even basic operation is more of a struggle than it should be. Its speed buttons must be firmly pressed at all times without any letup to keep it from stopping and starting in spurts. Our hands constantly felt fatigued, even during the most simple tasks.

Ninja Foodi Power Mix

The Foodi Power Mix, a 2-speed hand blender from Ninja, is part of the brand’s Foodi Power Mix system—which comes with additional hand mixer and whisk components, including a separate hand mixer motor/handle. And it sure is powerful—too powerful for some of our tests, unfortunately. On its main setting (there’s also a turbo button), the 750-watt motor pulverized frozen smoothie ingredients in a tall blending cup with ease. It also splattered hot soup out of a saucepan. With some additional low-speed options, this blender might have been a top pick—especially because it has dishwasher-safe parts, a plastic edge on the blade guard to protect your cookware, and a very accessible price tag ($80 at the time of publishing).

KitchenAid 3-Speed Hand Blender

In our immersion blender testing, KitchenAid’s 3-Speed Hand Blender technically had enough power to make the soup and the smoothie, but it was a mechanical nightmare. We had trouble making the locking mechanism on the blender work and eventually just held the top and bottom parts together with both hands. As you might imagine, this was very inefficient. Not to mention dangerous.

KitchenAid Go Cordless Hand Blender with Accessories

This immersion blender is part of KitchenAid’s cordless appliance line, which also features a hand mixer, a citrus juicer, a coffee grinder, a food processor, and a hand vacuum, all of which operate via a rechargeable battery. This machine had a very high finish quality: The materials were nice and it felt sturdy. It simply didn’t have enough power to make quick work of even simple blending tasks. And actually, it felt more inconvenient to have yet another thing in your life to remember to charge than it did to operate an immersion blender that was encumbered by a cord.

Hamilton Beach Immersion Blender

The Hamilton Beach looks good on paper: reasonable price, dishwasher-safe parts, and a chopper attachment. But after one hand-washing session, water got trapped in the chopper lid. It has only 2 speeds, and the 225-watt motor struggled to make a smooth smoothie. By the time the smoothie texture was nearing what we wanted, the motor smelled like it was working way too hard. This blender did however, manage to leave smoothie spatters in our tester’s kitchen.

Hamilton Beach Immersion Blender

The Hamilton Beach looks good on paper: reasonable price, dishwasher-safe parts, and a chopper attachment. But after one hand-washing session, water got trapped in the chopper lid. It has only 2 speeds, and the 225-watt motor struggled to make a smooth smoothie. By the time the smoothie texture was nearing what we wanted, the motor smelled like it was working way too hard. This blender did however, manage to leave smoothie spatters in our tester’s kitchen.

Mueller Ultra-Stick

The Mueller Ultra-Stick immersion blender is one of the only hand blenders we tested that came with a milk frother attachment, and we know the brand name Mueller, so it seemed promising. But then we turned it on. We made note of the blue accent light that gave off a not-so-subtle nightclub vibe (we look, but we don’t judge) and forced ourselves to pay more attention to the fact that it actually did a decent job of blending a smoothie. Unfortunately, we could not get past the very loud metallic rattling noise it made while it worked. Shockingly, the noise was somehow even more grating when we used the milk frother attachment to make cold, frothy milk—and the result was no better than what we can get from this cheap battery operated milk frother.

KOIOS Powerful 5-in-1 Hand Blender

The Powerful 5-in-1 Hand Blender from KOIOS is a good budget option if you want a variable speed hand blender but you don’t want to spend a lot of money (the SRP at the time of publishing is $60, and it’s often on super sale). It has 12 speeds and impressive attachments: a separate chopping bowl and blade, a mixing beaker, a whisk attachment, and a milk frother attachment. It performed pretty well in our testing, but it didn’t feel like a high-quality kitchen tool, and many Amazon reviewers who used it longer than we did have complained of durability issues.

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Source: This story originated with Bon Appétit.

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