Works well Smart Stick Hand Blender with Attachments Review

No home dishwasher or clothes washer is ever going to be hot enough to kill everything. In order to do so, you would have to set your hot water heater's max temperature so high that you would be risking 2nd and 3rd degree burns from scalding whenever you turn your hot water on -- not practical in homes with elderly people or small children or both.

The max high temp most homes have their hot water heaters set to is NOT enough to kill all bacteria, viruses, and other infectious microbes. The only dish and clothes washers that can reach temperatures high enough to kill MOST microbes (and a LOT more than your home dish- and clothes washers) are industrial: in restaurants, hotels, and hospitals.

It is not just the temperature of the water. It is the amount of soap and the length of wash time. This is true with hand washing as well: washing your hands with soap and water may not get rid of all the microbes on them. However, wetting them thoroughly, using a generous amount of soap, and then washing with that soap for at least 20-30 seconds (long enough to sing the "Happy Birthday" song twice) will remove MOST of the microbes from your hands. And this is why surgeons scrub for a LONG TIME and halfway up their arms prior to gowning and gloving for surgery, and with nail brushes, etc. -- to maximize the amount of skin exposed to the soap and to maximize the amount of TIME the skin is exposed to the soap.

So, for the Cuisinart hand blender, I would say, do what hospitals do with hard surface disinfecting, if you're really that worried about it: a bleach solution, sprayed on and allowed to sit for 30 seconds minimum, and then wiped off. The Cuisinart can take it -- it's stainless steel. Then, just rinse it before using.

Myself, I find it fairly simple to rinse the blender attachment off, or rinse the chopper attachment out, and the inside of the chopper lid (that attaches to the blender base). I have a spray bottle near the sink that is a mix of dishwashing liquid and water (thinned just enough so that it is sprayable). I wet the attachments with my hot water sprayer, then spray the attachments with the dishwashing liquid/water mixture, and scrub really well for half a minute or so with the scrubby side of a kitchen sponge, then rinse with hot water.

If you've made the mistake of letting the blender sit out and food has dried on it, simply fill up the blending cup with warm soapy water and soak the blender attachment or whipping attachment. After it's soaked long enough to loosen dried food or liquid, scrub as above, and rinse. Not a big deal.

If you know what a hand blender is for, and what it ISN'T for, this is one of the best out there, if not the best on the market currently. (I don't think the Braun Multiquick is still on the market.)

It's a great hand blender, it's an okay chopper, and it's a decent whipper.

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