Blendtec

Pulsing your Blends

Pulsing your blends allows you total control over your blend.  Sometimes you just need a quick burst to pull down the ingredients or you just want to run the blender for a short amount of time. Pulsing allows for both of these options.  Pulsing is a quick and convenient way to make phenomnal recipes, and is great to put a light finish on thicker recipes.

Primarily the Blendtec pulse button was thought to be used only for chopping, but as we experiemented with certain recipes such as ice creams, dips, and sauces, we found out that the pulse button can be used for much more than just wet and dry chopping.  If you are looking to get that swirl shape to form at the top of the jar when you’re making a blender ice cream recipe, using your Blendtec pulse button is a great way to do it.  Hold the pulse button down and let the ingredients pull into the blades.  Another good one is for dips, such as guacamole dip or hummus.  Using the Blendtec pulse feature for these types of recipes works well.

Quick Short Bursts – Lightly tapping the pulse button will give you a quick short burst!  This type of pulsating works for dips, different types of wet and dry chopping, and for adding in chunks of thicker ingredients to recipes such as soups.  What the quick short burst will do is shred your chicken or beef, chop in your Oreo Cookie chunks, mix in the corn, beans, and chips into your tortilla soup.  A light short quick burst is used often for these types of recipes.

Longer Holds – Holding the Blendtec-pulse-button down for a short amount of time will allow the ingredients to pull down and get liquified a little more.  It is good for finishing the job on an ice cream, or if a sauce or dressing needs to be mixed a little more.  I don’t recommend it for finishing off juices and smoothies, for that use your manual keys.  Longer holds on the Blendtec pulse button will spin the blades of the blender for the duration of the time you’re holding the button, when you let go the blades will stop.  The speed the blades travel is equivilent to speed 4 or 5!

Dry Chopping – Blendtec dry chopping can be used for adding small chunks of ingredients into a bowl or plate.  For example if you’re making a pasta then chopping your meat, onions, and bell peppers in your Blendtec makes sense.  The Blendtec has an easy to use jar where you can easily empty the ingredients into a sauce pan or dish directly from the jar.  The Blades are welded to the jar and the blade design allows you to comfortably reach under the blades allowing you to get all the smaller pieces out from the jar.  A Spatula comes in handy for dry chopping and scrapping out what’s in the jar.  The blades are dull so you won’t cut your fingers on them when you scrap out the ingredients.

Wet Chopping – Wet Chopping is when you fill the jar with water (Usually 4 to 6 Cups), so when you add the ingredients they float on top of the water and do not have any contact with the blades.  When you press the Blendtec Pulse feature the blades suck the ingredients right down the middle of the jar and shred them into tiny little pieces!  Chopped and ready.  This is great for salads, you can place red cabbage into the jar with a peeled orange, a cored apple, and some carrots, press the pulse key a few times and before you know it, you have a healthy salad in a bowl.

In Conclusion,

Using the Pulse feature on Blendtec blenders is a great way to control your blend, finish off recipes, and chop ingredients into small little pieces.  If you have any questions on pulsing using a Blendtec blender, leave a comment below.

Thank you!