Several kitchen tools can blend or puree. The jar blender and food processor are the big guys who hog the spotlight. The handheld immersion blender is the smaller-but-still-plenty-powerful dark horse ...

Joanna Gaines and Stanley Tucci swear by it, too.

A hand blender, also referred to as an immersion or stick blender, is one of the most useful appliances in the modern kitchen. This small kitchen tool was initially created mainly to puree soups right ...