The electric blender, as we all know it as we speak, was invented in 1919 by Stephen Poplawski, proprietor of Stevens Electric Company. By 1922, after persevering with to refine his invention, Poplawski patented the blender and commenced promoting it by means of his company, the Stevens Electric Company, as a “drink mixer”. This gadget was offered primarily to drugstore soda fountains to make milkshakes and malts. The Stevens Electric Company was purchased by Oster Manufacturing in 1946 and Oster was bought by Sunbeam products in 1960. Sunbeam Products remains to be in existence as we speak, so you may nonetheless purchase a direct descendant of the unique blender blender B094YHJ6LZ!
A couple of years after Poplawski’s blender was launched, in 1935, Fred Osius (who was additionally concerned in founding the Hamilton Seashore Company) developed his personal blender and with funding from Fred Waring. A couple of years later the “Miracle Mixer” was produced and offered by Waring Products for family use. This equipment was generally known as the Waring Blendor (not blender). As an fascinating facet notice, Fred Waring was a preferred musician, band chief and radio-television persona on the time. Waring Products is now owned by Conair, however their line of blenders remains to be generally known as “Waring Blenders”.
The Vitamix Company launched a competing blender (with the extra normal spelling) in 1937. Not like a lot of the earlier blenders, which used a Pyrex glass jar, the Vitamix blender used a chrome steel jar. Within the late Nineteen Forties the Vitamix line grew to become very talked-about as a result of tv promoting and the Vitamix blender was featured within the very first 30 minute infomercial in Cleveland. By the Nineteen Fifties the electric blender had turn into a typical kitchen equipment, together with toasters and occasional percolators.
Within the Sixties, Vita-Combine launched a line of highly effective blenders that along with grinding, mixing and mixing, might make ice cream, cook dinner soup and make juice. This made blenders considerably extra versatile and elevated their reputation much more.
The standard blender remains to be an ordinary fixture in lots of kitchens, however there are various new trendy variations. Some are minor and extra in title than perform, resembling “Smoothie” blender or “Margarita” blender (an ordinary blender can do these simply as properly). Different varieties of blenders, resembling immersion blenders, have a totally totally different design. Immersion blenders are handheld mixers with a small blender blade on the underside and as an alternative of pouring the supplies you need to combine in a blender jar, you simply put the immersion mixer within the substance you need blended.