The Best Immersion Blenders of 2026

• Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Speeds: 15
• Accessories: 25-oz. chopping bowl, jug, whisk, anti-slip mat
• Dishwasher safe parts: Yes

This immersion blender features a uniquely shallow, bell-shaped blending head that prevents it from suctioning to the bottom of blending cups, and its non-scratch base won’t damage metal pots. Its wand is long and sturdy, yet comfortable to hold. Backed by a 15-speed, 280-watt motor, these parts are a match made in blender heaven.

While the Breville blender wows on its own, its attachments are impressive bonus items that helped it breeze through our testing. The whisk attachment was perfect for whipping cream, and the food processor attachment quickly chopped pine nuts, garlic, and more for minimal-effort pesto.

It fell short when it came to our smoothie test, though, where it struggled to fully blend chunks of frozen fruit and break down flax seeds.

But we did love that the jug houses the blender’s 25-ounce chopping bowl for easy storage. Plus, all of its accessories are dishwasher safe.

• Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Speeds: Seamless variable-speed dial, plus turbo
• Accessories: Sold separately
• Dishwasher safe parts: Yes

This stainless steel immersion blender from All-Clad is the real deal—beautifully designed, incredibly sturdy, and eerily quiet despite its honking 600-watt motor. With its long wand and blending head that promotes liquid flow, it excelled at blending soup, smoothies, and mayo quickly and evenly.

Unfortunately, the whisk head is sold separately. Our base model lacked accessories, which made the pesto and whipped cream tests more challenging. (It did complete both in the end.) When assembled, the blender is also massively heavy, at over 3 pounds—tiring out our tester's arm pretty quickly. It’s an impressive, built-to-last device, but it’s not made for people with as little upper-body strength as our tester.

• Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Speeds: 2 speeds
• Accessories: Blending wand, whisk, 3-cup chopping bowl
• Dishwasher safe parts: Yes

Throughout testing, this hand blender from Hamilton Beach seemed to impress us and disappoint us in equal measure.

Its lightweight head quickly excelled at making mayo and emulsifying pesto without getting suctioned to the bottom of the vessel. Unfortunately, its other accessories were a bit of a mess. The comically small whisk head took a while to whip cream, and the food processor smelled of burning plastic while in use. (It didn't even reach the cheese it needed to chop for pesto.)

As the least expensive product on this list, we aren’t surprised that the build quality can’t match up to the competition. If you’re desperate for a hand blender and on a tight budget, this will get the job done. Unfortunately, it’s not a good investment in the long term.

• Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Speeds: Seamless variable
• Accessories: 600ml beaker, chopper, whisk, and purée/masher accessories
• Dishwasher safe parts: Yes, plus accessories

The upgraded version of the Braun MultiQuick 5 MQ505, this immersion blender is a solid choice for making whipped cream, pesto, and nut butters.

We were consistently impressed with its blending performance on soft ingredients. In addition to a whisk and a food processor, it features a masher attachment that’s helpful for crushing potatoes and making baby foods.

However, this Braun isn’t without flaws. It didn’t do well in the smoothie test. It failed to crush ice cubes efficiently and repeatedly got stuck in the beaker because of suction. The same suction issue occurred in the soup test, which made blending much more difficult than it should have been.

• Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Speeds: 12 speeds
• Accessories: None
• Dishwasher safe parts: Yes

Prettier, bigger, and faster than its predecessor, the Chefman 12-speed looks like the real deal. Unfortunately, it isn’t.

Completely lacking in attachments, the blender performed poorly in the pesto test. It was inefficient, and kept spitting ingredients out the sides of its blender head. Its fastest speed also wasn’t quite fast enough to whip cream.

It’s attractively designed and boasts a non-scratch head to protect your metal pots, but that’s all we really like about it. If we had to buy it, we would use it for soup and nothing else.

• Weight: 2 pounds
• Speeds: 9 speeds plus turbo
• Accessories: Frother, whisk, blending attachments
• Dishwasher safe parts: Attachments only

With its light-up buttons and interesting design, we wanted to love this blender from Mueller—but it couldn’t live up to our hopes.

When making whipped cream, the blending attachment actually twisted off and stopped the blender from running. When it came to pesto, the lack of food processor or chopper attachment made things challenging. Even the blending head could barely handle shredding the basil. Overall, it seems like a poorly-constructed product that isn’t up to most blending tasks.

• Weight: 2.86 pounds
• Speeds: 5
• Accessories: None
• Dishwasher safe parts: Yes

The Vitamix Immersion Blender is a powerful, five-speed hand blender. However, its top-heavy design makes it uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time.

Its sleek design and portability are great, but not enough to outweigh the difficulty we had cleaning pesto out of the blades. This product is effective at whipping cream and making mayonnaise. That said, we wish it had extras like a whisk attachment or blending jar to make these tasks even easier.

• Weight: 2 pounds
• Speeds: 3 speeds
• Accessories: Chopper and whisk attachments, 3-cup blending jar, 1-liter blending pitcher
• Dishwasher safe parts: Yes

For a brand that’s typically committed to quality and craftsmanship, KitchenAid has produced some surprisingly low-quality hand blenders. This three-speed is a slight improvement over the basic two-speed. But not even its bevy of accessories make up for its poor performance when chopping, whipping, and blending.

The food processor attachment struggled to chop ingredients for pesto, and the whisk attachment was so large that cream took longer to whip up. When it came time to try and blend pesto with the blender head, it sent ingredients flying out the sides and struggled to break up the basil. The blender itself also has a lot of plastic parts painted to look chrome, which tells us the product isn’t built to last. At least it comes with a cute storage bag.

• Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Speeds: 2 speeds
• Accessories: 3-cup blending jar
• Dishwasher safe parts: Yes

All the same criticisms of the KitchenAid three-speed apply to this device, too—they’re almost the same exact blender. That being said, the two-speed doesn’t even come with accessories. To whip cream, we had to borrow the whisk from the other KitchenAid.

For the price point, it’s a bafflingly limited blender that only seems equipped to handle pureeing liquids and creams. It comes in an array of pretty colors to match your stand mixer, but for the money, you can do a lot better from a different brand.