Softel Sleek Hand Blender

I have purchased Softel hand blender from the retail shop. After 2 years, when I serarched for sales after service i.e. body replacement, the shop keeper has changed his business and there is no service station available in Vadodara which I have searched on internet and also asked other shop keepers.

In the city like Vadodara, SOFTEL must have service centre or dealer or shop keepers may be authorised to take the product repairs and maintenance and send it to proper dealing person / representative fixed by SOFTEL

I need sales after services. It may be asked to provide me name of any dealer who can give me sales after service that is replacement of body. Give me their name and address with telephone number to contact to get my SOFTEL handblender repaired. Overall the product is fine, it has worked without any trouble but only this plastic body gave me problem while using the SOFTEL product.

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Softel Sleek Hand Blender is a really useful device. No No No No! Not for blending food and stuff! It rather spills all my shakes outside the vessel and splatters them on to my walls. I had chocolate on one wall one day, and strawberry on the other on another day. This has saved the money I had to spend on a much needed paint-job.

Anyway, I use this thing for shaving. I shaves really well. I use chocolate syrup in place of shaving cream. Just put this thing on your face and whrrr whrrr whrrr! It'll shave like a pro! The minor cuts and incisions can be ignored considering the superior ability of this thing to shave.

I have started using it on my armpits, chest, legs, back and bottom too. Now I look like Pamela Anderson. Once I tried to shave off all of my body-hair using this, but ended up all bandaged and stuff. Never mind that... this thing can give you what the best man deserves.

Don't use it there.

I also use this for mowing my lawn, shearing my lambs and cutting my hair... not to mention the incredible buzz saw it makes. Chopping wood was never so easy!

WARNING: DO NOT PUT YOUR TONGUE INTO THE BLADES WHILE THIS DEVICE IS RUNNING.

THIS DEVICE IS A CLASS IIII NON-CE CERTIFIED PRODUCT. MAY CAUSE ELECTROCUTION, CUTS, BURNS AND SOME SICK, UNKNOWN DISEASE.

USE REGULAR AAAA SIZED BATTERIES OR PLUG IN TO A STANDARD 550 VOLT LINE. DO NOT USE ADAPTER

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What do you give your mother on her birthday? Well dont answer it, it was just supposed to be rhetorical question. For many many years, especially those when my earnings implied my pocket money savings, I would give my mother the best gifts - one which I could give it to her with beaming face and then use it myself from the next day (blank audio cassettes, perfumes etc). How cheap? But now I had my first salary. What should it be this time? Sarees, Punjabi suits, earrings...nyet, what's in it for me? (Old habits die hard, especially the bad ones...tsk tsk)

I saw my mom grudging over cleaning the mixer (Sumeet - I have a review on it). It wasn't so difficult but still quite a mess. Cleaning it meant cleaning the original vessel, cleaning the mixer jars, the lid of the jars, the blades, the mixer body, the spatula and the table. I would offer to clean the spatula if it was milk cream being whipped or some tasty chutney, with my fingers and tongue. Hey Hey, some help!

So there I was in Asiatic at Churchgate - purses, wallets, paintings, vase, perfumes (again?), stuff toys (kidding), lipsticks, nail polish (damn me...I don't use that...excuse me...my mom doesn't use that). And then I saw the salesgirl (no she wasn't the gift, but that's natural of me to notice salesgirl's first) demonstrating a portable blender, also called hand mixer - the Softel Sleek. That's it! And at Rs. 950, it's a steal.

THE BLENDER: It has a cylindrical body that houses a 150 W, 220-230V ac, single phase, 10,000 - 20,000 rpm universal motor (made in Europe) with a short time duty cycle (2 mins). Oops got carried away, Electrical engineering still fresh in my brain. (Need any explanation on the above m2m me). The outer body is plastic. At the top there is a handle shaped so as to fit in a grip with a button suitable positioned, such that, when the mixer is held in hand, the button can be operated, by the thumb. A steel long shaft comes out of this body at the free end of which the blades can be attached. The blender weighs only 1.2 Kg.

CHUTNEY ATTACHMENT: This is a small polycarbonate container specially designed for such hand mixers, in the sense that it has a shaft and blade arrangement at the center. The lid has an opening on top. Just latch the hand mixie's shaft and its ready to use.

THE BLADES: Three of them:

Mincer blade - which is the main blade used for, what else? Mincing! Well it also chops. Though I am seldom in kitchen I can tell you this. Put some cabbage and whirr - get fine pieces. Put coriander leaves, pudina, ginger in the container and whirr. Oh! Not yet. Whirrrrrrrrr whirrrrrrrrr ah you have the chutney ready. This blade can also be used for mashing vegetables and making purees.

Whisk blade:It is disc shaped with openings i.e. holes punched in it and is meant for the liquids - milkshakes, cocktails (I am referring to fruits here Mr. Arun Roy), lassi's (oye Jaya balle balle), curd, soups etc. My mom uses this blade extensively to extract tons of butter from buttermilk. Forget the old hand method - (wooden stick (ravi) in porcelain jar). The high speed of rotation churns out loads of butter. We now have a big jar full of ghee, ever since we brought this.

Beater blade: This is a plain disc (warped shape) that helps in mixing air with the liquid, emulsifying. So can be used for aerating cream , whipping eggs.

The blades can be easily fixed/removed to the shaft by press fit arrangement and using the spanner provided (also doubles up as a spoon).

THE SIEVE JAR: This was optional. Got it free under promotional scheme. It is like a steel glass with holes all over the periphery - sieve. Put orange inside this attachment which in turn is in some vessel and whirr, the juice flows out of the attachment and into the vessel with the skin, seeds and such waste inside the attachment. Neat!

Actually I feel this invention is amazing. The concept is so simple and convenient as compared to normal mixer. It's light, portable and can be hanged on the wall with a special wall hanging component. So much more easier to clean. Total paisa vasool. Even came with an 1 year warranty.

Some precautions though needs to be exercised:

1) Though the blade arrangement has a steel shroud, it is still risky and better used in containers than freely in air.

2) The motor is short time rated i.e. it should not be run continuously for more than three minutes or it will burn out.

3) The motor end however should only be wiped with a wet cloth and not immersed in water.

4) Blade should be unplugged only after the main power plug is unplugged.

5) Children should be kept away from this - weapon.

6) It is advisable to cut hard foodstuffs like carrots into small pieces before using the blade on it.

7) Use taller vessels or else there will be lot of spillage.

The mixer works well and the blades are still sharp so I did not require any technical or after sales support.

And for those of you think that for once I have been selfless and chose a very good birthday gift - think again. Burp!

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