Your hand blender may overheat if you run it for too long.

To prevent overheating, avoid running your blender for more than 10 seconds at a time and let it rest for a few seconds in between each burst. If it overheats, let it cool down before using it again.

Hand blenders work best with watery ingredients like soup, eggs or purées.

Hand blenders are perfect for smoothing out soups, puddings, purées or sauces right in the pan. Be very careful when using your blender on hot liquids as these spill much easier than cool ones and are more dangerous when they do.

Depending on your hand blender’s motor power, it may work on harder ingredients but this might dull the blades over time. For extremely hard ingredients like coffee beans, ice cubes, nutmeg, grains or bones, use a table blender or a food processor instead.

You can use your hand blender to knead dough if has a dough hook attachment. Remember though, your hand blender may overheat if you run it for too long. But remember, it is not recommended to use hand mixer on stiff doughs.

To prevent overheating, avoid running your blender for more than 10 seconds at a time and let it rest for a few seconds in between each burst. If it overheats, let it cool down before using it again.  

You can but please be very careful about it.

Whatever container you’re using, make sure that it’s not filled very high. Hot liquids spill easier than cool ones and they are more dangerous when they do.

Hand blenders work best with watery ingredients like soup, eggs or purées. Depending on your hand blender’s motor power, it may work on harder ingredients but over time this might dull the blades.

For extremely hard ingredients like coffee beans, ice cubes, nutmeg, grains or bones, use a table blender or a food processor instead.