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Blender vs Liquidizer - What's the difference?

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Liquidizer is a synonym of blender.



As nouns the difference between blender and liquidizer

is that blender is a machine outfitted with sharp blades, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients while liquidizer is a machine to chop or puree food; a blender.

As a proper noun Blender

is an open source, cross-platform suite of tools for the creation of 3D graphics.

blender

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A machine outfitted with sharp blades, for mashing]], crushing or [[liquefy, liquefying food ingredients.

    • Synonyms

    * liquidizer, liquidiser * vitamiser, vitamizer (Australia)

    Hyponyms

    * immersion blender

    Coordinate terms

    * food processor * mixer

    Related terms

    * blend

    liquidizer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * liquidiser

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, India, UK) A machine to chop or puree food; a blender.
  • * 1976 , Australian Journal of Plant Physiology , volume 3, issues 1-3, page 154:
    • tissue was disrupted using a Moulinex liquidizer and 0-5% bovine serum albumin was added to the isolating and resuspending media.
  • * 2013 , Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories (ISBN 1250032229):
    • She bought herself a second-hand Mini and in no time at all was busy as a bee, driving herself around London with pots and pans, cooking knives and liquidizers all piled up on the back seat.
  • * 2013 , Leah Leneman, The Tofu Cookbook: Over 150 quick and easy recipes (ISBN 0007524463)
    • Place a cupful of the soaked beans in a liquidizer , add a cupful of cold water and blend.

    Usage notes

    * In Australia and India, the term may be uncommon, technical or dated. * The term is found in some technical and trade publications in the US; it may be dated.

    Quotations

    * 2000 , Eric Morris, Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II (ISBN 0815410859), page 145: *: By now Erickson, like so many of the pilots, was flying without oxygen. The liquidizers and compressor plant had been early casualties of war at Nichols Field. Instead they flew on a mixture of quinine and atropine.

    Synonyms

    * blender (US) * vitamiser, vitamizer (Australia)

    Related terms

    * liquid * liquidate * liquidation * liquidator * liquidity * liquor

    See also

    * food processor * mixer