Baby food blenders

[Sunshine8537]

Suggestions for food blenders for making baby food?

I know you can get ones that steam food first but are they worth it for the short amount of time?

No. Just use the kitchen equipment you have! Or Baby Led Weaning.

Don't bother. Just give them normal food. No need to blend anything.

No point bending anything, just lightly mash with a fork if necessary.

I wouldn't bother with any. If you really don't want to do solids, just mash up a bit of what you're eating.

Babies need texture in food to chew and aid speech development. Mash food with a fork or try baby led weaning.

The tip I give all new parents is remove the word baby and see if you have it already!

There is nothing special about blenders for baby food they are just blender's. Steaming small quantities of veg is easy and quick to do in the microwave. We did buy a potato ricer as it had been on our want list for a while and that was handy for making lump free mashed veg for things like shepherds pies or pasta sauces.

A decent blender is always beneficial in my book although we do now have 3 - small, medium and large! We did inherit the third though. We have a stick blender that has a small pot attachment too. We make our own pasta sauces and dips with this blender. The medium one is good for family size portions and the large one has lots of gadgets so can make us smoothies and finely shred veg for coleslaws and salads.

Mother of 3 and echoing all of the above. If you don't have one already just buy a normal blender and at least you've got one.

I had one and it was one of the best things I bought. I found it really useful.
It didn’t stream food first just blended it. I can’t remember the brand but I got it from Boots. It was quite cheap.
It was easier than trying to make tiny portions in a big blender. Often there wasn’t even enough volume to reach the blades.
It doesn’t have to be all one thing or another for weaning. I did a mixture of purées (gradually increasing the thickness in texture) and finger foods. I let dd try to feed herself with the spoon from the start or she used her fingers.

you have to stop purees at 9 months of age, gradually of course. So don't bother or just buy regular stick blender for whole family when you want cream soup.

If you’re buying something regular sized instead, you want a food processor, not a blender.
Unless you are planning to make pints of purée each time, there won’t be enough to fill the blender jug to the minimum point where it actually passes through the blades.
You could batch cook and freeze it but the thing with purées is you want to introduce as many different flavours as possible and by the time you get around to using the rest of a batch, the baby might already have moved on to a different texture.

We didn’t want to do blw - too messy for me. We used our regular blender for on meals we prepared and a mixture of jars and pouches. You don’t need a specific baby blender.

Save yourself a lot of cleaning and get a bog standard microwave or hob steamer.

Either they'll eat the lot, or throw it on the floor or not touch it. And you won't have to clean a blender.

I recommend the hand blender too, it’s easier for small quantities and I could use it for other stuff too. Easy to clean than the whole machine and doesn’t take up much space to store. I had one from Amazon that lasted ages and was less than £10.