Hand blenders - am I missing something?

[FirstAtForty]

Feel a bit foolish asking this, but is there some really obvious method of stopping the blended food from flying all around the kitchen?

I have tried using dainty veils of kitchen roll around the top of the bowl (still messy), I've also tried putting the food into a pint mug before blending to minimise the 'open area' at the top, but it's very faffy as the mug doesn't hold much.

Any wisdom gratefully received!

I find that if you shove the blender to the bottom of the pan/bowl you don't get so much mess. (think rough!)

Agree with squonk and blend in short pulses rather than continuously.

are you over filling the bowl - i have had a few re-decorating incidents when i have over-filled the bowl and not jammed the blender down to the base as well ... did your hand blender come with its own container for blending - mine did and i tend to have less stuff flying around if i use it.

My blender came with a tall plastic beaker that I blended eveything in and didn't have a "flying-food" problem at all.
Make sure you push the blender well into the food, rather than having it blend from to top down, as it were.

thanks - will experiment. No, mine didn't come with a 'blending receptacle', maybe that's what's missing! I'll search for something suitable in tupperware or similar, might do the trick.