In the service and catering industries, there is no shortage of people trying to sell you the latest and greatest ranges of kitchen appliances. While there are many items that are altogether specialist equipment, such as juicers, new candy floss makers, and chocolate fountains, the humble bar blender is one machine that no commercial kitchen or bar should be without. They have a wide range of applications, such as making great cocktails, and they can also be used to chop food too. If your drinks menu is looking anemic, having a bar blender will immediately be able to fatten it up, with white Russians, cosmopolitans and other drinks being particular customer favorites.
Of course, cocktails are not the only kind of drinks that can be made with a bar blender – they also double up as an excellent smoothie maker as well. There is in fact virtually zero difference between a smoothie maker and a bar blender – they are called the same thing. Since bar blenders are designed to cut through cubes of solid ice, cutting through fruit and other materials poses no problem at all for the machine.
Most professional smoothie makers / blenders feature pre set programs that can automatically blend certain ingredients together, with the machine being left unattended. You can see how great this feature would be for busy bars, since the staff can set the machine to run for a few minutes and work away on other things in the meantime. Since the commercial variants of these machines spin so fast they can make a lot of noise, and this could be unwanted in the bar area! Luckily, professional bar blenders can be fitted with a sound enclosure that muffles the sound.
If you have a bar that needs a little shot in the arm, adding a bar blender will let you serve delicious cocktails and wonderful smoothies, which will help keep your customers happy.
