The 2 Best Immersion Blenders of 2025

Top pick

This immersion blender excelled, thanks to its ability to create smooth purees, its overall ease of use, its competitive price, and its well-designed extras.

In our latest round of testing, the Braun MultiQuick 7 Immersion Hand Blender MQ7035 performed better than any other immersion blender. Its ability to puree, whip, and chop make it a functional, reliable kitchen tool, and it’s easy and comfortable to use.

It features a powerful motor and a unique blade. The motor has enough torque to create a vigorous vortex so that food circulates in the mixing vessel and passes through the rotary blade multiple times. An effective vortex creates a smooth puree, while a subpar one leaves stringy or chunky bits behind in soup or smoothies.

The “ActiveBlade” technology on the Braun MultiQuick 7 MQ7035 allows the blade to move up and down, creating a powerful, swirling vortex, which helped to quickly process soups to a velvety texture and turn out smoothies without much graininess.

It’s a champion emulsifier. The bladed wand whipped up a thick mayonnaise in less than 30 seconds, among the fastest of all models we tested.

It comes with equally effective attachments. The Braun MultiQuick 7 MQ7035 whipped cream within a minute with the whisk attachment, and the chopper cup diced up onions within seconds, creating largely uniform cuts.

It’s user friendly. We found the trigger-style “one squeeze, all speeds” feature—where the speed increases the more you press—intuitive and ergonomically comfortable. It allows you to adjust speeds with just one hand, whereas other models require using your other hand to turn a dial, or holding down two buttons at once.

We also found the MultiQuick 7 MQ7035 to be an intuitive machine with some thoughtful features. It is easy to hold, with a rubbery grip with raised bumps to help make it less slippery to grasp compared to others we tested, especially if you have wet hands. It has prominent buttons to release the wand, and the whisk was easy to attach and release, as well.

Braun also makes several other versions of the MultiQuick 7 blender that are functionally the same but come with different accessories.

The lower-priced MultiQuick 7 MQ7025X comes with a smaller chopper cup (1.5 cups, as opposed to the 2-cup chopper of our pick), while the higher-priced MultiQuick 7 MQ7077X comes with a larger, 6.6-cup chopper, plus a masher, a french-fry cutting disc, and four additional shredding inserts of various sizes.

We think the MultiQuick MQ7035 hits the sweet spot in terms of accessories, with a good-sized chopper cup and not too many extraneous accessories for the price.

A generous three-year limited warranty, its reasonable price point, an easy-to-remove wand, its speed, and its overall better performance gave it the edge over our previous pick, the Breville Control Grip.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

The accessories require some finesse. The mayonnaise made with the whisk accessory came out a tad too runny to spread. We recommend using the wand for the mayonnaise, which turned out a nice, thick, spreadable version.

Tread lightly with the chopper cup—processing for just a few seconds to start—or else you might end up nearly liquefying vegetables instead of chopping them.

We also found the measurements on the accompanying beaker cup hard to read.

How the Braun MultiQuick 7 has held up

Editor Gabriella Gershenson has been using the MultiQuick MQ7035 in her home since the summer of 2024. So far she’s been surprised with how often she turns to the chopper attachment versus the blender itself.

She reports, “I’ve come to rely on it for small tasks that I’m frankly too lazy to do manually. Instead of dicing an onion by hand and battling bleary, stinging eyes, I process them with the immersion blender’s chopper attachment. Rather than grating fresh bread on a box grater to make crumbs, I toss it into the bowl of the chopper and shred them with a few pulses. I also use the attachment to chop large batches of herbs. While I recognize that I’m not getting the same precision that I might achieve if using a knife, it’s so helpful for ingredients that I don’t need to be too precious about.”