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Vitamix Video of the Month
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Chef Tim Graham of Tru – Chicago, IL on StarChefs.com Chef Tim Graham of Tru – Chicago, IL
Pheasant Consommé with Wine and Pomegranate

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Vita-Mix Recipes of the Month
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Mixologist Jonny Raglin of Absinthe on StarChefs.com Meyer Lemon “Torta”

Pastry Chef Tim Butler of Alto—New York, NY

Ask Any Great Chefs
Thomas Keller on StarChefs.comThomas Keller
In all of my years preparing food, I have learned that the better the products you use, the better chef you will be. I use the Vita-Prep because no other blender provides better consistency and textures.
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Daniel Boulud on StarChefs.comDaniel Boulud
The Vita-Prep is one of the jewels of the professional kitchen. Regardless of the quantity of food it processes, the result is always flawless. Its variable speed control is an invaluable tool and I am constantly impressed at its reliability and durability. I am one of its biggest fans.
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Supporting the Foodservice Community »

Beyond supplying chefs with innovative kitchen equipment, Vita-Mix is also committed to supporting excellence in the foodservice industry. In 2006, they partnered with StarChefs.com to sponsor the Rising Stars Revue, a series of awards that recognize young talent in the top culinary markets in the country. All of the 2007 Rising Stars will be awarded their very own engraved Vita-Prep Professional blender to honor their achievements and to inspire them to continue creating in the kitchen.
Vita-Mix Blenders at the Gala

 

Vitamix
Vita-Prep 3® Professional Blender:  
The Professional Chef's Power Tool  

How many professional blenders have you gone through in your kitchen? Inhaling the distinctive smell of burning gears, you watch the potatoes and leeks of your prized vichyssoise soup become a lumpy mess. Strands of eggplant clog the blender while making baba ghanoush, and the blades come to a complete standstill. Your lime coriander sorbet ends up as soup with chunks of coriander. The lifespan of the average professional blender is brief; its performance underwhelming. That’s why top chefs who require a reliable workhorse when it comes to blending the smoothest soups, purees and sauces consistently turn to Vita-Prep.

Top Choice of StarChefs and Rising Stars
Other top chefs in the industry have made the Vita-Prep a permanent fixture in their kitchens. One of its biggest fans, Daniel Boulud, calls the machine “flawless.” Charlie Trotter uses the Vita-Prep professional blender to bring out flavor: “The Blades spin at 240 miles per hour so when I toss in basil and spinach, then drizzle in the oil, it just pounds the flavor in.”

Besides being a top choice among celebrity chefs, many of StarChefs.com’s Rising Stars, who are recognized for their innovative culinary techniques and envelope-pushing ideas in the kitchen, are using the power of the Vita-Prep to develop unusual textures for their dishes.

Rising Star Chef Gabriel Bremer of Salts in Boston considers his Vita-Prep professional blender the “centerpiece of equipment” in his kitchen, using it for daily preparation of soups and emulsions. Bremer also uses the Vita-Prep to liquefy beets. Then, spreading a thin layer of the liquid on a baking mat, he bakes the liquid off at a low temperature to create beet paper. Rising Star Chef Todd Stein of mk in Chicago prepares vegetable purees in his Vita-Prep professional blender and uses them in place of sauces for healthier eating.

The Vita-Prep professional blender is not just an essential tool for chefs, but for pastry chefs as well, giving them the power to create perfectly homogenized textures. Boston Rising Star Pastry Chef Rick Billings of Clio relies on it for his agar-based sauces – “you need a powerful blender to get the gels to be totally smooth.”New York Rising Star Pastry Chef Sam Mason formerly of wd-50 says bluntly, “I couldn’t live without my Vita-Prep – nothing else works.”

FEATURES

Vita-Prep Professional Blender
» Variable speed control allows ingredients to be chopped, blended, ground and puréed at exactly the correct speed.

» With its ≈3 peak horsepower, the Vita-Prep motor has the power to grind rice, grains, beans and pasta into fresh flour.

» The precision-hardened stainless steel blade quickly purees, blends and chops even the densest mixtures.

» The 2-liter, durable container is ideal for constant use in a commercial kitchen.

 

To learn more about the Vita-prep Professional Blender and other products, visit www.vitamix.com/foodservice.

 

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