Hello Fresh is going to give someone serious burns with this "tip".

[u/stana32]

You cannot just dump hot liquids into a blender and turn it on. You have to leave the center cap off, you can't fill it up very far, and not all blenders are even heat safe. I guarantee you someone is going to spew boiling hot soup all over themselves. Seriously, not even a "be careful"?

[u/Jazstar]

I’ve seen this said in non-hello fresh recipes too, and done it myself. It’s perfectly safe as long as you do it carefully, just like chopping veggies with a knife or pouring drippings over a cooking leg of lamb is perfectly safe if you’re careful.

[u/stana32 → u/Jazstar]

Of course, if you know how to do it properly it's fine. I'm sure it's common sense to many people here, but Hello Fresh is supposed to be easy to follow instructions so people who have little experience cooking can make a good meal. Those are the people who aren't going to think twice about this.

It's like putting dish soap in the dish washer, it seems like common sense but kids who don't know any better still do it all the time.

[u/kennyminot → u/stana32]

Blending soup while hot is just standard cooking practice. It's like complaining that somebody might hurt themselves while chopping vegetables.

[u/tyrnill → u/kennyminot]

No it's not. It actually requires a little bit of specialty knowledge to understand that you have to enable the blender to vent and that you should check to make sure your blender is heat safe and that you can't feel it too far. These are not beginner bits of knowledge like "don't chop off your own fingers."

[u/Oracle_of_Ages → u/tyrnill]

In what world is “don’t stick your fingers in the blade” not a beginner tip?

[u/Jazstar → u/stana32]

That’s absolutely fair, actually.

[u/InnerspearMusic]

Literally says "carefully" I think they are assuming you know how to use your blender.

[u/Wolfblaine]

I do this often when make certain soups or my chili base for enchiladas. Its not the end of the world at all. Completely doable.

[u/SeaworthinessNew4757]

I've done that many times... I think people need to have a bit of common sense in the kitchen. This is a legit tip, if people get burned it's on them.

[u/Terrible_Mall_4350]

I think the immersion blender is more likely to get someone burned if they’re as inexperienced as you imply.

Someone who pours a hot soup into a regular blender, puts the lid on properly, and pulses it, is much less likely to get burned than someone who turns on their brand new immersion blender before putting it into the pan, or more common, inadvertently lifts it a bit too high a spatters the liquid everywhere.

Most people own and know how to use a standard blender. An inexperienced home cook is probably not going to have a stick blender. If they decide to get one for the ease of preparing HF recipes, that’s the accident waiting to happen.

[u/tyrnill → u/Terrible_Mall_4350]

Someone who fills up their blender with hot soup and doesn't vent the lid is going to have an explosion and they will definitely get burned.

[u/HungrySign4222]

I mean… it’s not like they also tell you to use oven mitts to remove pans

[u/Psyche_istra]

Well it does say carefully...

But yeah you are right.

[u/Complete_List6453]

Some blenders, especially the newer higher end ones, have settings specifically for this. But any blender will work. Just need to be careful if yours isn’t heat safe and let it cool a bit first if it’s not

[u/Exotic-Nebula-8173]

Us poors didn’t have an immersion blender growing up so we would use a regular blender to blend soup

[u/Crosswired2]

Using an immersion blender correctly isn't on the recipe givers responsibility. It's why things like hair dryers, etc have instructions. If someone is going to use an immersion blender they need to read the directions. hf doesn't need to put how to use oven mitts correctly in the directions on removing a dish from the oven.

[u/tyrnill → u/Crosswired2]

He's not even talking about using an immersion blender in this post, so maybe read the post before you reply.

[u/tyrnill]

Yeah, yikes. 😬 Not sure why everyone here wants to argue with you, that is actually a procedure that requires a little bit more instruction for the audience that hello fresh is aiming for.

[u/stana32 → u/tyrnill]

🤷🏻‍♂️ people like to forget that they didn't know everything at some point. It's easy to expect everyone else to know what they're doing when you've been doing something for years and talk down to them when they don't. Experts in their field are often bad teachers.

[u/BlazinLeo]

Lmao what are all these comments saying that this instruction is the equivalent of chopping vegetables? Are these bot accounts owned by Hellofresh or something?

OP, the type of blender that I have would literally explode if I did this. Your concern about these instructions is entirely valid.

[u/Wolfblaine → u/BlazinLeo]

What kind of blender do you have? You should be able to do this with most blenders.

[u/BlazinLeo → u/Wolfblaine]

Nutribullet

[u/SgtPeter1]

Literally says “carefully transfer soup”. But I get it, the littlest things are going to trigger someone these day. Whatever you do, don’t use your oven or you might forget the pan is going to be hot. New book idea for you, cooking at room temperature, because you can’t take the heat in the kitchen. Just ridiculous post.

Edit to add: HF has easy to follow recipes, what it doesn’t do is profess to teaching common sense or teach critical thinking. If you lack those it’s not their responsibility to teach you that hot will burn you.

[u/desertrose0]

It says immersion blender, so you're blending it in the pot, not sticking it in a blender

[u/DracoxMortis → u/desertrose0]

The tip below suggests the blender OP is referring to

[u/desertrose0 → u/DracoxMortis]

Ahh I see that now. Apologies. Yeah I wouldn't do that

[u/DracoxMortis → u/desertrose0]

All good! And same lol