Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I shopped around for several months, looking for a 600 watt immersion blender. I found several units for the European market but nothing that would work with US electric current. I started to think my only option would be resorting to a regular restaurant immersion blender but those things are huge and expensive. I finally came across All-Clad Immersion blender and expected it to be comparable to the other brand names whose wattage runs from 200-400 watts. I was thrilled to discover that All-Clad is a 600 watt unit. Finally, my search was over. I expected it to be better than the unit I was replacing but I didn't expect it to be great. I was prepared to stand at the stove while blending freshly made cream of mushroom soup. I deployed the All-Clad Immersion blender and was done in a couple heart beats. I was surprised it made such quick work of the soup. I stood there with the All-Clad in one hand because I assumed I would have to give the soup another whirl. I stirred the soup with the other hand, looking for big chunks of mushroom and found nothing but the nice tiny little pieces of mushrooms that I wanted. Power and speed of completing the task - this was a great purchase and I look forward to using it. My only complaint in shopping for a 600 watt immersion/stick blender was having to dig for the wattage information. Most of the Amazon and other retailer websites did not include the wattage of the units or it was buried in comments. In fact, I had trouble finding the any wattage information on some of the manufacturer's websites (I'm looking at you Kitchenaid - but oh so descriptive of the colors!).