What kind of cooking do you do? If you mostly like smoothies and
milkshakes, a blender. If you like slaws, do stir fries, make pizza
(whir chunks of mozz into pencil eraser-sized bits works beautifully),
then a FP. If you want a little of both, an FP and a Braun stick, which
takes up little room.
Old fashioned blenders are of limited use for me, but I do have one for
the final grinding of my spice mixes (in the Oster "coffee grinder" jar).
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