Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
included blender attachment
English answer:
attachment for blending that is included with the main machine
English term
included blender attachment
Context:
Create mouth watering sources and dips that preserve the ingredients with the included blender attachment.
Nov 4, 2017 07:25: writeaway changed "Field" from "Tech/Engineering" to "Other" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "kitchen appliance"
Nov 4, 2017 08:21: Tony M changed "Field" from "Other" to "Tech/Engineering"
Nov 4, 2017 10:02: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "kitchen appliance" to "kitchen appliance/attachment"
Nov 4, 2017 11:13: Tony M changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Nov 6, 2017 04:56: Tony M Created KOG entry
Non-PRO (3): Rachel Fell, Yvonne Gallagher, Tony M
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attachment for blending that is included with the main machine
This is very common with many types of 'food processor', and is confirmed by the fact that you can use this 'blender attachment' for making "dips and sauces"
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Here is a typical example: the classic Kenwood mixer with the blender attachment fitted on the top:
http://www.kenwoodworld.com/WebImage/Global/Product images/K...
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You may wish to consider this as 'a blender attachment [that is] included...' (with the main product)
| Thank you very much, Tony :) |
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Jack Doughty
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Thanks, Jack!
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Terry Richards
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Thanks, Terry!
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writeaway
: if this is an engineering question, then I am a qualified engineer. It's everyday kitchen appliance speak. /what about 'marketing'? It's really not a technical question whatsoever. Now it's just a product being marketed. Engineering work is finished.
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Thanks, W/A! Well, not 'engineering', no — but as it is about a piece of equipment, it can be said to be 'technical', albeit not needing a qualified engineer to answer it! / Have it your own way, I didn't notice you'd already edited it before.
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B D Finch
: While that is probable, see https://www.kitchenaid.com/shop/countertop-appliances-1/coun...[KHB2561OB]-401129/KHB2561OB/ (https://goo.gl/gamM1C) for a blender with attachments.
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Yes, of course blenders have attachments; but they don't usually have 'blender attachments', and that is clearly what this must be here, from what it is being used for.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: your last line is SO different from what I said "the blender is the appliance but you can have a blending attachment as well"
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Yes, but I don't agree that the blender is the basic appliance; whatever that is, the attachment if for doing the blending, and I don't believe it is usual to have a 'blender blender attachment' as you are suggesting
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acetran
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Thanks, Ace!
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: US, Canadian, Irish, UK) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
attachment which is included with the blender
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buy the blender and you get an attachment as well
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Note added at 33 mins (2017-11-04 02:46:43 GMT)
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the blender is the appliance but you can have a blending attachment as well. Here are some blenders
http://www.argos.ie/static/Browse/ID72/14418604/c_1/1|catego...$ja=tsid:29699|cid:905979738|agid:47954600634|tid:kwd-294659972862|crid:213715368664|nw:g|rnd:833483145842665416|dvc:c|adp:1o1|mt:e|loc:1007850
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what's the rest of the context? What is the "main product"?
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Note added at 2 days8 hrs (2017-11-06 10:37:54 GMT) Post-grading
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Asker, you DID have context as you obviously know what type of appliance this is, but couldn't be bothered answering my question (or BDF's or Tina's for that matter).
I usually hide answers if they are wrong but here I am not at all convinced
| Thank you Gallary. I thought the blender here is the attachment and it comes with the main product. |
| Sorry, Gallary, but that's all context I have. |
| But I'll look into it. Thank you :) |
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Tony M
: Here, it is an 'attachment that is used for blending', not an 'accessory for a blender'. / Grammatically, it is borderline; but in terms of both common sense AND culinary techniques, this could not be the right answer to THIS question.
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Oh thanks Tony, so nice of you to disagree when it CAN be read like this//nothing "borderline" about grammar at all. As for "culinary techniques", ingredients have to be chopped/liquidised etc. before blending to make a sauce. NB blender=mixer for many
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Terry Richards
: What Tony said!
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it COULD be read this way
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Discussion
Since it is overwhelmingly likely to be 'an attachment for blending', clearly the basic machine on which it fits is not going to be a 'blender' — rather, some other kind of multi-purpose kitchen appliance that uses different attachments to perform different functions (cf. the classic Kenwood); I think this probably rules out the notion of a 'stick' blender, which by its very name is inherently a 'blender' that may have attachments to do other things as well.
Question 1: is it an attachment or an accessory? An attachment is a part that is essential for the blender to work, e.g. the blade and the glass cup. The basic blender with attachments can certainly make dips and sauces. An accessory is an extra, optional item, such as smaller cup, a special cup for making dough, etc.
Question 2: is it a counter-top blender or a hand-held blender? The big difference is that a hand-held blender is usually just the machine that comes with a number of attachments - I have seen one that came in a case with 12 attachments. Such a blender can also make dips and sauces. Unfortunately, the terms attachment and accessory are often used interchangeably. So that brings us back to square 1.
the very obvious 'source' / 'sauce' typo is a perfectly excusable mistake — particularly in these days of voice-recognition; but it doesn't really invalidate the whole text, and if you are using e.g. a Kenwood, you wouldn't use any other kind of attachment such as a dough hook, grater, or mincer for making 'dips and sauces', now would you?
And if the machine were a 'blender' in the first place, it would clearly be nonsensical to refer to a 'blender attachment' — for it to be an 'attachment' (= 'accessory'), the base machine clearly needs to be something other than a blender itself. I have a blender that has chopping and grinding attachments, for example; but my food processor is the one that has a blender attachment for it.
I feel sur Asker was probbaly more than anything else confused by the inverted word order, with 'included' at the beginning like this, which is not a normal structure in EN, though is found in this sort of slightly telegraphic marketing-style text. Can also betray a non-native speaker: in some other languages, a past participle can be used as an adjective with no compunction, whereas in EN, it works better for some verbs than others.