This blender is one of my favourites of all time - you would never have guessed it

A hand blender is one of the most underrated appliances you can buy. Compact, powerful, and surprisingly versatile, it’s a go-to for everything from blending soups to whipping cream. But if you invest in one that comes kitted out with clever accessories, like the Bosch Serie 6 Ergomaster, it can do far more than you might expect. This model doesn’t just blend; it whisks, mixes, and even helps with baking prep, all while saving you space in the kitchen.

Some of the best blenders I’ve tested have actually been stick or hand blenders. While countertop models often take the spotlight, a well-equipped hand blender can cover just as many tasks, with less bulk and more flexibility.

The Bosch Series 6 Ergomaster stands out as a high-end option in this category. With a durable metal build, powerful motor, and an impressive suite of attachments, it promises a professional-grade performance from just one socket .I've put it through its paces to find out whether it's the one for you.

Bosch Ergomaster Series 6 Hand Blender review

The Bosch Serie 6 Ergomaster Hand Blender is a powerful and versatile kitchen tool designed to take the effort out of everyday cooking. With its high-performance motor, ergonomic design, and easy-to-use attachments, it’s ideal for everything from blitzing soups and sauces to whipping cream and chopping ingredients. Whether you're a seasoned home cook or just looking to speed up weeknight meals, the Ergomaster offers Bosch’s signature reliability with a sleek, user-friendly twist.

Bosch Ergomaster Series 6 Hand Blender Specifications

Who would the Bosch Ergomaster Series 6 Hand Blender suit?

If you're already drawn to the idea of a hand blender, the Bosch Serie 6 Ergomaster is an excellent all-rounder that offers a lot more than basic blending. It’s ideal for home cooks who want a single, compact tool that can tackle a wide range of tasks, from blitzing soups and smoothies to whipping cream and making homemade hummus or dips. It comes with a balloon whisk, a mixing attachment, and a blending cup, which means it can cover much of what you'd normally rely on a hand mixer or small food processor for. Whether you're baking cakes or prepping sauces, this blender has you covered.

The Bosch Serie 6 also suits those who want a more premium, long-lasting appliance. With its robust stainless-steel body and ergonomic grip, it's designed for regular use, even in busy or compact kitchens where sturdiness and ease of control are a must. It’s especially well-suited to anyone who often tackles tougher ingredients, like raw vegetables or nuts, and doesn’t want to wrestle with underpowered motors or plastic-bodied models. If you like your appliances to feel solid in the hand and perform without fuss, this is a great pick.

Unboxing the Bosch Ergomaster Series 6 Hand Blender

You can tell a lot about a blender from the packaging that it arrives in. Everything communicated through the compact, efficient, and eco-friendly box that the Bosch comes in is good.

All of the packaging can be recycled, which is surprisingly rare for a stick blender, so it gets top marks there from me.

The rest of the components are really self-explanatory: there’s a chopping attachments for making quick dips and food prep, a blending attachment, which comes with a cup, if you’re worried about scratching your pans and bowls; as well as a whisk. These all fit into place with satisfying clicks, so you won’t really need any instructions or guidance on how to use it, although Bosch does still supply it.

What is the Bosch Ergomaster Series 6 Hand Blender like to use?

All the different accessories click neatly into place on the Bosch Hand Blender. You can see that there's a button at the top, which has a safety control to prevent the blades from spinning when they're not in place properly.. The button adjusts the speed, depending on how hard it's pressed, which gives some great versatility in how you use the Bosch blender.

Over time, I really liked how this felt to hold and use. Even over longer, tougher blends, the soft grip handle kept my hand cushioned and comfortable.

I wanted to start with a soup test, because that’s what most stick blenders are useful for. I popped this straight into my stainless steel pan, because the blade had guards around it and my pan is pretty robust, so I felt it would be more than capable of keeping the pan scratch-free.

The first soup that I made was a pea and mint recipe. Whilst the Bosch did a great job of whizzing the peas into a smooth mix initially, it quite quickly hit a limit. My mint leaves were still quite chunky and the peas were lumpy after about a minute of blending. I tried increasing the speed, but found myself stuck with a pretty thick soup that wasn’t as well-blended as I hoped.

To help, I poured batches of this soup into the dedicated blending cup that Bosch provides and this is where I started seeing some results. The soup became smooth and creamy, with the blender easily moving up and down inside the cup. This taught me my first lesson: the blender works better when it’s deep inside a liquid. Noted.

I made some more soups in the next few days and, using the blender submerged into deeper liquids proved to be really helpful. The head was still nearly underneath my pea and mint soup, but it needs to be really deep to get a smooth soup.

Naturally, I also had to test out making a smoothie too. This combines some tricky ingredients: frozen blueberries, spinach, oats, peanut butter, banana, and almond milk. These can be really touch to get smooth because the frozen blueberries are icy and the skin of the berries and spinach are tough to cut through.

Given the soup results, I wasn't sure what to expect, but this did a really decent job. The smoothie didn't have a fibre or skin in sight. It's a great result, because it means that this really can cover what your traditional bullet blending tasks.

It's really exciting to have a mixing attachment for your blender, because you can use this for chopping and blending with thicker tasks, such as dips. My go-to is hummus, because chunky, thick dips are really hard to blend well.

Given that this is more of a food processor, it did a fantastic job. This normally packs a tin of chickpeas, a tablespoon of tahini, a squeeze of lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and a teaspoon of cumin.

You can see the hummus is really smooth, even though it's thick. There wasn't s kin or chickpea chunk in sight.

A whisk attachment is always a treat when it comes to blenders. It's another way in which this doubles-up as a hand mixer. The whisk was really quick to whip my cream into thick,, stiff peaks. It's another one that needs to be submerged deep in your cream to get good results, but that's not a problem with the handy whisking jug.

Cleaning the Bosch Ergomaster Series 6 Hand Blender

The Bosch Hand Blender is really easy to clean. All the attachments can be stacked into the dishwasher and they come out clean too. I hand-washes these, because my dishwasher has a tendency to bend my whisk into different shapes and sizes. The food slid easily off the blender, the berries didn't get stuck in the blades of the blender either, and they rinsed out really neatly.

How does the Bosch Ergomaster Series 6 Hand Blender compare?

It's pretty rare for a hand blender to come with accessories like this, but there are alternatives. The Smeg Hand Blender is a style upgrade from the Bosch. It comes with the same accessories (a chopper, a whisk, and a blender), but with some pastel colour options. I found that it was much more powerful than the Bosch, although you only get two speed settings, so there's also less nuance.

The other aspect worth noting is that the Smeg food chopper accessory isn't dishwasher safe. You actually can't submerge it under water, so you need to be careful with how dirty you get it. Elsewhere on the market, there isn't a model that's up to scratch with Bosch's technical performance. And the only aesthetic upgrade is the Smeg. I think that puts the Bosch Ergomaster Series 6 is a pretty good light.

Should you buy the Bosch Ergomaster Series 6 Hand Blender?

if you want a blender that can do more than smoothies, the Bosch is brilliant. Whilst it needs to be deeply submerged for the best results, once you've got the hang of it, you'll reap the rewards of having a blender that doubles-up as a mini food processor and a hand mixer too.

How we test blenders

At woman&home, all of our blenders go through a standard series of tests. We make smoothies, hummus, and crushed ice, looking for power, consistency, and easy controls. In the case of a hand blender, I like to test making soup and, naturally, with the extra whisk, I had to test whipped cream too.

I also make notes of what the blender is like to hold over a long period of time as well as what it's like to clean up. By the end of the review, you should have a good idea of whether this is the blender for you. If you want to find out more about how we test blenders, you can visit our dedicated page.