I love cooking and, despite Alton Browns insistence on not having “Unitasker” devices I love all the gadget. I have always wanted to try my hand at making Mayonnaise and this Immersion blender worked perfectly! The Variable speed trigger made slight adjustments to the speed a breeze. It feels super sturdy while using it. It’s a little noisy but it’s a blender, what do you expect. The Blender head is a little bit of a pain to clean but I can’t see how it could be made any better. My only legitimate complaint is there there is no form of cord management, the the cord is just hanging loose unless you wrap it around the body. I added a small length of double sided Velcro to the cord to fix that and it seems like the company could have spent the $0.02 to do that as well.