A portable smoothie maker with solar panels including a base assembly, a container assembly and a lid assembly. The base assembly includes a hollow base. The base encloses a motor. The base is covered with solar panels. The solar panels power the motor to rotate a blade. The blade is at the top end of the base. The container assembly includes a container. The container is threadably coupled to the top end of the base. The container encloses the blade. The lid assembly includes a lid removable attached to an open top end of the container. Fruits, vegetables and liquids are deposited into the container to make a smoothie by rotating the blade.

A micro puree machine has a drive motor positioned within a lower portion of a housing extending along a vertical axis. A mixing shaft positioned within an upper portion of the housing extends at a non-parallel angle relative to the vertical axis. The bowl of ingredients is installed to an angled surface of the upper portion of the housing along the mixing shaft axis, allowing for easier viewing of the bowl installation.

A kitchen appliance includes a self-contained pull string drive device and a work unit. The device is configured for manually rotating a work unit around a rotation axis by pulling a string transversely to the rotation axis A. The device includes a drive wheel, a return spring, all positioned coaxially relative to the rotation axis A, a string, one end of which is wound around the drive wheel and the other end of which is connected to a handle. The work unit includes a lid closing a bowl. The pull string drive device is configured to be detachable from the lid of the bowl. The lid includes a male or female part joined to a drive interface, to cooperate with the drive wheel by mechanical coupling in order to transmit a rotational movement from the device to the work unit.

A reservoir assembly for a food processing system including a vacuum mechanism includes a housing having a hollow interior, an inlet pipe extending through said housing into said hollow interior, a fluid flow path from said hollow interior to the vacuum mechanism, and a valve positioned within said hollow interior, said valve being movable to control a flow of air provided to the vacuum mechanism via said fluid flow path.

The invention relates to a kitchen appliance with a base unit including a housing, an electric motor, a detector, a controller and a communication interface, and with at least one accessory having an identification feature. The controller is configured to recognise an accessory on the basis of a detected identification feature and to display corresponding cooking information and also, on the first use of this accessory, to then automatically register it in a database. Also described are a system including a Kitchen appliance and having a database, an accessory having an integrated data carrier, an operating method and a computer program.

The application relates to a container arrangement for a kitchen appliance including a food receiving element and at least one lid configured to close an opening of the food receiving element. The lid is movable relative to the food receiving element between a first operating position and a second operating position, between a first operating position and a second operating position different from the first operating position. The lid includes at least a first magnetic field-based counter element and wherein the food receiving element includes at least one magnetic field-based sensor element connectable to a detection device. The detection device is configured to detect a second operating state of the lid. The magnetic field-based sensor element is configured to output the first sensor datum only upon detection of the first magnetic field-based counter element in the detection range of the magnetic field-based sensor element. The first magnetic field-based counter element is configured in the lid such that the magnetic field-based counter element is in the detection range of the magnetic field-based sensor element only if the lid is in the second operating position.

The invention relates to a kitchen appliance system with a base unit including a housing, a control device and a communication interface and with at least one accessory including an identifier. In order to improve user-friendliness, provision is made for a detection device which is configured to detect an identifier of at least one accessory. The control device is configured to control an identifier which is detected by the detection device with at least one identifier from a database, to provide at least one operation mode associated with an identifier from the database matching the detected identifier via the communication interface as a quick start mode. The invention further relates to a method of operating a kitchen appliance system and a corresponding computer program.

An adjustable blade assembly includes a threaded hub coupleable to a drive shaft of a food processor and a slicing plate slidably mounted on the hub. A slicing blade couples to the hub above a first surface of the slicing plate for cutting food introduced into the food processor. A cannulated support collar couples to the hub and includes a plurality of detents. A slicing adjustment sleeve rotatably couples to the hub and to the support collar to move the slicing plate up and down relative to the hub, thus changing a selected distance between the slicing plate and the slicing blade. As the user rotates the slicing adjustment sleeve, a plunger housed inside the slicing adjustment sleeve engages the plurality of detents on the support collar, thus providing tactile feedback to the user and maintaining the slicing blade in the desired position relative to the slicing plate.

A lid assembly includes a body portion with a head portion and a stem portion downwardly extending from the head portion. A receiving channel is circumferentially disposed around the stem portion. An aperture is disposed through the head portion. A cap member is removeably received on the aperture. A seal member is removably received in the receiving channel. The seal member includes a body portion including at least one sweep member outwardly extending therefrom.

An apparatus and system for dispensing a food and beverage product where a flowable product is extracted from a flexible pouch and where an opening exists through which the flowable product evacuates the flexible pouch. The opening has a lock seal that locks the flowable product within the flexible pouch when a pressure is applied to the flexible pouch. There is also a zip seal located in the opening that is configured to lock the flowable product within the flexible pouch after the lock seal has been removed when pressure is applied to the flexible pouch.