Abstract: An immersion blender which includes a motor housing and an elongate shaft housing extending from the motor housing to a blender working end. The working end includes a rotatable mixing tool enclosed in part by a blade guard. A resilient spatula ring is attached to the blade guard as an extension thereof. The spatula ring has a spatula edge and sufficient flexibility to conform to inner surface contours of a mixing vessel. A spatula ring may also be provided as an aftermarket product to fit existing immersion blender models.

Abstract: Cooktops employing a plurality of gas or electric heating units, and operatively-associated manually-operable controls. To indicate correspondence between heating units and control members, the heating units and manually-operable control members are color coded. Each heating unit and its corresponding control member is coded with the same color.