Blender Lurve (I May Never Eat Solid Food Again!)
[x-posted to gym_goths]
After about 6 months of owning a Blendtec Total Blender, I still think it's worth every penny spent. It's pricey, but I've made up the cost in time saved and more healthy eating.
It grinds whole grains into flour, making it easier for me to incorporate amaranth, quinoa, kamut, flax, oats, etc... into my whole grain bread recipes.
It cuts root veggies into nice little rock salt sized chunks for salads.
I've also dried all my juicer pulp and ground it into powder. Makes a great soup thickener. It's all fiber & protein at that point.
I make nut butters like almond, cashew, pumpkin, etc... Sometimes I just take the trail mix from whole foods and dump it in the blender, so it becomes a kind of "nut butter & jelly" b/c it's sweetened by the raisins.
In about 3 minutes, I make a morning smoothie of flax, oats, brown sugar, a little beet powder, + a drop or two of pure orange oil. It coats my stomach just enough to stave the morning hunger pangs, saving me a trip to the cafeteria and $4.
Between Kung Fu & Yoga, I'm famished but can't eat much, so I dump some veggies (green peppers, broccoli, spinach, mushroom, cilantro,) with some soy powder, Tomato powder, cayenne pepper & a little vegeta soup base and make a nice cream soup in about 5 min.
It takes a whole 20s to clean. Just turn it upsidedown with the sink sprayer and done! It doesn't have a small sharp blade or threads where food can get caught. It's a single assembly with a rather dull 3" blade. It cuts by brute force. At full speed, the blade moves at ~270mph.
They just released a 3qt/5 sided jar with a 4" blade. At high speed (30,000rpm), the tip of the blade moves at ~360mph!
Now, I am experimenting with coffee drinks. My latest one is a "sensitive stomach" coffee concoction.
1). Place 28g of whole coffee beans in blender with 24 oz hot tap water (~40C)
2). Hit soup button (90s high).
3). Add 10g pure ginger root + 4g CaCO3 + 20g vanilla sugar.
4). Blend on medium for another 30s
Strain through reusable coffee filter.
The combination of ginger + vanilla sugar tastes very nice. It also gives the coffee a little *zing*.
jv
After about 6 months of owning a Blendtec Total Blender, I still think it's worth every penny spent. It's pricey, but I've made up the cost in time saved and more healthy eating.
It grinds whole grains into flour, making it easier for me to incorporate amaranth, quinoa, kamut, flax, oats, etc... into my whole grain bread recipes.
It cuts root veggies into nice little rock salt sized chunks for salads.
I've also dried all my juicer pulp and ground it into powder. Makes a great soup thickener. It's all fiber & protein at that point.
I make nut butters like almond, cashew, pumpkin, etc... Sometimes I just take the trail mix from whole foods and dump it in the blender, so it becomes a kind of "nut butter & jelly" b/c it's sweetened by the raisins.
In about 3 minutes, I make a morning smoothie of flax, oats, brown sugar, a little beet powder, + a drop or two of pure orange oil. It coats my stomach just enough to stave the morning hunger pangs, saving me a trip to the cafeteria and $4.
Between Kung Fu & Yoga, I'm famished but can't eat much, so I dump some veggies (green peppers, broccoli, spinach, mushroom, cilantro,) with some soy powder, Tomato powder, cayenne pepper & a little vegeta soup base and make a nice cream soup in about 5 min.
It takes a whole 20s to clean. Just turn it upsidedown with the sink sprayer and done! It doesn't have a small sharp blade or threads where food can get caught. It's a single assembly with a rather dull 3" blade. It cuts by brute force. At full speed, the blade moves at ~270mph.
They just released a 3qt/5 sided jar with a 4" blade. At high speed (30,000rpm), the tip of the blade moves at ~360mph!
Now, I am experimenting with coffee drinks. My latest one is a "sensitive stomach" coffee concoction.
1). Place 28g of whole coffee beans in blender with 24 oz hot tap water (~40C)
2). Hit soup button (90s high).
3). Add 10g pure ginger root + 4g CaCO3 + 20g vanilla sugar.
4). Blend on medium for another 30s
Strain through reusable coffee filter.
The combination of ginger + vanilla sugar tastes very nice. It also gives the coffee a little *zing*.
jv