The Coolest Blender Trick Ever
By Jenn | March 11, 2008
Stop the presses!
(what presses?)
Did ya’ll know that you can screw mason-type jars directly onto the base of a blender, thus bypassing the regular blender container, so that your chopped/whipped/blended/ground stuff ends up directly in the jar, which you can then use for storage? This also saves the steps of washing the blender container, which thusly saves water/soap/time.
This is going to come in SO handy for:
- Making a smoothie for when I’m running out the door and need to take it with me
- Making homemade peanut butter, OH MY GODDESS.
- Making whipped cream directly in a jar, for when I need to bring it along to a party or picnic
- Pre-grinding flax seeds for smoothies and as an egg replacer for vegan baking. I’ve pre-ground flax before and kept it in the freezer for use as needed– does anyone know if this negatively effects the nutritional content of said flax?
- Pre-chopping walnuts and storing in the freezer for my favoriate amazing banana bread (I modify that recipe by using all whole-wheat flour, no sugar, and adding walnuts and/or dried cranberries. And I make two loaves at a time, because I pretty much eat a whole one the day it’s baked.)
Apparently you don’t want to try this trick using hot liquids. Pressure, explosion, ouchy. Also apparently, you don’t want to use thin glass jars (such as mayonaise jars) but only thicker ones (such as pasta sauce, canning jars, etc).
As an aside, from the same site, these banana cookies look delicious! Again, I’ll try them using whole wheat flour, little to no sugar, and egg replacer… heck, I live on the edge. I love my vegan baking attempts, though my 5-year old nephew just said he doesn’t like my cookies. Broke my little heart. Though not deeply enough to start using white flour and processed sugar. :)
Do ya’ll have any handy kitchen tips like this, which our grammas probably knew but we didn’t learn because we were young whippersnappers? Share yours in the comments!
[Image via Elise.com]
just last night, i was cursing while trying to scrape every last bit of my nutty seed spread out of the blender.
this is awesome. and just in time for making salsa today.
Salsa!! *Perfect* for making salsa. Thanks, Beth!
How do you get the jar off without making a mess and won’t the stuff you are mixing get into the blade housing?
I would assume the reverse of the way you put it on: remove the blade housing from the base, making sure that it’s sealed tight. Depending on what you’re mixing, I don’t think there should be any more stuff in the housing than there would normally be. I haven’t tried this, so I could be wrong.
David, I think you’re thinking of it how I first was…that it’s just sitting on the blade, but I bet that you need to unscrew the plastic base and blade from the regular blender glass then screw in the mason jar; thus you still have to clean the blade and plastic piece, but are saving the step of cleaning the blender glass. Just flip the mason jar on to it’s bottom, as rachel had said, and screw it off, as you would screw off a top.
Hey David! Yes, what they all said. :) If you click the link and walk through the steps on the site where I first read about this, you’ll have a better idea how it works.
Salad Dressing!
Brilliant, Marian. Thanks!
oils will always begin to degrade with more exposure to the air. the most beneficial flax seeds will be ground just before use.
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