On 2012-09-06, zxcvbob > wrote:

> The real test will be a smoothie made with lots of frozen hard fruit,
> like peach slices or papaya chunks. And raw vegetables just to make it
> difficult. Maybe tomorrow.

I was sadly disappointed when I discovered my mom's older Vita-Mix
didn't do ice cubes fer dammit. A long line of blender's I've gone
through, none of which did ice fer crap. The old clover-leaf Waring
my parents used to have made killer dacquaris, but that was after you
ran whole large cubes through the optional ice-crusher attachement
which spit out snow-cone grade ice. I later bought a like waring and
found an original crusher attachment on ebay. It didn't work as well
as my parent's model. Bottom line, I gave up on blenders, smoothies,
and dacquaris.

What I fondly recall is a little ol' man who usta come to our county
fair every year. He was hawking a waring blender. It had a stainless
steel vessel. He would put in one fresh whole egg --unbroken!--, 2-3
fresh pitted unpeeled apricots, one whole stick of celery cut in half,
and 3-4 large ice cubes. He put the lid on, turned the one speed
switch on for about 30-40 secs, and turned it off. You could see the
SS vessel had frosted up on the outside. He then spooned the contents
into little paper cups, added bitty plastic spoons, and passed 'em out
to the small audience. A perfectly delightful veg/fruit ice/granita
was the results. Now THAT was a blender! By time I'd gotten into
cooking and gone through a couple crappy blenders, the little ol' man
was no longer a yearly fair fixture.

I don't know what model his blender was, but I suspect it was a
commercial bar blender or a low end lab blender. Whichever, waring
isn't giving those suckers away, they costing several hundred dollars.
He sold his for a pricey $100, but that was back in the mid 70s. I
might buy one if I could see it demo'd first.

nb

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