Use a canning jar with your blender

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Mar 5th 2008 @ 5:05PM

Those of us who follow food blogs are well acquainted with Elise of Simply Recipes. Her recipes are always dependable and she seems to have cooked just about everything in creation, which means that her website is something of a definitive resource.

However, if you haven't been following her for a long time, you might have missed a particularly useful blender tip she offered nearly three years ago. Lucky for all us internet readers, those eagle-eyed editors at Lifehacker found this particular tip and have brought it to prominence for our edification.

She suggests using a canning jar in place of your blender carafe when mixing up small batches of things. Apparently, most blenders are designed so that their bottom blade contraption will screw onto a standard sized canning jar. This way you can blend or chop inside a jar, remove the blender blade and store easily by popping on a regular old jar lid. It's like the predecessor to the Magic Bullet.

[via Lifehacker]

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Filed Under: Hacking Food, On the Blogs
Tags: blender, chopper, elise, hacking food, lifehacker, mason jar, Simply Recipes, SimplyRecipes, tip

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3-05-2008 @5:32PM Sleighboy said... Slashfood Re-Posting Alert! :)

http://www.slashfood.com/2005/08/30/hacking-food-mason-jar-blender/

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3-06-2008 @1:24PM Eric G said... I'm told that my parents used to make baby food for me this way. They kept it up even after discovering the downside, that the jars can explode since they're not rated for the abuse. My Dad learned that lesson with six stitches in his hand.
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