Blender Adventures

Have you ever heard of Will it Blend? If you haven't, you really need to visit this site, it's pretty funny.

Tim and I had a blender adventure of our own last night. We were making a rather yummy fruit smoothie for dinner as it was late and we didn't want to eat anything heavy. Tim had put a LOT of fruit in the blender and it was having difficulty mixing up all the fruit. So despite coaxing, adding milk and more coaxing, my little blender just couldn't seem to conquer all that fruit.

So I got out a spoon and started gently sifting around the frozen chunks of fruit to help the blender along. Accidentally, I launched a bunch of the fruit out of the blender onto the counter. Not thinking, we scooped up the wayward fruit and tossed it back into the blender.

Within a minute or so after returning the fruit to its home in the blender, we heard a funny clinking noise coming from the blender. At first we thought it was the gears slipping, so we took the blender off its stand and tightened everything up. The clink continued. We stirred up the smoothie thinking some some of the frozen fruit was being stubborn and wouldn't blend. The clinking continued. We were stumped.....

Then I noticed that one of the screws from Tim's bike shoes was missing off the counter. They had been sitting nearby, but certainly they couldn't have been close enough to be effected by the wayward fruit.....could they?

Needless to say, we discovered that (thankfully) our blender is not as high-powered as the blender on "will it blend?" Otherwise, as Tim put it, our poor duodenums could have been in some trouble.... (we didn't eat the smoothie in case you're wondering, and the screw was relatively unscathed) :P