Smoothies in regular mixer?

[KittyMommy]

I have a run-of-the-mill mixer. Can I make smoothies in it? How about green smoothies? Ani Phyo's book says something about regular mixers taking twice as much time as a Vita-Mix, but it can be done, but she wasn't talking about smoothies or green smoothies.

[walnutty]

I only have a regular blender, so I don't know how much faster a Vitamix or Blendtec would take....BUT...I whip mine up pretty quick. I make 2-3 smoothies a day.

[beppa66]

Hi Kitty,
I have a regular blender too. Here's how I do the green smoothies.
I put a handfull of spinach in the bottom and some liquid (be from a young thai coconut, water, green tea, grapefruit juice, etc.) Then I put the top on (ver important step...trust me) And blend until all the little chunks are gone, and it's a green liquid. THEN...I add the fruit & ice, etc.

Works pretty good.
Let us know how it goes. ( :


PS. Dear Santa, Beppa has been really good this year and would like a vitamix 5000.
Word is, kitty's been good too. Can you bring two? Thanks, Beppa.

[meancat]

meancats been pretty good too!!!

[beppa66]

Well...that goes without saying.

[PomegranatePip]

Yeah, you can make smoothies in a regular blender. If you're patient... and if you don't mind running the smoothie through a strainer... and if you have earplugs. :p It can be done. It's just not as efficient or easy.

[beppa66]

I don't use a strainer...or ear plugs. But I do have to make sure the hampsters are well fed so they can make it go fast!!! (I have the hamspter grist mill 1912 model from oster). LOL

[juliebove]

I've done smoothies in a blender, but I think a mixer would be pretty messy and probably wouldn't work since they don't have actual chopping blades.

[Revvell]

I have a run-of-the-mill mixer.

There's a difference between a blender and a mixer. Which are you talking about?

[Lilly the Naiad]

If you mean something like this, well that and a metal grater have been my raw food tools for a month. I chop most things in the container, for smoothies I use the hand tool mostly, unless there's something hard or stringy to blend, then I use the container.

Smoothies come out fibery but smooth enough to drink with a straw. It's not a long-term solution but it will do for starters.

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My husband calls it the "noise-maker" :p

[Aleesha Sattva]

could you use a juicer, like a champion... make it into juice, add the pulp back in and mix it up?

or would that not work. cause in my head... it would work. http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x87/recyclinggoddess/schla24.gif

[PomegranatePip]

could you use a juicer, like a champion... make it into juice, add the pulp back in and mix it up?

or would that not work. cause in my head... it would work.

:p I don't think that would work with our juicer. The pulp is pretty dry. Mixing that back in with the juice would probably just create a pulpy mess with a disgusting texture. But it might depend on the juicer (I'm not sure what kind ours is... my mom bought it back in the 1980s!).

[Aleesha Sattva]

our pulp is super dry as well. i thought it moisten back up in the juice... no?

[PomegranatePip]

I don't know. It seems to take a lot of energy to get the juice out. I don't know how easily it would go back in!

[Lilly the Naiad]

A juicer separates the liquid from the fiber, adding the fiber back into the liquid will just make a smoothie.

[Aleesha Sattva]

ah that's what i wanted to hear! thanks lilly!