If you remember earlier this fall I broke my food processor and since then I haven’t replaced it.
Well that is until now.
My little blender also went on the fritz a week ago so while I was in town on Friday night, I decided to check out the blenders at a local discount store.
I’ve been eye spying them on the web, so I pretty much new that I was going to be buying one, I just had to pick one out.
And while I was checking them out, I found the one that I thought that I should buy and then guess what? It was on sale. It was $20 off to be exact. I thought SCORE! But as I was putting it in my cart I stopped and wondered why was it on sale? I mean it was the last one on the shelf and maybe they were junk or something? So then I put it back on the shelf after I convinced myself that it must be bad and started to look around again.
But everything else was about $100 more so I was feeling pretty partial to the first one. I did a quick Google search on it again and found that some people really did like this little Ninja blender. OK I’m going to buy it.
And now that I have it home I have used it so many times I can’t even tell you. I’ve chopped ice for a party bowl that we needed to bring to a barn party, mixed some breakfast bars up in it, had some rock hard brown sugar that I pulverized and made nice again, and mixed up a smoothie or two. It’s always great when you get a new kitchen gadget isn’t it?
I did find out something also the hard way though. You know that it can do tons of things because of it’s super sharp blades. Well I was putting the blade in the dishwasher and just as I was repositioning it on the shelf better – bam I cut myself. And when I say I cut myself – I mean I really cut a gash on my thumb. It was one of those times that you think that maybe it’s not that bad but then realize that the blood has gone all the way down your arm and dripping off your elbow. Yea, I really did a good job this time. So I quick grabbed some lavender essential oil and as I held my arm above my head to try to help stop the blood, I poured the lavender oil on the cut. I mean it couldn’t hurt anything and it’s good to help heal cuts and wounds.
It’s not the most user friendly walking around the kitchen with your arm above your head – just saying. But it did finally stop bleeding and hopefully it won’t give me too much trouble next week as it’s healing. So I guess I found out that hard way just why this little machine is so tough. And why I guess I’m not 🙂