70 Awesome Things to Do With Your Vitamix (and the tools you may be spared) 1. Churn and freeze ice cream (ice cream churn) 2. Cook milk for yogurt (stove) 3. Make sorbets and sherbets 4. Blend smoothies (weak-sauce blender) 5. Chop carrots and cabbage for slaw, kraut or choucroute (mandolin) 6. Chop onions for stew (Slap-Chop or knife & tears) 7. Shred potatoes for hash browns (shredder) 8. Cook blended or chunky soups (pot) 9. Puree batter for crepes (immersion blender) 10. Mix cold puddings (whisk) 11. Mix and cook hot puddings or custard (eons standing and stirring at the stove) 12. Crush ice for cold drinks (ice-crusher) 13. Crush ice for snow cones (ice-shaver) 14. Crush and blend slurpees (7-11) 15. Grind meat, such as hamburger (meat grinder) 16. Puree meat for spreads like deviled ham or chicken spread 17. Shred cheese (time) 18. Grind bread crumbs (processing attachment) 19. Grind quinoa, wheat, rice and other grains into flour (grain mill) 20. Grind wheat, oatmeal, cornmeal and other grains for hot cereal and porridge 21. Grind coffee beans (coffee grinder) 22. Powder beans for smoothies or soup 23. Blend large quantities of spices or herbs 24. Coarsely chop beans for faster cooking 25. Hyper-rupture fruit and vegetables with skins for cheesecloth pressing or pouring into a juicer for maximum extraction and nutrients, impossible to achieve with a simple triturator/centrifigal juicer alone (commercial hydraulic press) 26. Blend vegetable drinks and cocktails 27. Blend yogurt with fruits and other flavorings 28. Blend breakfast shakes 29. Fully homogenize cocktail drinks (drink shaker) 30. Blend homemade powdered drinks like cocoa, especially involving chocolate chunks for richness 31. Knead bread dough, pizza crust, doughnuts, English muffins … (stand mixer) 32. Blend batters like muffins, biscuits, quick-breads such as banana loaf, popovers (hand mixer) 33. Blend pancakes and waffles, cakes 34. Whip and cook frostings (double-boiler) 35. Process pasta dough (food processor) 36. Mix cookie dough (wooden spoon) 37. Whip pie fillings like lemon meringue or pumpkin
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38. Process pie crusts, both flour and graham variety (pastry blender) 39. Blend and cook baby foods (baby-food maker) 40. Mix dips and spreads like guacamole, blue cheese and more 41. Puree bean spreads for sandwiches (a fork!) 42. Whip cream cheese, plain or with flavors 43. Blend fruit whips 44. Emulsify salad dressings and dipping sauces like cocktail sauce, ketchup, sweet and sour, or probiotic mustard 45. Make mayonnaise and herbed or seasoned mayonnaise (tedious drizzling) 46. Mix Russian dressing for Reuben sandwiches!! 47. Mix and cook ice cream toppings like butterscotch 48. Blend and cook fruit syrups, mock maple syrup 49. Whip cream (Isi whipper) 50. Make finger paint!! 51. Puree nut butters and homemade Nutella (storebought butters) 52. Blend powdered seasoning mixes (mortar and pestle) 53. Grind dehydrated fruit or vegetables into chunks for trail mixes or oatmeal 54. Grind dehydrated fruit or vegetables into powder, such as peppers (magic) 55. Blend granolas 56. Make delicious basil, kale or other unique pestos 58. Froth milk for cappuccino, steamer (milk frother) 59. Melt cheese for queso dip or chocolate for strawberries or fondue (fondue pot) 60. Blend perfect lump-free gravy (your broken arm) 61. Powder sugar so you can stop buying expensive confectioners’ sugar packets (mo money) 62. Shred chicken or other meat for Mexican potato salad, chicken salad, tacos (two forks and dexterity) 63. Blend fruit into puree for fruit leathers. 64. Blend the same fruit into puree for butters and sauces, like apple butter or apple sauce! 65. Make brown sugar. 66. Blend soap and hot water to be its own dishwasher! Pour hot soap into the sink and wash the rest of your utensils … (dishwasher) 67. Make raw or just homemade butter (dazey churn, butter churn, tedious hours shaking a jar) 68. Make whipped, herbed, honeyed, berried or other blended butter spreads. 69. Make homemade lotions, burn creams, and salves. 70. Powder dehydrated fruits, herbs or vegetables to use for make-up, as sweeteners or colorings in food, flavoring drinks …
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