Using a blender for food.

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Hey guys, I haven't posted outside of the diary and newcomer section so i'm very sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I couldn't find a more suitable section of the board to ask.

I wanted to put apples or bananas through our food blender to drink, but my mum (yes, I have moved back in with my parents again. Whole 'nother story) says if I do so with a banana, it won't liquefy and will just go mushy, and says using water will not do the trick.

How would I get a decent 'drink' or 'soup' out of items I put in a blender?

Cheers

-Adam
 
I'm kinda confused by the question I guess and by what your mom means by "will go mushy". :)

I put bananas in the blender all the time as part of making a smoothie. Are you talking about a blender blender or a juicer? A banana won't turn to juice, but it will blend up into a pulp and add a nice richness to a smoothie - some added lowfat milk or yogurt turns it into a nice drink.

Honestly, my advice would be to try it. If it doesn't do what you want it to do, it's just one banana. It's not like you'd be whirling $1000 worth of caviar in the blender if it fails to deliver what you want. ;)
 
Haha.

By mushy I meant.. Well, not liquid, but just a mush type. It's hard to explain now you mention it, haha. Basically, I wanted to know how to make it into something I could drink. I was hoping to put bits of apple and banana and see if I could drink it. I just didn't know which liquid to add. I thought water would do it but apparently it doesn't.

You think milk does?
 
Oh I think water would do what you want - make a drinkable substance. I personally like milk or yogurt better just for the creaminess factor, but you could throw a bit of water in there and it would thin it out nicely. :)
 
The Franchise said:
Hey guys, I haven't posted outside of the diary and newcomer section so i'm very sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I couldn't find a more suitable section of the board to ask.

I wanted to put apples or bananas through our food blender to drink, but my mum (yes, I have moved back in with my parents again. Whole 'nother story) says if I do so with a banana, it won't liquefy and will just go mushy, and says using water will not do the trick.

How would I get a decent 'drink' or 'soup' out of items I put in a blender?

Cheers

-Adam
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If you're going to try and make fruit drinks in a blender, you're going to need to add juice, water or ice cubes. If you puree a banana, it's not going to turn into juice; it's going to turn into pureed banana. So, if you want to make a drink, then add juice, water or ice cubes.

FYI - If you make drinks in a blender, it will never, ever, ever turn out to be a completely smooth drink. The texture you get will still be grainy no matter how much juice you add or no matter how long you puree your fruit for.
 
ChefChiTown said:
If you're going to try and make fruit drinks in a blender, you're going to need to add juice, water or ice cubes. If you puree a banana, it's not going to turn into juice; it's going to turn into pureed banana. So, if you want to make a drink, then add juice, water or ice cubes.

FYI - If you make drinks in a blender, it will never, ever, ever turn out to be a completely smooth drink. The texture you get will still be grainy no matter how much juice you add or no matter how long you puree your fruit for.
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Thanks for that friend. I wanted to combine different fruits but it does seem a little bit of a hassle. I might just chop a few fruits up and put them in a bowl mixed up. Like a mixed fruit bowl. I just want to eat more fruit and there's just something about banana and apple on their own that seem boring and plain to me.

Again, thanks for that advice.
 
The Franchise said:
Thanks for that friend. I wanted to combine different fruits but it does seem a little bit of a hassle. I might just chop a few fruits up and put them in a bowl mixed up. Like a mixed fruit bowl. I just want to eat more fruit and there's just something about banana and apple on their own that seem boring and plain to me.

Again, thanks for that advice.
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Here are 2 websites that might help you a little bit...




Epicurious is a recipe database that a lot of up-and-coming chefs will reference early on in their careers. Just type in what you are looking for in the search bar (Fruit Smoothie, Banana Shake, etc.) and browse through the collection of recipes that pop up. There are a lot of good recipes on that site and most of the directions are easy-to-follow as well.

The other site, I'm Cooked, is like YouTube for cooking videos. It works the same way: type in what you are looking for in the search bar and browse through the videos.
 
Here's my favorite fruit salad:



You can make it with just about any fruit you want.

But honestly, plan fruit is about the least boring thing I can thnk of. I love the flavors of fruit. My advice would be to learn to appreciate fruit for what it is, rather than trying to turn it into something that is passable at best. :)

I think a lot of the reason that many of us are overweight is that we've been conditioned by advertising and fast food and restaurants to expect food to be something it isn't. IMO, the best way to learn to eat good foods, is to learn to appreciate real, honest, FRESH food ... w/out all the fancy sauces and purees and crap.

I love a whole apple for a snack ... and anymore I don't see an apple as boring. I go to the grocery store or the farmer's market and look at all the different varieties. I've tried many of them and I now can recognize that an apple isn't just an apple. A gala apple tastes different from a jonathan apple which tastes different from a honeycrisp apple. I've learned to recognize the varieties I like - which ones are sweeter, which ones are tarter, which ones have a crisp crunch to them ... and I enjoy them as they are, rather than trying to make them into something else.
 
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