VitaMix??!!

Originally Posted by MatWiz

They are 8oz, and the one at the side of the picture is a 16oz. Still wide mouth?

Wide mouth lids will fit on the 16/32 oz. size. It looks like that's what yours are. Can you almost fit your hand inside one? I can, so I assume if you almost can yours are. The 8oz is not wide mouth. I checked the box and they are called "regular mouth".

I just got 1 thing to say about this VitaMix thing..

HOLY $H!tz!!! This thing is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!

If you are "fat bastard" (PH are you listening ) and need to lose weight but don't have the time to exercise.. GET THIS!! Make fruit and veggie shakes 3 time a day and you will cut down on your regular meal intake. I can see that I will lose ALOT of weight w/ this thing.. DAMN!!

Hey Bee, do you carbonate those vitamix juices in the sodastream?

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Originally Posted by MatWiz

Start a thread, I can copy the coffee related posts to your new thread later on.

"I like that you can make a pound at a time, ..."

That means that you can also ruin a whole one pound at a time... .. Got to be careful with making one pound at a time.

One pound is a lot. You should consider that coffee goes stale about 2 weeks after roasting and maybe want to roast enough for 2 weeks at a time. So that you don't need to freeze. But of course you can freeze.

What kind of coffee you make? That will tell you how much you need to roast.

Which roaster are you looking at?

I very well might start a thread later in the future. I mean, up to a pound I should say, I do buy in roughly .5 lb amounts, actually maybe a tad more. For a while now, I drink French press exclusively. (I used to have an espresso machine back when, actually I've had two.) On occasion, I make vacuum coffee as well. I watched the vid for the cheapest home roaster I found at SM, the Behmor 1600, but haven't found the time to investigate why the more expensive ones could be worthwhile.

Who knows how many lbs of coffee I could ruin while learning, but like I said before, a home roaster once told me how dirt cheap coffee beans are in bulk, and that I could buy in bulk because of how extremely long they last, so I don't think I'd lose much money in that sense. Of course, I need to confirm these things, which I haven't got around to. I've been buying bulk herbs from the internet too lately, I'm into bulk

Oh, wide mouth jars are on their way.

Originally Posted by Ilovemycar

I very well might start a thread later in the future. I mean, up to a pound I should say, I do buy in roughly .5 lb amounts, actually maybe a tad more. For a while now, I drink French press exclusively. (I used to have an espresso machine back when, actually I've had two.) On occasion, I make vacuum coffee as well. I watched the vid for the cheapest home roaster I found at SM, the Behmor 1600, but haven't found the time to investigate why the more expensive ones could be worthwhile.

Who knows how many lbs of coffee I could ruin while learning, but like I said before, a home roaster once told me how dirt cheap coffee beans are in bulk, and that I could buy in bulk because of how extremely long they last, so I don't think I'd lose much money in that sense. Of course, I need to confirm these things, which I haven't got around to. I've been buying bulk herbs from the internet too lately, I'm into bulk

Oh, wide mouth jars are on their way.

Savings can be huge. But it depends what you're comparing it to. If you're comparing to a supermarket brand like Eight O'clock beans, they'd cost you about $10/lb. Everything else there is about $2-$3 more, but everything in the supermarket is already stale coffee.

If you buy from a modern coffee shop who serves from top roasters (Specialty Coffee grade) then you'd pay about $20/lb. That is the type of green coffee you'd get from Sweet Maria's and they usually go for about $6/lbs I think. Price varies depending on the origin and the taste, which is set at the coffee buyers' auction.

So if you compare "beans to beans" you'd be saving about $15/lb maybe? At this saving you'd pay for the roaster in 20 lbs! Wow. Never thought of that this way.

Green coffee beans will stay "fresh" for months. I think Sweet Maria's consider 8 months the time when green beans are starting to get old and may lose their original flavors.

French Press... 1:17 ratio of coffee to water by weight. That's 20-21 grams of beans to 12oz (a regular mug) water. 4 minutes brew time. 200*F. Adjust to 1:16 to 1:18 if the coffee is too weak or too strong to your taste.

Originally Posted by ///M3lissa

Wide mouth lids will fit on the 16/32 oz. size. It looks like that's what yours are. Can you almost fit your hand inside one? I can, so I assume if you almost can yours are. The 8oz is not wide mouth. I checked the box and they are called "regular mouth".

I can fit 3 fingers but not all 4. I measured, the "mouth" is 2 3/4 of an inch wide.

Originally Posted by beewang

I just got 1 thing to say about this VitaMix thing..

HOLY $H!tz!!! This thing is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!

If you are "fat bastard" (PH are you listening ) and need to lose weight but don't have the time to exercise.. GET THIS!! Make fruit and veggie shakes 3 time a day and you will cut down on your regular meal intake. I can see that I will lose ALOT of weight w/ this thing.. DAMN!!

Woohoo!!!

Told ya!

Originally Posted by CaliJeff

Hey Bee, do you carbonate those vitamix juices in the sodastream?

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Originally Posted by CaliJeff

Hey Bee, do you carbonate those vitamix juices in the sodastream?

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Come by Jeffrey!! I'll carbonate your arse and then VitaMix it..

Originally Posted by beewang

Come by Jeffrey!! I'll carbonate your arse and then VitaMix it..

Beetlejuice!

Originally Posted by beewang

I just got 1 thing to say about this VitaMix thing..

HOLY $H!tz!!! This thing is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!

If you are "fat bastard" (PH are you listening ) and need to lose weight but don't have the time to exercise.. GET THIS!! Make fruit and veggie shakes 3 time a day and you will cut down on your regular meal intake. I can see that I will lose ALOT of weight w/ this thing.. DAMN!!

My morning meal...

1 scoop Wegman's soy powder
1 cup unsweetened soy milk
1 heaping tablespoon organic non-fat yogurt
1 banana
1 handful of frozen strawberries
1 handful of frozen mango

Blend soy milk, soy powder and yogurt on setting 1 or 2 for 15 seconds to incorporate wet ingredients with soy powder
Add remaining ingredients, blend on 5, work up to 10
Flip to full power and blend for another 45 seconds or so.

Serves 2 full glasses of an amazing smoothie with about 20g of protein per serving.

Originally Posted by beewang

Come by Jeffrey!! I'll carbonate your arse and then VitaMix it..

You're asking the wrong guy out love. :what:

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Anyone with a good VitaMix recipe? POST HERE NAU!!!!

I just made this and it's super yummy (and ubber healthy).

Very simple:

1 handful of raisins
1 banana
5-7 almonds (un-roasted)
Water and Ice cubes.

Put the raisins in the blender's container with about 1/2 cup of water to cover the almonds.

Mix on "10" for a few seconds to break the raisins into small pieces and let stand for 15-30 minutes to soften.

Then add the banana and the almonds, mix on HIGH until the mixture is smooth. Add 4 ice cubes and mix again at HIGH until smooth. Add 4 more cubes and mix again to smooth the ice with the drink.

That's it.

You get a heavy creamy smooth drink that is naturally sweet. About ~20oz.

Nutella
Bananas
Blend
Freeze

Originally Posted by ///M3lissa

Just go cheap on the Cuisinart immersion. I bought one on ebay dirt cheap. If you like it and think you'll use it a lot then spring for the more expensive one.

I use lots of wide mouth mason jars to store most of the stuff in my pantry (cracker, nuts, cornmeal, rice, cereal, etc..). I also use them in the freezer for soups and sauces. I use both the metal canning lids and I have some one piece plastics. You should be able to find them in some grocery or hardware stores pretty cheap.

Outstanding.
I am going to assume you dont use a razor, either.
J/K Melissa.

Make this yesterday.

1" thick pineapple slice. Rim removed. Leave the core in.
1 orange
1 frozen banana
Ice cubes - about 8

It was OK, but something in the complete taste was lacking. I'd give it a "7".

Made this today:

1" thick pineapple slice. Rim removed. Leave the core in.
1 orange
1 apple(Fiji?)
1 frozen banana
Ice cubes - 6.

This one was MUCH better. The addition of the apple helped a lot. Also less ice cubes made the taste less diluted. I'll give this a 9 or a 10.

Delicious.

Sorbet.... Crappy lighting for the phone camera. That thing looks nicer.

"Drinkable" green juice

1 large tomato
Slice onion
1 garlic
half large carrot
small piece ginseng
3 celery sticks
half handful spinach - don't over do.
flat leaf parsley - makes all the difference.
half lime, the other half to squeeze fresh into the cup to taste.

No salt or spices.

Made this last night. Had it on the sandwich today.

Homemade "spiced up" mayonnaise



2 raw eggs
2 tablespoons whole grain dijon mustard
Extra virgin olive oil (oh the horror!)
Juice of 1 lemon
1 clove garlic
salt
a pinch red paper flakes

Break two eggs into the blender container, and add the mustard. Turn the blender on slow and raise to speed to about 4 for a few seconds just to break the eggs and mix it with the mustard.

Ready with the oil bottle in your hand, turn the blender on, turn the speed to 10, then to High. Start drizzling the oil in a thin stream slowly into the blender, then increase the flow a little. Continue until you have about 2 cups of mayo in the blender. Switch off.

Add the rest of the ingredients, turn to High for about 20-30 seconds.

Done.

Keep in the fridge for up to two weeks.

Don't worry about the raw eggs, the lemon "cooks" them. If you're afraid of raw eggs, find pasteurized eggs. You can also make mayo with hard boiled eggs. Use only the yolks of 3 eggs in that case. Don't know how it works with the blender though. I used to make mayo with hard boiled yolks with a fork when I was in third grade... to eat with our fried shrimps...

Fruit smoothies time....

Recipe 1:

1 orange, peeled, quartered.
1 glass (regular mug size, 12 oz) of frozen fruit mix [strawberries, pineapple, peach, grapes, mango] (this one. I buy the 6lbs bag from BJ's/Costco type store http://www.dole.com/EatRightLanding/...contentid=1382)
1 frozen banana
1/3 cup frozen blackberries (or frozen blackberry pulped/puree)
1 small handful (1/3 measuring cup) raisins
1/4 cup hazelnut (you can replace with any type of nuts you have)
1 cup cold water (if you omit the water, you will make a nice sorbet.)

Load the mixing container in this order and blend on high for 30 seconds until everything is very smooth. Done.





Yum.

Recipe 2. Variation on the above.

2 oranges
1 lime, halved and squeezed into the container, juice only.
1 glass (12oz) frozen Dole fruit mix
1 frozen banana
1/3 cup raisins
1 tablespoon flax seeds (Omega 3)
1 cup cold water

Add to the container in the above order and mix on high for 30 seconds.

This one will blow your mind with its flavor.

It will go well with added liquor... It just has that flavor.

These two recipes make about 0.8 liters of drink.