Comments on: Choosing The Best Blender For Making Smoothies http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/blender-guide/best-blender-for-making-smoothies/ Green Smoothie Recipes & Info for Incredible Health Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:49:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: blue http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/blender-guide/best-blender-for-making-smoothies/comment-page-1/#comment-4342 blue Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:23:47 +0000 http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/?p=179#comment-4342 I don't know how old you guys are, but I'm in my early thirties and even I remember when places used paper straws! That's what they used everywhere before plastic. So you certainly can make them, and they are still being manufactured and used today. I don't know if it's easy to find them retail, but I easily found a manufacturer who interested parties might contact for more info (I'm linking to the history page so you can see people have used paper straws for over a century). http://aardvarkstraws.com/history.php Thanks for your website's info. Though I wish I could, I can't afford any of the blenders you recommend, so I'm going with the Kitchenaid KSB 560, which is a high-ticket item for me. I don’t know how old you guys are, but I’m in my early thirties and even I remember when places used paper straws! That’s what they used everywhere before plastic. So you certainly can make them, and they are still being manufactured and used today. I don’t know if it’s easy to find them retail, but I easily found a manufacturer who interested parties might contact for more info (I’m linking to the history page so you can see people have used paper straws for over a century).
http://aardvarkstraws.com/history.php
Thanks for your website’s info. Though I wish I could, I can’t afford any of the blenders you recommend, so I’m going with the Kitchenaid KSB 560, which is a high-ticket item for me.

]]> By: Davy Russell http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/blender-guide/best-blender-for-making-smoothies/comment-page-1/#comment-2405 Davy Russell Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:05:00 +0000 http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/?p=179#comment-2405 Hi Rich, Re. #1: You can't really make a paper straw. Even a BPA-free plastic straw will still have other chemicals from the plastic, although it remains to be seen if these chemicals in plastic are really that much of a threat, especially when it comes to straws. For me, glass straws are an environmental purchase and as far as I am concerned, they are the only way to go. Re. #2: I don't know of any high-end blender manufacturers who are using glass pitchers with their blenders. There might be an engineering reason behind it, I don't know. Perhaps the vibrations caused by a blender motor that cranks out 1500-2000 or more watts of power is too much for glass? I don't know. Both Vita-Mix and Blendtec make BPA-free plastic pitchers. I don't worry about plastic pitchers in blenders because a 30-second blend cycle isn't going be contaminated from the plastic. Plastic containers is mainly an issue when you cook (microwave) with them or use them to store food in. Hi Rich,

Re. #1: You can’t really make a paper straw. Even a BPA-free plastic straw will still have other chemicals from the plastic, although it remains to be seen if these chemicals in plastic are really that much of a threat, especially when it comes to straws. For me, glass straws are an environmental purchase and as far as I am concerned, they are the only way to go.

Re. #2: I don’t know of any high-end blender manufacturers who are using glass pitchers with their blenders. There might be an engineering reason behind it, I don’t know. Perhaps the vibrations caused by a blender motor that cranks out 1500-2000 or more watts of power is too much for glass? I don’t know. Both Vita-Mix and Blendtec make BPA-free plastic pitchers. I don’t worry about plastic pitchers in blenders because a 30-second blend cycle isn’t going be contaminated from the plastic. Plastic containers is mainly an issue when you cook (microwave) with them or use them to store food in.

]]> By: rich b http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/blender-guide/best-blender-for-making-smoothies/comment-page-1/#comment-2384 rich b Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:11:42 +0000 http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/?p=179#comment-2384 1. great tips on your site -- i was web surfing and found you: i am concerned with plastic straw's chemical migration into liquids that run thru it. I may get a glass straw -- but are there companies that make non-bleached non-chemical treated paper straws, like some make all-natural non-bleached tea-bags and coffee filters? 2. what are the top two blenders that use GLASS containers? Seems like someone aught to make and market thick durable glass containers for use with blendtec &/or vitamix! rich in st louis, mo 1. great tips on your site — i was web surfing and found you: i am concerned with plastic straw’s chemical migration into liquids that run thru it. I may get a glass straw — but are there companies that make non-bleached non-chemical treated paper straws, like some make all-natural non-bleached tea-bags and coffee filters?
2. what are the top two blenders that use GLASS containers? Seems like someone aught to make and market thick durable glass containers for use with blendtec &/or vitamix!

rich in st louis, mo

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