Seconding the stick blender love.
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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I love my stick blender, but I don't think they last as long as regular blenders do - I have to replace mine about every two years.
What happens to them that they need replacing?
They just burn out and stop working.
I'm ready for my stick blender to die so I can get a more powerful one! I love what it does but it takes so long to do it. Still it's much easier than blending soups in the blender. The blender I mostly use for smoothies.
I cook so little now that I think my kitchen appliances will last forever. I need to start cooking more.
mac is giving up donuts for lent. he's adorable. He asked me what I am doing for lent so I better have an answer for him tonight. Daily exercise would probably be the best thing for me to add.
So here's a question: has Lent become more of a thing in the larger culture in recent decades than it used to be? I have always heard about it, but I grew up in a Catholic community with a Catholic family. My mother was saying that she was in a pre-Lent session at her (Baptist) church and most of the people in the group were saying they didn't really know what Lent was and/or had never heard about it growing up.
I grew up Catholic in a Catholic neighborhood, so I don't know.
They just burn out and stop working.
Rats, my stick blender is definitely not at that point.
It was totally a Catholic thing when I was growing up. We all commiserated with our Catholic friends for their chocolate or whathaveyou deprivation.
Wait, that's the giving up things for Lent. Other branches of Xtnity certainly recognize it, but not in that sense.
Jesse, I think so. I never remember doing anything with lent, and not being aware of it until college (I had never seen ashes on foreheads), but my Methodist church does ashes now and we have a special Ash Wednesday meal (less food, less meat). The Reformed Church I attended in NY did a whole series on lent each year and also did ashes.