The Great Explosion of 2008

Smoothie explosion. Hit the ceiling and got into the blender motor vents. Now THAT'S talent!

I want a pure strawberry smoothie.

A sweet one.

Whole milk, vanilla ice cream (premium), Cool Whip, frozen strawberries, ice (maybe a cup of crushed ice), vanilla extract and almond extract.

Play around with the amounts until it suits you.

Delicious!!

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lost

It couldn't hurt!

How are you today lost? :hug:

when you try it! Hope you enjoy. :hi:

That's a whole afternoon of thorough cleaning. :(

I hope you at least got a really good smoothie out of it. :hug:

Not only did it explode, but the bottom part including the blade fell out of the bottom and dumped on the counter when I lifted the container from the base. So I only got about a coffee cup full of delicious smoothie.

It's all cleaned up, except for the blender base, which I will do later with a Q-Tip or something.

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I bet you'll remember to check to make sure all the parts are properly screwed together before you use that blender again. :)

My worst kitchen accident was the time I used a Pyrex bowl on the stovetop for some stupid reason, and it exploded! Bits of glass and soup went absolutely Everywhere! I had to baricade the cats out of the kitchen so I could clean it up. :P

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Yikes...I can imagine that Pyrex glass exploding! That's nasty when shards of glass fly everywhere.

Actually, my worst kitchen disaster was when I was a kid and my mom was out. My friend and I used to make smoke bombs by cooking a mixture of Potassium Nitrate (Salt Peter) and sugar. I seem to remember that we got the recipe from Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This book".

Anyway...this was some nasty stuff and really something a kid should not be fooling with. The finished product used to burn so hot that it would burn through tin foil in a matter of seconds.

Well, the damn thing literally exploded in my kitchen when I was cooking it and my old 13 room house filled up solid with smoke.

To this day i can't believe the fire department didn't show up.

I placed a distress call to my friend, and 5 minutes later I saw him sprinting up the street carrying two huge box fans! :rofl: :rofl:

My mom would have smelled even the smallest traces of smoke and that would have been the end. :rofl:

I'm glad that your mom was more forgiving than mine. :)

and there still was a smell of smoke in the house after she returned, but I somehow talked my way out of it.

I remember it was a different kind of smell...it was not like the remnants of a house fire, it was kind of a cleaner smell that dissapated relatively quickly.

I still can picture it...I was cooking it in a big stainless steel tub, my face was over it while I was stirring it. It started looking a little "funny", and it was bubbling too much, so I killed the gas, but it kept cooking and exploded like a volcano. Jesus...:scared:

Tempting fate by calling this event "THE Great Explosion" is asking for it.

You're right! :rofl:

I've had Pyrex cookware explode.

Oh, and a co-worker had a "smoothie" incident that resulted in surgery.

She stored her smoothie-maker pieces on a high shelf. As she reached for the blade pieces, it fell and landed on the top of her bare foot, severing a tendon (ligament?). She tried to hobble to the hospital but ended up calling her BF for help. She had 2 surgeries and a cast for several weeks.

Making smoothies is a dangerous business.

Be careful out there.

I am so sorry for your co-worker!

Funny you mention this...I was examining the blades to make sure they were clean today before I started and I lightly touched one. They are indeed brutally sharp and I could see how an accident like that could happen.

:P

A few years ago I held a large ceramic roasting dish with one hand. I decided it was a great idea to hold that dish right where there was a hairline crack. Well a turkey was in it. It broke in my hand and sliced my left pinkie to the point I had to get it stitched up.

My other accidents usually have occurred with knives when I was younger; the worst was when I sliced my ring finger with a dull serrated knife when peeling an orange at my aunt's house. :( It bled like hell and while it healed, the skin around the cut was sickeningly white and pale.

These stories about breaking dishes actually scare me.

I guess I am not always fully cognizant how bad accidents can happen with the simplest of household devices.

Glad you made it through all that OK! :)