Oster™ kitchen blenders: am I the last person in the world to discover this trick?

[Richard Steele]

I just today discovered that the blade & seal assembly
fits perfectly on a 1-pint Mason jar, and can be used
to mix small batches of things. No need to wash a funnel
or the mixing bowl!

From Googling "Oster blender + pint jar", it looks like
everyone already knew that.

How come nobody ever TELLS me these things? :shrug:

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Me

I never knew that either

Does that apply only to Oster or to all blenders?

[Richard Steele]

4. From reading the comments at...

...Eleny's second link, below, it looks like different
brands of blender fit different jars. One woman
said she had to find an actual Mason™ brand jar for
her Cuisinart; another mentions that KitchenAid blenders
fit the larger wide-mouth jars & mayonaise jars.

[Richard Steele]

6. PS: please see important cautionary note below! nm

[eleny]

2. My very dumb question

Isn't the mason jar then upside down? How does this work - do you have to turn the blender upside down and then screw the jar on and off from underneath?

There's something I must be missing but it appears so according to this photo at this blog --> http://lifehacker.com/363496/use-mason-jars-for-quick-blending-with-less-cleanup

Edit! I see it now. The whole blade assembly comes off like when we clean it and that's how it's done. Boy am I schtupit! Photo instructons here ---> http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001357tip_blender_and_mason_jar.php

[Richard Steele]

7. Thanks for that link- the comments were very helpful! (and please see #5 below before trying this)nm

[supernova]

3. I dinna know that, cap'n!

[Richard Steele]

8. I feel better knowing I wasn't the only one. (and please see #5 below before trying this)nm

[Richard Steele]

5. Important cautionary note!

One of the comments on the thread that Eleny linked to
recommended filling your jar with water to test it before use,
because not every jar seals properly!

I'm glad I took that advice- turns out the necks on my small Ball™ jars
aren't QUITE long enough to seat the cutterhead against its gasket!
They have a rim that stops them just short of where they need to be.
That could have been REAL messy if I just filled it and started blending!


Looking around my stash of re-used supermarket jars, I found one that works just fine.
Same thread, but no rim at the bottom of the neck.
(No idea what it originally held- sorry)

I just turned my "whole rosemary" into "fine ground rosemary",
and it worked like a charm!

[eleny]

9. Thanks!!!

I'm definitely going to have at this. I've saved lots of different sized jars in my quest to avoid plastic. Being able to use a smaller container with the blender has it's benefits.

This has been a good past couple of days. First the Kitchen Aid attachment that scrapes the bowl and now this. :D

[Duer 157099]

10. I learned about it when

I saw those special jars they make, at a thrift store. Like these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/3-Oster-Kitchen-Center-Mini-Blender-Coffee-Grinder-Jars_W0QQitemZ260225986921QQihZ016QQcategoryZ20668QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I learn a good bit of what I know from browsing thrift stores and playing the "hmmm, I wonder what this is" game. Why, just today I found a long star-shaped tube, basically looked like an overgrown cookie cutter, and I had no clue what it was (really thick cookies?), but of course had to have it if only to figure it out. Turns out it's a bread mold for making canape breads -- never would have thought that.

I didn't even think about trying a regular mason jar with my blender.

[Mind_your_head]

11. 'Somebody' thought of EVERYTHING!

That's probably from back in the days when the US knew how to really MAKE things ....and made it logical, convenient, and economically reasonable for people to do/make things for themselves (slaps forehead).

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Why didn't I think of that when...

I have one of those Magic Bullets, with its own jar system, sitting right next to my Braun blender.

I suppose now I will be spending the next few days trying to fit mayonnaise, peanut butter, olive, whatever... jars to the Braun.

(And, what the hell, to the Magic Bullet, too.)

[Richard Steele]

13. I feel your pain, my friend!

If I had known 8 years ago that ordinary leftover jars
would thread onto my $60 blender, I could have saved the
hundred bucks (and 8 years of counter space) I spent on my precious
little special-purpose coffee grinders.