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·So before the days of the great plague, we used to enjoy going to get fruit smoothies. But when the world stopped, we found ourselves smoothieless. After the first week of lockdown we went to Target and bought a cheap plastic Oster blender for $30 and bags of frozen fruit and discovered the joys of actually making them ourselves.
But me being me, that cheap POS Oster had to go, so as things started to open back up, I swing by a thrift store and found this beauty
I took it home, cleaned it up and serviced the motor, took the blades off the cheap plastic Oster (thank you Oster for using the same parts for that) and enjoyed my 60’s made in America horse power.
But it’s a little quirky, it bounced ice cubes, it doesn’t really mix anything above the mid-line so you have to have at with with the handle of a wooden spoon- you know , the way most older things are…a series of compromises.
Today it took my wife about 5 minutes to make a Mango smoothie- she has had enough of this antique and wants a Vitamix. So I got to shopping online and saw this gem and showed it to her
Her response “NO, GODDAMMIT NO!
Ugh…sometimes we have to leave the old tech behind and move on
Oh well.
But me being me, that cheap POS Oster had to go, so as things started to open back up, I swing by a thrift store and found this beauty
I took it home, cleaned it up and serviced the motor, took the blades off the cheap plastic Oster (thank you Oster for using the same parts for that) and enjoyed my 60’s made in America horse power.
But it’s a little quirky, it bounced ice cubes, it doesn’t really mix anything above the mid-line so you have to have at with with the handle of a wooden spoon- you know , the way most older things are…a series of compromises.
Today it took my wife about 5 minutes to make a Mango smoothie- she has had enough of this antique and wants a Vitamix. So I got to shopping online and saw this gem and showed it to her
Her response “NO, GODDAMMIT NO!
Ugh…sometimes we have to leave the old tech behind and move on
Oh well.
