I HAVE A lovely ’70s-era blender at the cottage, the kind with a heavy glass pitcher and satisfyingly clicky buttons on the control panel, with awesome labels like “Chop,” “Liquefy,” “Whip,” and “Grate.”
As terrific as the blender looks, its performance degraded over the years as the blades became dull. There is a ton of online advice that suggests sharpening them by putting a mild abrasive in the blender. Rice, ice, eggshells, and rock salt are all routinely touted as working. This is nonsense—the reason blades get dull in the first place is from hitting the things they are blending.
I do a pretty decent job at sharpening blades. It’s a necessity in the workshop for keeping chisels performing well. Sharpening blender blades requires a lot less precision than sharpening a chisel,…
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Cottage Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2023