| My Near-Screwups |
| photos all by me, Jeff Opal. This page was created 28-AUG-2003 |
| For several years I was ambivalent about whether or not to spend around $20 or so buying a blender that I could use to mix powdered milk. I definitely needed a blender of some kind...my attempts to fully mix the powder with a spoon or other impliment always failed...leaving unmixed lumps afterwards. I didn't have any other use for a blender, and I wasn't drinking such milk often, so it seemed that I would only use such a blender once a month, or less. This whole time I owned a hand drill! Am I dumb? Well, about this "need" for a "blender", YES, because I already had one! About ten days ago I realized that all I had to do to make a great blender -- one sufficient for fully (lump-lessly) mixing powdered milk -- was to make a special "milk-mixing bit" out of a piece of coat hanger wire. The photo shows the "J"-shaped "milk-mixing bit". I made the bit simply by bending with my hands a 6-inch piece of coat hanger wire. A pitcher of fully mixed (lumpless!) powdered milk and water is visible in the background, behind the hand drill. I mixed that pitcher-full around 20 seconds before taking this photo. |