The "Speed" Key can turn the Blendtec Total Blender into the ultimate grinding and milling machine. You can grind the hardest of whole wheat into a fine flour in under 50 seconds. It will also grind to a cracked flour consistency or stone ground flour consistency.

Yes, the Blendtec Total Blender will make wonderful "whole" juice containing all of the rich fiber of your fruit. If you use a fruit with a low water content, then you may need to add an additional fruit with a high water content or add additional liquid or ice to obtain the proper consistency of drinkable juice. Use the Speed Key at level 5 or 6 when making "whole" fruit juice if you desire a very fine and smooth texture to your "whole" juice.

Yes, the Blendtec Total Blender is the only Smoothie machine of its kind that can handle frozen fruit.

Yes, the Blendtec Total Blender makes wonderful soft serve ice cream. Any Smoothie recipe can be quickly turned into a regular ice cream ice cream by adding cream (raw), with extra ice to the regular smoothies recipe. Many recipes available in the book. Buttons 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the touch pad are pre-programmed cycles designed for easy-to-use recipes included in your recipe book. The cycles will start with the press of a button and will stop automatically when the cycle is complete.

Both Blenders are almost exactly the same, except for the warranty. The warranty on the Blendtec is only 1 year. The Blendtec Total Blender has an 8 year warranty.

The "Speed" Key can turn the Champ into the ultimate grinding and milling machine. You can grind the hardest of whole wheat into a fine flour in under 50 seconds. It will also grind to a cracked flour consistency or stone ground flour consistency.

A whole host of other grains can be used to make flour including barley, buckwheat, maize (corn), gram, oats, rye, sorghum, soya and spelt.

We think so, because it has a better warranty, more horsepower, and overall is a better product. Visit our blender comparison chart for more detailed information. Click here.

Yes. The Blendtec Total Blender is not a juice extractor, so you may need to add liquid or ice to reach the consistency you desire.

Yes, the Blendtec Total Blender that we sell is brand new and comes with an 8 year factory warranty. We NEVER sell any "used" or "refurbished" blenders.

Both Blenders are almost exactly the same, except for the warranty. The warranty on the Blendtec is only 1 year. The K-TEC has an 8 year warranty.

Place one or more cups of Quick or Old Fashioned Quaker Oats into a food processor or blender. Process for 1 minute, or until the oats are the consistency of cornmeal or a course flour. Store unused (dry) oat flour in a covered container as you would wheat flour.

Yes. Always process in small batches and pulse on and off (limiting run time) until the mixture is at its desired texture. Helpful Hint: Stop and stir ingredients often while blender is turned off.

The acne medications used in AcneRecovery can cause side effects like that. But, those symptoms are generally dose-dependent. That means that they higher the concentration of the medication, the more likely it is to cause the side effect. Because AcneRecovery is adjustable, you are able to decrease the concentration of the dose you are using.

No. The product works to keep the natural flora in place while maintaining the good bacteria and controlling the growth and spreading of unwanted bacteria.

Stone-ground flour and meal contain parts or most of whole grains and no preservatives. The germ is naturally oily and will cause the flour to turn rancid. The bran is a light, airy material which will absorb moisture easily, thus reducing the keeping quality in the flour and meal. A cool, dry place, such as a refrigerator or freezer, will add to the shelf life.

There are some advantages for the use of dry kefir-grains, as apposed to fresh culture. But firstly I would like to mention that waste is in the eye of the beholder. Milk strained from the first few batches during reconstitution of dry milk kefir-grains, is discarded, which may be seen as a waste of good milk. However, the milk is not wasted, for it responsible to awakened and sustain life of billions of organisms found dormant in the dry kefir-grains.

Cassava flour is commonly used as thickening agent in making gravy, and as natural glue. Asians prefer to make desserts and savoury dishes with fresh cassava roots, or tapioca seeds. We have an Asian cookie made with cassava flour, or more widely known as tapioca flour. You can also try more different tapioca/cassava recipes.

Look out for durum wheat flour in your supermarket or specialist grocer. This is the flour you should use to make homemade pasta.

Add spicy or warm foods such as scallions, ginger, etc. For some of the Spleen Deficiency conditions, a little sweetener is fine. However, honey is contraindicated if you have diarrhea.

Check a food's fibre content on the Nutrition Facts panel. Pick a food that contains two or more grams of "Fibre." There are some excellent heart health resources available on the web ? follow a few of these links to learn more:

A whole grain is the entire edible part of any grain: wheat, corn, oats and rice, among others. It includes all three parts of the grain kernel: the bran, germ and endosperm. The bran is the fibre-rich outer shell, the endosperm is the middle layer and the germ is the nutrient-packed inner layer.

All-purpose flour is made from a blend of high-gluten hard wheat and low-gluten soft wheat and contains 10-11% protein. It is used for a wide variety of recipes, from breads to cookies and cakes. All-purpose flour comes in 2 basic forms: Bleached and unbleached, which can be used interchangeably. Cake or pastry flour is fine-textured soft wheat flour with a high starch content. It makes very tender cakes and pastry.

You can of course dry your face with a towel, or better still just pat it dry. However for really terrific results, while your face is still wet, apply just 1 drop of Total Shaving Solution™ to your wet skin and massage in gently. You will notice how the natural oils penetrate your skin leaving it unbelievably smooth and protected for hours.

A blender is a device almost entirely for the purpose of turning foodstuffs to liquid. It is used mainly to make soups and other liquid foods, but can also be used to crush ice, when crushing ice add 15ml (1 tbsp) water to 6 ice cubes and operate the blender in short bursts. If supplied with a mill this is to grind coffee beans and spices. & Back To Top

A.--A lot of companies will extract the glycerin at a certain stage of the soapmaking process. It is then sold separately or added to other products. They are left with a "soap" that is something akin to detergent. As if that isn't enough, a lot of them will even add harsh additives and fillers. This is usually covered up with heavy perfumes and dyes. Some of the "soaps" selling out there aren't even real soaps. They are usually called beauty bars or something to that effect.

The simple answer is no - you should not eat any whole grain wheat flour while on the Candida Diet. You can live a long healthy life without eating a single grain as they are not needed by the human body. Most recipes are designed around wheat flours so it may be difficult to convert them to the non-grain alternatives without doing some experimentation. One great source of recipes for the Candida Diet is the Yeast Connection Cookbook by William G Crook.

Dehydrated milk kefir-grains are usually yellow in colour. They are quite firm and almost crystalline in appearance. After reconstituting for 24 hours in either fresh milk or fresh water, some grains more than others, will become slightly white in colour. With daily milk change, from there on, the grains will become whiter in colour until they stabilize.

We recommend the Cooked flour to Diabetics, SCD. This version of flour has no simple sugar nor starch. We call this Simple carbohydrates. Our beans flour have only complex carbohydrates. When you consume our beans; due to lack of simple carbohydrates, there is no rise in blood sugar; thus you need less insulin to control blood sugar. A diet rich in beans or bean flour has help some diabetics to reduce or discontinue hypoglycemic drugs. You need your doctor's advice.