Your Blendtec® is more than a blender—it serves a number of other applications in the kitchen, including:

• Blending
This basic function can be used to make smoothies, blend batters, whip cream, emulsify salad dressings, and mix drinks. For basic blending, select desired speed and run until preferred consistency is reached.

• Wet Grinding
Your blender acts as a wet grinder when grinding foods that contain moisture, such as soaked grains and raw meat. Use pulse to grind to desired consistency.Be sure to clean your blender thoroughly after grind-ing raw meat to avoid cross-contamination.

• Dry Grinding
Crack or grind legumes or whole grains for use in hot cereals, baked good, and breads. To grind grains, pulse to the desired degree of fineness or use the manual speed controls, blending longer for finer grains.Dry grinding is also used to make bread crumbs or crush graham crackers. pulse until desired consistency is reached.

• Whole Food
JuicingWhole food juice delivers all the health benefits of both the juice and the fiber found in the fruit or vegetable. To create whole juices, blend on “hi” for 50 seconds.• Wet Chopping This is a convenient and easy way of chopping by using water to circulate the ingredients in the jar. After straining, use the leftover liquid for smoothies, sauces, and soups. For wet chopping, pulse 8–12 times or until desired consistency is reached.

• Dry Chopping
Your Blendtec blender can chop nuts, hard cheeses, coconut, and other hard ingredients easily, quickly, and with less mess to clean up. When dry chopping, use the pulse feature or blend on “med.” For best results, chop ingredients in smaller batches.• Making Frozen TreatsYour Blendtec can make ice cream, sorbet, frozen yogurt, and more. For frozen recipes, blend on “lo” for 15 seconds, then blend on “hi” for 50 seconds.

• Kneading
You can use the same jar used to grind grains to trans-form your flour and wet ingredients into bread dough. The blade incorporates the wet and dry ingredients, then kneads the dough until a ball forms that is ready to rise and bake. When kneading dough, use pulse.