What’s with all the high-tech solutions? Have we become so dependent on electronic gadgetry and no-work solutions? Have we no patience for doing a job right?! Bah!
Measure out two piles of the powder. Using a pair of tweezers, take one grain from the first pile and set it in the mixing bowl. Take a grain from the second pile and add it to the first. Repeat until things are thoroughly mixed.
When I make cookies, I blend the flour, baking soda, and cinnamon using a hand-operated whisk. Doesn’t take much effort. Maybe you’re overestimating the need for a powered device.
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No, you’re never going to be able to use kitchen power tools to blend powders without spraying them on the ceiling.
Seriously, I was going to say a whisk. I blend powders of various sorts for cooking & baking all the time. Just put them in a stainless steel bowl & use an appropriately-sized whisk to blend them. For small quantities you want a small whisk & a small bowl. The ingredients should be ~25% of bowl capacity. Too big a bowl & they don’t mix well; too small a bowl & they escape.
*If *what you’re trying to do is blend your two 150g powders to get 300g of mix and then separate them into much smaller (say 10g) doses while ensuring each dose is very close to 50/50, well that’s a different problem. If you need a high degree of uniforimty in small doses you’re getting into the realm of pharmaceutical manufacture, and homemade mixing techniques arent’ gonna cut it.
But if each dose is OK as long as it’s between, say 60/40 & 40/60, then a bowl & whisk will dofine.
Ooooh! I take back my previous post–sometimes the high-tech solution is awesome!
Your link didn’t work for me, but I think that is what I was trying to describe. I didn’t mention the pipes were very short compared to their diameters.
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Ask a cocaine supplier.
I thought about that but perfect uniformity is not required.
The flour (plus baking powder and other dry, powdery ingredients) is added last, to a creamed butter/sugar mixture plus eggs.
If all you are worried about is stuff going everywhere, why not use something with a lid? Food processor, blender, etc?
Also, wouldn’t using a solvent and then evaporating it out leave you with a solid block rather than a powder?
Well, assuming you want the mixture to be a powder as well, then I suppose that might be a problem. But surely you can just repulverize the block with a mortar and pestle.
Come to think of it, wouldn’t the nature of the evaporate depend on the substances in question, and possibly on the process of evaporation? I imagine there might be some substances which are not particularly cohesive, and so would evaporate back into a powder rather than a solid block. And even for those substances which are cohesive, perhaps mechanically agitating the solution during evaporation could prevent it from clumping.
This is a really good question. Myself, I have gone from a vegan protein powder diet to elemental amino acid only diet. I buy all the aminos in capsules so I can be sure of how much I’m getting of each but buying them in bulk costs a fraction of this. To buy them in bulk and put it all together into a convenient mixed form makes it easy to just spoon it into a cup, add water or juice and drink, rather than measuring it all out gram by gram, twice a day ect.
So how do you blend them into a perfectly homogenous powder? Industry uses a conical screw blender but this is not sold in a little countertop model. Using a blender will blow amino dusk all over the place. A wisk won’t do it. Shaking and rolling it around in a zip lock seems like it would work but not absolutely perfect.
I’m wondering about grain size, larger particles go to the top and resists homogenation if thats a word . I’m also wondering about magnetic charge. I’m wondering if the aminos themselves get damaged by cleaving.
My thoughts so far are, a blender, slowed down with a power regulator (i forget what these are called but model railroad sets use this). then keeping the power down to slow the blade down, shaking the whole blender in my hands, once in awhile.
Any additional suggestions are greatly appreciated.
putting it in a solution begins the spoiling process, so it won’t work for large batches.
Mortar and pestle is for small daily batches. It won’t work for 5 pounds of it ect.
Model railroad transformers dump a lower voltage on to the tracks to supply a motor that is designed to run on varying voltages. Not many kitchen appliances are designed for say 1/2 voltage.
Would mixing your powders in a jar with a tight lid and then slowly rolling it across the floor/counter several times get the proper mix? My daughter likes cinnamon sugar on her rice and this is how I mix it up for her. Like industry uses a horizontal drum to mix cement.
2 kilos total of 15 different aminos is going to need really though mixing.
It’s true, blenders are not made to run on reduced voltage but can it be done? You just find the right voltage to get the blades turning fast enough to create a slow whirlpool of powder. This seems to me to be the best mixing you can get. Yes?
Why does it have to be perfectly mixed? If you have the desired quantities of two or more powders and the plan is to eventually consume all of it, what does it matter if day 1 mix has a tad more of powder 1 and day 2 has a skosh more of powder 2? Will it blow up or poison you if the mix is not exactly right?
Just put the desired amounts in a container, give it a quick shake or 2 and stop over thinking.
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I suddely realised blenders already have a variable speed on them lol. So would the lowest speed on a cheapo model turn slow enough to avoid powder flying out?
Then, I was looking searching just now I found there actually is a countertop model powder blender. It’s called a VH blender and they are for pharma jobs, so perfect.
Cheapest one on Ebay is 560 bucks. i found a Swedish site, written in Russian that has them for 400 bucks.
https://coomeal.se/product/32918523382/vh-2-2l-v-.html
Finally, I want to say, it could be these old school help sites are obsolete. Googling for info seems to work better…
