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Are micro-organisms killed in a blender?

I'm not thinking sanitation here, just the opposite -- beneficial organisms, namely the bacteria in kefir that aid digestion. If I add kefir to my smoothies and blend at high speed, are the blades going to chop up my little friends? 😕
 
Originally posted by: Muse
I'm not thinking sanitation here, just the opposite -- beneficial organisms, namely the bacteria in kefir that aid digestion. If I add kefir to my smoothies and blend at high speed, are the blades going to chop up my little friends? 😕
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Do you have any idea how small bacteria really are?
 
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Originally posted by: Muse
I'm not thinking sanitation here, just the opposite -- beneficial organisms, namely the bacteria in kefir that aid digestion. If I add kefir to my smoothies and blend at high speed, are the blades going to chop up my little friends? 😕
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Your little friends are more little than the thickness of the blade at it's sharpest point. 😉
 
:laugh:

Btw, bacteria are 3D, they're just incredibly small...as far as I know, we live in a three dimensional world in terms of physicality, with time as the 4th dimension
 
Originally posted by: Barfo
If the blender's blades are so thins as to be two dimensional.
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If the blender's blades are so thin as to be two dimensional, will they actually blend anything?
 
If the contents spin fast enough, then is it possible for a bacterium to disintegrate? e.g. In an industrial strength centrifuge? (Yes, I know a kitchen blender isn't that powerful, but hypothetically.)

 
Greetings ATOTers. Whoa! No, no! No applause. Every time you clap your hands you kill thousands of spores that'll some day form a nutritious fungus. If you approve this thread, just show your approval with a mold-friendly thumbs up!
 
Originally posted by: syrillus
Greetings ATOTers. Whoa! No, no! No applause. Every time you clap your hands you kill thousands of spores that'll some day form a nutritious fungus. If you approve this thread, just show your approval with a mold-friendly thumbs up!
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:laugh:

KT
 
Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82
Only in the Blendtec Total Blender
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Uh, mine's an Osterizer Counterforms with a 600 watt motor. Honestly, since I got this idea I started adding my kefir last and finishing up at the relatively weak medium speed. If it's really not doing the organisms damage, I can go back to adding the kefir first.
 
In other news, Korean fans are so incredibly sharp that they can hack up oxygen atoms and kill you while you sleep.


 
OP, in the lab bacteria are routinely spun down to the bottom of the centrifuge tube at 18,000 g or more, and then re-grown. You're not going to kill the little buggers in a blender.
 
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