Round and Round we go......

I was watching the Shopping Channel the other day and was fascinated by a machine that grinds frozen bananas. It made me want to eat a banana and I did, but I also ruminated on machines in the kitchen.

We know how to make things go round and we know how to make things get hot. Almost all kitchen aids are things that go round and get hot, or at least one of these. In fact, most things we buy that are mechanical go around and or get hot. A few things get cold, and maybe even get cold and go around.

The banana machine grinds frozen bananas and you could add chocolate and cinnamon and crap, but it just tore bananas apart. I realized I could do the same thing with a hand blender (goes around) or a regular blender (goes around) or a mixer (goes around). You could possibly do it with a fork and some pressure but it would be a lot of work.

The bread machine (which I no longer use as it’s fallen out of favor) goes around and gets hot. The convection oven gets hot and the fan part goes around. The air conditioning gets cold and goes around (the fan) and in the winter it is the furnace and it gets hot and goes around (the fan).

Digital stuff seems to actually do nothing I can perceive, so it doesn’t count. But mechanically, the toaster gets hot and it is amazing in that it goes up and down, not around. The toaster oven just gets hot unless you have a convection one and it also goes around (the fan).

The micro wave does some weird high tech thing but as it does that it goes around.

Record players used to go around as do CD and DVD players even though they do high tech stuff.

Pretty much things go around and get warm.

Nose hair clippers (personal shavers) go around. Electric toothbrushes go up and down while they spin around. Shavers go back and forth I guess, and don’t get hot or cold.

Food processers go around very fast and some of them get hot, the soup machine versions.

Coffee percolators and drip machines get hot. Sun tea makers don’t do anything as best as I can figure.

Espresso makers get hot.

Electric knives (perish the thought) move back and forth.

It’s all a pretty simple deal. All you have to do is invent something that does something that spins and gets hot and give it a good hype and you’ve got it made! Maybe the heated spinning bed would work! I could get rich on that one and probably a bit nauseous.