Choosing the right size and shape of glass jars is essential to take your recipe to the next level.
Based on the stickiness and thickness of the ingredients you want to mix and their quantity, you should choose the shape and size of your jars.
The right size
In general, we advise you to choose a jar that you can fill to 80% of its capacity.
If you try to fill it more, and the food is very thick, this can cause the jar to open up during mixing.
BUT there are exceptions.
For example, if you want to make pesto or mix herbs with oil for dressings, you should fill the jar more than 80%. This is because herbs have a lot of volume, but once they are mixed, they lose it immediately. If you do not fill your jar properly by the time you blend the herbs, they will just stick to the walls of the jars or to the top.
The same goes for making nut butters. When the nuts are whole, they take up a lot of space in the jar, but as soon as they are blended into a cream, the contents of your jar will probably be halved.
On the other hand, if you take a large jar and only fill it to 20% of its capacity, the food may simply stick to the top wall or the side walls of the jar.
Moreover, in this latter case, you might risk overheating very quickly the blades of your re:Mix.
In fact, if the blades are left spinning "in the air" with no ingredients opposing resistance to it, they could end up showing burn marks in much less than 2 minutes.
If you blend a small quantity of food inside a jar and the ingredients spread to the walls, you won't be able to notice if the blades are spinning in the air or not unless you listen to the sound of your re:Mix.
When the blades spin "in the air", the sound of them spinning tends to be much higher-pitched and louder.
Therefore, you should never leave your re:Mix alone while blending, and you should always supervise your mixing.
Leaving your re:Mix turned on alone is to avoid in any case.
The right shape:
Flat-walls jars are perfect for sticky and thick foods.
For example:
Pesto
salad dressing
herbs
nut butter
Date paste
Hummus
Curved-walls jars can be used for anything else, such as:
Smoothies
Pancake batter
Grinding spices
iced coffee
delicious cream
Grinding coffee beans
Grinding oats into flour
