"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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>> tbh its easier just to get the dh to do that part... if i were single
>> i would just not eat it,... have i mentioned i am a mechanical
>> killer> dh had a stick blender, for like ten years... when i finally
>> worked up my nerve to ask him to show me how to use it for hot
>> cocoa... i broke it first time out while he was standing there
>> watching me... i did exactly as he instructed, things like that don't
>> love me, Lee
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> I think I am on my 3rd or 4th stick blender. They don't seem to last
> very long here and I don't use them often either! One problem I have
> is that all of the ones I have bought say not to use in hot liquids.
> And yet that is usually what I use them for. I think it burns the
> motor out.

More likely to melt the plastic as the motors isn't near the blades but
I have used mine in hot liquids for years. I don't sit the blender in
the liquid, I keep moving it and its only for a few seconds anyway.