A few months ago my husband gave me a new red Vitamix to match many of my other small kitchen appliances. It had a shorter canister but was otherwise similar to the older black machine I'd been using for years. First use was to make a breakfast smoothie with frozen fruit, yogurt, protein powder, etc. Put everything in the machine and turned it on; it sounded like a machine gun going off. I thought the frozen strawberries must be especially hard that morning, or there was something different about the new machine, and persisted trying to get the mixture to blend. When my husband came to check out the noise, we removed the lid and discovered that I had left a long-handled measuring spoon used for the protein powder in the canister. The spoon was mangled and the canister inside was marred, otherwise everything was fine. Not really a baking disaster, but definitely a DUH moment in the kitchen! Thanks to you and to your other readers for sharing their stories - it helps me see that I'm not the only one who has them.

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