Pay Attention Always! Don't Take Chances.

Well, I did it.  I was making a batch of vegan chocolate pudding in the VitaMix.  It was pretty thick with pitted dates and needed tamping, so I took off the small clear cover and tamped it.  When I pulled out the tamper and licked the end (yes, I do that...) I thought Dear One would prefer the pudding a little sweeter since he is very much a sweets kind of guy, so...in I popped a few more dates and turned on the machine again.  They were not immediately leaving the side of the blender jar so I reached in with the tamper without thinking and barely nudged the dates into the mix.

Bad idea.  In a split second (or less!) the tamper was sucked into the vortex and then the blades and then...the end of the tamper.  Wah, wah, wah!  What a dodo bird to take that chance.  I did not even think, as I said.  Oh well.

Broken tamper!

Fortunately VitaMix had some more tampers to sell me.  The new one has arrived.  I will NOT be doing a funny thing again with the tamper. I will ALWAYS have the lid on the blender jar before inserting the tamper.

 Fortunately for us, we have a fairly fine sieve so I strained the pudding through it and removed the tiny pieces of plastic.  Dear One had no trouble swallowing down that pudding!

Lesson learned.  I hope.