 towards me more more more more oh my gosh it's so heavy yep that's 1.5 gallons of salsa made in the Vitamix XL an industrial strength blender with an engine that's big enough to power a riding lawnmower and we made it on a recent trip to Vitamix headquarters so come along with us as Shalva and Chef Matt have a live demonstration of Vitamix salsa for you and thanks for watching. Alright Shalva, last thing I wanted to show you today was the largest batch of salsa you've ever made. Yes. It's using our XL blender so quite possibly the world's largest blender we don't know we have to fact check that but it looks like the biggest blender I've ever seen. A gallon and a half I'll tell you what it's a it's a beast so I'm gonna let you do the work though today so normally I'm doing the work I'm taking the afternoon off you're doing the work I'll be there to assist though okay good so a huge motor to power a huge container to make some awesome salsa. Who would use a blender this big? Yeah so it's it's really designed. Family of 100? It could be definitely but you know larger institutions hospitals you know community care centers okay things like that commissary kitchens where they need to make large batches and maybe then disperse it out to their restaurants or whatnot but for us it works really good when we've got smoothie toasts for a thousand employees here we do. I think the last time we did 56 blends in this to fill all of our smoothie bottles we needed for everybody so yeah definitely it fits on tight cuz you got a lot of work going in there. Alright let's see if my gym work has skipped the gym for the last five years so it's kind of hard to get that right okay gallon and a half so it makes 24 solid cups it's a pretty easy recipe okay we've got tomatoes you've got some cilantro some jalapeno you've got some limes that have been peeled so really a nice whole food style salsa I'm gonna help you with this because normally I splattered this all over myself and I'm not gonna have you splattered over yourself or you splattered over me so we're gonna load this is 12 pounds of tomatoes and I see that they're not fresh tomatoes so tell me why you yeah so so think this is one of our commercial recipes so think you know more institutionally available we've gotten some more lower sodium style peeled tomatoes but it's something you're gonna get from like if you go out to a Mexican restaurant okay you know so always see those cans on the shelf at restaurants exactly and they're delivered to your door typically for the restaurant and stuff like that so it makes it super easy that in the consistency the color the taste comes through in a really nice peeled tomato so obviously there's alternatives out there that you can do but this is what does it for the gallon and a half recipe so you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take this over to the sink how about that now you're thinking I didn't raise no fool just one splash just one little splash not bad and now the rest is up to you so you've got three bunches of cilantro okay I've got an ingredient that I need to grab all right a couple of limes there that have been peeled naked limes for limes we like to use it instead of instead of lime juice it gives a really nice lime flavor obviously because you're using peeled them you can throw the whole thing exactly right we keep the seeds in we keep the seeds we like it spicy here depends on the type of season these were actually calls for six jalapenos these were super large so I backed it off the four okay you got two red onions that have just been peeled and halved oh it already smells like salsa just the ingredients starting to look like salsa I mean think of this for your Bloody Mary right yum Bloody Mary's for the neighbors for like the whole everyone we know right we're gonna add one more can of those tomatoes we just drained most of the juice off of it okay so it's the same and you're doing that on top we're doing we're pulsing or exactly so we start with the most liquid ingredients on the bottom okay it'll pull the things all the way down and into it and we can variable pulse with this machine which is nice you've got a touch of salt here optional if you want to add it or not you want me to do the whole thing yeah why not feels like this it seems sinister to add this much salt but at the end of the day you have to realize you're doing a gallon and a half right okay the sheer quantity of it works out to like less than a quarter teaspoon that not even eighth of a teaspoon per servant that's fair so yeah the top goes on nice and tight hey that's pretty good yeah right now try and lift we got it we got it don't put the top on too tight okay I was gonna pretend like it was heavy but it's so heavy no it's heavy that's like 40 that's like your morning workout right do 40 of those is it my two-year-old or my four-year-old that's okay I think it's the two-year-old 24 pounds right there right okay so now this machine is pretty simple to use it's a lot of the same features that you sort of see in the household versions of our machines you've got a start and stop you've got a variable speed dial and then a pulse so you know if I'm pulsing on one it's gonna be super low okay for this we'll probably throw it up to seven or eight you weren't here switch sides with me I've never pulsed a seven or eight before it never feels wrong all right well just the test kitchen tells me it's right yeah no you're good pulse it or seven or eight because with this machine it runs a little slower okay you pulse a little bit longer you want me to see those ingredients this has it's like a horse more I would do five or six more times I feel like I'm driving race car it's like a small lawnmower engine you got back here right so now let's you're right it is heavy it's so heavy so now what you end up with is a gallon and a half of salsa I can't believe that it mixed all the way to the top I was skeptical small the fresh cilantro the lime definitely the red onion yeah I mean when you got this much salsa you need this much chips you know you're gonna have a good you got some good Tara chips some nice corn tortilla chips there to I don't know yeah I do want to try it I'm interested to see whether or not you think it's is it Cleveland spicy enough because I'm Minnesota spicy so okay in Minnesota ketchup is spicy oh it's so good not that spicy right that's spicy you see six or four giant jalapenos William right it's delicious should I double dip depends if you want to take a gallon at home with you hey this is my suitcase now at this point you think the interview the demonstration is done well I had to pipe in with a question that I can't believe I didn't know the answer to it was why makes salsa in a blender when you can just do it in a food processor and it has to do with control over the consistency precise textures yeah in a sense really what you're doing is you're talking about versatility in a blender you know you're turning your blender into a food processor to process all of these ingredients and because you've got the ability to do variable pulse you can get the texture that you want if we wanted something that was completely smooth it's like a Mexican restaurant you know you go to one and you get a completely smooth salsa you go to another and you get chunky it's all about your preference and with with the blenders the way that they're set up you're able to get what you want out of it as well as a bunch of other different pieces of equipment one speed yep on off you have a lot more control over the consistency yeah yeah I mean you started and stopped that exactly when you wanted to right and take the lid off and take a look at it at any time and stop it to where you want and I think with with our recipe you know adjust the consistency to you know to your liking right is really what we we end up calling it because everyone's a little different and finally as was the plan all along what do we do with a gallon and a half of salsa we're gonna bring it around the office and make some people's day as a sort of gesture of gratitude for the hard work that they do for Vitamix as a company for the community and for everyone for the world sounds like hyperbole but we're all really grateful and like salsa okay thanks see you in the next one guys someone's gonna get like a machine with salsa stains yeah