 The little cups, Vitamix's personal cups, the eight ounce and the 20 ounce, they're great. I'll tell you what they're good for in a second, but first, you have to understand their limitations. One, they're sealed. So you can't make the super thick blends, like ice cream, most nut butters, really, really, really thick smoothies, especially for smoothie bowls, that would require help with a tamper. Also, because they're sealed, you can't make hot soups, turmeric lattes. There's nowhere for the steam to escape. The Vitamix senses that you're using a little cup and it will actually shut itself off after a minute to prevent overheating and kind of exploding. Limitation two, the eight and the 20 ounce, they have an itty bitty blade, which means you can't put giant frozen strawberries, for example, and expect it to do anything, but just kind of spin underneath said frozen fruit. Last limitation is these are small by nature. You know this, eight and 20 ounces. There's some reduction. Smoothies are really only like 16 ounces with the 20. And so by comparison, if you're someone who likes giant smoothies, this only makes about half of a 32 ounce mason jar. Having said all that, here's how to get most out of 20 ounce and an eight ounce cup. Small, not super thick smoothies. Protein shakes generally were great little smoothies. Take them to go, take them to work. The walls on the container are double insulated, so it'll stay cool. Take them to the airport if you're picking someone up. I brought a green juice to Shava picking her up from a long overseas trip and it was like she was so, it just made her day. I mean, she was happier to see fresh green juice than she was to see me. And then these are also great to make with and give to kids. We had a streak of like two weeks of making different kinds of protein shakes with our little guy as actually, I think, an incentive or a bribe to not get out of bed too early. If he stayed until his okay to wake clock turned green, we can make a protein shake in the morning. The perfect size for kids and the lids are made so it's, you know, if it's on, it's not gonna spill. You can definitely make our Frappuccino recipe in the 20 ounce. These little cups are really great for dressings. Dressings just for tonight, really good ones. We make a bright blue vinaigrette. It's like blueberries and it's wonderful. Our seizure dressing, our ranch dressing. There's about a million more dressings on the Vitamix website that are really good in this personal container. What's great is you can experiment. If it's something that you don't really like, you're not gonna waste a lot. By the way, we'll put links to all these recipes that we mentioned in the description. So if you click the description, open it up and you'll see links to the things that we're talking about. The third thing to get the most out of the eight and the 20 ounce Vitamix sauces. Like dressings, sauces make the meal. Our Thai peanut sauce we make with spring rolls, but you can also just put it on noodles for like Thai peanut noodle deliciousness. Chimichurri, best sauce ever. We have a Hollandaise sauce we make. Again, a gazillion on the Vitamix website or formatted for these little containers. Also good to know, and this comes from Shalva. She said the containers, especially the eight ounce, is pretty enough to serve, like right on the table. So you make our peanut sauce and just plop it right on the table and you don't have to do another dish. They're also good for like tiny blitzes. So for example, we make a split pea soup and on top of it we put these smokehouse almonds to give it kind of like a smoky flavor, a little crunch, but they're best in little tiny pieces. So you drop in a handful of these almonds and just run the little eight ounce container for 10 seconds and you get soup topping. Also, chopping garlic and chopping onions. These containers are dishwasher safe. So if you throw them in the dishwasher, you should be good. I said before you can't really do frozen desserts, but you kinda can. We make banana and ice cream. We call it banana swirl. It's what Daniel Tiger calls it. Banana swirl. Really small batch of banana swirl. It's really hard to do. We've probably done it like 10 times and like six out of the 10 have been perfect. Perfect. Oh yeah, that I did it right. Banana swirl-y. No matter what, I mean, we're making it for kid dessert. That's what it's really nice for. Eat it. Okay. You find it at all. Okay. You wanna kinda have it the way it's spinning and moving everything. So really slow ramp. You really gotta feel it. Again, you're gonna have to take it off once. Take it off, shake it like a bartender and then put it back on. Another one you can do kinda, but is it worth it? Hummus and really simple nut butters like peanut butter. You can probably make it in the eight and the 20, but why? Like if you're gonna be making those things, don't you want a lot? And don't you wanna be able to batch your work and have it in the fridge? And the last thing, and this is my favorite, spice blends. We made doll, which is just basically lentils in an Instant Pot. Recipe, video for it, I'll put it somewhere. You can click to watch it. But making your own garam masala, it was like this is what this little Vitamix container was meant to do. If you wanna make your own burikaki, taco seasoning, cajun seasoning, spice rubs. Guys, if you appreciate videos like this, hit that thumbs up. Thank you so much for watching and subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and we'll see you in the next one. Life is no yoke. I just thought of this one as we're finishing up dinner. Nuh-uh, milks. You can make your own nut milk, oat milk, soy milk. I've made really good oat milk and as like a compliment to like a simple dessert. Dessert. Okay. You basically throw a handful of oats, a date or two, maybe some cinnamon and water and ice. Blend it up oat milk. I had it with graham crackers with peanut butter. It was a really good dessert. So great use for the 20 ounce container.