Do you have a a lid to your blender that is a pain in the butt to clean because it’s filled with nooks and crannies instead being a sealed flat surface?

8 inches of parchment paper is worth a gallon of water. Poppet down before putting the lid on and it will dramatically decrease cleaning effort to almost, if not, zero.

For a small blender like this ninja you might have to tear off one sheet that is way larger than you need. But the act of putting the motor on one of these top down blenders punctures that parchment paper. If you use just one half of the parchment paper for this trick. Then once you’re done blending you can use the other half to fold back over and create a tighter seal when you put the lid back on.

That is especially handy when you’re making things like hummus that will get heated up in the blending process and need to sit in the fridge for a little while. Not that there’s anything wrong with warm hummus.

Also, if you’re not making your own hummus, you’re burning money. A store brand can of chickpeas is between $0.86 and $1.25. One clove of garlic, some lemon juice from a large straw brand bottle, a bit of salt, and your favorite olive oil and you have hummus for way less than the cost of buying it premium-made.

Of course making it yourself doesn’t include tasty sauces like rusted, red pepper or honey hot. You can make honey hot for dirt cheap at home with some honey and them. Red pepper flakes. Depending on the cost of red bell peppers, it may not be cost effective to do that at home. But you can if you want.