Working of a Mixer Grinder

Ever thought about how we get different shakes and smoothies, or the hot and spicy chutneys we eat with out beloved dosa/idli, or how your moms make the the magic masalas which adds flavor to the most boring of foods! If no, don't worry, we will get there together:).

Think of a mixer grinder as a magic black box (actually, every machine is a magic black box). You add milk and fruits, you get smoothies and shakes. You add different spices and you get an homogeneous spice of them all. Basically, you get a analogous mixture of all the ingredients which you initially put in the mixer grinder.



This is how the process goes:

  1. When you start the mixer grinder, the motor (converter of electrical to mechanical energy) begins to turn the blades. To further elaborate, a coil is placed between magnetic field. When, a current runs in the coil, the coil experiences a magnetic force which causes the motor to rotate, which cause the rotation of blades.
  2. The fast spinning and swirling of the blades sets the food into a circular motion.
  3. This fast circular motion forces them up on the sides by creating a vacuum (void of air) at the center.
  4. This fast centrifugal motion (rotation of blades and heavy pushing of contents towards the sides) helps in mixing the ingredients smoothly, homogeneously and consistently.

In short summary: Electricity -> mechanical energy (which we can see in the rotation of blades) -> swirling and pushing of contents towards the wall, breaking them into smaller fragments -> smoothies/shakes/chutneys etc.

Hope you got to know how to process in the background goes!

REFERENCES:

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinder-mixer
  2. https://www.shutterstock.com/search/mixer+grinder

 

 

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