How To Make A Didgeridoo For Less Than $10
You can probably pick those up for free at fabric retailers. It's advisable to give them a coat of varnish or wood glue to harden them and improve the sound of the didgeridoo. Back to the fantastic plastic. Then get yourself a small piece of natural beeswax from a beekeeper, hardware store, health food shop or saddler.
When the beeswax is nice and soft make a snake out of it, that is about 5 to 10 mm thick. Press that beeswax snake in a circle onto one end of the pipe, smooth and seal the inside of the mouthpiece and then do the same for its outside. Then work the beeswax so you end up with a hole about 35 mm across. It can be slightly oval, but should be even without hills and valleys.
The more even the hole is in both dimensions, the easier it is to get a good seal with the mouth. Your didj is finished! Give your didgeridu a blow! Give it a go. If it doesn't feel quite right, try to make the hole slightly larger or smaller. That can make a big difference to how easy the Didgeridoo is to play. To learn circular breathing, we recommend The Didjshop's one-hour How To Play the Didgeridoo video. In the tutorial video, half the time is spent teaching circular breathing - and there are lots of useful exercises.
Immediately after pouring your drink, clean your container with warm water. The remnants of your delicious drink can quickly dry in your container, making it hard to clean. Our Vitamix is super easy to clean (especially with the automatic cleaning cycle), but if you're diligent about rinsing immediately, you'll be fine. Should You Rest Your Smoothies, Letting a smoothie sit tends to make it less frothy, but some smoothies will separate.
For example, a spinach apple banana smoothie turns into a green juice floating atop a chunky green mixture if it sits for more than a few minutes. The same goes for all green smoothies, in our experience. Other smoothies are better after resting for a few minutes. Anything with a lot of light or frothy ingredients, or a lot of air whipped up into them, applies.
If you're in a rush, prepare the ingredients beforehand by chopping and measuring them. Start only when you're ready to eat! You can store ingredients or even store smoothies overnight in the fridge, if you're preparing for an early morning! A thick smoothie can last in the fridge up to 24 hours while retaining its flavor and texture (thinner smoothies may separate before that point). We prefer to drink immediately, though grabbing a drink prepared the night before is almost as good.
To store a smoothie in the fridge, pour it into a tightly sealed container such as a Mason jar. Unless you have a tight, screw-on lid for your blender bottle, don't bother—you'll get better flavor and have an easier time cleaning up if you store it in something else. In a pinch, you can put plastic wrap over the top of a glass. Again, drink soon after making it.
Our standard fruit smoothie recipe smoothie starts with a banana or apple and yogurt. You can use almost anything, though. We've made delicious treats with peanut butter, pineapple, carrots, spinach and kale, and more. We've even added celery to the spinach pear grape smoothie. If you're going for complete nutrition, adding protein powder to smoothies puts power in your day without changing the flavor.
Our favorite smoothies use at least one frozen ingredient. Instead of watering down your drink with ice, get creative with whole frozen fruits. Grapes are great—see our amazing spinach pear grape smoothie! Frozen juice such as cranberry or orange works well too. You don't have to break the bank by paying out the nose for little bags of washed, chopped, and frozen fruit at the store. Freezing your own fresh fruit takes less time than you think, and you can make your own mixture of ingredients—ready to dump a little baggie in your blender!
