- Hi, I'm Parris, and I've noticed that most places I go,
everyone is carrying a drink with them all the time
as though 20 minutes without having something
to drink will result in severe dehydration.
A lot of times the drinks are sodas and Big Gulps.
I saw this over at our local Fry's and thought,
well, now that's a good idea of something to take with you.
If you can have a bottle with a mixer built into it,
so if you don't wanna have just plain water,
you can add some water it,
if you have strawberries, blueberries, whatever,
you can mix up a drink that you'd like
that isn't something quite so sugar-filled.
Also a lot of times with smoothies they settle,
and invariably the worst stuff floats to the top.
So if you can just press a button
and swirl it all back into even consistency,
that would be really great.
So I bought the Tornado Bottle.
Run on two triple A batteries, those really tiny ones.
Is this really gonna be able
to make the kind of drinks I'd like?
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- Well, it looks cool.
It has a blendery, mixy device inside of it,
and you can actually take that off
so you can drink with just the cup.
They show that it makes all kinds of drinks,
coffees and protein shakes.
Says you can even scramble eggs in it.
And if you notice in this picture,
down in the bottom here she appears
to have broccoli and peppers. (laughs)
Wouldn't be my first choice for a smoothie,
but since they show them in the picture,
I'm assuming I can actually throw them
into the Tornado Bottle and it will grind them up
and mix 'em into a smoothie.
Find out more about the Tornado Bottle
at the link down below this video.
Now, I showed you the up-close version
of that picture for a reason,
because I already snuck the directions out
and read on exactly what this can and can't do.
Well, they don't say it clearly.
It's all pretty vague.
But they do tell you that you should fill it up about 2/3,
always put the liquid in first, then the powder.
Well, powder, what about other stuff?
Well, they talk about protein shakes seems to be
what this is really aimed at.
Then I'm down here.
You can't put it in the dishwasher.
You can't put it in the microwave.
And Tornado Bottle will not crush ice.
Okay, so I'll have to have my smoothie at room temperature.
And do not use Tornado Bottle with solid foods/fruits,
oats, peanut butter, et cetera.
In the TV commercial they show a clear plastic lid
that goes on top of this to make sure it won't spill.
(laughs) I don't know about the bottom coming off so easily.
That it won't spill when you put it in your purse
or your bag to take to the gym
so you can drink those protein shakes
as you're using the other arm on the machine.
But I don't have that.
It didn't come on the box.
Maybe this model you don't need that.
Well, it comes apart easily enough.
The lid has this so you can drink through this
or put a straw into it.
It feels like it seats really well,
so I'm thinking it's not going to leak.
It's on there pretty good.
And then this is the motor
that's going to drive the spinny piece inside it here.
I was looking on the base unit
for how to open up the battery.
A very simple way.
There's a little groove that you pull on,
and this rubber piece comes off.
Hopefully that'll stay for the long-term.
I have two brand new alkaline Energizer batteries,
so this should provide about the most power you can
to this little motor.
When I took the Tornado Bottle out of the box,
this little clear plastic piece came with it.
I can't find where it came off of the bottle.
Maybe it came off of a different bottle.
But I've got this extra piece.
And I'm not sure if you can see,
right here inside the bottle is a black piece of plastic
or metal that I assume came from that mechanism.
Wonder if that counts as fiber.
Washing it out, I put my hand in to clean this part.
And I thought it was going to be metal,
but, no, it's very flimsy plastic.
I'll reattach the bottom portion here.
And I filled it about 2/3 of the way.
This is what they recommend
for when you're going to mix something.
Then we put the top on.
Just make sure it can actually stir the water.
Tornado time.
(laughs) All right, it did get going there.
At first, though, it just sounds so funny.
(Tornado Bottle whirs)
It is a tornado.
All right.
Prove me wrong.
Here come my ingredients.
Banana, soft,
and strawberry.
I'm thinking I should've cut these smaller.
Not gonna be able to fit a whole lot in here.
Eh, let's go with that.
I'm glad one sank,
'cause I could just imagine these all sitting
on the top of the Tornado going round and round
and nothing happening.
All right, (laughs) make me a smoothie.
Here we go.
(laughs)
Round and round they go.
When it becomes a smoothie, nobody knows.
I guess if they go around in a circle fast enough,
they may eventually disintegrate.
Okay, we got some speed going.
Pretty to look at.
I think that's all that's gonna happen.
Well, there's some banana stuff floating in there.
Um...
I guess I'll try it.
All right, take the bottom off.
Make sure it doesn't leak there.
Seems okay.
Give it a try.
Smells like banana water.
Tastes like it too.
But it wasn't quite what I was expecting.
I was thinking the Tornado Bottle was going to replace
what a actual mixer, blender can do,
but instead it seems more
like maybe it can replace what a fork and a spoon can do.
Spoon for stirring it and the fork for scrambled eggs
or pancake mix like they mention
that you need to apply a little agitation to.
So it does agitate, but I don't know that
if I just threw the same things in here,
like protein powder shake with the water
and just shake it a little,
if it does a whole lot different.
I've never had protein shakes.
And they do seem to emphasize
this is good for protein shakes,
and maybe they tend to have the water
and the powder settle out
so you can just press the button briefly
and mix it all back up.
So it may work for them,
but not for the purposes I was interested in.
So that's the Tornado Bottle.
If you're interested in it,
there's a link down below this video.
Until then, I guess I'll just eat my bananas
when I'm out the old-fashioned way.
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