Blender
Invented in the 1920s, this appliance really took hold after World War II with the introduction of the Waring Blender, and drinking at home has never been the same. The 1950s saw the birth of the tiki cocktail, with blended piña coladas, daiquiris, and other frozen rum drinks becoming hugely popular; today, learning to make a good blended margarita
is something of a collegiate rite of passage. Smoothies entered the counterculture scene in the 1960s and hit the mainstream in the 1980s; now there are entire books and websites devoted to smoothie recipes. And not only do blenders fill in for food processors in a pinch, they also do one thing much better: puréeing watery soups and sauces. Without the blender, we’d still be muddling and mashing our way through a good number of recipes.
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