Mini lab vortex mixer: any good for juice?

[bombastinator]

Do these things work well? Seeing one for $25 on Amazon. It looks like you have to put some large steel bbs in them? Not sure. There are also nail polish shaking machines that seem to be of two types: one is the “strap the whole bottle down and shake it” type which is at the low end of lab vortex mixers, and then there is a “grab it by the top with a rubber adaptor” type which is cheaper. Those are like $10 but I don’t know if they have an adaptor that would fit a juice bottle or not. My arm is tired though. Thinking about this one lacking better advice:

Some deep nerd action btw

 

[smacuser]

Looks good.

 

[smacuser]

 

[bombastinator]

Looks good.

I generally do 60ml bottles. Perhaps i will buy and report. They might be too big.

 

[englishmick]

I remember some discussion about that here years ago. Supposedly the type most used in labs is a roller. The bottle sits on its side on two rubber rollers and just rolls around for however long it takes. Didn't seem obvious to me how that would do the job, especially with a full bottle, but someone who worked in a lab said it was effective. They were pretty expensive as I recall.

I wouldn't want to put steel balls in the bottle and then have to fish them out.

 

[bombastinator]

The steel balls were I think for the vortex mixers. I got the impression one just left them in there. It wouldn’t work well for the juice bottles I use which was why I was looking at the shaker thing. If it’s a roller it sounds like the simplest thing to do is just put a used calking tube into an electric drill backwards and place a juice bottle inside that.

 

[tanneck]

being a newbe but along time mixer, not sure if i can point this out for home user?

 

[bombastinator]

being a newbe but along time mixer, not sure if i can point this out for home user? View attachment 1009012

*wantsto make a generic ‘shake weight’ joke*
so your arm is tired too then

ooh! ill just copy/paste the original ad!

 

[ShowMeTwice]

I would just go with a Badger Air-Brush Co. 121 Paint Mixer. It works well in 15ml, 30ml and 60ml bottles.

I've been using one for many years. Sure as heck beats manually shaking bottles.

One to two minutes with the mixer and done.

 

[bombastinator]

I would just go with a Badger Air-Brush Co. 121 Paint Mixer. It works well in 15ml, 30ml and 60ml bottles.

I've been using one for many years. Sure as heck beats manually shaking bottles.

One to two minutes with the mixer and done.

huh. That looks like a stick blender. I got one of those in my kitchen. They were all the rage in the early aughts. If that works well I suspect a malt machine will work well too. Whelp, here’s hoping my kitchen survives. I’m too attracted to ‘free’ to not try it. My step-mother had a really truly manual mixer made of wood. Looked like a star on a stick.

 

[Letitia]

Coffee frother works great for me. 30 seconds and done.

 

[bombastinator]

Things that make you go hmmmm…