Spinning ahead here a little bit. There are videos of the actual blending, I may or may not include them, they're boring. In the last image of the previous post, you can see chunks of chicken still. That means it was not completely blended. One thing I've noticed with this blender is that it can sometimes take the bottom bit of food and puree it fast and effectively. Then what happens is it cavitates, making a little bubble of air at the bottom shielded by goo in this case preventing the rest of the food from ever reaching the hypersonic blades. The picture above actually shows the result after using a wooden spoon to mix up the goo from the first thirty seconds of blending with the unblended ingredients. Then came the videos, etc. In other recipes, ice turning to water makes this particular step unnecessary.
Now, this first picture is after I'd finished blending the mixture and poured it out into a bowl. No scraping, only pouring and shaking and rattling. I was specifically looking for unblasted chunks of anything, like, say, stringy fat. I didn't expect any here, and I didn't see any here. But it does look a little messy.
Now the same blender container, but rinsed only with warm water. I checked the drain screen in my sink, nothing was rinsed out that got caught by the screen. Looks pretty clean in there.
It is pretty clean in there. I shot through the side of the container, at the place where I expect you find those stringy chicken threads. Nothing. It's not *clean* yet, it did just eat a couple pounds of raw chicken, but there's nothing there that will require my finger or a tool to draw out. No stringy chicken fat.
Your pancakes. Well, my pancakes. I tried cooking them without oil, that didn't work. And I murdered the first few trying to turn them prematurely. The second batch in the skillet turned out much more "pancake-y". And dwellars, I tell you, they taste like regular pancakes with maple syrup on them. They're moist and sweet.
I bought enough pears and chicken to repeat this experiment. If I do it again (seriously, that's a lot of chicken pancakes), I'd be willing to try the recipe without peeling the pears. There's no way in the world the blender will notice. I might try not cutting up the chicken, also in an attempt to streamline the process. As for cooking them, I don't know. They seem to take a long time to cook. Can they be made ahead of time and reheated? I do that with my regular pancakes.
Awesome recipe, thanks!