Composting corks...or not

I have a lot of wine corks.  Kept them around because it seemed like they might come in handy since I'd heard you could use them in your garden as compost or mulch.

So finally decided to do something with them.  Jumped on the interweb and found out that you can chop them up with a knife (slow and tedious) or put them in your blender (fast and efficient).  Well, that's a no brainer.

Into the blender they go, just a few of them.

Wait, what?  Why are cork fragments flying all over my kitchen?

Where the heck did that giant hole come from? 

Stupid corks smashed a big hole in the side of my blender.

So much for that plan.