( 12 reviews )
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Posted: Apr 8 2009
Well, this blender got me too... I had forgotten about how initially disappointed I was that the "chrome" base was chrome-painted plastic, until recently reading all the reviews. I bought this blender based on the reviews 2 years ago (I guess it was still relatively new back then), the name brand, the look of the jar and keypad. I have been using it regularly only recently to make baby food and hummus, and it has already stopped working. I suspect it would have stopped working a lot sooner if I had been using it more regularly prior to now. I haven't yet opened up the motor to see what is wrong with it, but I suspect it's the broken plastic gearing mentioned in several reviews. The "on" button lights up but pressing any of the blend functions does nothing. Incidentally, I was able to get hummus and baby food pretty smooth, but it did take a long time, as does blending ice drinks. You have to have enough liquid component in addition to the food solids to get the chunks to fall down to the blades and blend. Otherwise the blade just spins inside a self-created air pocket, and doesn't blend anything. I think this is fairly typical, but from reading reviews on the Osterizer Beehive and Waring blenders, this is less of a problem. Oh yes, after blending for awhile, one gets that smokey smell from the motor. But unfortunately, if you don't blend for a while (2-3 minutes), you can't arrive at creamy smooth - not even on the puree setting. Prior to breaking this blender was only a mild disappointment. Now it's a total disappointment.
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Posted: Mar 9 2009
We received this as a wedding gift almost 3 years ago. I love the glass jar part of it but overall as a blender it really disapoints me. We mainly use it to make smoothies. It ALWAYS gets stuck... ALWAYS. Even if all we through in there is frozen berries, frozen yogurt and OJ. It simply is not strong enough for smoothies- hence why I only give it one star. It also failed to blend baby food to super smooth and also failed to finely chop slices of bread into breadcrumbs. We are currently shopping for a new blender that can make smoothies since that is the main reason why we even own a blender.
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Posted: Feb 3 2009
I have owned this blender for two years. It is aweful. Want to make a smoothie? Hope you have time to push the mixture into the blades for 20 minutes. And I hope you like big chucks of fruit in there because it won't blend them. The blender has a funnel shape into the blades preventing anything you want to blend from touching them. I have been waiting to to save up money for a high end blender but will likely have to try another $50 model. But I am not even bringing this blender to goodwill. It will go in the trash where it belongs.
