Cool Design and gadgets Lastest news*: This blender is fabulous. Easy to use. I use the nice cup

This has the look of a solid, sturdy appliance and the power of a solid, sturdy name behind it. Coupled with a great price, it's a fabulous deal. EXCEPT that it's only going to last a short time. Most of the reviews on here are for thrilled initial owners (I know, because my initial feedback was 5 stars) but I bet if you surveyed people who've used it moderately over a six-month period that they're all having trouble with it.

I used mine for blending cooked vegetables in soups, smoothies with raw fruits and kefir, and cooked baby food. All soft things. Not even a frozen fruit smoothie. It worked GREAT! I loved how easy it was to clean up. But pull the two pieces apart to clean and you'll notice inside that each has a plastic part. The whole thing, great motor, blade, and design, hinges on an unseen coupling of two plastic parts. In 8 months of using maybe once weekly and very gently, those plastic parts are completely stripped.

Buy it if you're going to use it less than 20 times. If you need an appliance that actually works, buy something else.I watch the show (Oprah), saw the episodes (You...), measured my waist in the proper place (not the natural waist but at the belly button) and learned the truth, bought the book (You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management), and now wanted to make Dr. Oz's Magical Breakfast Blaster. So I came to Amazon to pick out an immersion blender. I read all the reviews and it was pretty clear that this was everyone's favorite and bought it based on the reviews and secondarily the reasonable price. I had other things in my cart and so got free shipping. (SIDE NOTE: Kudos to Amazon for having carts that seemingly do not empty. When I see something in the paper or hear about something, I go to Amazon and put it in my cart. Maybe I'll buy it later; maybe not. But at least I didn't forget about it.)

This blender is fabulous. Easy to use. I use the nice cup that comes with the blender to make the drink and it's so thick that I drink it right from that cup, too. A typical shake is water, soy protein, frozen blueberries, frozen bananna, frozen whole cranberries, frozen raspberries, NF milk powder, psyllium seed husks, flaxseed oil. This blender BLASTS THROUGH all the frozen chunks. I might have to work it for a few seconds but it pulverizes the hell out of all of it. Maybe the lower wattage immersion blenders wouldn't work as good but I don't know. For 30 bucks, trust me, people, get this delightful little blender. The only thing I have made with it is the Magical Breakfast Blaster on page 265 of the YOU diet book, but I would think that blending a lot of frozen chunks of fruit would be the most challenging job for this blender. If it does this great, surely it has to work great for any other type of blending.

Edited on 5-17-08: I still love the blender. I use it a lot for making cappuchino-feeling coffee. In a large mug of coffee, I add a lot of non-fat skim milk powder and sometimes 1 packet of sugar in the raw and sometimes a teaspoon or two of cocoa powder. The immersion blender does a great job of blending and creating terrific foam. Another thing it's great for is mincing garlic. Peel the garlic and put them in the container the blender comes with, a couple of pulses, and voila, in 2 seconds it's perfect to throw into the pan.

Cool Design and gadgets Lastest news*

10/31/2012

This blender is fabulous. Easy to use. I use the nice cup

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