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Blender Recommendations (2009)

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I need a new blender mine is dying. I make a lot of crushed ice drinks. Do you have a favorite??
 
Krups KB7207 High Performance Blender

Believe it or not, I have about 4 blenders at home and a Margaritaville maker. The Margaritaville maker makes the best Margaritas (as you might expect). I also have a Cusinart, Waring, and a couple of Smoothie Makers. Don't ask why I have so many...I can't explain it.

Anyway, when we stayed at the Grand Mayan Riveria in Mexico they had the Krups KB7207 High Performance Blender. It was the best blender I've seen and beats the performance of any of the others I have. It chopped ice smooth & perfectly for Margaritas and other icy drinks. If I needed another (I hope not), I would purchase the Krups.
 
Our daughter also bought the Margaritaville blender and loves it. I believe she bought the powerful one, the biggest capacity, and she uses it for milkshakes and protein shakes, too, as well as her smoothies and margaritas. It's huge and takes up a great deal of counterspace, but she feels it is worth it.

If I could get a blender to take frozen strawberries and blend them with some sugar-free vanilla ice cream, I would buy it. I wouldn't buy the one our daughter has.
 
A vita-mix is expensive bit it works very well.
 
I would loooooove a Margaritaville, but they're a lot. Do they crush ice? I thought they freeze the ice themselves, like a Slurpee machine--is that wrong? Why are they so expensive?

I have a KitchenAid blender that I got from Amazon and it's pretty good. I don't love it, though. I make blender drinks starting with frozen fruit and juice, and the KitchenAid is strong enough for that, but it's not great with ice. I always worry that the motor will stall out or burn out when I put ice in. It hasn't yet, though, and I've had the blender for a few years, so maybe I'm worrying for nothing. Also the bottom is always a little drippy--I can never seem to put the pieces together tight enough that it doesn't drip at all. Maybe it needs a new gasket, but then it needed one on the first day I used it.

I've also had several hand-me-down Warings, and the motors are stronger, but the cups aren't that big. Maybe they make new ones with larger cups?
 
Get one with 20 buttons but only makes two different sounds. I think all those buttons on blenders really all do the same thing.
 
rickandcindy23 said:
If I could get a blender to take frozen strawberries and blend them with some sugar-free vanilla ice cream, I would buy it.
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My KitchenAid does this. You need to add a little milk to the mixture, but you get a nice consistency like very soft soft-serve ice cream, or a very very thick shake that you eat with a spoon.
 
wackymother said:
I would loooooove a Margaritaville, but they're a lot. Do they crush ice? I thought they freeze the ice themselves, like a Slurpee machine--is that wrong? Why are they so expensive?

I have a KitchenAid blender that I got from Amazon and it's pretty good. I don't love it, though. I make blender drinks starting with frozen fruit and juice, and the KitchenAid is strong enough for that, but it's not great with ice. I always worry that the motor will stall out or burn out when I put ice in. It hasn't yet, though, and I've had the blender for a few years, so maybe I'm worrying for nothing. Also the bottom is always a little drippy--I can never seem to put the pieces together tight enough that it doesn't drip at all. Maybe it needs a new gasket, but then it needed one on the first day I used it.

I've also had several hand-me-down Warings, and the motors are stronger, but the cups aren't that big. Maybe they make new ones with larger cups?
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The Margaritaville Makers Shave the ice and drop it into the blender with the mix, then it turns on and blends into what I think is a perfect consistency then turns off. They are huge...you can find them for about $189 or more. They have more expensive two jar models, bigger models, etc.

Honestly, you could do the same thing with a cheap electric ice shaver (the kind for snow cones...I have one of those two...cost about $10), and Hamilton Beach or Waring $19.95 blender. It's the shaved ice that makes the Margarita so good.
 
EAM said:
A vita-mix is expensive bit it works very well.
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We inherited an older stainless steel model Vita Mix and it can pretty much beat anything to a pulp! :D

Another one is the Blendtec, which I think is what a lot of smoothie places and Starbucks use.

You can find both on ebay for decent prices for used models.
 
I use a vita-mix to make smoothies out of frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, banana and coconut.
 
ive always wanted one of these

http://www.willitblend.com/

the videos crack me up...just cant justify the cost of that thing for as infrequently as I use a blender!
 
Here's another endorsement for the Vita-mix. If you look around you'll notice it in bars, restaurants & places which also make smoothie drinks like Baskin Robins.

We bought ours through a traveling road show at our local Costco several years ago and it's going strong. Margaritas, smoothis, ice cream, hot soup...the thing does nearly everything. A bit pricey and it was definitely an impluse (pun intended) buy, but we've been very happy with it.

A friend of mine just got one a few weeks ago independent of us and she crowed for at least 15 minutes at all the things she's able to make with it.
 
TUGBrian said:
ive always wanted one of these

http://www.willitblend.com/

the videos crack me up...just cant justify the cost of that thing for as infrequently as I use a blender!
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This is the Blendtec, I mentioned above. I am like you Brian, these videos are funny! :D

I am sure the Vita Mix can do this, but these guys came up with the funny commercial first.
 
We got a smoothie maker from our DDs. It has a dispenser on it that makes it a bit handier than just a regular blender. It's perfect for Margaritas.

BTW, Black and Decker makes (or made) a fun little portable blender called the Partymate. Not too powerful but we make fine Margaritas with it. Seems to only be available on Ebay but I imagine there are other brands.
 
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Warning

The ones on Ebay seem to be missing parts.
 
Love my Vita-mix. Last blender I bought - never will buy another!
 
It's Vitamix or nothing! I was buying blenders every couple of years prior to my vitamix.

I splurged about 10 years ago and it is still going strong. It is absolutely by far the best blender I have ever had. If this one does burn out on me, I will march right out a get another Vitamix!

It makes the BEST margi's! and so many other uses!
 
I just found this old thread with the search function.
I bought myself a Blendtec for Christmas, and even though I thought I'd lost my mind for doing it, I think it will be a good investment. It is a killer blender, and I think our diet will improve since I discovered green smoothies. I can get so much more nutrition in a smoothie now, and without chopping everything first. I load it up with yogurt, Kale, spinach (or other greens), sometimes cucumber, avocado,apple, banana, mango, kiwi, berries (not all at one time), some flax seed, a little Stevia, maybe a shot of lime, some ice, set in on "Smoothie", and let it go. I love it. With my old blender, I had to stop every few seconds and use a spatula to get everything in the blades.
 
I have the Jenn-Air Attrezzi. I also have the matching mixer. It works really well my only complaint is when I make something a little thicker like avacado dip it can be tricky to get it out but it does great smoothies and icy drinks.

Since mine sit out on the countertop I enjoy having something that is nice to look at. It comes in all kinds of base and top configurations.

Here is an example:
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garde...ar-Etched-Copper-Blender/1781564/product.html
 
Kitchen Aid.

Make smoothies every morning: frozen straberries, OJ and bananas. They come out smooth as silk, very powerful at a resonable price.

H
 
ricoba said:
Another one is the Blendtec, which I think is what a lot of smoothie places and Starbucks use.
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I have a Blendtec and am very happy with it. It too is a bit expensive compared to other brands but it works very well. Ice cream, smoothies, soups, etc. I got my Blendtec at Costco.
 
I have an Oster. Basically it's a disposable blender. It gets used nearly daily for a protein shake or 2, but strains to do the ice-grinding. I put new blades in it last week- which helped, because while the new blades were no sharper than the old ones, the bearings on the new one are much free'er than the old one.

I'd love a Vita-mix, but $40 for a chrome Oster with a glass pitcher vs $400-$500 for a black Vita-mix with a plastic pitcher is hard to justify. I'd rather get a new cheapo every 5-6 years and take a trip than clean an old, though very powerful, ugly blender forever.

Jim
 
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