Hamilton Beach Power Elite Blender With Vegetable Chopper

La encontré en buena oferta, me gustó mucho, funciona correctamente

It’s a versatile blender: I have crushed frozen veggies, fresh broccoli, fresh kale, pineapples, apples, oranges, and bananas in this thing with some juice/milk. The broccoli it tends to take longer to grind down and sometimes gets stuck. Initially, you’ll still get the texture of the broccoli florets in your smoothie, but if you put the pitcher in the fridge for a while, the texture dissolves.

I’ve found usually the trick to make the blender go again with all that wave-action goodness is just to add more liquid so it has more to work with for churning.

Except for the broccoli, this has blended everything very quickly – 30 seconds to a minute. The broccoli takes 5-7 minutes (with checking and adding liquid and sometimes poking things around in the blender).

The blender has four settings, but it feels basically like two: heavy duty for ice/smoothies. More lightly for milkshakes and salsa. (the four settings are basically: pulse heavy duty (you have to hold the button down) , pulse lightly (hold button down), button for heavy duty (you press it and leave it), button for light (you press it and leave it).

For the average joe, the fact that there are two settings is not a problem. My sister has a really fancy high-end blender. It’s much much noisier than this one (this one is okay, though I still like to wear earplugs while blending. It’s tolerable without earplugs though,e specially when it blends so quickly.) I don’t know if she’s ever used it on any more than two settings (very light and very heavy duty).

The high-end blender takes a long time to crush thinks like broccoli + ice too, but it does it more finely. That is the only advantage I have found to the high-end blender over this one.

What I like about this one that the high-end blender doesn’t satisfy however are:
– really wide container so it’s so easy to clean, most things don’t even get stuck in the blades
– the glass + pitcher shape are very classy and this blender is really designed for convenience – use the blender, use the container as a serving pitcher. I love just sticking left-over smoothie mix straight into the fridge after picking up the pitcher from the mixing base.
– the cap seals tightly and has a really nice spout for serving and also a flap if you want to stick something in last minute but don’t want to lift the whole lid off, or need to poke a chopstick into the mixer to jog some things around.

One of my happiest first kitchen-ware buys!

Doesn’t work for mixing chick peas

After using it for an extended time before writing a review I find that I am pleased with the performance and quality of the product. I would recommend it to anyone.

Love, love, love how I can use it as a blender and food processor. I’ve been baking bread and with the left over bread, I use the food processor to grind it to bread Crumbs.

Do not believe the hype, my friends, I implore you! I fell for the 10,000 five star reviews and purchased one of these today…

Upon unboxing, I was really thrilled. It looks like a fairly high-quality product, has a nice weight to it, the food processing aspect is a nice plus, the main 40 ounce pitcher is made of a nice thick glass… the lid for that pitcher on the other hand, is a very flimsy piece of thin plastic, on par with those disposable plastic lids, you use to keep an open can of cat food fresh. Trust me, I’m not over exaggerating. When I first saw it, I thought it was a piece of, packing material to keep dust out, I went back into the box looking for the actual lid, only to come up empty-handed. The lid is a really important aspect to blending, it should be a durable, thick lid, with an opening large enough to put a mixing stick into… This is a big fail. Not a dealbreaker, but a really unfortunate aspect to the blender.

In my opinion, the true test of a blenders prowess and performance, is if you can actually make berry smoothies. Smoothies are supposed to be smooth… They’re not supposed to have chunks in them, they’re not supposed to have seeds in them… This is not a smoothie blender. It’s a regular old department store blender. It’s not a bad blender, but it is not a great blender either. I cannot stress this enough, because I’ve seen a lot of these five star reviews boast how great this thing is at making smoothies, there’s even a review that says somebody blended up Chia seeds in a smoothie… No, you didn’t, stop lying. What is it about these people who feel compelled to lie in favor of these giant corporations? Did they pay you? What’s going on here?

Anyway, I had high hopes that I wasn’t going to need to shell out three or $400 for the Vitamix, and while I’m not going to give up just yet, this is unfortunately not the answer to my prayers. I will be returning this, and I also cannot really recommend this. I’m sure there are other blenders that do the same thing that this thing does with a better lid.