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Blendtec Home TB-621-BHM The Professional's Choice 1500-Watt Total Blender
	Brand: K-TEC, Inc Category: Kitchen Buy: $399.95 (On sale from $399.99) - $399.99 (On sale from $528.99) This item is no longer available Avg. Customer Rating: 39 reviews ASIN: B000KDYBA2

Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews... Better than Vitamix July 25, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful I bought a Vitamix for my mother 2 years ago for her birthday. She loved it. She uses it daily to make whole juice drinks every morning. She would blend celery, grapes, apples, pineapples, tomatoes, cucumbers, peaches, and many other fruits or vegetables. And the result is simply great. You can't taste any pits or skins left in the drink; every little bit of ingredients are blended into fine juice for your enjoyment and fast digestion. As a person grows older, the amount of enzymes in the stomach is lost. Therefore the ability to digest food is reduced dramatically. By drinking whole juice, the natural enzymes in the fruit, in the skin of the fruit, are blended and broken down for easy digestion. Anyway, I almost forgot this review is for Blentec. Well, after I got the Blentec (at a Sam's Club demo promotion), the price is actually about the same as being offered at Amazon.com (after tax). With that being almost the same, I just bought it on the spot and I will never regret that I did. I have to say that the final blended results are just the same if not better than Vitamix. But I want to point out a few significant advantages of this one. 1. The unit is smaller for storage and handling when you need to take it out to use. As for us, since we use it daily, it just sits under the countertop cabinets (snug fit), just about under 1 inch of room left when you push it in and out. 2. The recessed touch buttons are just amazing. They are much easier to clean than anything I have seen on the market, including Vitamix. If you like to keep things clean, this is the one to get. You will always drop some juice or fruits on the mixer base and if it gets between the knobs or buttons in the traditional blender, you know how hard that is to clean. With Blendtec, that problem is gone once and for all. This is actually one of the main reasons I bought the Blendtec. 3. The 6 button with different time settings. They are also great. Sometimes, you don't have a recipe and you just need to make something quick, but you don't know how long you should blend it for; well, the timer takes care of that question. This is another real deal breaker for me for the $400 damage. 4. Lightweight and easy to clean. We make it a habbit to clean right away after each use. Some reviewers said it's difficult to clean; well, because they left the thing on the counter all night after using it. Try that with any blender, it will be difficult to clean. It's not a fair review to any blender in that regard. A note on noise: it is very loud, but not to the point where you need a ear plug. It does give out a few more dB than the Vitamix, I think by design, they can use some sound blocker inside the base enclosure, but while doing that, it would block the heat ventilation results and make the unit too hot to operate or break prematurely due to heat issues. I agree with Blendtec's design to allow maximum ventilation over sound reduction. Besides, we don't use it all the time so that it would cause your neighbors to complain. All in all, it gets a 5-star from me because it deserves the rating. Great product June 13, 2008 4 out of 4 found this review helpful I have enjoyed thoroughly the performance of this impressive machine! I have owned it for a couple of months, so I can't comment on the durability of the blender. It comes with a great recipe book with numerous types of food that one can prepare with the blender. I have used a couple of the recipes with success. The primary purpose of this blender in our household, however, is smoothie creation. It performs flawlessly for this function. Unlike cheaper brand blenders, the Blendtec totally emulsifies any ingredients, including ice, into a truly "smooth" smoothie. It has proven to be easy to clean, operate, and fits nicely on our counter underneath the kitchen cabinets. Highly recommended! I did not get the right blender I ordered June 13, 2008 1 out of 22 found this review helpful The color of the blender I would like to order is WHITE, but what I get is BLACK. So, This makes me disappointed about the service of Amazon. A blender with a lawnmower motor? May 29, 2008 7 out of 7 found this review helpful I am a smoothie person who drinks at least one smoothie a day. I got tired of spending ten minutes a day making smoothie with one of the cheap blenders, so I decided to buy a more high powered blender. The Breville 550 was my first choice for its reasonable price/power and great looks. Unfortunately, my first smoothie was a disaster. I filled the smoothie 2/3 with fruits and ice, and I stood there pushing the smoothie button three consecutive times to no avail. Then I smelled something burning and figured it was the motor. After spending 10 minutes getting the thing to make smoothie, the result was no better than my old cheap Cuisinart blender. Apparently, 610 watts is just not enough if you want to make thick, smooth smoothie. I promptly returned the Breville. I then went on a mission to research for a real blender. Apparently, when it comes down to power and industrial strength blenders, it comes down to either a Vita-Mix or a Blendtec. A Costco near me had a demo for Blendtec so I decided to buy one there to try out. Wow! Now this is a blender! This thing sucked the fruits and ice down into its vortex amazingly well. With the "Whole Fruits" button, I had great smoothie in 50 seconds or less. I usually just hit the button and go the bathroom. By the time I get back, I got instant smoothie! I've tried the the ice crush button and this mode literally makes snow; not just crushed ice, but snow! There is a con though. Without a tamper, sometimes the fruits do get stuck and doesn't go down. When that happens, I take the jar out and shakes it a couple times and blend again. It works every time. It's an extra step, but it sure beats standing there and holding a tamper to push the fruits down for entire blending time. Many reviewers here claim that they wished they had a tamper, but I think it may be due to their preference and how they've always done it with their Vita-mix. It isn't wrong, but there are more than one way to skin a cat, and for me, shaking it is much easier than using a tamper. It's also very easy to clean. Instead of disassembling the jar like the Breville and other blenders in its class, I just put a dash of detergent, fill it 1/3 with water, and pulse it for 5 secs. I then wash it out further with water, no dishwasher needed. Since I bought this at Costco, I got a full 7 year warranty. It's a lot of money, but since there are no alternatives at a cheaper price, it does make my decision easier. Considering the Breville blender probably would've smoked and blown within 6 months of the abuse I'd subject it to, a $400 blender that lasts a minimum of 7 years is not a bad deal. So far after a week of use, I've blended a total of 38 times (the LCD displays the # of uses on its front.). I think I may just keep it. Pros: It blends virtually anything! Lots of power. Doesn't smoke when it gets stuck. Easy to clean. It doesn't require you to stand there with a tamper. Great warranty. Makes amazing smoothies and margaritas and mixed drinks. Cons: Occasionally requires a good shake to loosen things up. Expensive. Loud. (although with a 3HP motor, it's actually quiet compared to my lawnmower. LOL) Have to buy it at Costco for the 7 year warranty. Makes Smoothies With Ease May 13, 2008 8 out of 8 found this review helpful The last two blenders we've owned, a KitchenAid and a Braun, have both broken. They each used some form of plastic-like transmission devices to get the power from the motor to the carafe, and with both, teeth started breaking off during blending, usually while making things with frozen fruit. I'd read many reviews of this blender, as well as watching the food-oriented videos, along with the comedic 'Will It Blend' videos on the manufacturer's site. While frightfully expensive, it seemed as though the Total Blender could deliver. I ordered one for my wife as an anniversary present. (Romantic, eh?) This blender works as advertised. We use it primarily to make smoothies, which we each do almost every day. Usually we start by filling the carafe up about halfway with a handful or two of spinach along with maybe 8 oz. of water, and then pulse for a few seconds. This turns into a little more than a cup of soupy green goo. If you don't liquefy the spinach first, it's volume-eating leafy form will take up too much space in the jar and you won't be able to add as much fruit. So after the spinach, I just open the fridge and start dumping things in. A typical mix would be something like half a cup of yogurt, a cup or two of frozen fruit and a banana. In about 20 seconds you've got a perfectly blended drink containing most of day's supply of fruits and veggies. Even if you're bad and end up eating like crap the rest of the day, at least you got a good start. It is very loud, as others have mentioned, but I don't know how it could do what it does and still be quiet. It's got a big motor under that hood. The other slight annoyance is that they say it's only top rack dishwasher safe, but obviously there are no dishwashers with a top rack big enough to hold anything that big. They did say it was because of the heating element, so maybe if you use a no-heat dry cycle it'd be ok. I tend to use the blend-soap-and-water cleaning method, and then scrub by hand every few days. All around this is a great product, and if you're looking for a serious blender it will satisfy your needs.

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