Best Blender for the buck

Author's Rating:

Pros: Loud, but arent all blenders

Cons: Blends everything,heavy duty

The Bottom Line: 
Great, Blends everything quickly and easily, have had no problems at all. Throughly cleaning it, is kinda a pain but doing it once every 1.5 weeks isn't to bad.

Best blender for the money. It has a nice big bottom, where the blade is, that way it is able to blend better than the skinny models. The big open bottom is similar to the VITA-MIX blender (best blender ever but cost $300+), which helps the liquid from getting stuck in the blades.

Bought my first of these blenders about 3 yrs ago and it is till working till this day, (gave this to parents). Bought my second one about 8 months ago and have been using it 1-2 times a day and have NEVER had a mechanical problem with it.

I use it too blend smoothies (with frozen fruit) and make margaritas with ice, and it has no problems blending to either a ice mixture or a smooth liquidy mixture.

The only problem that I have had is the seal in the bottom of the glass, that is between the glass and the blade, which keeps it from leaking, gets kind of slimmy/gross after 7-10 days of blending so you have to take it apart and clean it throughly. (I think you are supposed to clean it throughly after each use, but its so much easier to give it a quick rinse and scrub).

All in all this is a great blender, I have recommended it to all my friends, and many of them have bought them, and really like them. (And not one has had a problem so far) Some day I will upgrade to the VITA-MIX, but for now this blender does everything perfect and I have no complaints.