Read First Before Buy Hamilton Beach 58149 Blender Chopper
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!
Very smoth, precise, accurate, strong, powerfull, 2 speeds, a little sound but still worthy. Other retailers have it but more expensive.
BalasHapusSo far we've used this blender for smoothies (with ice) and pureed soups. It works really well. No complaints so far.
BalasHapusIt came with a chopper attachment and its the real deal. I absolutely love both the chopper and blender and would buy it again in a minute.
BalasHapusI bought this blender from a retailer near my place after checking reviews online. This is a fantastic blender. It purees/blends frozen fruit or ice down really well and doesn't leave ANY lumps or chunks. It has a limited number of functions but it doesn't need anything more. I think that this is the best blender you can get for your money that looks good, works well, and is good quality.
BalasHapusWhile doing my research for a blender to make my daily smoothies I was amazed at the wide range blenders. I choose the Hamilton Beach because the ratings were good and I wouldn't be taking a loan to pay for it. I use it every day and it has a powerful motor. I am not a gourmet chef and will not be making hot soups with it. I also love the glass container that cleans up so easy. This Model has more features than and more features than the others costing more $$$
BalasHapusIt'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.
BalasHapusI'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!
The blender works great. Like the additional chopper too. Looked at many before buying. The feel of the handle is important to me and this is real glass not plastic. The blade really chops well.
BalasHapusThis is a very good blender. It's smaller so it doesn't take up too much counter space. The lid is on there solid so you don't have to worry about anything flying out, which I like. The spout thing on the top is cool. Very good at smoothies which is the main thing I wanted it for. Looks good in my kitchen too.
BalasHapusProduct works well and as described. Chops ice and fruit for smoothies. reviews were very helpful in making decision on purchase.
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