Best Review on Cuisinart CBT 700 Die Cast 700 Watt Blender
I really enjoy this blender. I've had it seventeen months and use it twice a day to make fruit and vegetable smoothies. It works better to put soft foods and liquids in first, then frozen and use the pre-programmed smoothie setting. I wear noise protection headphones as it's a bit loud. The lid is a tight fit so I just hold it on while blending. The glass carafe is good for food, easy to clean and looks good as new. My S.O. bought a Vitamix at the same time and his copolyester carafe looks grungy now. The Cuisinart is a much better price, has a timer and smoothies taste just as good. Unlike the Vitamix all-in-one unit, the Cuisinart blades and ring unscrew from the carafe. A small bottle brush works well to clean the blades. If you rinse the blender immediately after using clean up is easy.
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I really enjoy this blender. I've had it seventeen months and use it twice a day to make fruit and vegetable smoothies. It works better to put soft foods and liquids in first, then frozen and use the pre-programmed smoothie setting. I wear noise protection headphones as it's a bit loud. The lid is a tight fit so I just hold it on while blending. The glass carafe is good for food, easy to clean and looks good as new. My S.O. bought a Vitamix at the same time and his copolyester carafe looks grungy now. The Cuisinart is a much better price, has a timer and smoothies taste just as good. Unlike the Vitamix all-in-one unit, the Cuisinart blades and ring unscrew from the carafe. A small bottle brush works well to clean the blades. If you rinse the blender immediately after using clean up is easy.
BalasHapusWe have two friends who gought $600 and $450 700 watt "smoothie makers". I read reviews and paid far less for this and it has been outstanding.
BalasHapusWe tried several other blender brands and models before settling on the CBT-700. Previous purchases were wrought with poor performance, cheap materials, or flat out failure of vital components.
BalasHapusThe Cuisinart CBT-700 is the latest blender model to be released from the company, having first hit the market in March of 2009. The blender features the wide glass jar of the CBT-500 with a newly designed 6 bladed blade design. The new blade is supposed to be better at creating the vortex action needed to pull the food into the blades for proper blending. It also features a new SMART electronics system that provides preprogrammed cycles for Smoothies and Ice Crushing.
After having been disappointed with the blending action the Waring Classic, we were very pleased with the results we are getting from the CBT-700. I have found that although the Smoothie function works very well, I still feel the need to use the PUREE speed for a few more seconds afterwards to get the smoothie to the consistency I like. Running the smoothie cycle twice would be too much, and this one short extra step is no problem for me.
The blender is relatively quiet considering the 700 watt motor. It is easily the quietest blender we have tried so far and I have no issues with the motor noise. I think those who have complained about this model's motor noise have NO IDEA how much louder competing blenders can be! ;o)
After suffering through the early failure of the Oster Beehive Classic due to a sheared off rubber drive coupler, I was pleased to see that the CBT-700 uses the traditional star shaped "clutch" design used on many other brands. In this case, the clutch is made out of a vinyl plastic that has some give to it similar to rubber clutches, yet immune from the degradation rubber clutches fall victim to after a year or two. Contrary to some of the other reviews, the clutch of the CBT-700 is NOT plastic in the true sense of the word. Plastic is less forgiving and can easily break under stress. Because of this difference, I am optimistic that this clutch material will hold up.
While we are very pleased with the performance of this blender, it does not create a vortex as well as the Oster Beehive Classic model we tried, but since that blender had a serious problem with their rubber drive coupling shearing off easily, we feel that the Cuisinart is the best performer of anything in this price range that WORKS! On that note, the CBT-700 also features a 3 year warranty, which is the best warranty of anything in this price range. The blender is easy to clean and the blade and jar are easy to take apart for cleaning. The lid is also very well designed and we have had no issues with leaking.
Estetically, the CBT-700 is hands down the best looking blender we have tried.
Taking all things into consideration I feel that the CBT-700 deserves a 5 star rating. We have owned this blender for 4 months.
This is my very first blender and I knew from all my readings buying a cheap blender will cost you more in the end so I bought the best I could find. The first one died after 2 weeks of use which did not make me happy. But because I loved the blender so much I returned it and bought another one. I use it almost every single day ofthe week with great results. I make protein shakes where I put a lot of ice in it so it is kind of like a milk shake. It works flawlessly. The only thing that I don't do is let it run for more than 30 seconds with out a pause. I also think that using the high setting is was burned out the first one. I think it has almost too much power. Trust me you don't need the high setting. This machine works great. I blend frozen fruit and ice with no problems. Love it.
BalasHapusI have only had this blender for a week, but have been very happy. I make almond milk and green smoothies and it's done the job perfectly. For the smoothies you just have to start them on low and blend them briefly and then put on high. It completely blends all the tiny bits of spinach.
BalasHapusGlad that I got talked into purchasing this instead of one a few hundred dollars more.
I tried the Breville 550 and while it worked well, it leaked and another one that I had shredded the gasket under the blades. So I returned the blender to Macy's and exchanged it for this blender, which is the latest model from Cuisinart. Everything, including ice, gets ground up well and it does it in a very short amount of time. It has a 700 watt motor which is loud at high speeds, perhaps because it is a large motor but also because they didn't bother to do whatever a manufacturer has to do to insulate a motor housing. Still, I'm glad I got it. Also, I like having a glass jar like on this model. It's 56 oz., too! What's also nice is that it doesn't take a lot of strength (like on the Breville blenders) to screw the base tightly onto the jar or to remove it. It's easy to clean, too. I only have it for a week and have used it about twice a day for smoothies and frappachinos. Hopefully, it will hold up for the long term; it does come with a 3 year warranty.
BalasHapusThank you, reviewers, especially G. Harkness, who I followed all over the web while researching this! The Puree and Smoothie features on this blender are very useful, and not as noisy as using it at High. I have small hands so sometimes it's hard unscrewing the bottom, but I've learned first to tug on the side of the base, and if that doesn't work (perhaps because the frozen fruit in the smoothie has caused the plastic to contract), I let the jar sit for a minute or two and then put it back on the base to give me extra leverage for untwisting.
BalasHapusSo far I've use this blender for smoothies, soups (several kinds), pesto (which is much easier to make than in a narrower blender because there's more room to push down the basil leaves), and mixing oj from concentrate.
BalasHapusThis blender has the power to crush ice for smoothee drinks great! Price was good and also the blender was good!
BalasHapusUndoubtably the best blender I've ever had. I especially like the power. Finally I can blend the things I've always wanted to blend.
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