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Yes--I could go with the recommendations for older blenders-esp the older Osterizers and Warings.and of course the older Vita-Mixes.The new Vita mixes and Blentecs are quite expensive-but excellent.The SS jars are good if you want to keep something being blended cold or hot.You can prechill the jar in the freezer for cold-or warm it with hot water for keeping something warm.If you use the SS jar for enough time-you can tell when the contents are blended by sound-bartenders do this.The fixed blade Warings are really intended as a bar blender-for mixing drinks or other liquids.Besides EBay and yard sales-another place to look for blenders is a used restuarant equipment supply.They may have some.Of course they will be less expensive than new ones-but you might have to replace blades,jar or drive clutches.the older Warings and some of the commercial ones that use the square metal spline driveshaft on the motor are the most rugged of the Warings-more so than the newer "Wagon wheel" drive-but the Wheel drive is easy to replace.also the commercial Hamilton Beach blenders are good-like the Waring these are workhorses.Many bars still use them.and their parts are still available and cheap.I would aviod the household-residentual HB machines-unless the much older ones.
 
I have seen those new KA blenders at Linens and Things and Lowe's -If you do want one-check those first-they were selling the new KA machine for $99.00O the KA machine-it still has their ineffective blunt ended blades and an all plastic drive.I have a few KA blenders in my collection and they don't get much use-KA should stick to their mixers.The newer KA machine does come in some colors-white,black and pink.
 
Well this thread gave me the impetus to start unpacking my stuff so I took some pictures before putting them all away.. not all there's still more in boxes..
The Oster blender second on the left is the TOL model, all chrome, very heavy, cycling feature and a whopping 1300 watt motor. The similar one to the left is half the weight and 890 watts. Then we have two fabulous Hoovers,, everyone loves Hoovers. And on the far right another of the better Warings..this one more deluxe than the first.. all chrome and 14 speeds with timer.
 
More blenders

Wowee
Love these Sunbeams pictured on the left...the glass jar is akin to the Mixmaster jar but the glass is molded different at the bottom to fit this blender..won't fit on the Mixmasters.
2nd left.. a fabulous Panasonic all chrome solid state deluxe with electronic pushbutton timer function...and 1000 watts I might add.. wonderful
and then two more pedestrian Oster Beehives, the one on the left is one of the earliest ones, all chrome, even the ring, and then a later version from the mid 60's with pushbuttons.
 
good gawd not more blenders

Not another Oster..this one is sorta ugly, lightweight and not very powerful.
But right beside it is one of those very cool GE low riders that looks smart in any kitchen..
and another Oster 60's model
What's that next to it on the right..too bad they quit making those..the Waring Drink Mixor.. great for cocktails cause it sez so right on the label if you can see it. These were from the late 50's to about 1962 maybe later.
 
Enough with the blendors already

Ok last two for now but I have more not including all the Oster Kitchen machine blenders, the Kenwood Chef blenders, a few Braun KM32 kitchen machine blenders..the Cook'n Stir.

On the left a very nice Lady Kenmore 600 (rebadged Oster) and a Hamilton Beach Commercial Bar blender.

So you might rightly ask, which one do we use daily? An Oster Commercial, it's up in the kitchen now so I haven't got a pic of it.
 
Well, the '65 LK that Jason so generously gave me a couple of years ago would do the job.
It is truly a "Frankenmore".

He changed out many parts including the pully system and the spin and agitate speeds are greatly increased.
It is truly a Kenmore "Bolt-Down"! It spins so fast!

Robert in Roanoke found me a "Roto-Flex" agitator to put in it and we have successfully converted it into a a "Vita-Mix"!

Sorry. I just couldn't resist.
 
Thanks, Petek for sharing the photo's! I enjoyed seeing the old Oster "Deluxe" on post#175840. That "pedestrian" thang lasted at my parents house forever despite all of the abuse it took. It crushed ice for a gazillion frappe's and "Maurgies" at my parent's parties and dinners, and I can remember my "Bubbie" chopping up beets for borsht in the summertime.

My Mother did not like to cook and did not do so often. However, she was a good cook when she chose to do so. One of the things she made was a knock-out split pea soup, made with flanken and carrots and onions, that she pureed in that old Oster. Smooth and delicious.

Thanks for the memories.
 
Very cool GE low rider.....

Is MINE, petek!

Love it, love it, love it, still looks mint (it survived my childhood, somehow, lol!)

Not even that noisy!
 
The radios are pricy for a reason

Those radios are DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) Radios. . not FM/AM.
 
automatic speed control.

it has "automatic speed control" I'm not 100% sure how that works.
 
I have a couple of Kenwood Chefs the old original 50's one and the later..heck I'll have to dig them out and take photo's..
Sears in Canada sells the new model as the Kenmore Elite as well as the Blender.. they make no mention that the blender jar will fit on top of the mixer otherwise you wouldn't buy the separate blender.
 
I got one of those modern retro Osterizers and it made such a racket I couldn't stand it. And it wouldn't make smooth smoothies. Always a chunk of ice or two still flying around. I now have a KA and it's quiet and works well although I don't like the control panel. A friend has a Cuisinart blender and the smoothies come out smooth. If I had it to do over again, that's what I'd buy. I got the KA at Costco about a year or so ago. It was $75 with $25 rebate. That deal was too good to pass up.

I love my 40's and 50's vintage Warings but got tired of hearing my partner scoff and complain when I'd haul one out to use it, so that's when I agreed to buy something new. Thought that retro Oster would satisfy everybody but instead it was universally despised. I gave it to my Mom who had a cheap Betty Crocker from Home Depot that got bent blades the first time it tried to blend up a batch of grasshoppers. She's legally blind so the on/off switch on the retro Oster is perfect for her.
 

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