OK, Best Blender?

[mark_wpduet]

OK

So I just made my green smoothie. I started with the lowest speed "stir" (which I have never done), then I went up slowly until I was at liquefy, and that took care of it. No bits of carrot AT ALL. I can't believe I didn't think to do that. I guess starting slow and going faster was the key.

I did have ONE small issue the other day. The container leaked; I think it was the rubber ring not on correctly or something when I put it back together. I took it off and put it back together and no leak at all.

Hey Malcolm.........It is a pretty cool looking blender. It's VERY easy to clean and all parts are dishwasher safe, even the blade assembly. The base is HEAVY and STURDY. No matter what I have put in it, I have never had to stop the blender or use something to push the contents down toward the blade. It does it fine on its own. The Oster always needed help on certain things.

 

[MrX]

I have one of those Philips blenders with the strainer.

It's a really nice machine.

It's a proper glass-jar blender, that assembles and disassembles very easily.

The fruit filter looks rather like a European Bosch/Siemens dishwasher filter core It works very well, but you need to make sure that the lid is setup so that it can be simply rotated a bit to open the pouring nozzle so that you can pour out the liquid before removing the cone filter in the middle.

All in all, it's a nice blender - works very well and seems to blend soups excellently, which is what I mostly use it for.

 

[MrX]

Full specs :

Link to Philips European website below:

Philips - United Arab Emirates

Learn how Philips helps improve people’s lives through meaningful innovations – from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care.

www.mea.philips.com

 

[foraloysius]

Personally I think this blender does better on soups than on smoothies. Smoothies from this blender are not as silky as smoothies made in my Braun MX32 and my Osterizer blender.

 

[tolivac]

Rasberry and strawberry seeds have the bioflavoniods or something in them that are good for you.Older VM machines such as 3600,4000 could grind the seeds.You just had to forward-reverse them several times while blending.I have a Juiceman Blender that had the internal strainer part.that blender died-was trying to compete with VM-mine went up with a normal blend sounds-then a deep growel,flashing display, and smoke.Got a refund from the company that sold it.the machine was built in China.Had two containers and blades-one was SS the other Lexan. VM used to make a strainer-bag press assembly if you wanted clear juice from the machine.Was used for carrot juice-you blended the carrots-then put the bag-filter in the jar-allowed it to fill then used the presser blocks to squeeze the filtered juice from the strainer bag.Something like that from an older VM manual.Never had or used that attachment.Not needed with new VM or even Blendtec machines.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The first and ever blender I have ever owned:

Since getting married & movin gout on my own! My RED OSTER! Though I'd really missed out on the real "Classic Design" of by-gone days...

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Otra Vez:

-- Dave

 

[petek]

Some of the blender collection

 

[petek]

s'more

 

[petek]

more s'more
I have too many

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Od Ehad:

Wow! Now THOSE are what I call OSTERS! Oster-IZERS! --In that last pic!

Love those blend'r collections, there, PETEK! The Warings et. al. are just as nice, too...

-- Dave

 

[petek]

Dave

Yup,, it gets a little out of hand. I'm trying to quit

btw what does your username mean?

 

[petek]

I personally like the old Warings but for a new blender I really like my Oster Fusion, the one with reversing blades.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

AMKRAYOGUY:

I belong to a music website for fans of A&M records, wwww.amcorner.com, and while my name there is just "Dave", I've been known to color the text in my posts (sadly to the point of it sometimes being an annoyance) so I made up my own "guise" and while it was too late to change my handle there I've used AMCornerKarayoGuy for my YouTube user-name & even that of my FaceBook profile...

So AMKrayoGuy (w/o "Corner") is the name for short & though I'm fairly weak at nicknames (though I have been known to dispense plenty--Ha, Ha!) I thought in homage to "A&M Records--though I am a fan of many artists, labels & all sorts of genres of music--that this fit, if in that it IS unique... I think so...

Though at this point, I think I should have branded myself, "Charles Klamkin Fan"...!

-- Dave

(And "unique" ranks high on Herb Alpert (founder of A&M Records) scale; discover A&M Records & other labels, for yourself, during their hey-day of the '60's & '70's, particularly for the one-shots on '45's (in multitudinous amounts) who have never got to record a complete album) & in celebrating the Long Play's 100th anniversary of stuff that just slipped through the cracks!)

 

[mark_wpduet]

I wonder if those Osterizers from the 60's and 70s are equal to the Blendtec's or Vitamixes made today?

OMG........Huge lightning strike outside just now as I typed this

 

[sudsmaster]

I currently have two blenders: An American made beehive Oster (got it about 15 years ago) and a modern five speed Kitchenaid, similar to the one Mixfinder illustrated earlier.

The Oster is fine for routine low tech blending. The KA is quite impressive. The base is wide so that liquids mix very thoroughly without that bouncing up and down.

Previously I had a pushbutton Osterizer back in the 80's. Harvest Gold and all that. It finally gave up after being pressed into one too many daiquiri duty. I think the motor bearings must have gone out. There was wisps of smoke coming from the motor windings and no rotation. It got discarded. I didn't really like the pushbutton design anyway - too difficult to clean.

 

[tolivac]

Really cool collection of Waring and Oster blenders,Petek.those are really decent machines.Better then waring and Oster new machines.I see what looks like a Waring "Lab" blender-1st picture of blenders-shelf under the toasters-last blender on right.I have seen ones listed in various science and chem lab supply catalogs-Waring is the largest maker of lab blenders.Would like some for my collection and some of the Waring lab blender attachments.they make a "pill grinder" attachment-would be so handy in the kitchen for grinding spices,coffee,and such.Its expensive-guess has to be made to withstand steam sterilization.

 

[petek]

Dave thanks for the splaining on your handle
..........

That chrome Waring is a commercial bar blender. I have a gold colored one as well somewhere amidst the mess.

...........

 

[tolivac]

Waring has a "lab" blender listed in many science and chem lab supply catalogs that look just like it-guess what works for bars works for labs,too.Waring also makes water cooled containers for blending temp sensitive or volatile materials and explosion proof blenders.

 

[mixfinder]

Come On Shy Guy....

Show us your HOT Ronson, Pete!