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thrifty, yet a good idea (Philips)

Now, for lower budgeted seeds-avoiding people, there seems to be the Philips solution, have a look!
No experience with these units though, but from what I can see, the concept somehow makes sense to me:
A funnel to stuff the fruit down, coming from the lid hole and going down to the blades where the shredding occurs, then the lower part of the funnel seems to be some sort of a fine strainer so that only really purefied stuff can enter the drink. I recon the liquid turbulence must be slower here, but what the heck, it is all mashed up anyway. Or isn't it? Practical experiences anyone?

 
Practical experience

Yes, I have such a blender (in white and with a 650 Watts motor). Philips calls this a fruit filter, they compare the function with a juicer.

I tried it once. In order to keep it down you must press the lid down really good. So I decided to make tomato juice. It worked quite well, but when I took the lid off the filter stuck to the lid. Juice and pulp were together again...

BTW, raspberry seeds. Many years ago, I think it was at the Omaha convention, the raspberry seeds came up as a good test for a blender. Apparently a new Vitamix would pulverize them, an older one not. It's not only about power, it's also about the design of the jar and the blades. My 960 Watts Osterizer doesn't totally pulverize the seeds, but it sure does something with them. Just like my Braun MX32 with only 400 Watts. My Philips 650 Watts blender however doesn't do a thing with the seeds.

The benefit of a blender that pulverizes them is that you don't have to sieve the smoothie which is pretty much a hassle in the morning. Sort of like having to use a wringer to get the water out of the laundry after washing it automatically.
 
thanks Louis

I've always wondered how these would perform. I see quite many Philips appliances in our stores here, many of which appeal to me visually (the strainer blender included). Yet I cannot buy any gadget out there just to see how it works.

Magic bullet, smoothie makers and Thermomix: There is this lady in Nordrhein-Westfalen, she is trying out and making every "green" or full-grain recipe you can think of. She runs a blog, a recipe website and a youtube channel. Go share her experiences, she has some very cold-nosed opinions on each of these products' hypes, yet her experience is based on practical use of the machines and what they can do (or cannot do) in real kitchen life (be sure to watch the videos).
She's a cat lover and owner as well, so some kitties might pop up on her patio here and there ;-))

http://www.vollwertkochbuch.de
 
Thanks for the link! Looks interesting!

Although I am a big fan of older Philips washing machines etc. and although it's a Dutch company I am not so wild about Philips small appliances. Philips is very good at bringing appliances out with new gadgets, but I really would like it when they would give the product itself more thought.
 
I like Philips!

They are Eindhoven based (a town that I love for very good if not best reasons), they brought CD technology to the world (as far as I am informed) and I do own a very fancy and well-working knife sharpener from the 60s in its original package, inherited from my granny, with a very fancy screaming red power button. What more could there be? :-D
 
I liked Philips

You are right, in the past they made some good stuff. I have their first foodprocessor, their first handmixer, their first coffeemaker and their first ice machine. IIRC my mother still has that knife sharpener. But a lot has happened since then. Why bring a blender on the market with two blades while they cannot even design a blender with just one good blade. I really wish they got their sense back.
 
Also, you load the blender, any blender, liquids, then soft items, then hard items at the top--makes a world of difference.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!)
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
For me it is Vintage Oster.

I have 3 of them, I have the chrome 1965 Classic VIII, a gold plate 14 speed 50th Anniversary Cyclomatic, and a chrome Lady Kenmore 600 made by Oster, it is mid 60's also. The Lady has a slide speed control instead of buttons.

 

I Dont do much blending, just salad dressing or an occasional frozen drink or milkshake
 

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