Ronson Cook'n Stir vs the Cuisinart Blend and Cook

[petek]

I just couldn't resist when I found a Cuisinart Blend and Cook blender on clearance for less than $50 last week. They've been on the market for a few years now but I wasn't going to pay the $199 or even the $99 they've dropped down to at most stores recently but less than $50.. why not.

So I unpack it last night, set it all up, turn it on and everything seems fine and I get to sauteeing some onions first, then adding some more veggies and stock, push the heat button onto high and it's taking forever to bring to a boil but eventually does. I put that down to the frozen corn and peas I'd used. Then after it's boiling I push the medium heat button and it really never comes on again to keep it at a low boil.. back to high again and it's boiling. After a few back and forths I hit the high setting again and nothing, the light doesn't come on and no more boiling.. Fiddle around, empty the carafe, put it back together, hit the high heat again.. nothing.. So back in the box and back to the store this piece of shite will go.

This machine is nothing quality wise compared to the vintage Ronson's. It's cheap, the buttons feel cheap, the base feels like cheap plastic etc.
If anyone is considering one, don't.

 

[twintubdexter]

This is good information. I wondered why they kept going down down down in price.

 

[neptunebob]

This must have a heating element to do the cooking. What about the Montel Healthmaster, I think you just let it run a long time and it can make soup from the friction heating. Would the Cook N Stir take that long?

 

[petek]

The heating element on the Cuisinart is built into the jar base right below the blades. The jar on the vintage Ronson has a metal base/blade and it sits atop a hotplate that is part of the motor base.

 

[philr]

Was the Cuisinart as noisy as the Ronson? I bought my Cook-N-Stir blender just to show my sister that you don't need to pay $1,800 for a blender that heats after she bought a Thermomix to her husband! I also got it because I wanted to replace my first blender, a regular Ronson blender with the plastic jar that I threw away when the white plastic cover for the jar started to disintegrate and both the cover and the jar did smell very bad after that...

The glass jar and black plastic cover don't seem to have this problem in the Cook-N-Stir. 

I did boil water in mine (which doesn't take too long) and used it as a regular blender but never tried to cook anything in it while it stirs as the sound would make me crazy if I had to hear it stirring for more than a minute!

 

[petek]

The Cuisinart was not so noisy but then the stir function cannot be left on. It only works while you hold down the stir button.