Vita Mix has landed

[austinado16]

I finally scored a Vita Mix 3600.

Been hot for one after picking up an ACME Juicerator at a garage sale a couple months ago. I'd wanted a quality juicer for a long time, and thought the ACME would be "it" until I used it a couple times and discovered how much fruit it wasted by slinging it into a screen.

Anywho, $60 on the local CL, but missing it's book(s) and it's wooden tamper/stick. Bought an original stick on Ebay for $11.

I've used it a couple of times now, and so far, so good. Cored both an apple and a pear, and dropped those in with a banana, and a bunch of frozen blueberries, added a little milk and icecubes, and let 'er rip.

Made a fantastic 2qts of "smoothie" and my tupperware mix-n-pour was right there waiting. 100% of all the fruit came out, nothing wasted, nothing to clean out...other than to rinse out the blender.

So far, so good.

 

[tolivac]

Best bet with those older VM machines-use the "forward-reverse" switch a few times in the blending cycle for best results.Items can hide in the jar corners-the forward reverse action keeps them going into the blades.If you forward-reverse the machine at high speed pause a secod or so in between switching-and hold the machine.it will try to jump.

 

[austinado16]

Thanks for the tips!

I know nothing about these, so I appreciate the suggestions. I actually did that a couple of times because I could hear that it was cavitating and not really circulating stuff. I think I also turned the speed down and then shut it off a couple times, and then restarted it.

 

[tolivac]

I have a couple of these machines I got from yard sales-another machine I look for-if I see a VM stainless steel "monolith" on a yard sale bech-stop and buy it right away.like vacuum cleaner handles sticking up will make me stop.