bit-tech Shopping: Waring Professional Food and Beverage Blender

• Chop
• Crush
• Other
• Puree

• Dishwasher Safe
• Ice Crush Button
• Manual Controls
• Removable Ingredient Cap
• Stop and Serve Feature

Rating: 10

Time with product: 2 Weeks

Strengths: Powerful, Simple to use. Easy to clean.

Weaknesses: A bit noisy. Some overflow when mixing watery drinks.

Summary: This blender is pretty close to be the commercial-grade. It can chop ice easily. I use it for fruit smoothie mostly. Rock-hard frozen fruits are added after the liquids. The whole job is done in 30-60 seconds. I also use it for pancake mix and other baking job which normally can ended up to be a big mess. The cleaning is easy as the blade assembly is fixed to the carafe. I understand that replacement parts are readily available online too

Rating: 10

Time with product: 1

Strengths: Powerful, Simple Toggle Switch, Super Easy to Clean

Weaknesses: Lid leaks when you over fill and / or blend thin liquids (like water and soap)

Summary: This thing crushes ice like no body's business. Well, once I read the directions and loaded it correctly. You gotta put the ice in after the liquid. It works when you do is vice versa but it sounds very bad. I use this blender primarily for protien shakes. I like it becuase making a morning shake is extremely quick and easy. I load it up and it blends down my ice and frozen fruit in under a minute. It's "self-cleaning". All you have to do is do a quick rinse in the sink then blend a small amount of water with soap for like thirty seconds. Rinse out the soap and toss it in the drying rack. The blade assembly is mounted to the carafe. So, there is nothing to disassemble. I've tried cleaning other blenders this way and crud makes it's way into the rubber seal attaching the blade to the carafe. Self-Cleaning rocks. Simple. Hi and Higher togle switch. I never understood those blenders with 11 speeds. I kinda just push the buttons like an old Atari game. All I do with this blender is hit low for abouth 20 secs to crush the ice and HI for about thrity. Works like a charm. Just don't put too much soap and water into the blender. The liquid hits the top of the carafe and leaks out the sides. The lid feels like it snaps on pretty tight, but somehow water leaks out all over the place. It works great when I put in just under a cup of cleaning soultion. The only other concern is that the motor has a slight burning smell. I think it's just burning in. I hope so anyway. It's got a 5 year warranty so i'm not worried.