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91 of 98 humans found the following review helpful.
Estimated reliability AND User Recomendation
By Maxx134
This unit cannot be equated to the “Oster 4119-022 2-Speed 500-Watt Beehive Blender” model which has a weaker 500w motor and dissimilar layout.
32 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
LOVE this blender
By S. Ishii
I just purchased this blender from Costco with regards to 2 weeks ago. Its base is all black though, not stainless steel, and I love it. We had an Oster beehive for when it comes to 3 years and then the little metal portion on the base that the jar fits over just broke one day. So I started looking at reviews for one that made smoothies in truth good and I was looking at the Oster Fusion, but then I saw this one at Costco that basically had the same features, at least the reverse blending mode. We have made shakes and smoothies in it with the frozen drink method and it makes them perfective without having to stick a spoon down in and mix it around (we had to do that with the beehive), I will update when I have had it longer, but so far we love it!!
26 of 27 humans found the following review helpful.
1 week review
By AR Amazon
After a week of each and everyday usage:
I did a lot of exploration and read a large total of reviews, ultimately chose this blender when it was on sale at $50 from Amazon. First impressions, glass pitcher is sturdy but reasonably light, nice size, fits underneath my counters. I’ve employed it for smoothies with frozen solid fruit and it does blend rather well. The low and medium settings are much quieter than my old Osterizer. But, the high setting is super deafening and overpowering, the whole blender shakes all over the counter and the lid rattles…I will stick to using low and medium. The pre-programmed cycles are a bit chintzy. It does a cycle on low, then reverses and goes to high power, again way too strong and vibrates all over the place.
My other complaint is that the pitcher doesn’t settle well into the base. You have to jimmy it to get it to lock down. The plastic skirt around the blade unit is super cheap plastic and will in all probability break soon. The manual says this skirt is designed to help stand up the pitcher on the table top, but it doesn’t actually do anything utile and makes it more difficult to line up the pitcher with the base. I may just toss it, the blender works fine without it. The lid has a very little hole, only when it comes to 1 inch by 1/2 inch, so it’s very difficult to add liquids or powders for the duration of blending. Solid foods have to already be diced up to fit through the hole. And the cap to the hole doesn’t fit well, it slides off too without apparent effort and has flown off when I employed high power. The pour spout on the pitcher is too wide and makes it difficult to pour into a glass accurately.
Overall, it does blend very well and is the right way quiet on low and medium. It has some quirks that require getting applied to. For $50, a good blender, but for $80 there’s probably a better product out there.
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