Blendtec Classic 575 Blender wtih WildSide+ Jar (96 oz) and Spoonula Spatula Bundle, Professional-Grade Power, Self-Cleaning, 4 Pre-Programmed Cycles, 5-Speeds, White

I did not reveive the recipy book or the manual in the box. It seems someone have removed them before shipping.

Great quality, has different modes, super easy and convenient in use

I never really thought blenders did a very good job so when I decided to buy one I thought it had to be exceptional. The Blendtec is an exceptional appliance. Mostly we use it to make smoothies. It is a little loud but the outcome is outstanding. I highly recommend this product if you’re looking for something beyond a blender.

A truly Total BlenderThe Blendtec Total Blender really does it all. You’ve probably seen the unique square jar design before, but until you use it you won’t know the power of the blending vortex that the shape creates.The powerThis industry-leading 1,560 watt motor cranks out up to 3 horsepower! Plenty to propel that 4 inch blade to annihilate whatever is inside.The capacityThe three quart BPA-free jar is large enough for nearly any job; even soup for a large dinner party is no problem for this blender.The versatilityMaybe the best way to think about a high-performance blender is to not think about it as a blender at all. It’s more of a counter-top appliance replacement.With all of the different tasks it can handle, it really is so much more. The Blendtec Total Blender ticks all the boxes of what a high-performance blender should be.If you make bread or bake, the Total Blender is large enough to replace your mixing bowl for making dough.Your soups will be creamier than ever.Turn ice into snow and wow your friends with incredible margaritas.When fruit is at peak ripeness, make it into creamy ice cream and you can savor it then, or save it for another time.The BPA-free jar means you can make delicious food for your baby, worry-free.The list goes on and on; dressings, sauces, salsas, cappuccinos, hummus, nut butter, you’ll never run out of uses for a high performance blender.The convenienceThe best thing about having a high-performance blender in your kitchen is the convenience. Quite simply, having one means that healthy, delicious meals can be prepared in no time at all. A number of features make most high-performance blenders hassle-free, and the Total Blender delivers on all counts.It’s small enough to stay on your kitchen counter beneath the cupboards, or store below in the cabinets. The fixed blade makes the blender safe, but also means no more dealing with screwing on loose parts. The Blendtec is always assembled.Once you have it out, just add your ingredients and select one of the pre-programmed blend cycles. The blender will slow down, speed up and stop on it’s own giving you the exact result every time whether you’re making a smoothie or baby food. It’s a great time saver that let’s you get other things done while the blender does its thing.Cleanup is always the dreaded part of hauling out the blender, but with the Total Blender it’s a breeze. Just add water and a little dish soap, blend it for a few seconds, then take it over to the sink and rinse it. It really couldn’t be easier to clean. The flat panel design is easy to wipe off when there are any spills on the base. There are no buttons for small scraps to lodge under.DrawbacksBy far the biggest issue consumers have with the Blendtec Total Blender is that it is loud. Of course with all of the power it has, it’s essentially unavoidable, still, it’s important to be aware of this before buying. Especially if you plan on using it while people sleep.Another complaint is that the base is heavy when compared to a conventional blender. This is also unavoidable, to house such a powerful motor, and be safe to use, the 5.6 pounds of metal and quality material is a necessity.One other thing that some purchasers notice is the inevitable scratching inside the jar. Because it’s plastic, this will happen over time. The scratches won’t be deep, and the jar will still clean just fine, it’s mostly an aesthetic consideration. The only way to avoid this is with a glass jar, but glass is actually less durable and there are no good high-performance blenders that offer it.The Total Blender comes with the “WildSide Jar” which gives it its unique blending vortex. It also includes the Twister jar which allows you to scrape the sides with a twist of the lid while blending – an important feature when making something sticky like homemade peanut butter. It’s also great for individual servings. For sticking in the WildSide Jar, the included Spectacula Spatula is designed especially for the Total Blender.The Fresh Blends Cookbook features over 200 pages of recipes so you’ll never run out of ideas for great, healthy meals and snacks. And of course, the Blendtec comes standard with a manufacturer 8 year limited warranty, a welcome reassurance after making a significant investment in a high-performance blender.

My husband and I have decided that we're too fat to enjoy life the way we want to, so we decided to eat more fruits & veggies and cut down on all the processed, prepared, fatty food that we're used to. You know - the food that tastes good. But the only way this is going to work is to a) find something tasty to substitute and b) find something easy. So we thought of smoothies. Which meant we needed a blender. A good blender. Something that can blend a brick and clean up after itself.A friend of mine has a Vitamix that she loves and uses every day, but $499 was a little much for me to spend on a blender. So I put it in my wishlist and my cart and hoped that the price would go down or that someone would like me a whole lot. A couple years later, Amazon told me that they would give me 20% off a small appliance if I used my Amazon card. My friend's blender is still going strong, so I thought, why not?Before spending that much on a blender (80% of a lot of money is still a lot of money) I looked at what other customers viewed after viewing this item. And I found Blendtec - you know, by that youtube guy who blends ipods and stuff. After spending several hours comparing reviews, I picked this. The fact that it came in red didn't hurt. :)It came yesterday. For dinner last night, we had Green Pineapple Paradise (page 15 of the included cookbook). For breakfast this morning, I made a strawberry banana smoothie. For dinner tonight we had a chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie (chocolate almond milk,  PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter - 85% Less Fat and Calories - 6.5 Oz , 1 walnut, 1 banana, ice, and some baby spinach.)Don't gag - you couldn't taste the spinach, and I didn't put in enough to turn it green. Actually, all three smoothies had spinach, and you couldn't taste it in any of them. I didn't make enough of the choco/PB/banana/etc smoothie for two, so I made a small blueberry/strawberry/walnut/and you guessed it - spinach smoothie later, and it was wonderful!There are 6 pre-sets, and the smoothie setting takes 30 seconds. Everything was smooth enough to use a straw. Yes, it was noisy. Very noisy. But if you're dealing with something that can blend a rake (not suggested) you should expect noisy. Clean up took literally 2 minutes - rinse, put in warm water and a squirt of dish soap, hit the up button a couple of times and let it run for 5-10 seconds, dump and rinse, and you're good to go. I suspect cleaning up after making peanut butter might take longer, but for smoothies, this is great! OK, it's not self cleaning, but it's almost as good.Tomorrow we will attempt Tortilla Soup (page 109 of the included book). Believe it or not, there's a soup setting that's supposed to make your soup kinda hot! You can make ice cream too, but you have to start with something frozen to do it, like fruit or ice cubes. I might save that for the next day.We have gotten 3 full, filling, tasty meals out of this over the course of a day and a half, and clean up took about 10 minutes total - that includes washing it right out of the box. We've cut back several hundred calories without feeling hungry. We spent $50 on groceries and still have a fridge full of fruits and veggies. If we keep this up, we'll be skinny and rich in no time.ETA: Ok, HOT isn't the word for the soup - slightly warmer than lukewarm describes it better. It tasted good, though. And cleaned up in about a minute. 90 seconds (soup cycle) in the blender will aerate the soup, so if you don't like it frothy, stop it early and heat it up the conventional way. Still 5 stars though. PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter - 85% Less Fat and Calories - 6.5 Oz

Easy-to-use and clean this machine.The blending power is noticeable in the results when mixing vegetables and fruits to make healthy drinks. The noise level is different from a regular store bought blenders. No more stress or struggle in making smoothies and not much water to add to make a easy recipes.

I'm one of those people that usually has to learn something the hard way. Blenders were no different, apparently. I went through "a few of them", and luckily I was able to escape with my wallet relatively unscathed. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was going to need that wallet. Because what I needed out of a blender was apparently industrial strength. I make smoothies like a lot of people, but for some reason the mix of ingredients I use invariably "lets the smoke out" of 99% of the blenders out there. Now I'm a pretty simple person (if having to learn the hard way wasn't an anvil-shaped clue). In my world, if I'm not blending rocks (if I'm actually blending something edible) then a normal blender should be able to...blend. I don't know, maybe it's something about the name. So after learning the hard way, it took some coaching to make the leap to an even-more-serious blender than I had tried before...and I had tried some blenders.To be honest, after going through all of those inferior blenders, the opinion only solidified more. A blender should be able to blend. So if you have to pay $400 for one, it better do it perfectly, and for a long time. The choice for this model started with friends recommending it. Then it was onto the "Will it Blend" videos. They're pretty effective. Especially the one where he blends cubic zirconians into dust. I figured "okay, if it'll do that it should handle my smoothies".And it did, for the most part, and for a while. One problem is with certain ingredients. The unit will vibrate *very strongly* if you put certain food ingredients in together. No, nothing extreme like the blend videos. Normal food (okay, maybe "tricky" food). A blender like this shouldn't vibrate enough for an owner to have to hold it down with both hands so it doesn't vibrate off the counter. And there's apparently another problem when the unit vibrates with heavier-duty food ingredients in it--the digital display can flake out. Just like mine did. After over a year of use, the display lights up basically whenever it feels like it. Yeah, that's not good.The other problem is the "heavier food ingredients" I mentioned. In my case, it was a magic ratio of ice and...of all things...peanut butter. Warm peanut butter is nothing, I can blend that with my eyes. Cold peanut butter--made cold by ice especially--that's apparently a different story in the alternate universe of blending. PB and ice is no synthetic diamond, but apparently it's up there. With one blend, I could actually smell ionized air from the blender. Of course I stopped it immediately. And cursed at it to give me my money back.My final criticism (okay, no promises): the jar. I was very careful when I made the move to buy this. I read a *lot* of the reviews on here. (Thanks for those by the way, and yes they really do help.) One thing I saw a lot of was people complaining about the lifespan of the 2 quart jar. Most of the problems seemed to be caused by dishwasher use. Now for me, I'm thinking a $90 blend jar should be able to withstand a lifetime of dishwasher washes on heavy-duty wash using hot water and the strongest detergent you can get your hands on. I sort of refuse to change my mind on that, $90 is a lot of money for questionable engineering. I did manage to promise myself to only hand wash mine, though. And I have. It's been 14 months now. I've always used regular dish soap, warm water, and my hand. Seriously. And after 14 months, about 15% of the gasket that marries the blade mechanism to the jar has 'particle-ized' and deposited itself in a ring around the jar's base that surrounds it and forms the 'feet' it sits on when it's on the blender. And that material is apparently not optional because the blade is now noticeably harder to turn when you try to with your hand. Uh yeah, this shouldn't be. I don't know how much more life it has. I do know I could not have babied it more. And I know if it doesn't last at least another 10 months then what's wrong isn't how we treat them--it's how they're designed.Okay, enough of the criticism. I'll give the Blendtec this--it is extremely powerful for an appliance that takes power from a normal wall outlet. And it has blended some 250 44 oz smoothies (I do it in two 22oz batches, one after the other, so really it's 500 uses). It only faulted twice (once when it ionized air, and again when the display developed a mind of its own). That puts its performance in a world of its own. If I had to bet, I'd bet this thing will last another 4 years. And I understand who I am--I'm most likely a heavy-duty user.Still, if it doesn't last another 4 years I'm going to be getting on the phone with someone, and they're either going to correct the problem or I'm going to make my own video with my own blender, complete with its level of performance. And then I'm going to turn right around and try the competition. This is a seriously good blender for the money...but for the money we're talking about, we deserve excellence.