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GagHalfrunt said:
It can make a smoothie 1 second faster. Over the course of a lifetime that will save you enough time to microwave a frozen burrito.
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It has nothing to do with how fast it can get something done. Rather how well it does it. I've got a Vitamix and after using a Ninja and a previous Oster "cheapie" blender there is absolutely no comparison for the capability of the Blendtec/Vitamix level of blender. The Ninja basically "finely chopped" things. It would leave things kinda chunky/gritty. The cheapie blenders tended to pull things to the bottom initially, liquify them and then everything else would get stuck up top. And it would still leave things sort of gritty.

These high end blenders pulverize the ever loving crap out of things. Even down to the tiny seeds in Raspberries. It will take 2 cups of milk, two frozen bananas, an avacado, two huge handfuls of spinach and another cup of frozen berries and turn it into a wonderfully smooth breakfast in a cup. Could not replicate that in any other device.

Oh and it will take things like peeled oranges, lemons, limes, pineapples, whole apples, ect and completely liquify them. Pulp/core/seeds and all. Add ice and alcohol and you have a delicious adult slushy with the smoothest texture I've got from a device at home.
 
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It has nothing to do with how fast it can get something done. Rather how well it does it. I've got a Vitamix and after using a Ninja and a previous Oster "cheapie" blender there is absolutely no comparison for the capability of the Blendtec/Vitamix level of blender. The Ninja basically "finely chopped" things. It would leave things kinda chunky/gritty. The cheapie blenders tended to pull things to the bottom initially, liquify them and then everything else would get stuck up top. And it would still leave things sort of gritty.

These high end blenders pulverize the ever loving crap out of things. Even down to the tiny seeds in Raspberries. It will take 2 cups of milk, two frozen bananas, an avacado, two huge handfuls of spinach and another cup of frozen berries and turn it into a wonderfully smooth breakfast in a cup. Could not replicate that in any other device.

Oh and it will take things like peeled oranges, lemons, limes, pineapples, whole apples, ect and completely liquify them. Pulp/core/seeds and all. Add ice and alcohol and you have a delicious adult slushy with the smoothest texture I've got from a device at home.
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Bingo. I have a vitamix as well.

I see it this way. I want to buy ONE of something. In my lifetime. I spent $500 on a commercial Kitchenaid mixer, after verifying that all the internal components were metal. That mixer and I are now 12 years down the road, and it's never even hinted at wearing out. We pound the crap out of mixer by routinely using it to make our own bread. Bread dough is hell on mixers and will stall out a lot of the cheap ones.

I purchased the vitamixer for my wife approximately 7 years ago. She makes smoothies, mixed drinks, shakes, and uses it to do the chopping for all the awesome sauces she makes (orange sauce for duck etc.)

My parents have gone though a couple mixers and a couple blenders in that timeframe.

Yes, a premium was paid. It's not much different than those who buy iphones, really.
 
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