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I don’t mean for this to come out rude or anything,….but do you have a job? what is it that you do for money? I’m just curious cause your blog is great and has such detailed content, how you have time to train and write And work, I don’t know.
thanks!
Great review. I do the frozen banana thing too (only I just peel and put in a plastic baggie and freeze). That blender is on my Christmas list. I bet it makes great hummus too! Can’t wait to try it on almond butter.
I’m laughing at burnt couch’s comment…
Blender looks awesome! Once again I am jealous of your gadgetry. I love the Will It Blend segment – seeing the iPhone die was sad, though.
I have to buy that blender to make peanut butter. I’m sure I’ll end up putting in some chocolate chips and making some chocolate peanut buttery freezable snacks that will remind me of Reese’s PB Cups. *Going to Amazon.com..
Nice review of the blender… the Oreo milkshake looks delicious :)
I watched that little video with my jaw dropped. Awesome. I can barely get my blender to cut through an ice cube.
For all the good this blender could do (ie making smoothies and fresh peanut butter), I think I would use it for pure evil things (ie chopping up an old walkman I have, the cassette tapes that went along with said walkman, making oreo milkshakes, making a massive smoothie out of every Halloween candy known to man, you know…simple things like that). Evil I tell you. But awesome at the same time.
This is fantastic. My blender is kind of on the ropes – this looks like a perfect replacement.
iSmoke…ROTFLMAO!!!
My kid found these videos on You Tube over the summer and they are frick’n hilarious! I love the one where all the action figures are put in the Blend Tech and the only one who will not blend is Chuck Norris, lol.
I have decided to get my husband the Blend Tech for Christmas because we finally broke the blades on the blender we got as a wedding gift 15 years ago and have cracked the bottom of a Sunbeam he picked up at a garage sale.
Thanks for the product review!
Hey- how to you have access to Restaurant Depot? The website says you need a business license or non-profit certificate to become a member. Looks like a great blender! I’m also looking forward to the review of the computrainer.
RE: Access to the Depot…
I have a small business license…mostly from a former life, although occasionally used for consulting – but still valid. Of course, obtaining a valid biz license is an easy manner in most states (WA/VA I’ve done it).
Making your own peanut butter- I am so in awe. Why are you not my neighbor?
You should grind up peanuts and banana and make banana peanut butter. Would that keep? It probably doesn’t matter because you should just eat it all at once.
I do hold myself out as a bit of a blender connoisseur after this summmer and I agree with your assessment!
-Audrey-
Holy crap…mind your fingers!
This is my most favorite review ever. Maybe because I am most likely to buy this thing?
ANYWAY this was fantastic. When I lived in Berkeley one of my housemates had a VitaMix which seems similar to this. It could blend ANYTHING. And I loved it. I may have to ask for this for Christmas…
And what is this Restaurant Depot place you speak of? It sounds awesome. Matt is a small business owner so um…I need to look this place up!!!!
I want me one of those hockey puck shakes,….haha
funny stuff…
Why are you putting ice in an Oreo shake?!!!
FAIL
Vanilla ice cream is the only acceptable base.
Also Laughing at Burnt Couch.
Insomnia is the first requirement for having a blog.
Great review! I am planning to buy one after I made the best tasting almond butter with my buddy’s Blendtec. Simply add a bunch of almonds and a few tablespoons of coconut oil and voila! fresh almond butter that costs way less than buy in the bottle at the store.
I bought one of these for my wife for Christmas based on your review. This blender really is that good. Nice job finding this one.
That Oreo smoothie looks AWESOME!!!!! Gotta try!!!
LMAO @ Burn tCouch
It’s been a few years… Is the Blendtec still going strong? I’m trying to decide between this and a Vitamix. Any thoughts?
Yup, still going without issue! I haven’t tried the Vitamix, nor really looked at the rest of the market. So hard to say these days. But otherwise happy with mine.
Any chance to get a 2019 DCR blender recommendations? Making smoothies should be like the 4th discipline.
Ha! I just stumbled upon this review! I’ve been using a Blendtec for years because I’m a serious green smoothie fiend! A regular blender won’t cut through the greens and other produce nearly as well as a Blendtec.
Besides blending about anything, the other two biggest features of Blendtec which the other high speed blenders (such as Vitamix and Ninja) DON’T have is:
1) finger-friendly blades – so you can’t cut yourself while cleaning it, and
2) low profile – so you can keep it assembled on the counter and fit it beneath cupboards.
A few years ago, Vitamix attempted #2 and ended up copying the Blendtec square jar so closely that they got in legal trouble and ended up settling with Blendtec. Blendtec turned around and used the settlement money to give free jars to their existing customers. We only had to pay a shipping/handling fee of about $12 per jar. ;-)
Haha…such an old post! And yet, still our blender, more than a decade later!
I purchased a professional BlendTec blender off eBay not long after you posted this. I still use it all the time. Great blender. Also thanks to you, I ended up doing 2 full Ironman triathlons and 4 half IM. It’s all your fault :-)
Hey Ray,
It’s been a few years… Is the Blendtec still going strong or did you get a new one?
-Frankwin-
Indeed, still have the same one! We don’t use it a massive amount these days (merely because living in Europe, it’s still my old US unit on 110v, so I have to pull out the transformer). But it gets use probably once a month.
Cheers!
You were right about the “endless entertainment”! LOL! That guy Tom cracks me up!
Damn! 15 years later, you went the distance there. Good to see you around Scott.
Haha! I found it as I was reading your review on the Wahoo Headwind fan. (But I think I’ll get one from Amazon for a fraction of the price).