Kitchen Blenders

Blackshere :

I now have had three of these blenders and with each one, the blender motor burns out after just a few uses - so I say three is three too many! This product promotes a 500-550 watt motor strong enough for crushing ice, but don’t count on it. If your looking for lightweight use only it may be OK otherwise, don’t waste your money.

Moseley :

My family went a decade without owning a blender before we purchased this, so admittedly we’re not blender experts, but I think I could have picked a better blender blindfolded with my hands tied behind my back. We bought this blender because of the B&D name and because it looked “cool.” I’ve always been a fan of B&D tools, so I figured shelling out $50 would be well worth the investment over the long haul. The classy hot-rod red made the housing very retro and spiffy, and for a year and a half it added some hipness to our kitchen.

Then we finally had occasion to use it. Day 1) Blueberry yogurt smoothie. I had to unplug the blender when the little blue LED flashed, giving it a chance to rest after 10 seconds of hard (ahem) blending of yogurt. The results were tasty, but the blender left a few large chunks of frozen yogurt. Yogurt chunks? Seriously?! That should have been a warning of what was to come. Two more days of pseudo-blended smoothies, and then… Day 4) Pineapple smoothies. After a few seconds the motor stalled and I poked around the bottom, thinking the frozen pineapple may have gotten stuck. Within moments of turning the blender back on, the “factory installed smoke” escaped and the blue LED flashed mockingly at me. *SIGH* My hopes of waking to many mornings of yummy smoothies literally went up in smoke. Heaven forbid what would have happened had I tried using ICE!

Had I read the other reviews of this blender, I never would have wasted my time, or my pineapple and quart of frozen yogurt. What a shame the Black & Decker name fooled so many of us…

Redford :

The Black & Decker juicer is the perfect, reliable and easy to use appliance. There a two seperate cones for larger and smaller fruit to squeeze. The rotation is both clock and counterclock wise when applying pressure then releasing. Has a lock spout to avoid dripping after use. Has plenty of power to do the job with minimum effort. Highly recommended.

Knutsen :

I bought one of these blenders just for making fruit smoothies from frozen berries, bananas, and orange juice, which I did a few times a week for about a year. At first I liked it because it seemed very powerful and there were no problems. In fact, my girlfriend needed a blender at the time, and I recommended she get the exact same one and she did. About a year later, my girlfriend and I got married and so we had 2 of the same blenders in our house. We were just using mine and put hers back in its box. Within a matter of a few weeks, I was making a smoothie and the plastic gear that makes the blade spin cracked. We were annoyed, but we figured, at least we have another blender; we’ll just use that. We used it for a few days - within a week, the exact same thing happened to hers. Black & Decker will only offer to sell us a replacement part for $27.90, which is almost as much as buying an entire new blender, and I have to wonder how long that replacement part will last. Save your money and time and DO NOT buy this blender.

Boctor :

After about a week of use this blender was working fine for me. However, in its second week of use the motor seemed to be making noise, slowing down, & creating a burnt smell that one usually doesn’t want to smell from household appliances. I wasn’t working the blender too much…simply making a half pitcher of smoothies once a day. By the end of week two the motor finally called it quits. It died a painful death by emitting smoke out of the bottom of the blender. In short, this blender really sucked. I would expect a little more durability from a product with “Crush Master” in its title.

Verhagen :

I have one comment for Applica, they should fire the engineers and product managers for this product. The Black & Decker line of blenders are riddled with design flaws and manufacturing flaws, it’s a complete failure. You can’t pay me enough to take one home again.

1) The screw groove of the glass jar seat is in the same direction as how you seat the entire assembly onto the blender motor assembly. When you are screwing the assembly into the bottom, you will end up unscrewing the glass jar from its seat. When you unscrewing apart the glass jar assembly from the motor assembly, you are again unscrewing the glass jar. The only way to safely aseemble the two pieces is to hold the white plastic seating piece. Hamilton Beach designed it correctly by using opposite screw grooves. This is the most irritating flaw on these blenders.

2) the motor is sooooooooo loud, even with nothing in the blender, it sounded like this thing is ready to take down the house.

3) reliability doesn’t exist. I blend one protein shake a day, just protein powder and water at low speed–probably the least power demanding blending job I can think of. After 1 week, that’s 5 uses, the motor gave out. My other 15 year old Hamilton Beach is still going strong.

4) the motor vibrates so much, the plastic glass-jar cap will loosen up and pop open during blending. This would allow liquid to splatter all over.

Total piece of junk. If you want to buy an inexpensive blender, go for Hamilton Beach.

Espinoza :

I would never recommend this to a friend…let alone an enemy. Use this a half dozen times and like everyone else said..started making loud noises and low and behold the bottom part of the blade is broken…too cheaply made. Probably made in China like everything else.

Kenney :

The blender works well. Per the picture I thought I was getting a glass jar instead I got a stainless steel jar. The blender does work well overall I am satisfied with the product.

Quincy :

We’ve had this for a little over a year, and it’s been a so-so unit. It really doesn’t circulate the jar’s contents through the blades all that well, but that’s not why it’s in the trash today. The plastic ring at the bottom of the jar is a hassle. You have to turn the blender jar to lock it on the base, and then turn it the other way when you’re done. The problem is that it is very sticky, and not at all intuitive as to how it lines up with the slots on the four posts on the motor unit. And that makes it easy to unscrew the ring from the base, dumping the jar’s contents onto the base, counter, floor, … But that’s not why it’s in the trash today, either.

This morning was the last straw. I had the jar on the counter. Before I added anything, I made sure that it was properly assembled, gasket in correctly, screwed on tightly (hey, I’m no novice around blenders). I put in the ingredients for a killer protein shake, then added milk, and before I could put the milk back in the fridge, it was spreading from the bottom of the jar all over the counter and everywhere! It wasn’t even on the blender yet! The (thin plastic) jar apparently decided that this was a good time to crack from the blade to the handle.

Time to get me an Oster!!