Kitchen Blenders

Veelik :

My lid for the previous plastic jar did not fit this jar. My old jar was also a replacement, but was a Hamilton Beach product. This jar was not an HB product. Perhaps the lid Goodman’s sells for their plastic jars does fit. I returned the plastic and bought a glass jar, along with the different-sized lid and insert for glass jars. The blender blade, O-ring and base do fit either the replacement glass or plastic. The glass jar is so thick I bet it wouldn’t break unless you dropped it on stone, so I recommend the glass over this plastic one.

Hess :

At first, I was hesitant to buy this since I read someone else’s bad review.
However, I am so glad that I bought this replacement cap. It saved me at least $20 and now my blender is nearly as good as new! The blender pitcher leaks if it has been in the fridge for 24 hrs. or so, but I may not have screwed it in tightly enough. MUCH BETTER THAN BUYING A NEW ONE!

Jones :

Very good seller. Better than wasting money not to mention the environmental resources buying a new blender.

On :

Hamilton Beach has made their cutter blades the same way for over twenty years - as far back as I can remember. And I’ve used a lot of them. Never had any problems with them. A couple years ago, they came out with the so-called “wave-action” cutter blade. The new cutter blades are a disaster - an example of how to take a perfectly good design and ruin it. What the wave-action blades do - is slosh everything around in the blender jar, creating a mess. It splashes all over the top cover lid. Not only that, but the new cutter blades leak around the bottom, where the round flat rubber seal goes. That’s another thing they changed. The rubber seal that sits below the cutter blades is less in width. Since I do a lot of blending, I have four blender jars and four of these new wave-action blades. All they do is create a mess inside the blender jar and are for more prone to leaking. I have to tighten the base far more than I ever had to in the past. And they still leak.

With all that in mind, I set out looking for some of the old-style blades. I finally found them - or so I thought. I ordered four of these old-style cutter blades. The photo shown on Amazon clearly shows the old style cutter blade. Ah, but everything is not as it seems. To put icing on the cake, Hamilton Beach has done something downright [...]. Get this - they show the old style blades on the front of the box, but are putting the new style blades inside. What’s shown on the box does not represent what’s inside. The picture you see here on Amazon, does not represent what’s in the box. Look at the two photos I’ve uploaded that clearly shows this. [...]

Update 3/20/07. I did eventually find the old-style cutter blades on Amazon. Do a search for “Hamilton Beach Commercial Bar Blender Blade”. I’ve ordered several of these and can verify these are like the old-style blades.