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How interesting that I would recieve an email inviting me to review my new Cusinart Duet Blender/Food Processor while I’m drinking my berry smoothie that I just finished making in it!
I can honestly only write about the activity of making a smoothie for this review. If making smoothies is why you need a blender, please don’t purchase this one.
For some reason they have designed the blades to be more than halfway below the bottom of the glass pitcher and ice, larger fruit (like strawberries) never get chopped up and if the concoction that you’re making is a frozen type, it will just spin and spin and nothing actually makes it down into the blade area. Opening the top and stirring every 20 seconds to get the mix down to the blades is very frustrating and time consuming.

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HFN: The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network - CUISINART STEPS UP AD CAMPAIGN; COMPANY DOUBLES PRINT BUDGET.
September 13, 1999 -- STAMFORD, Conn.-Cuisinart is revving up its advertising efforts with an expanded campaign. "Our advertising is three-pronged," explained Paul...

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We purchased this blender at a local home improvement store, thinking the well-respected name, 600 watt motor, and glass pitcher would equal one heavy-duty machine. It looks great! But, it stopped working mid-way through the second batch of frozen drinks! Didn’t have it turned “ON,” I was using the pulsing feature. So, called the Customer Service number, and they said I could send it to them for repair or replacement in two weeks. The reatiler was 10 minutes away, so returning it there was no big deal.

The second time around, the blender again stopped working during the second use. I made the children some banana milkshakes, rinsed the pitcher out, to make some strawberry frozen drinks for us. The darned thing stopped working again! Called Customer Service about it and they gave me the same story. So, back to the home-store . . .

Take three . . . new machine . . . made one batch of our favourite frozen drinks again. Poured two glasses and left the rest sitting in the pitcher for seconds. When I came back for seconds, I wanted to tap the pulse feature to re-blend the drinks . . . but, the thing wouldn’t work!! Back on the phone to Customer Service. They suggested I check their website and select another of their “fine blender line.” YEAH RIGHT!!! They also said that “maybe you got a ‘bad batch’.” A “bad batch” of blenders?

Several things can be learned here: I enjoy frozen strawberry drinks too much, my local home improvement store has great customer service, and THIS BLENDER IS A PIECE OF JUNK!!!!

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Food and Drinks Made Easy With Oster and Cuisinart Blenders
Good food and drinks take time, energy and love to prepare. This can be achieved with a good kitchen partner called a blender. It comes in handy for most cooking needs. Oster and Cuisinart are two of ...

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Better alternative than a pricey juicer that is a cleaning chore. My Oster Fusion works fine… I use it manly for making juice drinks with mixed fruits or veggie drinks with soft vegetables. Well made with it’s heavy glass pitcher.. well made drive mechanism.

I don’t do mixed drinks. so have no opinion… but for fruits, veggies and salsa making I think this product is a great choice. especially if you seek a versatile appliance that juices, mixes and chops… with no messy cleanup.

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I purchased this same blender well over five years ago. My partner and I use it 5-6 days a week and usually one or two times a day making post work-out smoothies. This machine easily blends ice and large chunks of frozen fruit including large frozen strawberries with no difficulty. This blender worked flawlessly for all these years until the black spindle that rotates the blades in the container finally sheared off. Everything wears out eventually. Frankly, I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did. The blender is very easy to clean with its smooth face and the glass jar managed hundreds of trips through a hot dishwasher. I just wished that I bought a second glass pitcher soon after my initial purchase. It would have been terrific to use one pitcher while the other was in the dishwasher. Considering the workout we gave this blender I feel it has held up beautifully and was definitely worth the price. I am going to replace this blender with the exact same model so I will finally get my second pitcher.

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I wasn’t thrilled with this blender’s user interface (the buttons are kind of unintuitive), but I could live with it. And it actually is a nice solid glass blender, which is good because I often blend hot soups - so heatproof glass is a major plus. Unfortunately the base is nowhere near as solid. It’s almost comical that Cuisinart used such a cheap, easily cracked, plastic base with such a diesel pitcher.

The problem is that if you tighten the glass pitcher onto the base with too much torque, you’ll end up with a hairline crack in the base where it threads onto the pitcher. The entire base is just one large brittle piece of hard plastic. If they had used rubber or more-flexible plastic material, then this crack wouldn’t happen. It’s made from the kind of plastic that if you put it in the freezer for a day, took it out, and dropped it on the floor, would shatter into a hundred pieces. It just makes no sense that such an otherwise solid blender would have such a cheap failure point.

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