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My wife tells me that with the round glass blender her “smoothie” is not as smooth as made in the old square one that broke.

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I just bought this blender last week and have made about 5 smoothies with it. For smoothies, I use frozen fruit, protein powder and rice milk. I let the frozen fruit sit in the rice milk for 5 minutes to start thawing out the fruit. Still, this POS blender cannot chop the fruit. The motor revs and revs and you can smell the little motor toiling away. Only the fruit at the very very bottom gets blended. I have to stop and stir and blend again. I wonder how long this motor will last as it strain to the verge of overheating.

I thought that $300 for a high quality blender was too much. I thought that if this one wore out and broke after a year, I would just buy another. That was a good theory provided that the blender could easily make a smoothie. I guess this would be good for soups but I am not even going to go there. I am going to return this ASAP.

If you do a lot of cooking or expect to blend ice or frozen fruit, keep looking for another blender. Trust me.

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I have been using the bullet for 3 weeks now and here is my feedback.

The machine is a great thing and I would definitely buy another if I need to. The recipe book has some simple tryouts and so far all have been deliciously better then expected. I only wish the attachments were made of better quality components. Just because I have one PRO and 5 CONS does not mean the tool is not worth the money and you should not buy it. Like I said, it can do a lot of great things.

Pros: small, very powerful and does what the promos says. I am happy with the thing.

Cons 1) The glasses, cups, and attachments are all made out of the type of plastic that scratches very easily when cleaning with a mild scrubber sponge.

Cons 2) The bottom of the blade attachment uses a rubber gear to engage with the motors spin mechanism. To run the blender the user pushes down on the cup which comes into contact with the gear on the motor. So when the user pushes down too lightly the base motor grinds and burns off the rubber on the underside of the blade. There will be smoke and rubber smell in the air with rubber shavings around. So when you use the bullet make sure you push down with authority so you don’t grind away the engaging rubber on the underside of the blade.

Cons 3) I wish the glasses and attachments were stackable to reduce/space needed to store away all the components.

Cons 4) The inside of the glasses/cups are ribbed/reinforced with a lines of plastic from bottom to top making it hard to just insert a sponge and wash out. Probably the dumbest thing about the bullet.

Cons 5) When ice gets ground in a smoothie there are always good chunks of ice that don’t get ground good enough and get left behind.

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I spent a lot of time researching a new blender for daily use. I bought this to replace an old basic Hamilton-Beach that struggled with a single smoothie. I absolutely love it, for all the reasons others have mentioned. It works powerfully and quietly, and has these features that just delight me:
- Lightweight but strong container, making it easy to carry a blender full of smoothies to the table.
- Clever spout design lets you easily get out thick concoctions without having splotches fall out.
- Super-easy clean-up with the contained blade design.
- Sealed button panel, so the inevitable spills won’t damage the works.
- Compact height - it fits under a standard-height upper kitchen cabinet, unlike the more expensive Breville I originally bought. This is important for anyone who plans to leave it out on their counter.
- It looks nice enough to leave out on the counter, and I can use it to take on tasks for which I used to lug out the Cuisinart.

If you are using an older blender, this would be a wonderful update.

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I got this in January 2009 and it broke in July 2009. It was probably used 25 times, of which 1/3 were frozen fruit smoothies, 1/3 were frozen cocktails (ice crushing), and 1/3 were ‘wet blends’ with little resistance.

The blender worked great and I had no problems with it. In fact, it was one of the best blenders I had used and in fact in some ways was better at blending than larger VitaMix blenders.

As background, I have blended hundreds of smoothies and so I am accustomed to operating blenders. If I needed to add a bit of water to chop ice, fine. If this blender’s motor had burned out after 4 years I’d be upset, but would move on. However, this blender broke in a way that no product like this should ever break in 100 years of use.

The Details: The blade is ’screwed’ in by something that looks like a metal screw but is definitely not stainless steel (it is made to look like brushed stainless steel, but it is not). Rather, it looks like some kind of composite metal/cement material with a brushed outside for looks.

I tried blending something and was surprised not to hear any sound. When I looked at it I discovered that the blade and top of the blade-screw had literally broken completely in half from the bottom of the blade-screw. The blade was ‘floating’ in the smoothie I was blending.

I could have easily poured this smoothie (thick) into a glass without seeing the blade and gotten it into my mouth, lips, or tongue and been badly cut.

I want to be clear, this design flaw is so bad that the engineers who designed and approved its use should be fired. You don’t hold together a fast moving blade at 550 watts with a screw made of junk material.

I bought this unit at Bed Bath & Beyond expressly for the ability to use their long-term product return polic if needed. All I can say is that they get 5 stars for taking back this 1 star product.

I will never buy a Waring product again.

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I bought the one featured at Costko today, at fifty bucks. The model as stamped on the bottom of the base is BVCBO7-B. I made a smoothie with it, looked over the manual. The thing is, you cannot reverse the blade direction at will. The “pre-programmed” buttons (Frozen Drink and Food Chop) have a reverse direction phase in their cycles. The pre-programmed actions are finite and stop after some seconds, Frozen Drink cycle being 30 seconds. You can, of course, continue blending by pressing buttons. The BVCB07-B seems similar (basically identical except for the appearance of the base) to the Fusion and the other “Counterforms” blenders, but less expensive (at least at Costko, and I imagine that the BVCB07-B might be a Costko exclusive). The Fusion and Beehive (which is not a “Counterforms” blender in any sense other than having a 600 watt motor) are currently $60 at Wally.

The Counterforms blenders and the Fusion (all these are the ones featuring “reversible” action), have a 6 bladed cutting unit as opposed to the standard 4 blade unit that comes/came with all the other Oster blenders over the years. If you look over the box carefully you would think that there’s a means to reverse direction of the blade assembly, but there’s really no means of doing so. The blades go backward for only a split second several times during the pre-programmed Frozen Drink and Food Chop cycles, should you choose them by pressing either of their dedicated buttons. The function of this is clearly to dislodge jammed material. The 6 blade assembly is sharpened only on one side (all 6 blades), so reverse blending wouldn’t work (unless they sharpened the blades on both sides).

I bought the all black one. Costko also sells it in silver/black. The base is plastic, not metal. The Beehive appears to have a metal base except for the plastic at the top (which is said to break sometimes). The Costko display, which states the price and a resume of the features presents it as a “Counterforms” blender, however the word “Counterforms” does not appear on the box, the manual or the unit! From what I have seen, I’m inclined to think that it is essentially the same as the Fusion and the other Counterforms. I believe the motor, the electronics, the controls, the container are all the same.

So far I’ve made 3 smoothies and they came out fine. I don’t find it to be terribly loud, either. In fact it seems to be definitely quieter than the other two Oster blenders I’ve owned, a recent 450 watt 14 speed and a 20+ years ago bought 120 watt 10 speed.

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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…

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I’ve had two or three reliable Oster blenders in 30+ years, and this one was a piece of junk. I blended a smoothie, and it would not shut off, so I had to pull the plug. When I plugged it back in, it wouldn’t turn on.

This didn’t seem to have the power of a 1,000 watt blender, as noted on the box. I wasn’t surprised to see 600 watts marked on the bottom of the blender. Don’t they call that false advertising?

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I used this at my mother’s house over Christmas and must say that this is not a good blender. There is no noticeable difference in the 12 speeds - only between speeds 1-6 and 7-12 and I had to repeatdly turn off the blender, dig in there with a spoon to stir up the fruit (or ice) and then turn it back on again, then it turn off , dig in there with a spoon to stir up the fruit (or ice) and then turn it back on again… And even then I didn’t get a well blender smoothie/milkshake.

I personally own the “Oster 4093-8O Classic Beehive Blender, Chrome” and love it (I have a review there). Its well worth the extra $7.22 - makes SMOOTH drinks on one blending cycle.

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I got this in January 2009 and it broke in July 2009. It was probably used 25 times, of which 1/3 were frozen fruit smoothies, 1/3 were frozen cocktails (ice crushing), and 1/3 were ‘wet blends’ with little resistance.

The blender worked great and I had no problems with it. In fact, it was one of the best blenders I had used and in fact in some ways was better at blending than larger VitaMix blenders.

As background, I have blended hundreds of smoothies and so I am accustomed to operating blenders. If I needed to add a bit of water to chop ice, fine. If this blender’s motor had burned out after 4 years I’d be upset, but would move on. However, this blender broke in a way that no product like this should ever break in 100 years of use.

The Details: The blade is ’screwed’ in by something that looks like a metal screw but is definitely not stainless steel (it is made to look like brushed stainless steel, but it is not). Rather, it looks like some kind of composite metal/cement material with a brushed outside for looks.

I tried blending something and was surprised not to hear any sound. When I looked at it I discovered that the blade and top of the blade-screw had literally broken completely in half from the bottom of the blade-screw. The blade was ‘floating’ in the smoothie I was blending.

I could have easily poured this smoothie (thick) into a glass without seeing the blade and gotten it into my mouth, lips, or tongue and been badly cut.

I want to be clear, this design flaw is so bad that the engineers who designed and approved its use should be fired. You don’t hold together a fast moving blade at 550 watts with a screw made of junk material.

I bought this unit at Bed Bath & Beyond expressly for the ability to use their long-term product return polic if needed. All I can say is that they get 5 stars for taking back this 1 star product.

I will never buy a Waring product again.

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