Cleanblend Commercial Blender with 5-Year Full Warranty - 1800W, 3HP, 64oz High-Performance Professional Countertop Blender with Stainless Steel Blades

We bought one of these blenders about 20 years ago, a 2 HP one, and it is still working fine and blends much better than the cheaper ones. I don't know if this one is the same brand, but it is 3 HP, and it is very powerful and totally commercial grade. I just now finally loaded it up with bananas, pineapple, strawberries, and coconut milk to about 2/3 full. I turned it on for the first time, not knowing if I would need the whatchamacallit to hammer it in. No need. The bananas and pineapple and strawberries were soft enough for it to get started right away. It took only a couple of seconds to blend it all. I left it on for another 15 seconds or so just in case. What a great smoothie! This machine is a monster. I'll have to test it with the apples and cantaloupe for which I had to use the whatchamacallit pole dabber to get the stuff twirling at the beginning. This one comes with this whatchamacallit thing, which is why I bought it instead of the cheaper ones. My other one has this device, and it worked well. And the three horsepower is pretty good. I poured the contents from the mixer to an old half gallon plastic milk container, and it filled to the top, and I put it in the fridge. Good enough smoothies for several days.This is a monster blender, well built, and with good controls for variable speeds and such. It should last a lifetime. It is money well spent.

After our old Kitchen Aid gave up the ghost, we started looking for a replacement. AI recommended Ninja, which was probably a good blender, but nobody bothered to tell us that the vertically stacked blades wouldn't give us the kind of vortex action that we needed to make our dessert smoothies. Next we tried a Nutribullet, which shutdown on high motor heat. I finally put it in the refrigerator to cool the motor enough to come back on. The company said to not run it more than a minute, which I don't think I did. The motor stunk, and so did the blender , for my money. This Clean blend Commercial brand has all the power you'll ever need, no bells and whistles, just power, bottom blades, and all. An added bonus is the variable speed controller which doesn't cause cavitation nearly as much as the button shifting of other brands. I'd give it ten stars if I could.

I have had this blender almost 5 year, purchasing it in September, 2020. Except for days I was away from home, I have used it every single day. I did the math and that equals roughly 1,600 uses. It has never, not once, failed to perform to perfection. I use it daily for smoothies that include ice, frozen fruit, greens and raw vegetables. I have used it to puree soups and to turn raw oats into oat flour within seconds. After each use, I fill it half full of hot water, add about three to five drops of dishwashing detergent, run if for about thirty seconds, rinse it out and wipe it dry. That's it. After so many uses, the plastic jar is etched with some "character scratches" from the thousands and thousands of frozen berries it's had to handle, but that is to be expected. This thing shows no signs of giving up. If it ever does, I will order another Cleanblend with no hesitation whatsoever. Vitamix could even price-match and I wouldn't consider a change. This was one of the most sound investments I ever made. If you are looking for a durable, all-purpose blender that will not fail you, look no further.

Before this I was using a $100 Oster blender. It sucked. It was underpowered and loud. It would leak from the bottom. It would constantly kick the smoothie liquids up the sides of the pitcher every second so I could never get a thorough blend. I ended up getting a refund from Oster directly. They have a good warranty and service. I'll give them that.The Cleanblend has the power you need to make a great smoothie in 30 sec. to a minute. Handles tough fibrous veggies like kale and crushes frozen fruit with no problems. Creates that vortex in the middle to efficiently blend everything. With the Oster I would literally have to blend for like 3-5 mins just to get an ok blend with visible specks, and sometimes chunks, of food. The Cleanblend pulverizes everything nicely and uniformly. I love the simple dial control and switches. It includes a handy spatula and even a decent quality nutbag which was helpful for something else I made (squeezing cucumber for tzatziki sauce).However, the lid and tamper had poor quality control or manufacturing. The lid's rubber ribs were not cut cleanly and had frayed edges. A huge piece of rubber was hanging off one of the edges that I pulled off. The lid's removable plastic cap had a very sharp burr on its side. Then the top of the tamper, the rim's indentation was all scratched up and had sharp edges all along it. The pitcher and base looked fine. I emailed their support and they responded very quickly and issued a replacement lid/tamper. I don't like how it took a week for them to deliver the replacements even though their office/warehouse was only 15 miles away from where I live.The replacements were better but still not perfect. The rubber ribs were cut a lot cleaner but the underside had imperfections in the corners. The plastic cap had a burr again but it was smaller and wasn't sharp at least. The tamper's rim wasn't as cut up but it still had scratchy places on it. The replacement lid didn't go in the pitcher as tightly as the first lid. The first one fit very tightly. The replacement was on the looser side. I found the replacements acceptable but they clearly need better QC or manufacturing because those parts didn't exactly have a professional quality look or feel to them.I was surprised by how much quieter it was compared to the Oster. On high the Oster had this annoying, piercing sound that made you wanna cover your ears. The Cleanblend doesn't have that. It's still going to be loud because it's a blender but I found it very tolerable. If your kitchen is not close to a bedroom I think you can get away with using it in the mornings. Even medium speed could be sufficient because of its power.Like I said it makes excellent smoothies, which is what I mainly bought it for. One thing I'm noticing though after using this for ~4 months is sometimes fine strands of spinach will get wrapped around the screw on top of the blade and occasionally around the shaft underneath the blades. This is very annoying and I have to use this special brush I bought (it's like a miniature toilet brush) that's bendable to break up and remove the strands. It takes like half a minute to clean out the screw but can take a lot longer for the shaft because it's much harder to reach and clean since it's underneath the blades. If I didn't have this brush I would have no way to clean the shaft. It only does it with spinach. I've tried lettuce, kale, collard green, swiss chard, and they're all fine. I don't remember this issue happening when I first got the blender. Might have to contact support if it happens more frequently.Also, the top of the motor base has these four posts, similar to a Vitamix, that are supposed to hold the pitcher in place at the corners while blending. But these are not positioned accurately. They don't hold the pitcher securely and it can still rotate sometimes while blending. Why they didn't place them a little further out I don't know. It seems like that's all they would have needed to do.Oh and in the manual there are instructions on how to "sanitize" the blender. They recommend putting dish soap/water and running the blender for a minute, then letting it sit in the pitcher for a couple minutes, pour out the mixture and then just letting it air dry. As in, don't rinse out the soap. It specifically says "do not rinse after sanitizing". What?? Regular dish soap does not sanitize anything. It helps carry away grease and germs with WASHING. Letting the residual soap mixture just dry in the pitcher is disgusting. I can't believe they would put that in the manual. Please don't follow those instructions.Despite all the flaws and imperfections, I've been pretty satisfied with the Cleanblend. The base and pitcher seem to be good quality. They definitely need to work on QC or remanufacturing for some parts. The company touts their warranty and customer service as one of the main benefits of buying from them. They seem to be living up to it. So I do recommend Cleanblend.If you're trying to get in the habit of drinking healthy smoothies everyday having a strong blender that makes a good smoothie does help. If you don't want to shell out for a Vitamix (I don't) this is a much more affordable alternative. Forget the cheaper blenders. Spending a little more for a much more powerful blender is definitely worth it. I don't have to deal with half-drinking/half-chewing my smoothies anymore.

This is an amazing blender. I saw it on the Ellen show a while back and they put an iPhone in it and it was blended to bits so I went with this one over the pricier Vitamix and never looked back. About a year later some black stuff started coming out of the bottom of the container and I message the company and they literally sent me another one the next daytime. Easiest customer service interaction I have ever had! Highly recommend the product and the company and seller!