Being in the market for a good-quality blender, I went on the first site I could think of, which happened to be Williams-Sonoma. There I find that if you want a decent blender, you’ve got to spend around $200. Color me scandalized. Why in hell can’t you get a good blender for about fifty bucks? It’s a pretty simple contraption, no?
Oh, well, maybe someone can recommend something to me. I’m looking for one with a glass bowl, and enough horsepower that a handful of ice cubes won’t cause the motor to seize.
Williams-Sonoma is wickedly overpriced IMO. Try Target. Blenders there start at $19.99 and go up to $99.99. I’ve got one that fits your description and I’m sure I didn’t pay more than $30 for it.
You guys joke, but on products like KitchenAid Mixers, blenders and knife sets, Williams-Sonoma is going to have the same price as Target. They don’t just jack up retail because they’re Williams-Sonoma. The difference is they don’t carry lower-end merchandise.
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Anyway, I have this blender. I finally broke down and bought a $100 blender after going through 2 $50 blenders in 4 years because of bad seals, and cracked plastic, and overall shitty design.
Trunk, how do you like that Waring blender? What’s interesting about it is that it has a 390-watt motor. Other blenders, even cheaper ones, have motors in the 500-600 watt range. My simplistic assumption is that more wattage = better, at least for stuff like crushing ice, unless the blade is made out of plastic or something. Anyone have any views on that?
I like it. The glass is heavy. The bottom of it is sealed, no gaskets or anything that screws on which eliminates one source of problems.
The “external” part of the blades that connect with the “teeth” from the motor is made out of thick aluminum, and that’s a place where I’ve seen blenders wear down before so that eventually they don’t make a good connection, and that eliminates another source of problems.
It’s got a heavy base, only two speeds. I like the simplicity of that.
Mine doesn’t have the “pulse” button which they seem to charge extra for.
I don’t know about wattage, but it crushes ice fine.
I also like it because it does well on “small” things. Sometimes I want to blend just garlic and ginger and a little water to make a paste. That’s a hard thing for any blender to do. This one, relative to my previous one, does it better.
That’s my blender, except it’s red. I got mine at Lowe’s; I don’t remember paying that much for it though…maybe it was a slightly different model. (I had a $50 gift card; I want to say the blender was around $85 or so…I don’t have the receipt handy.)
