We don't use this daily, but it serves our needs really well. It is noisy, but it's a blender, it's going to be noisy. I like the push function rather than a button because it makes the "engine" easy to wipe and clean. No inset behind the button to get gunk into.
Here are the ways I've used it that it's worked really well for:
– Milling flax seeds, made a *beautiful* fine powder. It blitzed them in less than a minute.
– Making dressings or sauces with a blend of this like onion, avocado, herbs, spices and other ingredients
– More liquid-y smoothies with frozen fruit, yogurt for milk
– Greek yogurt consistency chutney with dates and spices
It was just ok at an acai smoothie bowl, but we've tried that in a $400 Vitamix and that was just ok too. I don't think any blender does that ultra thick, "hold it upside down" consistency without some fuss like shaking it aggressively every 40 sec. When we did that, it worked great.
Two things I really like about it are the different size jars and its washability.
I use the smaller jar for the flax seeds. And the large jar is just a bit bigger than you need which is great when you need extra space for bulkier ingredients.
This blade piece unscrews completely from the jar and the gasket/seal comes off easily. (That's why he's hated the Ninja, it was fussy to clean.) There are no weird "wells" where the water pools and doesn't dry.
Since I use this for sweet and savory things, it was important to me that I could take it all apart and put it in the dishwasher. The taller cup fits fine in the top rack of the dishwasher. It says not to put the blade in the dishwasher but it has been fine. I have a utensil drawer at the very top of my dishwasher so it's not getting heat on it.
My only worry is the silicone seal gasket ring will eventually degrade and then I won't be able to use this anymore. But maybe I'll order replacements now.
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