starbeck96 Posted November 15, 2019 Posted November 15, 2019 Does anyone own one of these? I had never heard of these until the other day but after watching a few YouTube videos, I am considering getting one. I am planning on getting a blender anyway and most of the decent ones are at the 50.00 mark. These are in the Walmart BF ad for 49.00. If you own one please let me know what you think.
Gator Pam Posted November 15, 2019 Posted November 15, 2019 I do not own one, as I already own a BlendTec. But, as a fan of Instant Brands appliances, I would grab this in a heart beat if I needed one. From what I have heard on Instant Brands Facebook forums, due to the heating element in the bottom of the glass carafe, the carafe is quite heavy. The carafe is also fairly small in capacity, compared to other standard blenders. One thing to keep in mind is that the Soup setting actually cooks the soup via the heating element; it is not heated up via friction. This means, if you are making a soup with dairy in it you need to blend in the dairy at the end of Soup cycle, not during. Dairy tends to settle to the bottom of the carafe, and several users on the forums reported the dairy scorching under the blades. Unlike a friction heated blender, the Soup cycle takes as long as 20+ minutes to cook. But, the temperature is set for boiling, 212 degrees F, which I believe is much hotter than a friction blender generates. But, this contributes to the long Soup cycle, as the heating element in the bottom is all that is heating up the ingredients. Finally, again due to the heating element in the bottom of the carafe, the bottom is not removable for cleaning. Hence the caution of scorching dairy on the bottom. The Clean cycle is not enough to scrape off anything which gets scorched on. Even with these caveats, I would love to own one. 2
starbeck96 Posted November 15, 2019 Author Posted November 15, 2019 I do not own one, as I already own a BlendTec. But, as a fan of Instant Brands appliances, I would grab this in a heart beat if I needed one. From what I have heard on Instant Brands Facebook forums, due to the heating element in the bottom of the glass carafe, the carafe is quite heavy. The carafe is also fairly small in capacity, compared to other standard blenders. One thing to keep in mind is that the Soup setting actually cooks the soup via the heating element; it is not heated up via friction. This means, if you are making a soup with dairy in it you need to blend in the dairy at the end of Soup cycle, not during. Dairy tends to settle to the bottom of the carafe, and several users on the forums reported the dairy scorching under the blades. Unlike a friction heated blender, the Soup cycle takes as long as 20+ minutes to cook. But, the temperature is set for boiling, 212 degrees F, which I believe is much hotter than a friction blender generates. But, this contributes to the long Soup cycle, as the heating element in the bottom is all that is heating up the ingredients. Finally, again due to the heating element in the bottom of the carafe, the bottom is not removable for cleaning. Hence the caution of scorching dairy on the bottom. The Clean cycle is not enough to scrape off anything which gets scorched on. Even with these caveats, I would love to own one. Thank you. I honestly am not sure we will really use the soup feature since we are not huge soup fans (but who knows). I don't own an Instant Pot (hoping to pick one up BF as well) but have heard nothing but good things about the brand. I was mainly looking for something to make smoothies (but I see this one also has the frozen feature which will be nice). I think I am going to go ahead and get it. The motor seems to be top knotch as well. I have watched several YouTube videos and they all said the same thing about the bottom easily scorching and not being removable. There is a newer version out as well, but it is around 120.00. It allows you to customize cooking temperatures and times. That is a huge price difference though. Someone on one of the YouTube videos said they will just restart the cycle and then cancel/pause it when they are ready for it to stop.
jesusluvu Posted November 15, 2019 Posted November 15, 2019 Thank you. I honestly am not sure we will really use the soup feature since we are not huge soup fans (but who knows). I don't own an Instant Pot (hoping to pick one up BF as well) but have heard nothing but good things about the brand. I was mainly looking for something to make smoothies (but I see this one also has the frozen feature which will be nice). I think I am going to go ahead and get it. The motor seems to be top knotch as well. I have watched several YouTube videos and they all said the same thing about the bottom easily scorching and not being removable. There is a newer version out as well, but it is around 120.00. It allows you to customize cooking temperatures and times. That is a huge price difference though. Someone on one of the YouTube videos said they will just restart the cycle and then cancel/pause it when they are ready for it to stop.I love the instapot items I have. I will be picking up a few extra pieces on BF as well. I say go for it. 1
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