5-Speed Immersion Blender, White

Great immersion blender. I purchased it as I make multiple batches of egg bites just about every week. Using a blender, mixer, or food processor was just messy. I chose Vitamix for the quality and the rubber tips at the bottom of the blender which will work well with my Le Creuset Dutch oven and blended soups. I'm very glad I purchased it. The quality is inline with the price.

I was looking for an upgrade to my immersion blender. Researched. Researched. Abs Researched. Nothing seemed right. Then Vitamix came out with one and I gave it a try. Like everything else I've gotten from them, it is amazing: powerful, well-built and a machine I know I'll have for years.

Looks great and the wattage is powerful. However, I had to return it due to learning about its materiality at the bottom of the bell which is not stainless steel. I believe it's something similar to nylon glass fiber (after inquiring w/ customer service, which was friendly and helpful). I didn't want to risk melting that material when I cook, so I had to return it. Other than that, it's a beautiful design.

This immersion blender works very well and is great with medium to large quantities of food. However, if the food/liquid does not completely cover the cone part of the blender it does not work well. I bought this hoping it would make 1 portion sizes of ice-creams made with frozen fruit and a liquid as well as sauces in small portions. It seems this is not what it can do. So for this I am disappointed.

I bought this to purée soups instead of transferring hot soup to my vitamix blender. I found it heavy for one handed use-(I assume because of the powerful motor). Also because of its power you have to be extremely careful to leave it submerged in the liquid as it splashes all over ugh

The ON/OFF button requires one to press and hold continuously in order to remain ON. Another button to crank up the speed can also be pressed and held, though you are allowed to press and release the speed one. The inability to press ON/OFF with a press/release option is distracting; I want the focus of my attention to be on the food that I'm making, not preoccupied on holding the ON/OFF button, which otherwise shuts off and speed goes down to zero. If you like to work fast, and efficiently, this will be distracting and you might find it unnecessary, especially if you've worked with other blenders that allow you to keep it ON.

I was so excited to replace my Braun immersion blender with a Vitamix but after a couple weeks I'm going back to the Braun. I mostly use an immersion blender to blend sauces in a pan. With the Braun, as long as there's 3/4” of sauce it blends great with no splattering. With the Vitamix, even with a few inches of sauce it makes a huge mess all over the stove. The blending bell has a bad design for that application — blade is too high and not enough side vents. It probably works well if you pour the sauce into a blending beaker but at that point you may as well use a regular blender.

We bought this immersion blender just over three years ago. It worked great initially but the wand has since broken. Because we were just beyond the warranty period, repair or replacement was not available. We were willing to buy a new wand but the replacement part is not available in Canada, despite the product having been purchased in Canada. So now, just over three years later, this expensive hand blender is useless.

If I knew it was made in China I would not have bought it, I buy and pay top dollar for Vitamix because it is made in America. I bought it for a gift for my 82 old mother, she likes it better than the last one she had that lasted over ten years, smoother operation, quieter and not too heavy for her.

Perfect in every way, except: to release the blender shaft from the motor, one must twist to unlock, which, for 70+ year old Carpenter's wrists, is a bit difficult and risks a serious onset of tendinitis. Given its performance, the locking mechanism needs to be very positive. Great product, just can't recommend if one has a lifetime of hard work and difficulty with hard twisting motion about the wrists.