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13 years ago
neurosport
Curator Wrote:
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> the trick is in making you
> think your getting more, as so many seem to
> think...
exactly my friend !
that's why i didn't get 5200 which supposedly can do it all. that's just what they tell you so you would think you're getting more for your money. actually you're getting a regular blender.
i try n
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
but this Blixer guy has a fatal flaw i think - it is too big. i don't think you could prepare reasonable sized servings in it. you would probably need to blend like 3 or 4 apples at a time - and i only want to blend one maybe.
oh well, guess we're stuck with food processors.
my mother has an upcoming birthday. i wanted to get her a food processor as she never had one but when i was looki
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
let me quote from that pdf:
"Recommended for use in healthcare facilities for preparing spoon feedings, semi-liquid feedings, and liquid feedings (for tube feedings); restaurants for preparing combo butter mixtures, sauces, salad dressings, mousses, and grinding herbs, seeds, lobster, scampi, etc."
i dunno about you but to me it looks like VitaMix is a fake ghetto Blix
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
check this bad boy out:
there is a special plastic blade that you can use to scrape off the food that stuck to the sides while it is blixing
so this is kinda like a tamper in vitamix.
very neat !
so when you need to grind meat or peanut butter or heavy stuff like that that's what you can use. i don't need that for now.
you can't really design a machine that processes both liq
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
pborst Wrote:
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> Neurosport,
>
> I appreciate at least the veneer of a review of
> the 500. And I also think you should publish your
> own thread on the Blending Station Advance. You
> obviously like it, have researched and invested in
> it.
>
> My view of the 500 is that of relative change vs.
>
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
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> Neurosport.....Will the Advance Blade 15990 and
> the XP Blade 15590 fit the Vita-Mix 48 oz.
> container (picture 3)?
> I'm presently using that container with my
> Vita-Prep 3, and would like to experiment with
> different blades....WY
no, sorry bro.
advance blade only works with a
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
just to be clear - blending station advance will take the widest array of containers of any blender
it will take all of these:
as well as all of these blades:
even though sometimes it says not designed to work with blah blah blah i did some research and it will work just fine - they are simply fussing because the presets on the machine are not time
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
i think between 5200 and HP3A the HP3A blends better but 5200 is a better blender - makes sense ?
HP3A blends better because it has a bigger motor and bigger blade but 5200 is a better blender because it lasts 3 times as long.
too many people have both so if they went with the big blendtec carafe they've spent ~ $900 total. for that same money you can just get a Blending Station Advance wh
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
banana who Wrote:
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> didn't do that great a job
> on green smoothies.
you need to be more specific than that. what exactly was the problem ?
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
get this one:
or this:
don't bother with 5200.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 13 years ago
neurosport
today i was at williams-sonoma store looking at food processors ( for my mom ) and they had both a 5200 and professional series 500 on display.
its the first time i saw vita-mix home models in person
all i can tell you is - get the Blending Station Advance. build quality is night and day. the 5200 and 500 both look they were made for Toys R Us in comparison. their base is twice as light.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
check the link:
capitalism is a system which for many people is difficult or impossible to understand.
you have a socialist mind. for you to understand why one blender should cost an X amount of times more than another is as unlikely as for a Nun to understand BDSM.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
Curator Wrote:
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> I guess if how much noise it makes is worth an
> extra $400, who am i to argue?...still, it costs
> about the same as my car,lol...although my car
> makes allot of noise too...lol
well look there are houses in Detroit that you can buy for 10 bucks. and there are houses in Beverly Hills that you can't buy
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
pborst Wrote:
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> Do you have any comment on the Pro 500 which is the
> purpose of the thread? If so, would like to hear
> it.
i already said what it is - a marketing gimmick. remember how there used to be a chevy, pontiac, oldsmobile, buick etc - and all would be the same exact car - that's exactly what's going on here.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
pborst Wrote:
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> Some people like driving an automatic
> transmission. Some people like driving a stick
> shift.
this is a legitimate analogy for home use. in a professional environment preference is irrelevant - only performance counts. you don't get an option of manual or automatic on a Formula 1 - everybody gets the sa
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
the reason preprogrammed operation requires different container shape is because to get consistent results with presets you need to make sure the shake is circulating evenly all of the time. with a tall narrow container there will be stuff blending on the bottom and other stuff on top doing nothing. with a preset you would end up with whole pieces of produce in your shake - such a container can
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
READ MY LIPS: MARKETING GIMMICK.
blendtec owners think its preprogrammed settings are some kind of advance that makes it superior to vitamix - thats a DELUSION. actually Vitamix manual control is superior to blendtec's controls - let me tell you why.
preprogrammed settings are not there for your convenience. this is what is used in a smoothie chain environment. before getting my Blending
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
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> P.S. I don't think you'll ever need to sharpen the
> blades.
yeah i changed my mind - i won't sharpen it.
the blade as it comes stock actually is not sharpened at all. i thought i wasn't going to be blending much ice so i could sharpen it but actually to get certain things nice and smooth requires b
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
Curator Wrote:
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> I dunno, maybe im just lucky, or maybe I dont know
> what a well blended smoothie is supposed to be
> like, but my $15 clearance sale blender can even
> blend ice down till you cant even tell you put ice
> in there, I throw carrots in my blenders and you
> ant tell they where ever put in there... oat
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
Here are the pictures as promised:
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
i mean maybe let it defrost first then blend it. i am talking about those frozen vegetables u can buy in walmart etc. to turn it into a smoothie.
would that be poor nutrition compared to buying them fresh and blending ?
i am pretty active ( gym, bicycle ) and burn up a fair amount of calories - i can't afford to get that many calories from fresh vegetables. i can either get the extra cal
Forum: Recipes and Food Preparation 14 years ago
neurosport
you have found out why Blendtec is cheaper than VitaMix ...
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
supposedly on a vitamix you can swap the rubber centering pad for an "xp" centering pad and use an "xp" or "advance" contaners which are ENORMOUS. i think they are actually bigger than the 96 blendtec.
vitamix told me this will burn out the motor though because those containers have a bigger blade. i decided against such experiments.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
I think there is some cheating going on with those will it blend videos. They don't show the whole blending process in one piece when they blend big items like an iPad.
They show the beginning of blending and then they show the end. I would maybe trust them if not for the fact that they once got caught faking in the video with neodymium magnets.
and even if it does blend an iPad that does
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
if the blender will be where the customers are you might want to consider a model with sound abatement cover.
i am not sure how much quieter it would be though - probably not by much. will probably make a difference when crushing ice though.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
pborst Wrote:
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> Translation, I'm playing games keeping you in
> suspense. Why? Neurosport, if you don't want
> straight communication I guess that's your
> prerogative.
i apologize if it came off that way. actually my agenda was the opposite - i just wanted to spare you the drama in case my family say that it's too exp
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
Wheatgrass Yogi Wrote:
> You forgot to tell us what Blender you ordered.
i didn't forget. i strategically left that information out.
i should be getting it on friday. if i end up keeping it i will let you know which one it was - i'll even post pics
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
thanks i placed an order for a blender.
food processor will have to wait.
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
59. Re: Also ...
pborst Wrote:
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> I'm not going to go into the
> differences between the two brands as I have done
> that recently as has everyone else.
oh i have researched that angle to death already.
pborst Wrote:
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> Be skeptical of a certain Youtube video
> from Popular
Forum: Juicing, Juicers, Blending and Blenders 14 years ago
neurosport
60. Also ...
I am having a hard time understanding the purpose of VitaMix 5200 and Vita-Prep 3.
On Vita-Mix site the Vita-Prep is listed as a food preparation device as opposed to drink preparation for most other Vita-Mix commercial products.
So it's basically not a blender but a food processor. But aren't products like Cuisinart and MagiMix better at processing food ?
If you're crazy enough to spend
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