Ninja Blender Duo with Auto-iQ BL642 vs Vitamix 5200

That's very interesting, so this thing is pretty intelligent and it kind of you know it knows how to make a blend, which is interesting so so yeah. I ...

It can easily make bar-quality crushed ice, almond butter, and smoothies, and it can even hot blend. However, this blender is pretty straightforward, and it doesn't have a Pulse mode or any preset modes. It also isn't dishwasher-safe, but it's still quite easy to clean by hand.

Unfortunately, it's loud when it's running, although since it has timed programs, you don't need to stand near the blender the whole time you're using it. The motor base and 72-ounce main jar are fairly bulky, which isn't ideal if you only want a blender for making single-serve smoothies. You can also use the bigger jar to make okay smoothies when serving a crowd.

Yes, I expected noisy but this is more like noisy I expect it to come flying apart at any minute. It also still has a burning smell to it when you turn it on. As someone who is intimately familiar with what burning electronics smells like, this thing smells like burning. I get the distinct impression Vitamix was trying to cut as much cost out of the product as possible to increase margins

I got this to replace a KitchenAid blender - wow, what a difference. The KitchenAid has held up well for 14 years, but this one eats up whatever I put in it. The frozen drinks we make still had a few little bits of ice left in it with my previous blender, but the Ninja leaves an absolute smooth drink. I like the large jar (72 oz), which is a solid plus over the KitchenAid

Breville products - after replacing all sorts of items breville hold up. Their larger counter top oven gets 3-4x/week use and nearly never use the “regular” oven any longer.

Low on this blender is much more powerful than high was on my old one. I tend to use the largest of the round jars more than the huge pitcher simply because it does a better job. The pitcher has multiple blades stacked up the the height of the pitcher, but does not do a good job pulling the food down to evenly blend it, which tends to liquidate what's at the bottom more. The round jars that come with it do an excellent job resulting in a finished product with perfect consistency all the way down

Disappointed with the 5200 Blender. Purchased the 4500 Vitamix in the late 90's and it just now stop working. This newer model has terrible blending/juicing power. Not sure what the problem is but I wish I would have purchased the 4500 Vitamix again

We were upgrading our old (but in good shape) Kitchen Aid blender, and after a lot of research started off with buying the Blendtec Total Blender. Seems like there's no way that could be a bad purchase if the item is $400, right? It's a $400 blender, but you're not getting what you pay for. Right off the bat, my husband and I were not happy with how light and flimsy it felt. It literally bounced away from me on my counter when trying to make a single smoothie

Vitamix 5200, but for a more budget (but still excellent) option, I would highly recommend the Breville Hemisphere Control for a shade above 150. I will recommend against the Ninja blenders. They're a lot cheaper, but there are good reasons to get at least the Breville.

We've used our ninja for smoothies everyday and it has taken on all we have thrown at it!

Better practice would be to make all movement clockwise (or all movement cc) as this would put both studs of the pair in play for each lock-unlock episode ( and reduce the wear on the otherwise solo stud by a significant percentage).. The BEST PRACTICE, however, which might be a little hard to swallow or ordain in the instructions, would be to make all movement clockwise on odd days of the month, and all movement cc on even days of the month. OK, you think I'm nuts, so let me explain

Now. The great thing that comes from a nutri ninja is the fact that I can pop this on. It's got the seal in there and I've got a sealed flip top as we...

They emailed me a UPS label and let me ship (free)the mechine to repair. Only a week, fixed and returned it to me. No questioon, no more a word. Simple, easy, quick

They’re high maintenance and you can’t break the blade apart to thoroughly clean it. We thought just washing it through after use is all good and air drying it. Unfortunately you need to carve the silicone under the crack where you attach the cup and if you don’t, mold central!!! I don’t even know if there’s also mold under the blade where the spinner attach to where it blends. Speaking too of where it blends, we use the ninja to grind coffee as well, so as you can see, it does create powder residue and we hope this is coffee and not rust

However, in order to use it for dry ingredients, you have to purchase a dry blade for it. For the price, it should have come with it. I liked it but it didn't fully serve the needs of my lifestyle. I took it back and bought a cheaper brand that I could use for dry ingredients

This is a quick and convenient way to juice and blend. The personal blender glass is a snap to fill, blend and use as a drinking glass. The suction base stabilized the blender while in use. Everything easily disassembles for cleaning and easily reassembles for next use

Received my 7500 Reconditioned and the first thing I noticed was the variable speed knob seems to have zero effect to the speed of the blades. I read the manual, followed the steps to 'reset' and still nothing. I have not had a great experience so far with Vitamix customer service. The first rep told me this was totally normal (which I've watched enough demo videos of this model to know that it is not, also just visited a friend yesterday with a Next Gen and their variable speeds work as expected)