Vitamix 5000 Variable-Speed Blender

Pros: Why do you put a baby in the blender feet first?
Cons: So you can watch their expressions.

My wife might be what you could call a Snake Oil connoisseur. She’ll buy just about anything that claims to make a job easier, faster, or cheaper. Maybe she has a thing for the fantastic claims or maybe she just likes the fantasy of buying...

Pros: Could reduce the General Sherman Tree to a pile of sawdust
Cons: None

When I was a kid, I used to go to the big flower show in NYC with my Mom. For reasons unknown, they had demonstrations of non-flower gadgets, including the Vita-Mix blender. We had zero money at the time, but I remember my Mom and I watching longingly...

Pros: The absolute highest quality blender I have seen.
Cons: Wont be able to hear the phone ring when on highest setting!

I Finally got my dream blender. It took along time but I finally have a Vita-Mix. I know that this machine will outlast any other kitchen appliance I own. This machine has replaced my juicer, food processor, ice cream maker, and blender, to name just...

Pros: Excellent blending capabilities, multiple uses, easy to clean and maintain
Cons: Pricey

Simply an amazing machine

My new vita mix joined the rest of my appliance family early this month. I researched this purchase for over six months. I started asking on cooking message boards and health related message boards for advice in...

Pros: Versatile, Replaces Several Appliances Easy to Clean
Cons: Costly

Lets face it, the American kitchen has become a complicated barrage of kitchen appliance must-have-its. Kitchen countertops are so full with microwaves, toaster ovens, electrical can openers, blenders, juicers, bread machines, and coffee pots. If your...

Pros: cream-sauces, smoothies, light whole-grain cakes, sesame-butter, soy/nut milks, powders herbs, all blender uses, easy-to-clean,
Cons: flour lumpy, blades loosen eventually, gaskets-replaced-often, some parts obselete in time, warranty-work-at company-only, terrible juicer

SHOULD I OR SHOULDN'T I?

I have debated on whether or not to give my opinion on the Vita Mix. You see, I have been involved with the Vita Mix Company for about 13 or 14 years now.


WHY DID WE GET A VITA MIX?...

Pros: Absolutely unmatched quality and usefulness. Healthier living made easy. Fun for the whole family!
Cons: Expensive, but that's your problem, not the Vita-Mix's!

I've been the proud, proud owner of a Vita Mix 5000 for a year now, and it continues to be my most prized possession (even the digital piano, which cost about the same, hasn't edged it out!). As I read through the other reviews, I could relate to ...

Pros: Commercial quality, powerful, versatile.
Cons: Loud on high speeds.

The Vita-Mix 5000 is one powerful, jet-screamin’, versatile machine. And before you dismiss this machine because of its price, consider the fact that it juices, frappes, blends, crushes, grinds, cooks, purees, whips, mills, kneads, mixes, minces,...

Pros: Smoothies! Durable, stainless steel blades, fast to use, easy to use, easy to clean
Cons: Pricey but you pay for what you get.

I had just entered the Base Exchange (department stores for military members and immediate family, located on a military facility) when I was stopped by a woman making smoothies just inside the entrance. I had come to buy my husband some gel, I ended up...

Pros: Heavy-duty...great customer support...finest blender out there
Cons: Big, heavy base... LOUD

My wife and I first happened upon the Vitamix "Superblender" in 1994 at the California State Fair. After watching the demo, we were sold but the price was staggering: $400 bucks for a blender?!? We talked ourselves into buying the thing and,...

Pros: Replaces many machines
Cons: loud

I think I have wanted a Vita-Mix since back in the 70's. I never knew though this machine would be so versatile, it can do just about anything. I have used it to make fresh fruit smoothies, (they are the best). Just cut up your fruit and anything you...

Pros: It is a blender, chopper, ice cream maker and so VERY easy to clean.
Cons: It is very loud, only 7 year warranty

The Vita Mix 5000 has to be the very best investment that anyone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen can make. I bought this blender not knowing half of what it could do. I wanted it just because I saw the demonstrator make some soft serve ice...

Pros: What a blender ought to be. If you need a good blender, this is it.
Cons: Noisy when grinding grain

I've had this for a few months and love it. I use it almost every day to make soups, vegetable and fruit drinks, and sometimes bread. It's easy to use, well designed, easy to clean and is far more capable than any of the numerous ordinary blenders I've ...

Pros: Great for grinding and mayonnaise
Cons: Not a great juicer

You have probably seen the Vitamix at County Fairs or Home shows. That's where I saw my first one and fell in love with it! I have owned a Vitamix for almost 20 years. It is probably the most heavy duty blender/appliance on the market today. What ...

Pros: Powerful, big
Cons: Very loud, doesn't do all they say, recipes make too much, expensive

Before I start my review, I'd like to state that I did not buy this machine. A relative did, but rarely used it. When they moved, it was left in our keeping.

So we got the demo video, the recipe books, and both the wet and dry containers....