Hamilton Beach 51101BA Single Serve Blender 14 oz.

Arrived within just 2 days with free shipping. I’ve made 6 different smoothies since it arrived and it works flawlessly and super easy to clean, I like being able to take the jar off and drink straight from the cup with the included drinking lid (It’s not a 100% spill and leak-proof sealed travel mug keep in mind but cap does stay on snug and closes drinking hole sufficiently for me, if knocked over it wont spill out I tried it a few times). Blends very well when done properly and no complaints. Although I noticed from googling around that there are lots of people who don’t know how to use them properly, DO NOT jam it with ice cubes first and absolutely no liquid and wonder why it’s not crushing, or with large fruit and vegetable pieces so it’s not even touching the blades, start with a few shorter pulse hits to get things going, it’s a personal blender not a large restaurant version or food processor, PUT LIQUIDS/YOGURT FIRST THEN ADD ICE LATER, you can also just give a little shake to loosen things up gravity will take care of the rest, it only weighs about a couple pounds so actually not that heavy to lift and shake if needed, and don’t overfill, add more stuff in after blended if you want. JUST LET GRAVITY DO ITS THING.
My smoothies mostly included 5-6 large ice cubes, frozen banana and frozen mix berries and fruits, some plain yogurt and almond milk, even a little peanut butter and they turned out amazing, crushed the ice easy no problems, tried a veggie version with spinach, kiwi and avocado came out great in just seconds. Lots of recipes to try out now so for 20 bucks this is a great personal blender that gets the job done easily, I recommend it.

*Update 2 weeks later….after making a number of smoothies and some iced coffee smoothies which came out amazing, did some googling and calculating, based on the average prices of fast food places and smoothie places in the malls etc, at one large smoothie or iced coffee smoothie per day, it saved me about 98 dollars, so not a bad deal for 20 bucks. (and the money I saved from making them at home I instead gave to the local cancer sick kids hospital, so it all worked out great).

I basically used this item less than 10 times and now it’s in garbage. Last time I tried to turn it on, i start noticing the milk is coming out from the motor in the base. I was scared because of the electric hazard so i unplugged it immediately and threw it into the garbage.

Lo compre para hacer batidos de proteína, a estos les Agrego fruta congelada , sin embargo al parecer la potencia no es mucha , ya que se escucha forzado (si ves el vide hace un ruido similar) pero en momentos si le dejas presionado por varios segundos se puede percibir un olor a “quemado” del sobre esfuerzo que hace,

It’s been a couple of months since I started using this blender. I use it to make two smoothies every weekday morning. It blends everything smoothly. The key is to put the liquid in first, so that liquid is at the bottom by the blade. Milk, yogurt, apple sauce… anything like that goes at the bottom. Then add frozen fruits and dry foods like oats. In a few quick pulses, just a few seconds, everything is drinkable. This was a worthwhile purchase.

En un principio estaba muy contenta, pero lo usaba solo los fines de semana. Después de 2 meses de uso o 14 usos empezó a hacer un ruido extraño, y dejo de funcionar. Resulta que con el uso se desgasta la bobina en donde se embona el vaso y aunque el motor sigue girando las aspas ya no giran porque la pieza que embona el motor con el vaso se desgasto al grado de romperse, ya que esta hecha de un plástico super chafa. Que mal que esta empresa que pense que era buena no le importe el medio ambiente, ya que sus piezas son muy corrientes y las remplazaría, pero no venden piezas de repuesto, yo creo que con el objetivo de vender más. Ya no compraré nada de esta marca.

 It’s literally making huge noises, but cannot even shred vegetables or fruit as soft as cucumbers, it could shred oranges tho. I’m very disappointed.