Blendtec HP3-A 4-Speed Blender
- Capacity: 64 oz.
- Blender Type: Work Top
- Pulse Feature: With Pulse Feature
- Speeds: 4 Speed
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Amazing natural fruit and vegetable smoothies !
Pros
Seems to do what it says.
Cons
Expensive. We did receive an extended 4-year warranty by purchasing at Costco.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Instead of fast food, a healthy veggie smoothie is now an option when you need to eat and run.
The model number/name on the one we purchased at Costco is HS3 Total Blender, but the description and operation seems to match the one highlighted here. Others have covered the basic operation and features, so I will cover our personal experiences.
We bought this product after my wife attended a Qigong seminar that included a demonstration of the product to make smoothies from fruits, vegetables and natural foods. We bought a recipe book by Jeff Primack that includes dozens of recipes for these kinds of smoothes. The recipe book included with the blender is also beautiful, full color, wire bound (lays flat) and covers dozens of surprising products including blueberry muffins, pancakes, bread and much more. If I had this blender 20 years ago when our kids were young we probably could have saved a lot of money and ate healthier by replacing many packaged products with easy to make home made versions.
We have now blended whole avocados (including the pit), whole chunks of pineapple (including the core and "eyes") and whole apples (including the core and seeds), raw beets, cucumbers, raw carrots, whole chunks of ginger, herbs and all other kinds of raw, good stuff to make these smoothies. The power of the BlendTec reduces all to nothing. The blender is so powerful that by starting with room temperature vegetables and water, you can make a hot soup in the blender, just due to the friction of the blending.
We have not experienced any problems with the blender failing to "grab" whole chunks of stuff and pull them into the blend vortex. Whole ice of course is no problem at all. The plastic jar is rugged (a Blendtec demo on the web shows a person standing on a jar laid down on its' side) and easy to clean by rinsing it out and running again with a little soap and water.
Blendtec has apparently redesigned the jar cover recently to improve venting during operation. We have had no problems with blending and there is no need to scrape the jar to push ingredients into the blend vortex during operation. Perhaps others who have signaled this problem have an earlier version with different blade or jar design ?
We bought this product after my wife attended a Qigong seminar that included a demonstration of the product to make smoothies from fruits, vegetables and natural foods. We bought a recipe book by Jeff Primack that includes dozens of recipes for these kinds of smoothes. The recipe book included with the blender is also beautiful, full color, wire bound (lays flat) and covers dozens of surprising products including blueberry muffins, pancakes, bread and much more. If I had this blender 20 years ago when our kids were young we probably could have saved a lot of money and ate healthier by replacing many packaged products with easy to make home made versions.
We have now blended whole avocados (including the pit), whole chunks of pineapple (including the core and "eyes") and whole apples (including the core and seeds), raw beets, cucumbers, raw carrots, whole chunks of ginger, herbs and all other kinds of raw, good stuff to make these smoothies. The power of the BlendTec reduces all to nothing. The blender is so powerful that by starting with room temperature vegetables and water, you can make a hot soup in the blender, just due to the friction of the blending.
We have not experienced any problems with the blender failing to "grab" whole chunks of stuff and pull them into the blend vortex. Whole ice of course is no problem at all. The plastic jar is rugged (a Blendtec demo on the web shows a person standing on a jar laid down on its' side) and easy to clean by rinsing it out and running again with a little soap and water.
Blendtec has apparently redesigned the jar cover recently to improve venting during operation. We have had no problems with blending and there is no need to scrape the jar to push ingredients into the blend vortex during operation. Perhaps others who have signaled this problem have an earlier version with different blade or jar design ?
