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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Horrible product, in many, many ways
Pros
Powerful?
Cons
Poor blade design, vessel shape. <br>Startup slam.<br>Poor lid won't remove during blending.<br>Liquids fly out.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
Don't buy this blender. Even at $100, you would still have a mess and unbloended solids.
This blender is the worst blender I have ever tried, and I'm stuck with it because the seller doesn't take them back.
I will post videos of the miserable failure of this blender to mix anything but pampered preparations of ingredients, and by pampered I mean cut and manipulated so that this blender will grab them and mix them.
It is just horrible at blending fruits and vegetables, as the blade design leaves things just sitting there. Put an apple in one and just turn it on. It won't blend it a bit. Put apple quarters and a banana in and it won't blend it a bit. $100 blenders will, but this one won't most of the time.
Add to this three other problems, and you have a horrible product for the price. I'm not kidding. I wanted this to work, having paid so much.
Lid design is very poor. You can't take it off without disturbing the blender so much that it comes off the axle.
Startup is an out-of-control, gushing pulse that will send liquids out the top every time. So, if you blend some ingredients and want to then put other ingredients in while it is stirring, you will have to put the top on to get the thing going before you remove it again and add ingredients.
The shape of the blender vessel creates vortices which spill liquids out the top at even the lowest speeds. Adding ingredients to a mix will most of the time lead to spillage on your shirt, arms and countertop.
The 50-second timed shutoff is a nuisance. You might be adding ingredients to a blended mix and have to RESTART to finish, and restarting means dealing with the horrible startup pulse.
In general, this blender will not blend raw fruits and vegetables without you adding liquids that you might not want and stopping to push and minipulate the contents so that they blend.
This blender seems to be missing all the elements that a well-thought-out $400 product should offer. I use a $100 blender to do all the work I hoped this one would do.
I will post videos of the miserable failure of this blender to mix anything but pampered preparations of ingredients, and by pampered I mean cut and manipulated so that this blender will grab them and mix them.
It is just horrible at blending fruits and vegetables, as the blade design leaves things just sitting there. Put an apple in one and just turn it on. It won't blend it a bit. Put apple quarters and a banana in and it won't blend it a bit. $100 blenders will, but this one won't most of the time.
Add to this three other problems, and you have a horrible product for the price. I'm not kidding. I wanted this to work, having paid so much.
Lid design is very poor. You can't take it off without disturbing the blender so much that it comes off the axle.
Startup is an out-of-control, gushing pulse that will send liquids out the top every time. So, if you blend some ingredients and want to then put other ingredients in while it is stirring, you will have to put the top on to get the thing going before you remove it again and add ingredients.
The shape of the blender vessel creates vortices which spill liquids out the top at even the lowest speeds. Adding ingredients to a mix will most of the time lead to spillage on your shirt, arms and countertop.
The 50-second timed shutoff is a nuisance. You might be adding ingredients to a blended mix and have to RESTART to finish, and restarting means dealing with the horrible startup pulse.
In general, this blender will not blend raw fruits and vegetables without you adding liquids that you might not want and stopping to push and minipulate the contents so that they blend.
This blender seems to be missing all the elements that a well-thought-out $400 product should offer. I use a $100 blender to do all the work I hoped this one would do.
