Viking Professional

Pros: Blender has a glass carafe and a partially effective pressure release/liquid capturing lid.

Cons: Plastic blender not worth the $ considering brands offering better products at this price point.

The Bottom Line: Waring offers a much better product for the same amount of money. Get a Waring professional bar blender, or check other brands.

Review: I sure wish I had checked epinions last August when I ordered this blender. I initially ordered it because Alton Brown, from the show Good Eats on FoodTV recommended it over his original favorite, a Waring beehive bar blender. I gave my Waring to a ...

Pros: Stylish, good reputation

Cons: Plastic part is bad design, shouldn't break so easily.

Review: I agree with colorado happy. We also make breakfast smoothies for our kids using frozen fruit and yogurt. We have had this blender for only 5 weeks, and the plastic part at the bottom split into pieces this morning. I am on the web looking for a site ...

Pros: Good Looks

Cons: Cheap plastic parts that break!

Review: Surprise, surprise, surprise. Don't let let good looks deceive you. Thank good looking blender has plastic parts that break. Upon reading the other reviews it appears that everyone has the same problem, that plastic part between the motor body and blade ...

Pros: Viking has a fix

Cons: Add $20 to the price of your blender....

Review: Viking recognized the problem with its Pro series blender plastic blade assembly and has a fix: a replacement blade assembly with metal parts for under $20. Call 800-216-5775 to ...

Pros: It was easy to use.

Cons: Too many cheap plastic parts that break within 2 weeks.

Review: I make smoothies and wanted a Top of the Line Blender that you find at specialty cooking shops. I bought the Viking Blender but was surprised with all the plastic parts to it. 2 weeks later as I was setting the blender to the machine, the bottom of the ...

Pros: attractive

Cons: the one plastic part keeps breaking

Review: My husband and I make smoothies for breakfast every day. We use nothing more than yogurt, frozen blueberries and ice. Our Viking blender has one white plastic part and it has broken twice. We bought this Viking blender because we wanted something ...

Pros: Looks nice. Simple controls.

Cons: Big, loud and unreliable - spend less to get the same.

Review: I also make smoothies with frozen fruit, milk and yogurt but my 20 year old blender was not working so well and I thought that this would do the trick - which is to actually chop up all the fruit leaving no chunks. To be honest I cannot tell the ...