Hamilton Beach Wave Crusher Blender For Smoothies With 40 Oz Glass Jar and 14 Functions, Ice Sabre Blades & 700 Watts for Consistently Smooth Results, Black + Stainless Steel (54221)

Parts fit nicely. Easy to clean. Easy to use. Best blender I've owned.

I've had this blender for 3 yrs now and it is by far the BEST one I've ever owned. Best of all, it's the first and only that doesn't 'travel' on the counter, the lid stays put, it doesn't move/shake when I fill it with frozen fruit for a smoothie. I can actually walk away from it. And does a great job chopping that frozen fruit. Some people complain about the lid. It's not a problem! It's snug, that's great! On some blenders I've had to literally hold on to the lid when it has to work hard, not this one. Great purchase, highly recommend.

Overall it’s a pretty good blender. I love all the different settings that it offers and it being glass makes it heavy duty. Except it also means I have to be careful when moving which I will be doing a lot while in college so probably wouldn’t order again. Also the lid is not good at staying on. There’s no latch for it. Sometimes it just auctions in but other time it won’t so I just have to hold it on top which is kinda irritating. But overall it works well and longer than my last one

I had an old blender that finally gave out. Luckily it was during Amazon Prime day and I got this one on sale. Nothing fancy with this blender but it was a good price and it functions for all I need it for.

Got at great reduced price during Memorial Day sale. I couldn’t be more pleased. Only used once so far.Pros —Well designed and intuitive use.Great size for every-day small to medium size batches.Actually crushes the ice!Many speeds.Glass pitcher.Very quiet compared to most blenders.Stable - shorter and wider design than a lot of newer blender designs.Good combo of basic and workhorse features - short easy manual and no learning curve.It’s one thing that doesn’t need to be charged!Trusted brand - I’ve had great experience with Hamilton Beach for many years.Cons —*Very* short cord. (18”?)Materials used (other than glass pitcher) feel like they aren’t the strongest (but that’s why it’s $60 and not $400).Overall, very pleased. Wasn’t sure I needed one since I have a food processor and a stand mixer. But it will be so nice to have for those recipes calling for a blender.

This blender taught me rage. I didn't know I could hate an inanimate object with so much passion before I started using this blender. I used to think that kind of hate was reserved for Nazis and University of Florida fans only, but no, I now can say I truly know myself better due to the experiences I've had with this blender.Let's start with the blending option. I think if you wanted to mix food dye in with some water you might be able to after 20 or 30 minutes of blending, but ice? Ha! Smoothies? Think again sucker! Whipped cream? More like stirred froth. See, when the masochistic designers unzipped their leather masks and peeled back their eye patches long enough to settle on giving this thing a function they discovered what might be one of the single greatest designs in all of the history of futility. This blender can mysteriously mix the areas in contact with the blades with extreme prejudice while leaving any areas of liquid or "substance" above the blades completely unperturbed. Amazingly this blender can render ice at the bottom into pure liquid water in seconds while leaving the ice above more frozen than Elsa's underwear.Some of you might be thinking "well just push the other stuff down dummy" and you'd be right if this weren't designed by Pol Pot clones raised in Chinese sweat shops. Pushing things down just begins the second round of "mushed on the bottom and solid on the top". Now, given 30 or 40 minutes of free time you might be able to eventually go through enough cycles of this to get everything in the blender mixed, and kudos to you buddy for having the patience and virtue to go through that process. I lack these virtues, which is why I bought a blender that I was hoping would cut down on my smoothie making time. It did what I did not think was possible, which was add time to an already laborious process of making smoothies by hand.The lid requires a degree in mechanical engineering to get on and off smoothly, which is great if you enjoy splashing your kitchen with blender contents, but my wife is the lead cleaning manager of our kitchen and I'm pretty sure I'd be restricted from all kitchen privileges if I continued opening the pseudo-smoothies I've been making without covering myself and the blender in a beach towel first. I hate laundry so I'm going to pass on the extra towel duty. Amazingly my wife hates this blender even more than I do; when I asked her if she wanted to contribute to the review she asked me how to spell a 10 minute scream. I'm pretty sure she put an add on Craiglist for a hitman to come by and take this thing out.If I could give this thing less than 1 star I would, but then again if I could give this thing Ebola I would do that also. I hereby sentence this blender to the death of a thousand hammer smashes, I would not dare allow someone else to attempt to use it lest I be tried for crimes against humanity (which I think the UN Council may need to consider for Hamilton Beach).

Works well for shakes etc product appears well made

I have usually owned blenders that are specific to smoothie making (Magic Bullet, Ninja), but after my Ninja cups got distorted and I couldn't close them to blend anymore, I decided to try just a regular, classic, glass blender. First thing, I do like the glass blending cup. It's easy to clean, although heavy (obviously), but putting it together is quick and simple. The blending? Eh. I was wondering my smoothies weren't blended as smoothly, as they were grainier, icier, and there were always chunks of something still left unblended (and this is after pulsing to get the pieces to the bottom), and then selecting "Smoothie" and "Grind" and letting it go for a good minute even. I got disappointed in making smoothies in this, so I ended up calling Ninja and they gave me replacements to the blending cups, and I stopped using this blender for smoothies. It'll probably be fine for things like margaritas (lots of space, so you can make a bigger batch lol), or blending non-smoothie type things. But if you're looking for a true smoothie blender, I'd skip on this one. It's not that loud, which is a plus, easy to clean, but has ok blending power.