Sales Rank: 618


Features:

Attachments are dishwasher safe; 1-year limited warranty

Includes hand blender, chopper, metal whisk, covered beaker, and wallholder

Powerful 400-watt motor

Anti-splashing shaft on handblender attachment

Speed selector; turbo button

Average Rating:
Rating: - Worth its weight in gold.... no platinum
I have been using an older version of this Braun for more than a year, and I can say that it is the best money I have ever spent on a kitchen item, and perhaps the best under [$$$] I have ever spent on anything. I have all the kitchen tools, most professional level, and all the garage tools that anyone could want, but for my money this is the real deal. Spend the extra for this professional model and you will not be disappointed. The extra power is well worth the extra $$. It is amazing. Clean up is so quick and easy and it does about everything. I even started using mine as a juicer when my old juicer broke. In a tall container, throw in some chopped carrots, a banana, protein powder, and some Silk soy milk, and 2 mins. later you have ecstasy. I have done away with my blender, chopper, etc. And for whipping, I no longer create the big clean up mess with my KitchenAid. I even take this item with me when I travel since I wind up cooking wherever I visit. That is how much I love this product. I have no affiliation with the company, by the way.

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Rating: - not sure i can live without it anymore
any cook will find many, many uses for this wonderful product.

a friend who is a very good cook told me about his stick blender. i was desperate for a tool to use in indian-style cooking to puree the various small amounts of spices and other flavorings some recipes call for (i am not about to spend hours with a mortar and pestle). When this product appeared in my gold box, i bought it immediately.

it is amazing. i've used it to puree beans and make fruit/yoghurt drinks, chop small amounts of onions, garlic, ginger, etc., which it does better than the mini-food processor i have. i've whipped cream with it, and the cream turned out perfect--no more getting the mixmaster out for half a cup of cream, or, worse, using the egg beater. as for the main reason i bought it, pureeing very small amounts of ingredients--it's fabulous.

as another reviewer noted, it probably won't turn rocks to sand, but that's about the only thing it won't do, and sand is not a major ingredient in most of my cooking.

its easier to use than my mini-food processor (and frequently gives better results); it does a better job of pureeing than my traditional blender; most of the parts are dishwasher safe, so its easy to clean; its relatively quiet for its power--its perfect!

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Rating: - Trust me, it's not worth it.
I was initially very happy with this blender. I probably used it no more than twice a week for fairly low-powered jobs like making pesto and blending soup. 14 months after purchase, the motor just died, literally in mid-blend. I thought it had gotten overheated and left it for a couple of days. No luck. It was fully dead, and so was the 1-year warranty.

So I called Braun. I admit I was hoping they would offer to give me a replacement motor unit. Nope. I asked about repair, but apparently, nobody fixes things anymore. Nor do they offer recycling. What they do offer is a heavy pitch to buy a whole new Braun blender set, even if all the attachments for your old one is perfectly fine. I had to argue with them for 15 minutes before they decided that they would just let me buy a new motor unit off of them for $20.

A week later I got a box from Braun with... a whole new set of attachments. Not the motor unit. Needless to say, I'm never buying another Braun product again. If somebody wants the used attachments (whisk, chopper, blender, smoothie container), they're yours.