Bella - 14-Oz. Rocket Blender - Black Stainless steel

Day one I wasn't sure this was a good product. Seemed noisy and was difficult to screw lids/base on to the container/cup. Well, after a few weeks use, and breaking them in a bit. It's no louder than my big blender and the lids are much easier to screw on, just make sure you tighten them fully before flipping on to motor base. Primary use is to make smoothies and use the secondary smaller cup to grind spices for rubs and such. Smoothies turn out great. Pulverizes frozen items (berries/ice) and liquids into a thick and fruity beverage faster than my big blender, but without having a large batch of smoothie when only one person wants one. Just remember to get the ingredients you want in the cup before the lid screws on. It's a bit messy to add anything after the blend happens. Do to the flipping that occurs placing the cup into the base/motor. Spices are an even better bonus with this unit. If you buy most pre-mixed spices, they are often salt based and a bit chunky/course. I prefer to use the small cup and turn chunky spices into dust for sprinkling on steaks, chops, and so on. And even better, starting from scratch. Omit the salt, add the dry spices you prefer and pulse the blender till you get chunky or the dust consistency you prefer. Also note, stainless blades and plastic parts...NO RUST in your spices. Now you don't have to tell anyone you add paprika to your spice blend! If smaller single serve smoothies and drinks are your thing, or simply don't want to drag out the bruiser of a blender. These little Bella blenders are very frugal options to make quick work of your thirst. When the price is right, do like I did. Buy more than one. They are great gifts. Want to add one more thing. Clean up. Have a sponge brush or or dish cleaning tool with handle(or a toddler with small hands) to clean the taller of the 2 cups. While you might get away with hot water and soap and running the blender for a few seconds occasionally. The taller cup has big fins inside that help agitate the blend process. They can be harder to clean effectively if you have "Man Hands" and the average sponge for cleaning dishes. I am not sure the dishwasher is a good choice, might be too harsh on the plastic over time.

Excellent blender for smoothies. Easy to clean and small enough for easy storage. Great price. Highly recommend.

It looked cheap...when i got it. But heeding to the positive reviews i kept it. As we turn the cup and blade assembly ijnto the blender, the blade assembly mostly gets lose and starts to leak. And I have had liquid oozing. And after few uses, I noticed cracks on the lid (blade assembly) , where there used to join marks or manufacturing marks. And one of the blade assembly is totally unusable now. I can just use this for dry purpose now, Very disappointed. I should have not invested in this product.

Disappointed in the packaging. The blender did not came in its original product box and it was placed directly in the delivery box itself. I am not sure if this is how the packaging was supposed to be. Although the product did looked unused, nice and clean. Used it only once to blend tomatoes but its a bit noisy. Otherwise it served its purpose.

It's a very good product! This product is a blender with a grinder. The blender works great. But the grinder have a problem when used in dry environment. We live in Las Vegas and it is very dry here. When this item used as a coffee grinder, the coffee beans carry electrostatic charge due to friction with the plastic cup so the beans "float" inside the cup and can't be break down to smaller pieces, which my old coffee grinder with metal cup can do much better. Hope manufacture can do something about it to make it better.

I actually got this to shred tobacco for my powermatic iii and wow! First thing I noticed was the quality! It is exceptionally well built. Definitely made to last. The next thing (one of the reasons I chose this) was, the blades were under the cap. No accidental cuts or missing fingers. Which really comes in handy with curious cats. So, I have one ‘cup’ and top dedicated to tobacco and can still use this in the kitchen without any worry of cross contamination. Can be used in many different ways because of that.

Good little machine we purchase this for my daughter she make smoothies. The only thing is just make sure you had enough liquid we’re making the smoothies that way doesn’t get stuck on you overall good purchase a good price. Save your money on versus Nutra bullet.

Works really well for such a small blender. I bought it to blend my older cats food since she doesn't like chucks of food and now she'll eat her food. Only issues I have is that some of the food gets between the blades and it's hard to get out so I'm losing a little bit of food every time I blend it.