Cuisinart - SmartPower Duet 7-Speed Blender - White

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  an excellent and versatile appliance

  • Incentivized
  • My Best Buy® Member

  I was excited to get this Cuisinart a month or so ago because I love to cook, but I'm a college student who lives in an apartment. I don't have tons of space (or money, for that matter) to blow on two appliances. I have done many things with the SmartPower Duet, and it hasn't failed me yet. I've made deliciously smooth and thick shakes (including one with rum for a party - it was a hit.) I've made amazing salsa. I've made gazpacho. For some of these, I used the recipe book that comes with the machine. There are a lot of good recipes, indeed, but as an added bonus, the recipes give you helpful hints about how to use the appliance the best way - like, which ingredients to add first, instead of just shoving everything in. Just last night I made a pasta salad with about twenty ingredients, most of which had to be chopped or minced or sliced, so I used the food processor with the chopper to pulverize the garlic and other spices into a nice smooth blend (thus avoiding the dreaded clumps of pungent garlic). Then, I took the spices out and added red and green peppers and other vegetables and chopped them up coarsely, like salsa. Then I put the slicer attachment on to the food processor and sliced perfectly thin slices of cucumber and red onion. I added this to some pasta, provolone cheese, and some olive oil, and voila, I had a great pasta salad in less than half of the time it would have taken me to prepare all of those veggies by hand. I certainly haven't had any complaints about the workmanship. I love how it feels so sturdy without being bulky - the base is a little wider than most and not flimsy like most other blenders I've used, and the thick, glass blender jar is squat instead of tall and thin, which seems to make blending things a lot easier because the ingredients can easily move around near the blade. The keypad controls are enclosed so it's incredibly easy to clean up splatters and spills. The processor bowl doesn't seem to be flimsy to me (perhaps they've fixed the problem ?). In other words, this thing is great.

  Posted 12 years ago by pangggg

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Great Blender

  • Incentivized

  I have had this blender over 5 years and love it. I use it almost daily to make smoothies and have had no issues. Yes, sometimes food doesn't hit the blade, but if you put it on food process it will. For the price, it does just fine.

  Posted 15 years ago by shana11

• Rated 1 out of 5 stars

  Loud and useless

  • Incentivized

  Blender doesn't blend without hand stirring to get the fruit near the blade. Food processor is slow and loud, dropped the plastic lid once and the locking tabs broke off. Really unhappy that I didn't return it.

  Posted 15 years ago by WJC