You might be the type of person that's gonna get this thing no matter what.
If it's you, you'll love it!
The rest of you...
Here it is, it's finally here!
It's been two years or more since there was maybe going to be a fruit processor attachment.
It was maybe only going to be exclusive to smart system and well, all that is true and
the hype - usually with stuff like this, the hype sometimes doesn't meet the reality.
When we got this thing, we were really excited.
Because, for the longest time, we've had to answer the question "can a Vitamix replace
my food processor?
Or is it a food processor?" and the answer is, it can do most of the things, it just
can't shred or slice.
This changes that.
So, the first thing that we notice when we opened this thing up is there are a lot of
pieces; you have the base, the bowl, the top, the big pusher, the little pusher, the multi-purpose
blade, the two discs and then the blades go in this tiny little holder.
It seems to have everything you need and nothing you don't need.
A lot of food processors come with a lot of extras and you end up not using them, they
waste space, you waste money...
Some really simple mini ones just kind of come with one little blade.
This hits the sweet spot of just the right amount of accessories to do everything that
most people need to do.
When we figured out how to put it all together and stack it up and store it, it streamlines
really well and you can put it all together in a nice tidy set.
And that's one of the things that we appreciate so much with the Vitamix is that it really
supports a minimalist lifestyle.
Right away, it's hard not to notice the blade, the multi-use blade.
It's sharp and that's unique to a Vitamix product because the blades inside of Vitamix
containers, standard ones are not sharp by design.
They're dull, which is why you get results that are consistent over many, many years.
The blades on a standard Vitamix containers are fixed.
The multi-use plate here is removable, like a food processor.
This is sharp.
But I want to note, especially compared to a Ninja Blender blade which has blades just
like this; removable, these are not sharp compared to those.
Those were like the sharpest blades I've ever encountered.
It sliced my finger open.
This is definitely sharp but it feels hardened and something that will not necessarily slice
your finger open but also hang on to its edge longer.
I noticed how the base is exclusive to smart system.
And kind of how that works, just the shape of the cutouts of the - my voice is kind of
echoing into the base and back into my face.
Can you see?
Let's see...
Let's zoom in.
Right here, you can see how this little space will only fit a smart system machine.
There's also sort of wireless smart detect technology in here and we'll show you how
that works in a second.
The first thing we did was give it a blender bath, but in that first run, we noticed that
it wasn't very loud at all and I think here's why...
This is really cool.
If you hear a Vitamix demonstrator talk, they'll say that the blade spins at 2400 RPM, something
insanely fast.
And you can see that if you spin the bottom of a standard container, the blade turns at
a one-to-one ratio of how you're spinning it.
But if you spin the bottom of the food processor attachment, the blade spins maybe 10% as fast
as you're spinning it on the bottom.
So, it's almost like you're riding uphill on a bicycle, you're using leverage...
It's basically using gears to slow down the blade to make it function just like a food
processor.
I should say that with that sort of gear configuration down here, the blender base, the machine,
the blender also knows what's on it; knows it's a food processor and it only has one
gear.
So, even if you turn the dial one through ten, it doesn't matter, it's only going to
spin it at a certain speed just like the best food processors out there.
It's on and off and pulse.
There is no changes of speed.
And so, while the food processor attachment, the blade moves slower than a standard Vitamix
blade, it moves - still moves very fast.
When we show you the slicing and chopping we did, you'll see, it goes ridiculously fast.
Average processing time was like four seconds.
When we put the container on the base, it recognized it very quickly.
No issues there, it said yep.
There's a smart system with self-detect attachment on the blender base and here we go, ready
to rock and roll.
And the marketing materials say it comes with an advanced safety feature which if any component
is not clicked on, the machine won't drive the food processor.
And so, we had a little bit of trouble at one point we're like well, it looks on, everything's
clicked on, everything's tight, it's on straight...
It needed this big pusher to be in.
Which is interesting, the machine says "okay, everything's safe here".
You're not going to accidentally - you're not going to stick your whole hand in here
and have an issue.
We are not food processor people, we didn't grow up with one.
So, some of the things that I'm gonna say in this video about the Vitamix food processor
attachment might sound naive, please excuse that.
What made me really appreciate this thing is seeing the different levels or the different
settings and the results for each, for different vegetables or ingredients lined up next to
each other.
So, we put a carrot and a cucumber and a potato through to see - through all five settings
to see how they would look and the consistency within each setting was awesome and I'd compare
that to - when we use our Vitamix, the standard container to make a detox salad to do coarse
chopping, there's some variability in the pieces and sometimes there's one rogue piece
of cabbage that's this big that doesn't - not with a food processor attachment.
It was like completely consistent.
And then compared to each setting it was really cool to see like the multi-use blade made
teeny tiny little pieces and then small shred compared to the large shred compared to the
thin slice and the thick slice, it was cool.
We noticed there's actually one more setting...
If you put the ingredient in and don't push hard at all which is what we did the first
time, just kind of out of timidity, you get razor thin slices.
So, kind of makes me think of that scene in Goodfellas when he's chopping garlic with
a razor to get those like translucent slices.
Cleaning this thing was pretty easy.
Not as easy as the Vitamix container but probably just as easy as any food processor.
Everything here is dishwasher safe except for the base.
It's pretty clear that this is going to open up some doors for us to explore beyond just
blending, things that we haven't been able to do because we don't have a food processor.
Things like thin shred and thick shred hash browns, Shalva been waiting years to make
ratatouille because she doesn't want to sit and chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop,
chop, chop, she'd rather just drop in a squash and just have a go brrr.
The cucumber in our quick little tests was delicious as a cucumber salad and I'm looking
forward to making that, shaved ice is a thing, there's a veggie burger that I've been wanting
to make but they made it in a food processor and I'm just pretty sure that it wasn't to
work in a Vitamix container, everything would kind of get bunch at the bottom and you want
to maintain kind of a texture that only a food processor would do.
And then also, it's pretty clear that we're going to be able to consolidate a little bit.
We probably won't need our mandolin, we probably won't need our grater anymore.
Now, I gotta say, opening up the book that comes with the food processor attachment,
there's some overlap in recipes that they suggest that you should make with this thing,
overlap between this guy and that guy.
For example, pizza dough, thin crust pizza dough, I'm pretty sure it's the exact same
recipe.
So, does it turn out better in the food processor?
It lists almond butter.
There's no tamper with this thing.
Is the food processor attachment able to do almond butter better than the Vitamix container
with the tamper?
Gonna find out.
Now, who might this thing be for?
Well, if you have a smart system machine so, an Ascent or Venturist and you are feeling
inspired like we are to do more in the kitchen and to do some of these top chef type tasks,
it could be for you.
If you have a smart system and you have a food processor, that maybe you got for your
wedding a long time ago and it's maybe time to upgrade, this could be for you.
It could be for someone you know if they have a smart system; A3500, Venturist V1200 and
they love it and you want to get them a holiday gift.
This may not be for you, in fact, it is not for you if you have a classic Vitamix.
So a Pro 750, a 5200, a 7500, Pro 300, pretty much anything that was made before 2016 is
not going to be able to drive the food processor attachment, unfortunately.
It might not be for you if you have a food processor already and it's still chugging,
doing great.
It's hard to say, if this is incrementally better, worth the money to upgrade.
And so, that begs the question "should you upgrade from classic to smart system?" guys,
you might be the person that is gonna buy this thing no matter what and pick it up because
you've been waiting a long time for it and you know you'll love it.
If that's you, let us know.
We have a link for you, free shipping, we'll get a little bit of credit for it...
But guys, you don't have to be that person, you can wait around for our tutorials and
for us to show you what it actually can do beyond just chopping up some veggies like
a state fair demo.
So, we have a video planned for that; falafel, ratatouille, shaved ice, hash browns or latkes...
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All right, really quick, I want to show you this shirt, I normally just wear solids because
I think shirts like this are distracting but this is so cool.
It's called "Change for Twenty".
It's a shirt for kind of a fundraiser program "Change for Twenty" Harriet Tubman.
Tubman change for 20 shirt, it's from Dave Pell.
Harriet Tubman 20 dollar bill should be out right now, celebrate her heroism and push
the issue with his awesome statements here.
"I make no money from these shirts and every one purchase, I'll match the 20 donation to
the equal justice initiative."
It's a NextDraft shirt, NextDraft Dave Pell.
Super cool, I'll put a link in the description for it.
That's all, I love this shirt and I think it's so cool, super soft and just so cool,
Change the Twenty.
All right?
Life is Noyoke, thanks guys.
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Ready?
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Good job!
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