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this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
This is 2P course power and it’s a lot easier to use if you don’t like computers and gadgets
this one’s much easier.
There’s basically a high and a low an on and an off.
So there’s basically two speeds on this.
This also has a rubber insulating pad which does help keep down the noise a little bit.
The other thing, for people that are concerned with noise you know I would definitely say
that the Vitamix is a little bit more quiet due to the this rubber pad here and the craft.
The craft overall is a thicker plastic and now these as I said are both BPA free.
They’re using the eastman tritan copolymer.
So as you could see this is the older Vitamix craft and this is a BPA craft so the polycarbonate
if you tap it you could kind of hear how that sounds, kind of like more tinny high pitched.
If you tap this one, it’s a lot lower like a lot deeper so it’s a lot more dense material
so that’s gonna dampen sound a lot more.
So with the Vitamix the other thing is that the they changed the container as well so
this container basically how I would snap on is that there’s basically these two clips
underneath here and here’s one clip right here.
You can see the craft uh top fit underneath the lip.
This for a lot of people would be a challenge to get off cause what you would have to do
literally is you’d have to take your hand and pinch where that little thing is and pull
up.
So that was a kind of pain.
They’ve redone that now and they have this new lid that actually have these flaps that
go down and you just lift up the lid so it’s easier.
The other thing that was improved is that now this top plunger plug actually comes in
and comes out easier so it doesn’t it’s not loose whereas on the old style you know
this is the plug and in many cases in prior years too you know it just kind would fall
out and that was kind of always a pain and I didn’t really like that.
So the craft is a lot more dense and if you already own a Vitamix you could upgrade to
this craft without the blade assembly.
So it’s really inexpensive to upgrade to the new BPA free craft with the new lid.
So I did a video on how to change out your blade and
bearing assembly all on the Vitamix so check out youtube for that.
Now RPMs, so the RPMs on the turbo blend is 37,000 RPMs, so that’s how fast it’s spinning
around and on the Blendtec 28,000.
The wattage on the motor which I think you know some people like to compare wattage because
you know people think it’s a more wattage equals better but that’s not always the
case because you know it comes down to like what’s more efficient.
You could pull a lot of watts but the motor could be inefficient and not work well so
I’m a real world test person, so let’s get into this real world testing.
We’re gonna go ahead, we have a basically one cup of purified water and one apple that’s
been cut up, one delicious apple.
We’re gonna go ahead and blend this up in the Vitamix turbo blend.
We’re gonna start on low and crank it up to high.
So let’s get a close up shot on the blending of these apples.
So it’s on high now put it on, crank it up to high.
And that’s all we needed to you know blend those apples with the water up into a liquid
so easily if you’re doing a green smoothie you could add some greens you know it would
blend all nice and easy.
Let’s move over here to the Blendtec.
Now we’re using the 96 ounce craft in the Blendtec and I do like the 96 ounce craft.
You know if you’re making large serving sizes for the standard person even for me,
I couldn’t drink full craft full of this.
I’d be over full but I like the 64 ounce craft but for some people this is nice.
It has a large volume as it’s been said before it’s probably gonna take less time
to blend the same amount of ingredients.
So on the Blendtec we’re gonna put it on pulse first and then we’re gonna ramp it
up.
So we’ll hit pulse for a little bit and we’re gonna hold down the speed button.
Cranking up to speed 10, it’s already done and we’ll turn it off and you know that’s
how easy it was in the Blendtec.
So I mean both they’re both quick, they both blended up well.
I mean you know which one should you buy well it depends.
I don’t know.
One of the other things I like to do is to blend up flaxseeds and blend that up into
powder.
So well go ahead and do that in both blenders.
Another thing I wanna talk about that’s very important in selecting any blender and
any appliance actually is getting a blender with a longer warranty.
So the next thing well talk about is warranty and on the Blendtec your hp3a has a 3 year
warranty with a lifetime warranty on the the cupling and the blade.
Now let me tell you that a lifetime warranty may sound really gimmicky and it is because
that’s the thing that’s really least likely to go out and you know let’s talk about
what’s gonna most likely go out in one second.
But, so in this unit it’s a 5 year warranty on the whole unit and this has a 3 year warranty
so definitely two more years on the Vitamix.
The other thing is the durability factor and I’ve been selling blenders since 1997 and
I’ve seen many durability issues with both machines not just one but both machines.
So first start off with this old champ craft here.
I have a fun story, with this old craft here this is your standard craft with the arches
here on the bottom and this craft was known for the bearing assembly not the blade assembly
but the bearing assembly to go out.
And for me as somebody who eats a lot of you know raw foods I would blow out about one
craft a year.
Basically the bearing assembly would go out and what would happen is this would either
get tied up or you know this would just stop turning or it would get really loose.
The one time I was blending up a smoothie that I wanted it to happen right was fresh
durian which costs $5 a pound in young coconuts and I was blending it up and it was blending
fine then all of a sudden I look in and there’s all these black flecks in my smoothie and
that was actually the time that my blender craft decided to go out.
So I had to go and throw out that smoothie and I was really pissed.
Even to that day I have a thing against the Blendtec and they did come out and improve
it with a new J2 jar so that’s a new BPA free jar with a new bearing assembly and they
say that’s 20% better.
So for me if I used it about every year and it would blow out maybe it would last you
know a year and a couple months now under heavy use but I have actually seen that it’s
gone a lot longer than that depending on your use.
So one of the things that I recommend is that everybody buy a second craft so that all your
usage is not going on one craft but now for breakfast use this one for dinner use the
one and guess what both your crafts are gonna last twice as long and if one does happen
to go out you’re still gonna have that back up craft to use.
I could definitely say on the Vitamix though that the craft is much and the bearing assembly
is much more durable.
So um, there goes the top, so the it’s much more durable so it’s gonna last a lot longer
at least twice as long if not more than the Blendtec craft so I do like that it’s a
lot more heavier duty.
The thing with that is that you know this craft is actually much less expensive to and
this blade and bearing assembly is not removable so once this goes bad then you need to really
chuck the whole craft, and with this uh craft you could literally just take out the part
that goes bad and replace it.
So you could replace the bearing assembly only and keep the upper blade or buy the blade
and bearing and just put that in but that being said the blade and bearing assembly
is about as much as the whole craft on this guy so you know which way do you wanna go.
So I mean, not that I sell for people out of the country but if you’re worried and
about you know maintenance issues, I would definitely go with the Vitamix cause you’re
gonna have a lot less problems also this is a motor with an on and off switch so that’s
barely gonna fail.
And I have had a few issues with the computer controls in the Blendtec going out.
I actually had two units myself go out on me so but most much like you know a flat screen
TV once it’s working it’s always gonna work but there may be more issues cause there
are more things to fail than with the Vitamix.
So let’s go ahead and blend up these flaxseeds next.
See how easy that does so what I’m gonna do on that is literally just crank up the
blender to high.
It’s on high well crank it up, it just makes the flaxseeds float on top.
They’re so, it’s going so fast it just makes the flaxseeds, alright.
Basically it spins the blades are spinning so fast it basically makes the flaxseeds sit
on top of the blades and the turbo blend just makes them into a nice powder.
And so let’s go ahead and do the same thing with the Blendtec.
We’re gonna crank that up to a high speed here.
Alright so they both we’re easily able to turn flaxseeds into powder in just another
good test.
So you know you saw some of the differences between the craft weights the sizes the power
I mean, they’re both very similar you couldn’t go wrong with either one.
So depending if you want a longer warranty this has a two year longer warranty the shorter
craft you know easier to scoop out many different things that you think about when buying a
blender but you know what you can’t go wrong with either one.
I kind of personally like you know in some cases I like this unit because it is computer
controlled.
You hit a button you know it blends for 50 seconds you walk out of the room and then
you come back and it turns itself on so it’s actually a smart blender and I do like that
feature and I do like the feature that you could scoop things out of here with a spoon
or spatula and get all your macadamia nut cream sauce out fairly easily.
And why I like the Vitamix is because you know it’s a lot easier to use there’s
an on and off switch.
Actually I like the craft a little bit more because of the blade.
The blade’s actually really sharp on this and actually I find that if you want a really
smoother texture or without any kind of pieces in there I find the Vitamix works a lot better
than the Blendtec for me personally.
So lately I’ve been using more of the Vitamix craft but so you know either one has it’s
plus or minuses and only you’ll know which blender is right for you.
Hopefully you’ve learned more about the different blenders today and this is John
Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
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