Shalva: It's delicious...
Lenny: Awesome.
Shalva: It's perfect.
Lenny: What's up guys, Lenny Gale, Life is NOYOKE. Today, I want to show you the new
Immersion blender from Vitamix. When I picked up the box, it felt like I was holding an
Apple product.
And this may just be because I'm, well, been making a career working with Vitamix and I'm
used to huge boxes but this thing is teeny. And then the other reason is, you know, you
look closely and this verbiage is something like you'd see on an iPhone.
"Designed in the USA", and then "manufactured and assembled in China". And that's unique
because all Vitamix products, you know, it's no secret, they source some of the materials
overseas but they're all assembled here in the United States, in Ohio.
So, it feels more like an Apple product but then when you open up the box, you're like,
"Oh, okay. Yeah, this is a Vitamix."
You can feel, it's heavy duty. I think the tech specs say it's 2.8 pounds, it's not break
your arm or wrist heavy but it's significant. The cord is long because, well, that makes
sense. You need to have a - you don't - needs to kind of travel to your pot of soup.
Stainless steel top, stainless steel sort of wand. And so, this seems to have everything
that the best immersion blenders have. From the top, it has a few speeds but not too many,
to give you sort of precise textures. It feels good in the hand, it's easy to work with.
It's long, I mean, it is designed to go all the way into pots of soup, not just halfway.
And so the stainless steel is here to be heat resistant. The sort of bell bottom is plastic
and that's to guard against scratching the bottom of a pot. And that's also one of the
inherent safety features, this is to protect you. And then also you can't drive the motor
unless the wand is safely assembled on it.
And then unique to Vitamix products in general, two things; one, the blade is teeny tiny and
it's sharp. Vitamix blades on the full-size blenders are dull.
And then also unique to most Vitamix products, this thing is quiet. I'd say has the same
noise output as an electric toothbrush. I mean, really, award for the quietest Vitamix
right here.
All immersion blenders are really good at one thing and that's blending in the cup or
the pot that you're cooking it in or you're going to drink it out of. That's what it's
best at. Clean up is simple, no transfer. That's this thing's wheelhouse.
So, simple smoothies, simple protein shakes that are just milk, ice, banana and protein
powder. Soups made with broth and vegetables to add a little bit of texture, to kind of
blend it up a little bit. Great for dressings, emulsifications, little bits of baby food.
We found, and we were so pleasantly surprised, and cream. Frozen bananas, frozen strawberries,
a splash of milk and go to town.
You have a single serving of banana and ice cream, strawberry banana and ice cream. That's
probably our favourite thing to do with this, only slightly ahead of a single serving of
pesto.
I usually have to make a fairly decent amount of pesto in any Vitamix container, this thing
made a little bit and what isn't pesto good on? What doesn't it make better? Pesto's the
best. Pesto's the best dough.
In general, and true with this immersion blender, it's not great at making silky smooth smoothies
and silky smooth protein shakes, and velvety soups. And there is a difference and this
is the difference that only a full-size Vitamix can provide.
This is why smoothies and juices, whole food juices from a quick serve restaurant taste
better than the ones at home that you make. They're made in a Vitamix, they taste different.
It's the difference between a sugar cube tastes different than granulated sugar tastes different
than powdered sugar. And you can see the difference.
So we try to make our balsamic butternut squash soup using the immersion blender and it kind
of looked and tasted like mashed potatoes. But then we transferred it, put it into our
full-size container and it transformed into this like - a different color and a completely
different taste and the soup that people rave about and that we knew was good but we're
like, "wait a minute, what's wrong with the soup? Like, I thought it was a wonderful amazing
magical soup". This cannot do that.
Likewise, with protein shakes, we like to add oats to our protein shakes to make them
less chalky. When we made a protein shake, it was not chalky but there were still sort
of chunks we had to kind of chew the oats.
How is it?
Shalva: Mh hmm, very bad.
Lenny: Why?
Shalva: [Inaudible]
Lenny: I get the impression it would be the same thing with a sort of a peanut butter
and jelly smoothie we make, with raspberries and blueberries and blackberries. Those teeny
tiny seeds probably wouldn't get pulverized, broken down like they do in a full-size Vitamix.
Didn't test our green juice but I would imagine that green juice that has kale in it would
probably have some kale chunks.
But that's consistent with any Vitamix alternative. A Ninja, a NutriBullet, Oster, Breville, that's
what you get when you make green smoothies with kale. You gotta chew it a little bit.
And yeah, I mean this is not deceptive marketing because you got a green smoothie in here but
pineapple, grapes, a little bit of ice and spinach, it can do that. And that looks like
about the consistency you would get. I would call BS if there was kale in here but there's
not.
And it goes without saying the immersion blender can't do heavy-duty tasks. So, chopping, like
when you make our detox salad, using it as a food processor replacement. Give it a shot
at making nut butter, the simplest one, peanut butter.
So, it just kind of turned off, I mean, a little bit, yeah. I mean it's kind of peanut
buttery but I can't say I would recommend doing this.
And then, of course, this thing also doesn't have the power to heat. Full-size Vitamix
is going to be able to heat your hot soups, not so much.
This thing was really easy to clean, a couple of drops of soap in warm water, drop it in,
turn it on.
Shalva: That's it.
Lenny: It's quiet.
With some really sticky or thick blends which I'm not even sure you would do anyway, you
really have to get in there and it gets kind of tricky to get out under the blade.
Most of what you're gonna be making is not so thick and like cement sticky that it would
be an issue and would need more elbow grease than just sticking it into a cup with warm
water but just putting it out there. If you do do that, it's tricky to get in there like
any immersion blender.
Let's talk about who this thing might be for... The new immersion blender from Vitamix might
be for you if you're looking to get into the Vitamix family. You're trying to adopt a healthy
lifestyle and you're in the market for maybe a NutriBullet or maybe a Ninja blender. That's
kind of your budget and you're intrigued by the durability, by the three year full warranty
which covers everything, free shipping both ways.
And you're intrigued by the convenience. Blend in the same cup you will be drinking from.
And you're intrigued by the versatility; this thing can do a lot more than a blender you'll
have for a year.
This thing might be for you if you have a small kitchen, you live in a big city. We
have friends that live in tiny apartments and - but they really are into cooking and
want to get more into cooking.
The footprint of this thing is tiny and would be a great thing to have if you're looking
to make more hot soups and occasionally, a smoothie or some ice cream.
This thing might be for you if you're really into making hot soups or you want to get into
making hot soups. Because if you ask top chefs what they need to make hot soups, they'll
always say "an immersion blender".
This thing might be for you if you're already a Vitamix owner; you have a full-size Vitamix
and you're like, hmm, single-serve nice cream, single serve pesto, playing around with hot
soups in the pot, that sounds pretty good to me.
It might be for you if you like the idea of meal prepping, so you're making smoothies
for the entire weeks using mason jars, so you're gonna fill five mason jars with the
ingredients, put them in the fridge, and then in the morning, every day, make yourself a
smoothie. You will love this thing.
And this might be for you if you know someone who is a Vitamix lover and you want to give
them a gift. This isn't necessarily something you'd buy for yourself if you have a full-size
Vitamix because it's not something you need. But if you have it, you're going to love it.
On the other hand, it might not be for you if you're looking to make silky smooth smoothies
and whole food juices. You don't like the idea of chewing your smoothies or your protein
shakes. Or if you want velvety smooth soups, ones that you would get at a Michelin-rated
restaurant.
Okay, real talk guys... We like this thing. Probably never would have bought it for ourselves
because we have a full-size Vitamix that can do all of these things better, albeit, maybe
less conveniently like the soups and smoothies, but we really liked it for making single serve
strawberry, banana nice cream. We love making pesto, tonight we're making a dressing, an
emulsified salad dressing for dinner using this, and well, we're probably going to be
exploring more with soups.
Not the velvety smooth soups that we have on our website but ones that are stock, which
is broth and vegetables to get a varied consistency.
We hope to, well, we're gonna upload a full review of this thing down the road once we've
had a chance to use it and really get a sense of how we use it in our home.
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We'll see you in the next one. Bye guys.
Shalva: Okay.
[background conversation]
Shalva: Splash of milk. Do you remember what this milk is called?
Son: Ripple.
Shalva: Ripple. Thank you. All right, plug her in.
Son: Do I need my headphones?
Shalva: Yep, I don't know why I put them away and that was like -
Son: Are we going to now turn it on? We not going to turn it on yet?
Shalva: Not until you have them on. I know you don't want me to right?
Son: [Inaudible] so why do you put this into the freezer?
Shalva: So that the cup is cold because I feel like it'll - is that - do you want one
you can see through better? Okay, all right. Somehow this is already filthy.
Son: I think I'm gonna blend it with -
Shalva: With this one. Okay let me try it on. Okay, this was a tiny bit warm. Right,
well that's super easy. I would say of all the Vitamix products, that was the easiest
to get on. For a second, you can push it.
Lenny: All right.
Shalva: Okay, ready?
Lenny: I just hope soon it's gonna be [?]. All right, go for it.
Shalva: Nice, okay. Let go, let go. All right, ready?
Not that bad. For sure, it's not bad.
Lenny: Cool.
Shalva: It's doing it.
Lenny: Good.
Shalva: So, this is like round one.
Son: Can I try?
Lenny: Oh, wow!
Shalva: Yeah. Hang on, hang on.
[Dog barking]
Lenny: Lucy, Lucy, we're safe.
Son: Now scraping that. [Inaudible]
Shalva: So, there's just one chunk at the bottom that I want to get and then - So, I
don't know if this is like a classic immersion blender that you need to kind of redo for
a second, scrape the sides?
Lenny: Yeah.
Son: Okay, push.
Shalva: Okay, push with me. Ready?
Shalva: I mean, I think it did an excellent
job.
Lenny: Yeah, sounds like it did. Give me that - hold that still.
Son: [Inaudible]
Shalva: Yeah, we made ice cream. That's cool.
Lenny: This here and hold - no, back. Okay, cool. Hands off, yeah. Okay, let's take a
look. I mean -
Shalva: Dada's going to take a little picture and then we can eat some, okay?
Lenny: I think it looks good.
Shalva: I do, too. Hang on.
Lenny: Can you hold it upside - uhh...
Shalva: As -
Lenny: Dangerous.
Shalva: Yeah, stop touching that.
Son: Ice cream, Ice cream [?]
Lenny: Yes, take this - take this spoon - I don't know. Do - you're good now. I'm good.
Oh...
Shalva: It's actually quite good.
Lenny: So, get in - I want to overhead, get in there with the spoon.
Son: [Inaudible] right now?
Shalva: Hang on, love. We gotta do the actual video part.
Lenny: More again.
Shalva: And then we can have some, okay? Just wait one second okay?
Lenny: Cool.
Shalva: Stop touching that, please. Okay? Here, this [Inaudible]
Lenny: Wow!
Shalva: Pretty good, huh?
Son: Can I cut it?
Shalva: It doesn't need to be cut because it's really small.
Lenny: Cool!
Shalva: Really cool.
Lenny: I'm impressed.
Shalva: Me too.