Alright!
This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
Today I have a very special treat for you.
I’ve had a lot of customers ask for this and I’m finally able to do it and I’m
gonna show you the differences between the champ HP3A Blendtec and the Vitamin Turbo
blend 4500.
Both models discountjuicers.com we sell here at discountjuicers and uh you know there are
some variations.
One of the big questions I get “What’s better the Vitamix or the Blendtec or the
Ktec?”
whatever you wanna call it.
Let me straighten that out first.
So Blendtec is a company name and then they have a Ktec division.
The Ktec division is for the home division.
So basically it’s the same exact machine whether it’s Blendtec Ktec it’s all the
same.
It was also called champ hp3 then they came out with a total blender now the champ or
the hp3a is the current model that you wanna buy.
Make sure that you get the hp3a, that’s the best model that you wanna buy.
So uh let’s see.
We’ll first start off with the size how about the size so the size.
So as you could see the this model is much uh shorter.
We’ve got a tape measure here we’re gonna basically tape measure it up.
And uh it’s basically about uh I don’t know roughly 15 and a quarter tall and if
we go over to the uh Vitamix Turbo blend here wow that tops out at about like 20 and a half
inches tall.
So this may be a concern for some because in a standard kitchen your cabinet height
is about 16 to 17 inches tall.
So this one’s gonna easily fit underneath the cabinets and this one is not so you know
there’s many different factors when selecting a blender.
And let me tell you first off either way you go if you go with the Blendtec or if you go
with the Vitamix I need to tell you that you’re gonna have one of the most powerful blenders
for home use on the planet in your kitchen and they’re gonna both do a very very very
similar job.
So if you already have the Blendtec you know and you’re thinking about going with a Vitamix
or you already have the Vitamix and you’re thinking about going with the Blendtec, you
know what I’d say?
I’d say save your money.
If you have one and you’re overall mostly happy with it then just stick with it but
if you’re new and you’re looking into it definitely weigh all the factors that I’m
gonna talk about here in just a few minutes.
So you’re gonna learn more about them.
So the next question is you know i had a lady who has arthritis or who can’t lift heavy
things and she said “Well hey John, how much do the crafts weigh?”.
And that’s a good question because the standard Blendtec craft is a 64 ounce craft and when
it’s empty it weighs about 1 pound 1 ounce.
So that’s a little over a pound so you know she could handle that you know a little bit
over a pound but then you go with the standard Vitamix craft, that ways about 1 pound you
know 14 13 ounces.
And so you know that’s almost 2 pounds.
So we have a 1 pound craft versus a 2 pound craft.
So you know maybe one’s heavier duty cause it weighs more, maybe one’s more lighter
duty but you know that’s the difference in the weight if that is a factor to you.
I personally you know don’t mind either craft and while we’re talking about crafts
let’s talk about another thing, about the size of the craft.
So you saw that this one was a lot you know shorter and so but they're both 64 ounces.
So what that means is this is kind of short and fat and uh you know this is square so
I like to get a spatula in here and easily scoop things out.
It also has a basically a wing tip blade.
So it’s basically a two prong blade much like the old fashioned propellers on an airplane,
that’s what it sort of reminds me of.
So things could actually drop down between the blade and then get hit with the blade,
whereas on the Vitamix this craft is more long tall and narrow.
And it also has these flutes on here so that makes getting out things out of this blender
even more even with the spatula much more difficult.
So especially when I’m blending up 11 dollar a pound macadamia nuts with some orange juice
you know 11 dollar a pound macadamia nut cream sauce in the bottom and you’re leaving a
whole bunch and you’re just gonna wash that down the sink when you’re cleaning that’s
not fun to waste any extra things.
So in that situation I do like the Blendtec craft more.
One of the reasons why the Vitamix craft weighs so much is it has this big heavy metal nut
on the bottom and that adds to the weight that adds to make it more solid and more stable.
And as you could see here this uh the Vitamix craft has a 4 prong blade.
So this, things can tend to float up on the top and spin around a lot and actually not
get blended so that’s why Vitamix also includes with their blender a tamper.
And so this tamper can be used when the Vitamix is on provided you have the top securely in
place.
This tamper will only go down so far so you can’t hit the blades although I have had
many friends you know get to try to be smart and use it without the top and don’t do
that cause you know you’re gonna get this plastic parts in your smoothie.
You need to always have the top in place and use the tamper as such.
Now the Blendtec on the other hand doesn't have a tamper and in most cases things will
get sucked down into the Blendtec when you’re blending.
So the two things we’re gonna blend up today are actually flaxseeds.
I really like to blend up flaxseeds.
It’s a really great demonstration when testing a blender so if you take your standard household
blender it just literally does not have enough power to take the flaxseeds and grind them
up literally into a flax powder.
Now if we’re eating flaxseeds we definitely need to grind them up into a powder to get
the best digestion because most times the flaxseeds are really hard and even if you
chew them really well you’re gonna see them come out whole.
And the flaxseeds are very high in Omega 3 fatty acids and everybody needs to get more
Omega 3 fatty acids in their diet.
So we have some brown flaxseeds today, I also like to use the golden flaxseeds they taste
a little bit better for me, the golden ones, but we have the brown ones today.
So we’re gonna blend those up in just a second show you how easily these two blenders
will grind whole flaxseeds into flax powder.
Now once you grind the flaxseeds into the powder, you’re gonna wanna use that immediately.
So only use as much as you will use in that day.
So you know don’t grind up you know pounds of flaxseeds and have powder and save it no,
because once you grind open those flaxseeds it’s gonna start the oxidation process and
we wanna eat the freshest quality fruit.
And remember fresh is as bestest.
So we’re gonna do that in just one second.
But first I wanted to go over some of the other differences with the blenders.
So the first thing is that the crafts on both blenders now come in a BPA free.
So let’s see we have some of the older crafts here so this is a older Blendtec craft.
So you have the old style Blendtec or champ craft with these arches on the bottom it’s
probably not the BPA free.
In addition, in the olden days the champ blender had a different top so this top it just kind
of seats on one side and if you have one of these or know about these, whenever you used
to blend with these you’d always have to put your hand on top because what would happen
is this top would blow off because there’s no place for the air to escape.
And I’ve had many a smoothies the top blow off on this this style top and you know it
would get all over and thats no fun.
So then they came out with the gripper lid.
And the gripper lid not only grips on the inside but then it has a flap on the outside
that grips it and they also have a little hold spout to let all the extra air out so
that was a great improvement.
But now all the blenders tops are coming with this new gripper lid with this vent hole and
this basically just comes out so now you could actually add things in while you’re making
a smoothie.
I don't like this top as much because things end up splashing up in here and it gets a
bit messy.
Actually I prefer this lid but unfortunately all the Blendtecs now come with this lid here.
The other main difference is that on the Blendtec here you can now get the 96 ounce craft and
this is the standard 64 ounce craft on the Blendtec.
And the Vitamix only has the two size crafts actually they have a 64 ounce, so that would
be comparable, and they also have a brand new 32 ounce craft which is kind of nicer.
I’d like that because it’s a lot shorter and not as tall and it’s a little bit easier
to get your macadamia nut orange cream sauce that I make out of that because it is smaller
so I actually tend to use that one a lot more at home but that is a lot smaller.
So if you’re making big sizes the 96 ounce craft is nice.
This other difference is that the 64 ounce craft has a 3 inch wing span blade and the
96 ounce now has the 4 inch wing span blade.
And there has been some other people saying that you know this new craft oxides your food
less.
Now you know I don’t know if that’s exactly the case but here’s the thing the thing
is that definitely the 96 ounce craft if you need to blend less, or a shorter duration
of time because basically everything’s getting pulled into the blender more effectively,
then your food is oxidizing less because you’re actually running it less.
I don’t that the 96 ounce craft in itself oxidizes your food less and I would not tend
to believe that at all.
So let’s go into some of the other differences.
Basically the Blendtec, this craft or the uh motor base is a lot lighter than the Vitamix
motor base and this is actually a 3 piece core power.
Also you may notice that it has a little LED display right over here and a whole number
of buttons so this is a smart blender.
It’s actually computer controlled.
There's a chip in there and you know it tells you how many cycles how much you’ve used
the blender.
It also has 10 speeds, the Vitamix over here basically has two speeds.
This will basically turn on, turn itself on and turn itself off in uh the standard cycle
is 50 seconds.
So if you only ever run it one cycle you know you will never heat up anything blending in
the Blendtec blender.
The other thing is that it has these nice preset buttons and there’s 4 preset buttons.
You could program to you know do different speeds so for example if you hit button 1
it could run on that speed for 10 seconds and ramp up to high speed for another you
know 20 seconds and the slow back down to the low speed.
So you could cater it like okay number 1 a green smoothie everyday, number 2 is when
I make my macadamia nut cream sauce at night and number 3 is maybe for when I make my coconut
cream pudding and you know what have you.
So it’s nice in that respect.
It also has a pulse button which will momentarily pulse it but the buttons I use the most actually
are the speed buttons which are here, higher and lower.
I usually just hold down the speed button and to make it go as fast as possible speed
number 10 and if I blend things on speed number 10 for about 30 40 50 seconds at the most
it’s quite done.
Let’s go ahead and move over to the Vitamix here.
Take a look.
This Vitamix motor base it’s actually heavier it’s weighted so it has a lot more you know
heft to it.
On a sheer motor strength power the Blendtec’s more powerful.
If you do look at the website discountjuicers.com we have a pictures of actually the motor windings
so actually the gear heads and the guys into that kind of stuff so it gets into the gear
windings and there’s a lot more copper and there’s a lot more stout of you know the
actual motor inside.
This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
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