Cuisinart CBT-500 SmartPower 600-Watt Premier Power Blender, Brushed Stainless
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Cuisinart CBT-500 SmartPower 600-Watt Premier Power Blender, Brushed Stainless
Customer Review: Leaky noisemaker - don't bother
Summary: 2 Stars
Bought this for making frozen drinks and general kitchen use. The motor was strong and made pretty smooth ice drinks....the ice was blended very evenly. I had high hopes! It was very noisey, but I was willing to overlook that.
However, the reason I am returning this to the store is because of the non-functional lip on the pitcher that is supposed to be used for pouring. It is too small to be functional. Also, the shape of the base that holds the glass pitcher on the blender is a bad design. It traps any liquid that happens to run down the outside from pouring or from condensation, making this blender a leaking mess in a matter of seconds.
Each time I poured a drink, no matter how I tried, liquid would drip off the small pitcher lip, down the side of the glass pitcher, and get trapped in the plastic housing that holds the glass pitcher on the blender. Then, next time I poured a drink, not only would the lip leak again, but all the liquid that was caught in the base dripped everywhere. Pretty good blender, but a horrible design for the pitcher and base.
Customer Review: This blender Sucks
Summary: 2 Stars
This blender is too expensive for what you get. Sure the moter is 600 watts. Sure it can blend heavy duty foods. But that is not enough for a blender. You buy a blender to chop food by automatically sucking food down to the blade to chop the food to tiny bits. This blender will NOT always do that unless you put in a good quanty of liquid, usually more liquid than you want. If you dont put in enough liquid, the food will sit above the spinning blade and not get pulled down. You will have to manually assist the blender (pain point). I had to either add more liquid to the very heavy glass jar or stop the blending and use a fork to push the food into the blades and start again (I would repeat this until the food would get cought by the blender). If you want a blender to make smoothies (for one person) this is not the blender that you need. I returned this blender 2 weeks after I got it and replaced it with an Oster. It pulls the food down to the blade no matter how much liquid I put in the jar and it works perfectly every time! Oh, it cheaper too!Customer Review: Smells like burning tires!
Summary: 2 Stars
We've had our Cuisinart for over a year and use it infrequently. One of the reasons why it gets so little use is the size and the weight. This is a heavy, heavy blender. And while I normally equate heavy industrial kitchenware with quality, in this case, I'm afraid Cuisinart has let us down. I never stress the motor on our model, yet even blending salad dressing, I get a faint whiff of burning rubber or... There is also an issue with the actual glass, the lip of the blender is so wide that pouring liquids is a pain--tons of spills. I have a feeling that Cuisinart's best men/women were out to lunch the day this design was passed. Maybe we can blame it on the interns. And while pictures of the product look nice, seeing the thing sitting on my counter, well, it's so large and bulky that that is exactly how it looks: Large and Bulky. No real elegance and it's not funky cool the way KitchenAid mixers are. Seems to me we got more longevity and easier use out of my cheaper model that I tossed to make way for this one.Customer Review: Cheapness masquerading as simplicity
Summary: 1 Stars
Now it seems a little unfair to criticize the blender for having two speeds (3 if you count "ice crush"), because you know that when you buy it. Still, it's a disadvantage.
But that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is the cheap plastic parts. The handle -- which is hollow and flimsy -- pulled apart under the weight of the enormous glass container. I attempted to glue it back together, but then it actually separated from the unit -- the metal bolts on the band around the glass container pulled through the plastic, and now the whole thing's useless. In order to get a replacement, you have to get the whole glass container for $40 (the handle's not available separately), and for that price you could get a far better blender.
Once, Cuisinart made quality products. My grandmother has a food processor from the 1970s that's still going strong. But this is not the same company as it was 40 years ago, and it's not the same type of product. This is cheaply-made garbage.
Customer Review: First it cut me, then it started to burn...
Summary: 1 Stars
DO NOT BUY! We got this as a wedding present last July. Six months ago after using it just a couple of times, I picked up the glass jar and suddenly, it's shattering on the floor. Glass and blood everywhere. Up until today, I had always assumed I hit it against something. I spent over $75 on new parts. This morning, I went to make my usual smoothie and it wouldn't start. The motor was making horrible noises and then there was smoke and my kitchen smelled like smoke for hours. I called Cuisinart who said to bring it in the store where it was purchased. The store was kind enough to replace it but not before being dumbfounded the Cuisinart sent me into the store because it had been purchased well over a year ago (the 3-year warranty is the manufacturer's). The manager of the store told me this model has been discontinued for various reasons including the plastic handle tends to break off the glass jar and shatter. Good to know that it wasn't my fault. I bought the new 600 model WITH A GLASS HANDLE.