JLA-8 Professional Countertop Blender, Emulsifier 1200-Watt with 60-oz BPA Free Jar Stainless Steel Blades for Frozen Drinks, Smoothies, Sauces & More, Black

**UPDATE** My mom decided she wanted to do a smoothie cleanse and came over to "borrow" my HealthMaster. She essentially has kidnapped it because she has had it for ohhh at least 7 months or so and won't return it. It still works great according to her and it looks good when I go to her house and see it on her counter. She tried to make a smoothie with her blender and it just wasn't powerful enough so I guess she just decided to keep mine forever. It's funny but not really since I wanted to make a smoothie the other day and realized I didn't have anything to make it in. Mom, if you are reading this I put this on my Christmas list! Oh and for anyone looking for the temper (the stick like thing that you put in at the top to move your items around while it is blending...check the underside of the foam packaging as there is a slot it is inserted in. I was kind of upset when I thought they didn't include it and after about a month or so I was going to toss out the packaging and flipped over one of the Styrofoam and low and behold it was right there.So...I decided I needed to get more veggies and fruits in my diet but I can't stand pulp or chunks in my smoothie. I want smooth as silk smoothies! So I finally decided to try this one as it fit my budget and purpose. Was I skeptical? YES. BUT I have to say this is the best blender I have owned hands down. This blender is super powerful and I love the fact that you can program the speed and time and walk away and let it be the workhorse that it is. I added spinach, and about 4 cups of frozen fruit (different types). This blender made short order of everything I threw at it. I blended the spinach and 2 cups water first until well blended. Then threw in all that frozen fruit. At the end I was left with a completely blended smoothy with no lumps or chunks of unblended fruit or spinach. I would completely recommend this to anyone who is looking for a great blender. This is a great buy and a fraction of the costs of some of the other brands (which I wanted but just not willing to spend hundreds of dollars on a blender).

I was reading some other reviews and one said the tamper thing was under the bottom foam!! I didn't know that and threw out the box. Now I'm without it. I bought one of these 10 years ago and used it all the time. Quinoa flour? No problem. Soup? No problem. Juicing hard thick stuff like kale?? NO. PROBLEM. Blending nuts into peanut/almond/hazelnut butter? No problem!Amazing. Then it finally died. The motor started getting hot and smelling burnt out with the harder tasks until finally it smoked so much. Literally burnt the motor up. I've never had a blender last so long. I tossed it and went to buy a new one. Couldn't remember this brand and went to the popular one. Blendtec and the other high-ends are sooo expensive. So after reading reviews ended up with a Ninja.... It couldn't make smooooth smoothies at all. We hates it. I really missed this model and found it for a lower price. I didn't believe it could be the same blender for that price. Maybe it was refurbished? Nope. It's not. I don't understand why this isn't just as popular as the blendtec or Vitamix. My roommate had a blendtec and this one was just as good.This is the best blender. I thought about buying an extra one just to have in storage for when it burns out eventually. I use it often for everything. Love love love it. Better than any other model in this price range.

What an amazing piece of kitchen equipment. Absolutely fantastic, especially for the money. I really don't see how it could be much better than the $500 high price blenders. Tried doing a hot recipe with lentils and fresh spices for lentil flat bread, today, and it was superb. This blender is outperforming what I had anticipated. I'm thrilled and would highly recommend it. I'm vegan, so it will get quite a bit of use. Great purchase!

Listennnnn, I have never, ever been more pleased with a product than I am with this HealthMaster Blender.I owned a HealthMaster Blender several years ago but the motor burnt out. I was determined to purchase another one and I did so last week. This morning this is what I blended: kale and spinach, peaches, mixed berries, apples, flax seeds and chia seeds, stevia and water. It was soooooo good. The blender is so powerful and it was mixed in a matter of a few minutes. Everything was blended thoroughly. The motor is not as noisy as the Oster I had purchased, (which only had the capacity to make three servings of smoothies). This HealthMaster Blender is just what I needed - a blender that would be able to make five servings of smoothies at one time. Even though this pitcher is shorter than the one I owned before, it is wide enough to hold the ingredients to blend what I need.I have read reviews that have said that their blender leaks. Mine doesn’t leak at all. This blender meets 100% of my needs.Thank you sooooooo much.

I've been using the healthmaster blender for at least 10 years, I was sold when Montell Williams would do his infomercials. My first I purchsed in color red and used it at least 5xs a week. Im plant based and use it for daily smoothies, butters, bread bases, nut mayo, plant based dressings etc. It got heavy usage and was still going strong after all of those years. The pitcher broke on that one about 2 years ago after it fell, but the blender base was still operable. Sought out to get a replacement and ran across the low low price here on Amazon, I was shocked at how much in price decrease it went seeing that my original one was about $250 or so. I happily purchase it. Same thing just happened to the new blender's pitcher, it fell and broke but the blender base is still great. Came on here to look for replacement pitcher but they don't sell it, so I have to purchase an entire new blender again although I don't need it. I wish they just sell the pitcher replacement alone.