[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I bought this blender about a month ago and I absolutely love it. This blender gets used at least 4-5 times a week. I use it to make different types of smoothies for myself and my kids, salsas, sauces, and soups. It even came with a recipe booklet that had other great ideas and uses that I wouldn't have thought of. I wanted something that had a good blade to crush down ice and purée for a smooth texture and this machine does just that! I got it in the empire red to match my other kitchenaid appliances. Great buy, worth every penny!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I am in my third week of using my KitchedAid blender and only have one regret, that I did not buy it sooner. This is hands down the best blender I have ever used. Fast, powerful and quiet, whats not to love.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Never thought that i needed a blender; boy was i wrong. I make soup i make marinade my daughters make smoothies you name it you can probably do it with this blender.by the way i'm not writing this review for the food processor i already have it,and HIGHLY recommend it

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] So glad I purchased this and that the blender part actually locks onto the base...The reason for purchasing it was because my other blender was glass and just "sat" into the base. Well the glass part fell out of it's base when I took it out of the closet and that was the end...I can also fit more into my new blender so all in all it was a good choice. I love kitchenAid!!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I just bought the Kitchenaid 5-speed blender, and it makes great green smoothies! I make them every morning and they're perfectly smooth--not chunky like with some other blenders. This is a great blender for any kind of smoothie or pureed soup. I highly recommend this product!!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] It's a blender, it blends. Kitchen-Aid has cheapened up the pitcher though, they used to be glass, now they feel like a cheap plastic.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] We have a kitchen aid blender that we used hot liquid in to purée vegetables. The plastic teeth between the base and the blender container melted rendering the blender obsolete. What a silly design. Our blender is older because it has a glass container as opposed to plastic (like the current ones). We are disappointed at the quality and poor design.

Recently bought this blender and am HIGHLY disappointed. Tried to blend a cheesecake mixture by following the recommendations of speed 5 in the instruction manual. The blender did not have the power to blend the ingredients together. Instead it attempted to for a few seconds and then all the lights would flash on the panel (as designed) and the system would turn off. Gave the blender the benefit of the doubt and tried to mix frosting as a second attempt. The blender stalled out sooner than the first attempt and would not blend the mixture at all. I tried shifting the ingredients around, adding more liquid, etc. with no avail. Finally, I ended up mixing the frosting by hand. After having owned a number of kitchenaid products, I am VERY disappointed with this kitchenaid product and it's lack of power/overall ability to do what it's designed to do.

I got this blender as a wedding present and maybe only used it 2 or 3 times. When I went to go use it the 4th time (while only making a smoothie), the blade would stop blending but the motor would rev up more. After looking at it, the plastic nuts on the bottom and inside the container looked like plastic was coming off and the blade seemed to be loose. I quit using it because now it seems dangerous if the blade loosens up anymore and who knows how much plastic could be wearing off into the smoothies. It just seems like a poor design in my opinion.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Agree with Bill from Rochester. Same thing happened here. Only we didn't put ice in the blender. I was blending herbs and oil for a dressing/sauce. The black roter on the base of the unit completely cracked into multiple pieces. When I lifted the blender off the base, there were tons of tiny pieces. Rotted? Seems wrong since the unit belonged to my father in law who seldom used it. Model No. KSP5WH4. I would have thought such a simple piece might be replaceable, but there are no parts for this on KitchenAid's site. And that doesn't bode well, since such a simple replacement part when the entire unit is in excellent shape, would really be a consumer friendly effort. Also, I can only imagine Rochester Bill and I are hardly the only two people this has happened to.