Hamilton Beach Wave Crusher Blender For Smoothies With 40 Oz Glass Jar and 14 Functions, Ice Sabre Blades & 700 Watts for Consistently Smooth Results, Black + Stainless Steel (54221)

Got at great reduced price during Memorial Day sale. I couldn’t be more pleased. Only used once so far.Pros —Well designed and intuitive use.Great size for every-day small to medium size batches.Actually crushes the ice!Many speeds.Glass pitcher.Very quiet compared to most blenders.Stable - shorter and wider design than a lot of newer blender designs.Good combo of basic and workhorse features - short easy manual and no learning curve.It’s one thing that doesn’t need to be charged!Trusted brand - I’ve had great experience with Hamilton Beach for many years.Cons —*Very* short cord. (18”?)Materials used (other than glass pitcher) feel like they aren’t the strongest (but that’s why it’s $60 and not $400).Overall, very pleased. Wasn’t sure I needed one since I have a food processor and a stand mixer. But it will be so nice to have for those recipes calling for a blender.

This Hamilton Beach Wave Crusher is exactly what I was looking for! It has plenty of power to crush my carrots, broccoli, celery and other fibrous and/or hard vegetables to make a wonderful vegie smoothy for my lunches. I love eating healthy and this unit makes it easy to reach that goal. With my 19" tall cabinets, the whole unit assembled with lid still leaves me 5" of room to store it under the cabinet. I know this is a blender I will use for many years!! Highly recommended! FYI it was a return item that was in all the original packaging and absolutely NO signs of being used!!

Overall a good basic blender for the price. I ignored the reviews about the lid being insanely tight. It is way tighter than you would expect. It seals well, but it is tough to get off. If you have elderly people or kids, no chance.

Great quality, good speed, sharp blades, normal noise, easy to clean, great power levels, very durable.

We use to make poolside drinks. Plenty of power, crushes ice with ease.

This blender taught me rage. I didn't know I could hate an inanimate object with so much passion before I started using this blender. I used to think that kind of hate was reserved for Nazis and University of Florida fans only, but no, I now can say I truly know myself better due to the experiences I've had with this blender.Let's start with the blending option. I think if you wanted to mix food dye in with some water you might be able to after 20 or 30 minutes of blending, but ice? Ha! Smoothies? Think again sucker! Whipped cream? More like stirred froth. See, when the masochistic designers unzipped their leather masks and peeled back their eye patches long enough to settle on giving this thing a function they discovered what might be one of the single greatest designs in all of the history of futility. This blender can mysteriously mix the areas in contact with the blades with extreme prejudice while leaving any areas of liquid or "substance" above the blades completely unperturbed. Amazingly this blender can render ice at the bottom into pure liquid water in seconds while leaving the ice above more frozen than Elsa's underwear.Some of you might be thinking "well just push the other stuff down dummy" and you'd be right if this weren't designed by Pol Pot clones raised in Chinese sweat shops. Pushing things down just begins the second round of "mushed on the bottom and solid on the top". Now, given 30 or 40 minutes of free time you might be able to eventually go through enough cycles of this to get everything in the blender mixed, and kudos to you buddy for having the patience and virtue to go through that process. I lack these virtues, which is why I bought a blender that I was hoping would cut down on my smoothie making time. It did what I did not think was possible, which was add time to an already laborious process of making smoothies by hand.The lid requires a degree in mechanical engineering to get on and off smoothly, which is great if you enjoy splashing your kitchen with blender contents, but my wife is the lead cleaning manager of our kitchen and I'm pretty sure I'd be restricted from all kitchen privileges if I continued opening the pseudo-smoothies I've been making without covering myself and the blender in a beach towel first. I hate laundry so I'm going to pass on the extra towel duty. Amazingly my wife hates this blender even more than I do; when I asked her if she wanted to contribute to the review she asked me how to spell a 10 minute scream. I'm pretty sure she put an add on Craiglist for a hitman to come by and take this thing out.If I could give this thing less than 1 star I would, but then again if I could give this thing Ebola I would do that also. I hereby sentence this blender to the death of a thousand hammer smashes, I would not dare allow someone else to attempt to use it lest I be tried for crimes against humanity (which I think the UN Council may need to consider for Hamilton Beach).

We needed a blender to start making healthy smoothies for my husband and I and our three children. This blender is large enough to make 2 adult and 3 child smoothies In one go. It has shown to be durable and hold up against daily use.

A blender is a staple in our house and gets daily use for smoothies. This blender worked ok for about a week. After that it progressively started taking longer to chop the fruit. After using it for several months it now take at least 5-10 minutes of blending to get a smoothie without fruit chunks in the bottom. Also, if you don’t want it to leak, don’t ever take it apart at the bottom. I did that twice to clean it and after the second time, it will not seal tightly no matter what I do, so it leaks milk everywhere every time I use it. Feel like there are probably better options out there for a blender that gets daily use. If you want a blender to use every once in a while, this one is probably a good option for you.