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 have had this blender for years now and thought that my old one was bad. Only to find out that it's the pitcher that is seizing up and the motor is still running fine. It fine chops everything into liquid form!

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.

I wasn't so happy with the plastic container, very hard to clean. Glass would of been better!

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 love this blender so much that I've recently purchased 3 more, 1 for my mom and 1 for my aunt (we all eat plant based) and 1 to take to our river place so we never have to be without it! My first blender was the older version of this one (LWHME) and although I love it, this one is much better. First of all it's shorter, so it fits on the counter under cabinets and I can store it inside my cabinet with the tamper in it. The old one was too tall and had to be stored separately. This one also has a better designed handle. At first I was thinking it was just a cheaper made handle but quickly realized that this one is much improved and completely open, not like the enclosed handle of the older style that would hold water and food particles and never would come completely clean. The blender does an excellent job of blending fruits and veggies in smoothies, and although it is rather loud, I'll take the noise over having to pay $400+ for those other blenders that do the same job. Our absolute favorite thing to make in this blender is vegan "cheeze" sauce! All you have to do is add all the ingredients, blend until hot and thickened, and pour right over your veggies or into a mason jar. No extra cooking needed! My original blender is 4 years old now and still works perfectly!

This blender is awesome. I went through 3 other blenders before settling on this one and I’m so glad I did. It is tough enough to make amazing smoothies and I absolutely love that it has a timer for when I make my bullet proof coffee. Great price. Great product. Highly recommend.

Firstly, I only use blenders to make smoothies, usually one per day. My last blender was a 900 watt Ninja that I loved until the jar eventually started leaking. So far I love this one. It has a huge jar (I think 60oz) so you can make quite a bit of smoothie in one blend. The power is awesome and it's certainly enough to make your smoothies "silky smooth" as they say in the smoothie world. It runs a little hot but that doesn't bother me, as this can be easily remedied by adding extra ice. I've only been using this thing for a couple weeks so I'll update my review later if necessary, which seems likely based on the low price. I just can't imagine this machine lasting nearly as long as the much higher costing blenders. It does have a lifetime warranty on the motor, however, I'm not so sure that will be the first component to give out. But even if I only get a year out of this blender I still think it's worthy of 5 stars. When you consider the hundreds you'd pay for a leading brand model, it seems to even out.