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 (54220)

This is my proudest buy of the year thus far. It's simple, beautifully designed, quality built, powerful, large enough for two and a half drinks, and works like a charm.

Just a nice quality blender for it’s size and power. Easy to clean not too noisy blender. It blend super nice with it’s settings. Just a great buy.

I’m writing this review a few months shy of two years after purchasing this blender so hopefully it can help someone who like me had a hard time choosing between all the options & discerning between people’s reviews that love or hate the same item!I’ve used this blender every day for almost two years , many days twice a day , and I like what I blend to be super smooth and I also adjust ingredients as I go , so in terms of length of time blending it’s not just a few seconds of blending it’s more like a few minutes in a few segments and so I have a basis to say that this cheaper item holds up well and blends excellently . I don’t blend with ice but I do use frozen fruit and I am gentle with it in the sense that I chop up veggies or lightly boil to soften them first and I get great results , I make nut milk and it blends the nuts nicely but I soak them for a while first. I have not gotten that burnt metal smell that some blenders give off when they over heat. I’ve had no issue at all with the motor or power for almost two years of heavy blending. It’s easy to clean , some liquid seeps behind the glass on the sides but its sealed up well & comes out easily and doesn’t affect its functioning . The glass is great quality , it’s heavy and can withstand when I use boiling hot water & ingredients . The only issue I had was this : The first one I bought I returned because I thought it had a defective lid but the second one had the same issue as well so I figured out that it was just how it was made & I don’t view it as a defect anymore . The issue is that the plastic cover does not stay sealed onto the glass, I have to hold it down if my blender is full . It’s not a big deal and stays sealed tightly when I hold it , it’s a small trade off for a very good blender at a great price and better to have to hold it than the other issue of it getting stuck and being hard to remove. The cord is long enough unlike some other blenders I’ve had . The noise is annoying like most blenders, but isn’t any worse .At this point if this one gave out I would feel like I got my moneys worth and buy the same one again .

This works well for my smoothies and the price is good! I've had to switch from whole flax seeds to ground flax because it does not grind the seeds well in my smoothie. You also need to hold the lid down through the entire blending process. The lid is a very light weight plastic and does not close well or stay secure. I do love the glass pitcher. Because the glass pitcher is much heavier weight than, again, lightweight plastic base attached, you'll need to be very careful setting the pitcher down on any hard surface so as not to chip the base. Pitcher slips easily into locked position on blender.

Updated Review 10/38/24: It works! I made a smoothie with about 1 1/2 cup of frozen fruit, 1 fresh banana, and about 1 1/2 cup of almond milk and 1 tbsp chia seeds. It blended perfectly on the “grind icy drink” setting. I bought this to replace my nutribullet (it gets stuck too often). I was surprised that it didn’t work the first time because a couple of my relatives have this blender and they say it works perfectly for them. I’m glad I gave it another try.Initial Review: I just received it, put in a few strawberries with almond milk and tried every possible setting but it did not blend. I had to tilt it around and it still did not created a nice blended smoothie just chunks of strawberry in almond milk.

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).