@winb83
aight breh, and everyone else with this or a similar product.
What else am I missing by not having this product. Basically I read this thread and I was like
damn I should cop this. But at the same time, I was like "I already have a blender and I have a food processor" I use my food processor alot. My blender gets used less than 20 times a year.
So I watched some infomercials of it on YT. and Its not doing anything new. Basically the dude put raw slices of bread in the vitamix and made bread crumbs, he put raw oats in or raw grains in and made his own flour. he put peanuts in and made peanut butter, cashew in and made cashew butter. All of that I do frequently with my food processor. Its my day off and I have nothing to do so I got out both my shytty walmart/target blender, and my food processor. I did a side by side test.
First I put in some raw oats and checked the grain quality, with the food processor I was able to get powder easily. With the blender because it is so deep basically some heavy grains fell below the blades and after chopping up what I could I had to shovel through with a spoon and chop again. That still produced low grain quality, basically I had powder but with cuts and flakes of larger oats in it. So I turned the blender on, and through the hole in the top dropped the oats in and finally they cut better than they did before, not as well as the food processor but still good. There weren't any flakes or chunks but it wasn't as evenly fine as the food processor.
Keep in mind thats with a shytty $20-$30 blender. And with the job my food processor does I definitely wouldnt cop a vitamix.
For test #2 I made a simple smoothie
Half a banana, 2 tablespoons of peanut butter, a half teaspoon of honey, a teaspoon of bee pollen and a cup of almond milk.
With the food processor, that blended well, it was smooth but then again its only bananas and peanut butter with some oats. It had a smoothie consistency- you could drink by hand or through a straw. To further test how well it blended I ran it through a hand strainer
it went through well, the only thing left in the strainer was just clumps from the raw oats that I mixed in which makes sense.
I put the same shyt in the blender and after 1m 30 seconds which is how long I did it in the food processor, it came out as smooth if not a little more smooth. The strainer test was good as well, basically clumps of the oats left in the strainer.
For test #3. I wants to get some bulky food, some shyt that would need to be broken down so I made a celery, carrots, spinach, apple and strawberry smoothie.
I used half an apple, 4 strawberries, half cup of spinach, about 3-4 carrots, and 2 stalks of celery and a cup of water and 5 ice cubes.
In the blender for about 3 minutes it came out good. It was a smoothie
I dont know how much smoother it could be. There weren't any chunks or pieces. There was a good amount of juice, as well as pulp. I could drink it through or straw or by hand.
Moving on to the food processor, long story short with the same ingredients, it failed by all means. It basically made a salsa, it was chunky, it wasn't a smoothie at all. I poured it into the blender and the blender turned it into a smoothie.
So all in all my experiment with the devices I have, I see no reason to have a vitamix, minus the fact that it can do some cool soups conveniently. Any dry goods I can successfully break down with the processor, and I can make smoothies that are more than acceptable with the blender.
Now what I dont know is how much smoother the vitamix is. So my question is, How much smoother can it possibly be? One thing I did, is with the vegetable smoothie, I ran everything through a big strainer, so now I have a half gallon of vegetable juice and what im left with is what I call baby food. Its mush, its the vegetable pulp, its healthy and all that. What I realize is that a smoothie is not a juice drink, its supposed to have some substance, some pulp. So my question is , is the vitamix doing something that my blender isn't capable of that would provide a different end result. I dont know what it could be, less pulp and more juice, somehow a higher quality smoothie?.....
The baby food is good with juice thus making a smoothie, its the pulp and whatnot that provides the nutrients and vitamins that prevent over eating, keep you satiated, not hungry, no cravings etc.
I have the entire experiment recorded, I could put it on youtube, but I think with the tests that Ive done and input from cats who actually have one I and others can make an informed decision whether to get one of these for our homes.
Other than the
convenience of throwing all of the ingredients in and making a perfect smoothie, which I believe I could do achieve with a standard blender with just a little more time ( i dont think I could get the smoothness that they sing and dance about in the informercial, but I can get a very drinkable, acceptable good tasting smoothie) and
the recipes, which aren't exclusive either, you can make soups and dressings in blenders and food processors, and the
hot soup from appliance to plate is there anything I am missing about this?
