| | |  | Smoothie Makers | Home » » VillaWare 4785-WH Smoothee Blend 'n Serve White | | | | | | | Description: | | Now you can serve smoothies continuously, even while mixing! The spout does so with great precision and neatness, and there's clearance for even tall glasses. The short low jar design provides optimum blending and a large 7 cup capacity. | | | Features: | |
• Hardened stainless steel blades for heavy-duty crushing
• Powerful motor, two speeds and pulse up to 700 watts
• 72 ounce container with tall spout for glasses up to 6.5 inches
• Specially designed Smoothee Stick
• White ABS housing blends with all kitchen décor
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 13.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 8.5 inches | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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 Works great...for a while.Apr 08, 2005
First off, I will say this is one of the few I've owned whose motor lasted. Nice job, villaware.
The reason it only gets one star is simple. The nut holding the lateral cog (this cog spins the blade assembly in the container) to the motor arbor stripped on mine after about 3 years. For some reason, this .03 cent part - unavailable at home centers or from their customer service department - has relegated my machine to a 7 lb. paperweight. This cheap nut, which is unattainable but could easily have been a standard issue, easily replaceable part, means I need to buy a whole new machine. To me, $49.95 is a tad high for a nut.
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Not worth itJul 08, 2004
I make frozen drinks 3 or 4 times a week. After about a month, I was mixing up a frozen SlimFast when it started leaking all over. The blade assembly had chips missing from the plastic and the blender is now unusable. Total waste of money.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Smoothie cap fell apartJun 26, 2004
I bought this product anticipating making great smoothies and I made two delicious smoothies. The machine is very loud and vibrates badly and my smoothie seemed too thick to be released from the pour spout even when running. The reason I gave this a one star is because the cap above the spout literally popped off when it was sitting on the drainboard. It was the most bizzare thing because no one was around when it happened but I am sending the smoothie maker back due to the defective part.
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 What a Work Horse!Jan 07, 2004
Well so far I have had this for 2 days, so I will have to post an update if anything changes or breaks. But so far this baby has been able to make the smoothest smoothies I've ever had. If you follow the directions, and add the liquids first, THEN the fruits,etc., THEN the ice, it grinds the ice up with not even one tiny ice chip! I didn't even have to use the smoothie stick to stir it. Amazing! The only negatives to this product so far are: 1. Extremely loud; 2. NOT dishwasher safe because it's all plastic (but then again you can just rinse with hot water, add a drop of dishwashing liquid, and BLEND it clean, then rinse); 3. The serving spout is a pain. Sometimes I forget it is open after cleaning until my ingredients start pouring out into the drip tray. It also makes it a little more difficult to clean. Also, some of the first ingredient you add gets "stuck" in the spout and doesn't get mixed up. So the first glass you pour from the spout is "muck" and must be poured out. So I don't use the serving spout, I just pour from the container. The only other negative to this product is that it vibrates a LOT, and the top of the drip tray actually vibrates right off! This is probably why the manual tells you to keep your hand over the lid when you are blending (who knows what could happen?) I also don't care for the only color that I found this in, which was a brushed stainless and black - my kitchen is all white/stainless. All in all, though, I am happy with this so far. For an under $50 product, I just hope it holds up. I was originally looking at blenders that cost double (and even triple) what this cost. But I decided to give this one a try because it was built specifically for making smoothies and it has a 700 watt motor, which is much more powerful than nearly all of the blenders I've looked at. So I figured it could handle the ice very well. In that respect, it certainly lived up to my expectations.
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