| | |  | Smoothie Makers | Home » » VillaWare 5785-SI Smoothee Bar Blender and Server, Silver | | | | | | | Description: | | If smoothies are a part of your daily routine, why not make your life more enjoyable by selecting a blender dedicated to making the perfect smoothie? This one has 700 watts of power behind the stainless steel blade assembly and it has a spout for dispensing the contents of the carafe neatly into a waiting glass. While it is not recommended for crushing ice on its own, it can crush up to a cup's worth of ice along with other liquid ingredients. The carafe is conveniently marked with typical smoothie ingredient measurements and it comes with some recipes too. | | | Features: | |
• 700-watt Smoothee Bar with silver-finish metal housing; 56-ounce capacity
• Hardened stainless-steel blades for heavy-duty crushing
• 2 speeds plus pulse option; Smoothee Stick; stainless-steel drip tray
• Durable plastic container with dispenser; fits glasses up to 6-1/2 inches
• 6-1/4 by 10 by 17-1/4 inches; 1-year warranty; recipe booklet included
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 13.1 inches | | Product Width:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 8.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 13.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 7.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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 don't waste the moneyMar 31, 2007
I bought one of these for myself as I have a smoothee everyday. It was great at first...so I bought my parents one. About 2 weeks into it the seal around the drink dispenser broke. I tried contacting vila ware and kept getting that the part was out of stock. Well after 2 months of trying I finally gave up. When I asked my family about theres they said the motor died on them. Luckily I had the base on mine and it worked fine so not too bad...I spent money for two blenders and ultimatly only had one.
5 Thumbs Down for the 5785 BlenderDec 03, 2006
I don't want to be seem like I am piling-on, but all of the bad comments above or correct. This is just simply not a good unit to purchase. We have had all of the problems, the worst being it always leaks from the bottom. Many times when you place th pitcher into it and twist to lock it down you are actually loosening it on the bottom to cause leaks. Thick products will not come out of the spout very well even if running the motor and on top of all those items the bottom locking tabs that holds the cutter in place all broke off making it useless. Even though you think it might still be worth only $30 you will find it hard to get your money worth before it breaks.
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Absolute Junk. You can have mine for FREE!!May 17, 2006
Don't even think of buying this device unless you enjoy spending 15 minutes cleaning up after each use. The pitcher base detaches itself from the pitcher after about 5 seconds of blending making an ugly mess everywhere. After cleaning up that mess and screwing the base on tighter, it detaches itself after another 5 seconds...get the picture!
Anything thicker than water won't pour through the spout, so that feature is completely worthless. You absolutely cannot walk away while turned on or it will vibrate itself off the counter and onto the floor. That is assuming that it doesn't self destruct and have parts and smoothie flying everwhere first.
The only reason anywone would give this even a 1 star rating is that ZERO wasn't an option to choose from. You can have mine for FREE!!
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poor Quality at any price is bad.Jan 26, 2006
After just a few uses the plastic base broke, making it unuseable.
I would not recommend this to any one. Please save your money for a better model.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Bad design, cheap materialsAug 14, 2005
I've had this "smoothie bar" for a year, and after a bartender I'd hired once told me it's utterly unusable, I'd stubbornly been trying to prove him wrong ever since. Well, I give up, and I just ordered a professional-grade blender made of metal by a trusted manufacturer so I can get rid of this piece of junk. Now I want to warn others about this VillaWare Smoothie Bar's bad design and cheap materials.
First of all, the flare of the cup is such that it forms an airgap above the blades, requiring constant scraping of the sides to push the contents downward manually. Forget that plastic stick. Look at the photo. It doesn't reach the places it needs to, so you still have to stop the blender to scrape. And you have to use your rubber scraper anyway because a round plastic stick just isn't designed do the job!
While you're looking at the photo, notice the vertical ribs inside the jar. Too bad they don't slope towards the pour spout because when you pour, they force your smoothie to miss your glass! (Perhaps if the jar were made of glass or a stronger plastic, the ribs wouldn't even be necessary.)
Why, you ask, would you need to pour when there's a convenient spigot to dispense your smoothie? Well, it's due to another bad design element - the spigot only allows the thinnest of liquids (the consistency of rice milk) to flow through it, which in my book, isn't a smoothie. So this "smoothie bar" is really just a blender. However...
The worst flaw is that no matter how tight you twist the blade base onto the jar, the vibrations of the blending will cause it to loosen, making smoothie leak out the bottom of the jar (and via a drain hole, the bottom of the blender) during operation. And when you pick up the jar from the base to pour your smoothie (since, of course, the spigot doesn't work) the bottom of the jar will fall out, SPILLING YOUR SMOOTHIE ALL OVER YOUR COUNTERTOP. This has happened more times than I care to remember, and believe me, once you've wiped up blueberry smoothie enough times, you'll want to write a review like this one, too. I kept thinking it was my fault - forgetting the rubber seal or not screwing the base on properly - until I actually noticed the base unscrewing itself from the jar during operation!
For some strange reason, perhaps another design flaw, the blade base unscrews to the right instead of the left (which violates the lefty-loosey guideline), which is probably a part of the problem.
This whole machine (except the blades and, inexplicably, the little drip grate below the spout, which are metal) is low-grade plastic, making it lightweight, which is convenient since you have to pick it up often to mop up spilled smoothie from your countertop.
Don't waste your money or your time on this machine.
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