Vitamix 5200 Blender
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For 10 years and counting, the Vitamix 5200 has been our favorite blender. It effortlessly blends creamy soups, sauces, and smoothies. The large, tapered jar creates an ideal vortex for pulling in ingredients, and the motor powerfully turns fibers into silky emulsions. Right now, you can grab a 5200 in white on sale.
Serious Eats / Will Dickey
Vitamix A3500 Ascent Series Smart Blender
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Designed with all the bells and whistles one could want in a blender, the A3500 has an easy-to-navigate LED touchscreen and self-detection technology that senses container sizes to automatically adjust program settings and blending times.
Serious Eats / Tamara Staples
Vitamix E310 Explorian Blender
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If you just need a simple, petite blender for smoothies or smaller batches of food, we recommend the E310 Explorian blender. Its motor is slightly less powerful, but it still held its own in our tests. It’s also more affordable and comes with a personal blending cup for making smoothies without dirtying the bigger jar. Plus, it’s on sale.
Vitamix Propel 510 Blender
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The Propel 510 is another petite Vitamix blender that’s similar to the Explorian but comes with presets for smoothies, hot soup, and frozen desserts. It’s also a whopping $131 off.
Vitamix Propel 750 Blender
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An updated version of our favorite 5200 blender, the Propel 750, comes with a few presets for smoothies, hot soups, and frozen desserts. Otherwise, it functions much the same as the 5200. You can grab it for $50 off.
Serious Eats / Russell Kilgore
Vitamix Immersion Blender 3-Piece Set
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We loved that this immersion blender features a pan guard to keep from scratching cooking surfaces. Its super-powerful motor makes fast work of blending mayonnaise and soups and cleans up quickly. At its highest setting, it was able to puree celery soup almost entirely, leaving a mere few grams of solids left in the container.
Serious Eats / Russell Kilgore
Vitamix 12-Cup Food Processor Attachment
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If you already have a Vitamix Ascent line blender, it’s worth grabbing this 12-cup food processor attachment while it’s on sale. It was exceptional at emulsifying during our tests and excels at producing smooth sauces and purées.
Serious Eats / Grace Kelly
Vitamix FoodCycler FC-50
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When we tried the Vitamix FoodCycler, we were impressed with how well it can heat, grind, and dry food scraps. For a small-capacity countertop composter, it performs efficiently, taking a mere six to eight hours to turn scraps into fertilizer. Grab it on sale for $125 off.
Serious Eats / Riddley Gemperlein-Schirm
Why We’re the Experts
- An Uong is a writer for Serious Eats.
- An has been testing kitchen gear with Serious Eats for two years.
- She loves any excuse to use her blender, be it soups, smoothies, or sauces.