Cuisinart BFP-650GM Velocity Ultra Trio 1 HP Blender/Food Processor with Travel Cups, Gun Metal compact 9

The latest purchase was one we gifted our daughter. Our own has been with us for over 2 years.... and going!!! It’s a great purchase and used fairly regularly. The only problem we have ever faced is with the food processor plunger. It is so invisible that if you unconsciously tilt the processor lid with it in it that it falls off. It’s happened a few times and the plunger, made of plastic, has cracked. Would we buy another one the next time? Definitely. It serves us for our Indian grinding and processing very well.

I purchased this blender in March, by the beginning of May a mechanism in the base broke off in the middle of use. I received a replacement from Cuisinart after 6 weeks only to have the exact same part break off 3 months later. It's been 6 months since my original purchase and 2 machines have broken. Do not purchase

amazing smoothie maker, but the base cap and the blade came apart while making a smoothie. ordering another one after getting a full refund, and we will see what happens with this next one. I have had OK experiences with previous models, but they also had their own issues. all to do with the cap and the blade. the old one, the bottom ended up shredding the wheel that mates up to the machine, and had to buy a new cap/blade. This one, the blade ended up unscrewing and falling apart, and not able to put back together since it was pressed in on the cap at the factory. EXCELLENT FROZEN SMOOTHIE MAKER THOUGH!! HANDS DOWN!!! Of course, when it works properly. This on only lasted about 6-8 smoothies. Buying a new one now. Fingers crossed.

After working with Cuisinart’s easy and helpful customer service on a warranty issue for my coffeemaker, I thought that Cuisinart would be my go-to kitchen electronics brand. However, this blender has been trouble from the beginning. The first issue was the noise - noticeably louder than my previous Ninja blender but, even if I had to plug my ears, not a problem if it does the job. Spoiler, it doesn’t. The shape of the pitcher changes at the bottom to contain the blades in a narrow well. This design means that your food will not begin circulating until the items in the well are very thoroughly blended. This makes the blender extremely slow but it also means that you have one choice of consistency (mush) - and that you will invariably end up babysitting the blender to manually agitate the contents. At this point, my blender is just annoying. But for making smoothies once in a while or blending spinach for saag every few months, I’ll make it work. A month after having the blender (3 or 4 uses), The blender was doing a particularly poor job and after watching it from the top, I found that it was was not moving the food at all. When I poured out the contents I found two parts of the blade mechanism had detached and were mixed into the blended items in the well of the pitcher. Since this took place a day after Amazon’s 30-day return policy, I had to call Cuisinart about the issue. After looking up the part, Cuisinart confirmed that this was a defect in early models and said that they would send me a replacement blade assembly. This wasn’t my ideal solution since I never quite felt safe using the blender afterwards but, again, I figured I’d make it work. The blender spent a number of months in the cupboard and I had simply made do without it. However, a craving for saag meant pulling it out once again. With the pitcher reasonably filled with wilted spinach, I turned on the blender and was met with a new high-pitched screeching as the blades turned. I dumped the contents to make certain that the blade assembly was in place, and finding it secure and my spinach already emptied, I threw the device in the garbage (thus ending the saga). I don’t simply not-recommend this blender, I think it’s dangerous; it needs to discontinued.

Works really great. I have been with it for a while and it's doing a great job