Rated 4.5 out of 5 by 34reviewers.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Valuerates Another great Oster blender I use my blender for frozen drinks, mostly fruit smoothies. My old Oster blender was starting to struggle after about 25 years, so I scoured the internet to find a good replacement. There are some very expensive blenders that do not have uniformly positive reviews and many of them have plastic jars and need to have the ingredients tamped down. That is, they do not create the vortex that leads to even blending, while the Oster does not need any help. I wanted a glass jar, and my years of using my previous Oster made me disposed to try another because they really do a good job.This newer model has a more powerful motor than my old one, and since I probably overload the jar with too many frozen fruits, I need the extra power. While I do use the preset frozen drink program, I usually have to finish off using the manual setting to completely crush and blend. I'm not sure that I see a difference in the ability to crush using this new blade pattern with blades underneath as well, but this is a powerful unit, quieter than my old one, and it is stable and sturdy.I considered the Vitamix, but watching the demos at local stores left me unimpressed. The Ninja series look very dangerous to clean, and again, no vortex. For smoothie lovers, I think this blender is a great, and reasonably priced, option. 02/24/2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by SJ7777777 Did not blend my smoothies... I could not get this to blend smoothies without opening up to stir every 5 seconds. The blender seemed to create an air bubble beneath the ingredients that i had to "pop" to get the ingredients down to the blades. It didn't matter what order I put the ingredients in. granted, I was making thick smoothies, but they were still smoothies suck-able through a straw without much effort...not sure why it wasn't pulling the ingredients down. 10/25/2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by JoeColt357 Great for shakes, we Like it. 07/10/2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by mofoneman Excellent Blender For Making Smoothies I use this blender to make green smoothies and it handles everything I throw at it. I use raw vegetables as well as frozen fruit to make my smoothies and the motor is more then strong enough to handle the job. I love the "Frozen Drink" setting the blender has. Very simple to take apart for cleaning. I especially like the glass pitcher, much better than the plastic type. What's not to like about the 5-Year Satisfaction Guarantee! 03/14/2013