You say it heats soup via the speed of the blade. does it heat smoothies etc
63358
I suppose that if you left the smoothies in there long enough it would heat up. It only heats up the soup by friction. There is no heating element.
63359
it does get a little warm, not sure whether it heats up soup to soup temperature, though!
21330
Yes. I've had no trouble with this. I love this blender; it's great for making soups.
1975900
No. The blades spin too slowly, it purees, I guess you can approach something like a badly blended smoothie if you run it for a long long time, risking burning the cheap motor. For fruits and smoothies its all about rpm, and this is a chopping device, not a blending device. And don't even think about throwing ice into this, food processors only handle what you can cut with a knife.
1277818
It can cook rice, make boiling water, heat up soup and steam food. That's what I know.
1194608
It will crush ice and blend ice cream - makes great smoothies. I also bought the slicey attachment and now chop veggies super fast. I have also blended quite a few soups, mashed potatoes, and made salsa. It's my favorite kitchen tool.
1377214
Yes it does, it takes over 5 minutes on high but the speed of the blades creates enough friction to heat the food being blended.
2063135
I'm not sure. I use it primarily for my green smoothie. It has a soup button, but never used it.
929520
I use a plain razor blade and a lighter to heat it up. The heated blade cuts thin clean slices.
1117702
Yes this machine has a feature to make soup. It is very hot when finished. Recipe book that comes with machine has many recipes that tell you which items to put in first, second, etc. It takes only a few short minutes to do this once the ingredients are prepared and ready to go.
1759444
It's electric and its a warmer to keep cooked soups hot that was previously cooked already but not for cooking
2173304
We use it mostly for smoothies. It has a special setting for smoothies that pulses the contents and throws them up the side, so I suppose the answer in that case would be "yes." We have pureed a couple soups in it using a constant speed, and I don't recall seeing air pockets/volume increase in a fairly thick cream of broccoli and potato. The blade design is unusual compared to the sub-$100 blenders we had used before.
606842
Yes... not a problem adding hot soup to the blender. I start with a small quantity and the top on to get the blades turning, then add in the rest of the soup.
1630770
I can confirm that it does heat up soups in about 45 seconds. There's even a setting for soups.
1016661
Yes, but I think all the Vitamix models make soup. Basically, if you run the machine for several minutes, the blades run so fast it creates heat and will heat your ingredients inside.
1016664
Yes it is - all current Vitamix spin at a high speed that will produce heat due to friction from the blades on the item(s) you're blending - The Vitamix Professional 300 has the 4" blades (vs. the older 3" blades, on say the 5200) and would therefore have an even faster speed at the blade tip and therefore produce more frictional heat - I use this same friction heat principle daily to clean my Vitamix, I add warm/hot water and a drop of soap - after blending on high for 1-2 min, the soapy water/foam is too hot to touch (exceeds 160 F). More specifically to answer your specific question, I use this feature to make super creamy soups blended to a perfect top restaurant quality consistency . . . and hot. As another response commented, I have not had the problem of it whipping in too much air, I understand this happens due to making a very small amount of soup (1 serving only). My experience creating soups in the VitaMix Professional 300 have been that soups are blended to perfection (I've made many types: broccoli, tomato, lobster bisque, etc.,).
1389041
Yes it does. I've heated bowls for soup with these and it works just as nicely as it does with plates.
647797
I just got the ninja 700. it has the power to crush the ice very fast but it does NOT make the smoothie smooth. I believe it's the blade design that it does not promote enough circulation inside the blender. Lot of chunky ice in there even a relatively long blend. Absolutely not recommended for smoothies. My cheapy bullet blender make smoother smoothie.