Can the blade handle blending ice, just as easily as the blade in the Wildside jar? Thank you!
1730756
The blade appears to be the same as previously noted. (I too, use mine primarily for nut butters and sauces.) But I had to try it just to be sure it worked with ice :) Enjoy!
1730757
Sorry, I have not tried to do ice. I use mine for making nut butter. It does a verry good job for that and I am pleased with my twister jar.
1730758
Twister Jar blade look the same as Wildside Jar, but I never try it for bleding ice, it is use for Nut Butter, Hummus, Baby Food, Pesto, Guacamole, Thick Shakes, Veggie Burgers, Pasta Dough, Pie Crust, Bread Crumbs, Cookie Crumbs, Energy Bars, Mayonnaise.
1730759
Yes! I use it all of the time with the sealed lid to make smoothies. It easily handles raw carrots, frozen fruits, dense greens, and ice! But it works great for nut butters and things like hummus, too.
1730760
Yes. I use it almost daily for making mock sorbets and it is THE BEST! I use it with the twister. If blending just ice, it will make it powder fine or more like sorbet/icee if blended longer. I make diet sorbet by just adding lemon or lime juice, 1 strawberry and stevia/sweetener or sorbet with only 1cup of frozen sliced strawberries (or mango or peach, or raspberries,etc) a little sweetener and maybe a squeeze of lemon or lime juice. I can have sorbet while the others in the family have something much less healthy!!!!
1458855
I agree with the previous poster, that it will blend to a mush-like consistency, but not a juice. And for others who need it to chop and dice it does this well and we often use it for that purpose instead of using the food processor.
2058859
I believe this blender would be up to that task easily, yes. It is very well made and feels substantial in the hands, not cheap and plastic-like that many other immersion blenders out there. As was mentioned, it is very powerful, I actually use it set to only the half-way mark on the speed-setting and find that to be plenty of power for use. Highly recommended.
1712468
I bought a blade and it cracked after a few months. I just put my food processor away in the garage. Another blade doesn't seem worth it, but hand chopping herbs is very time consuming.
1947273
Yes you can virtually do anything with the Wildside Jar it just give you more room to work with inside and the 5th side of the jar let's the power of this blender mix your ingredients better.As usual, read the instructions and look at you tubes for advice.
739109
I ordered this blade with my unit and have never used the one that came with the unit. This blade works great, really churns up the smoothies. Lots of action. No problem with ice.
1947272
Yes you can virtually do anything with the Wildside Jar it just give you more room to work with inside and the 5th side of the jar let's the power of this blender mix your ingredients better. As usual, read the instructions and look at you tubes for advice.
1952459
Yes.... It is a very durable unit. Not sure how much you are going to use it commercially. I fell in love with this unit, when I noticed a business that I frequent often bought one and not sell shaved ice. They get a lot of business for it, so I feel you should have the same similar success with it also. Hope that helped. I really love my machine.
1987350
yes, absolutely . The only tip i have is if it is having trouble blending take the blades off and shake the prod around a bit. if it is too full it creates a sort of vaccume other than that it works perfect with ice or frozen fruit.
1734159
I have never tried it with dry ice, however given that this does not crush but rather shaves combined with the very high torque of this unit I would think that it would be fine. The motor is very powerful and the blade appears very substantial.
296330
The ice will melt in less than an hour. I would not use this unit to make ice with though because it does not produce finely shaved ice. The ice is not much more than crushed ice you can get out of some refrigerators. VERY crunchy, and not in a good way at all. This unit does however look good, so I just make a bunch of ice with a real ice shaver and fill this unit up with that ice.
1728990
Yes it makes very fine ice... The blade can also be moved to shave it even finer...and as crazy as it sounds the type of ice you use makes a difference also the best is the half moon from your ice make... We love love love our machine a friend of mine bought one also and they love theirs also !!! It's Great!!!
592656
I haven't tried chopping ice but I would try it with the food processor part.
21278
It blends ice well. HOWEVER, the longer I own this blender the more disapponted I am. If you use the high speed the carafe WILL jump off the base. You have to hold it down. And I have to plug my ears it's so loud. Using the low speed is quieter but it certainly doesn't blend completely unless you are blending only liquids! There will be lumps, even from old bananas. The smoothie button is very effective - spinning one way and then the other to make sure all ingredients mixed well, to include the ice.
1137526
i was unable to successfully blend ice with this blender. this thing is more for soups than smoothies. i have no idea how other people have found success with ice. they might be using pre crushed ice from a fridge dispenser.
1879790
Hi Mark, I bought the blender about 2 months ago. No optional blade came with it. The standard equipment does easily break up normal sized ice cubes and frozen berries, however. -- Bruce
68457
No comparison! i have owned both, if you are only throwing in soft fruits with liquids and ice than it would be sufficient but then again that could be subjective on the user but no comparison as to blending capabilities, also the container is about half the capacity. But the stainless does keep the ice cold when blending.