Please explain the "High" & "Variable" function? I'll be making fruit/avocado smoothies, nut butters, soup, & veggie juices.
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For those foods you will likely use the High speed setting. But it is nice to have the variable speed settings. The low settings are much lower than a regular blender which is nice for chopping or if you want to drizzle olive oil into something like a dressing or marinade.
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Because of the high horsepower motor the variable speed allows for the motor to ramp up and/or down. It is still a manual selection (you select by turning the knob from 1- slow for chopping to 10 for a finer processing) depending on what you are mixing, blending, grating and/or chopping. The variable speed allows for a variety of result from chopping onions or tomatoes for salsa,to puree for soups, to ice for smoothies.
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High setting.... Do follow the little booklet it comes with as it has helpfull instructions!Hope this helps.Enjoy:)
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There are settings for the different types of rice. You push for white brown etc These are pre sets which are pretty right on. I have discovered that for wild rice only it takes longer so it is best to manually set. You have both options just as you can manually set for beans soups or stews once it reaches the pre set time it automatically switches to warm function until you open it. It has an alarm to let you know it is switching.
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There are codes for many raw ingredients in the booklet, but you can't save the values you entered for nutrients to a code (though that would be a nice feature) so they will need to be re-entered each time you turn it on. It may be quicker to calculate by hand after weighing, or if you're tracking many nutrients then enter the multipliers in a spreadsheet (a free Google documents spreadsheet, perhaps?)
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I really don't know. I purchased it for my friend, and he doesn't know also. This can be answered by FruitsMax. Sorry......
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On the Amazon description and on the box it states, '12 blending FUNCTIONS'...not 12 blending SPEEDS! This thing only has 2 real speeds, low and high. So why 5 buttons?- Off- Low speed on- High speed on- Low speed pulse- High speed pulseIf you want to go that route, why not state over a million blending functions since blending milk with bananas (one function) is not the same as blending milk, bananas AND strawberries (another function). From my point of view, that's bait & switch.
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Too many variables. Specifically where are you and how do you plan to use it? Are you talking storage only?
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I bought this item to make nut butter for my raw food restaurant where we make our own almond butter. The most efficient way I have found to do this is to first process the nuts in a cuisanart until they are pretty fine, then add them to the stone grinder. We add almond oil for a smooth consistency. If you leave the top of and help it along with a spatula for the first five minutes and then let it go for another five. Another review said you shouldn't let it run for more than a half hour because the motor isn't that strong and it usually takes less than ten minutes to make about 4 cups of almond butter.
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My sister made several veggie and fruit smoothies while visiting us - she used leafy vegetables - baby spinach, romaine,etc. It worked well for that. But I don't think you'd get beet juice or carrot juice! (I used frozen mango chunks in it; it made a God-awful racket, even after I added some juice but it did finally make a puree for a smoothie with vanilla frozen yogurt. YUM!
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Variable from 3 to 9. They are poorly made. Dont buy it. You get what you pay for
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Variable heat control will be low, medium, high. Controlled by a knob. Thermostat will be just like a thermostat for your oven or heater. set it for 70 and it shuts off when then thermostat reaches 70 and comes back on automatically
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I just read a review by some other customer about this product different brand "Compact Table Top Grinder -110volts 2 Ltrs". She has already bought and tried it for producing nut butter. I have copy pasted her question/comment. Since she has already bought it, You can probably ask her user experience. Normally, in my country we use this primarily for grinding soaked rice, lentils, beans and black gram etc. I bought this item to make nut butter for my raw food restaurant where we make our own almond butter. The most efficient way I have found to do this is to first process the nuts in a cuisanart until they are pretty fine, then add them to the stone grinder. We add almond oil for a smooth consistency. If you leave the top of and help it along with a spatula for the first five minutes and then let it go for another five. Another review said you shouldn't let it run for more than a half hour because the motor isn't that strong and it usually takes less than ten minutes to make about 4 cups of... Jennifer S. answered on October 10, 2013
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It doesn't really store recipes. It stores the number of servings or portion size called for and desired. So you tell the calculator that your recipe serves 5 and you only want to serve 3. Or you tell it a portion size like 12 oz and the desired portion size like 8 oz. When you store that information, then you have to tell it, item by item, how much the recipe calls for and the calculator tells you how much you need - rounded. You can then tell it not to round and it will give you an exact amount. It works pretty well. For example, you want to serve 3 but your recipe for green beans says it serves 5. The recipe calls for 3-1/2 cups of beans, 2 cups of broth and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. You enter "recipe # servings" = 5 and "actual # of servings" (desired #) = 3. That's all it stores. Then, when you enter 3-1/2 cups and hit "adjust recipe", it comes back with 2-1/8 cups. You have to do that for each ingredient. An example of portion size is a recipe for mashed potatoes that serves 6 with a 2/3rd-cup serving each but you only want to serve 1/2 cup to each person. So, you enter 2/3 for "recipe portion size" and 1/2 for "actual portion size". Then, when you enter each ingredient and hit "adjust recipe" it tells you how much you need. Hope that helps.
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There are three temp settings: low, med and high. I have never used the low. Most of the recipes have you starting off melting butter or heating oil to saut your onion, shallot or leek on the high setting. There is a little pulse button that you use to stir while you are in this step.
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I don't use the default settings, but rather use times recommended in instruction booklet. When I've encountered undercooked product, I just add a few more minutes manually. I've noticed differences in degree cooked, tho using same type of bean, from one product name to the other; also notice differences with changes of ambient temp & humidity. Be sure you're using amount of water recommended in the instruction booklet, and don't forget to add the oil... Hope this helps.
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Variable temperature is important if you want to dry a wide variety of items. If you only wish to dry veggies or fruit, base model is okay.
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Don't know. There are 6 settings; I use setting 3 to heat water in a double boiler while I heat milk for making yogurt.