Your Vitamix blender comes with one. Site made it ...
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Your Vitamix blender comes with one.  Site made it sound as if this would be needed.  To cheap to bother with returning.
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Perfect replacement for the bottom of our blender.  Weirdly enough our order didn't come with the O-Rings we ordered.  Instead the seller swapped out the O-Rings for a really nice Kingston 32GB memory card.  That's a bit random but I guess it's a fair trade for the missing O-rings...
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This is a must for your Vitamix. It holds up great (be gentle going around the blades) and gets all the food out of all the nooks and crannies of the rectangular blender bottom of the Vitamix. I have the 5200 model and it's perfect. I love the quality of the silicone. I would consider buying this in a different size for larger non-Vitamix baking jobs also.
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We have a blender, and a very nice blender at that -- a Breville Hemisphere -- and we have used it many times a week for smoothies (we have a garden, plus we have lots of fresh fruit, so smoothies are de rigueur). Before we bought the Breville (about $200), we were told by friends in the know to get a Vitamix, but I just couldn't wrap my head around spending $600 for a blender. For smoothies. I mean, come on!

"No, no!" we were told. "It's way more than a blender!" Yeah. Sure. I believe you.

Believe it. It's way more than "a blender."

But I'll start with smoothies. "Cook's Illustrated" rates the Breville Hemisphere as the best for normal blenders. That hemisphere feature really does keep things moving. It's a most excellent blender for smoothies although sometimes I'd see something plop into the cup -- an un-pureed piece of frozen banana or papaya. Oh well. These things happen.

Not with the Jamba, it doesn't. It doesn't stutter. It has a tamper to remove air pockets, but we haven't met an air pocket yet while making our smoothies. And it just purees perfectly. Perfectly. Put in the pomegranate jewels. I've often juiced them first because I don't like the seed bits that the Breville left in the smoothie. There are no pomegranate seed bits left behind when the Jamba makes the smoothie.

Here's the thing, though: it really does cook soup. If you add your ingredients from room temperature, the soup is steaming when the Jamba's pre-set cycle completes. To amuse myself I made a broccoli soup from only freezer and refrigerated ingredients, and while the soup wasn't steaming hot, it was hot enough to melt the grated cheddar that I added after plating. That is some excellent centrifugal force.

Blender Hollandaise? Cooked.  Garden fresh tomato soup. Delicious! Baba Ganoush. Yum!

Which brings me to the cookbook. Thoughtfully presented and full of inspiration. We don't buy salad dressings at the store and basically just use homemade vinaigrette or thousand island for our salads. There are lots of recipes in the companion cookbook to prepare, so we are re-ignited to make salads more interesting again. Soups, as mentioned. Sides. Corn meal! Add popcorn, receive cornmeal. Ha! Never occurred to me. Ever. I've turned so many corners in the book that I may as well have turned all of them. The Artichoke Alfredo sauce is simply outstanding! Oh, and there are lots of smoothie recipes, although ... I don't know, don't you just add fruit (whatever is available), kale, chia, yogurt, a bit of honey and some ginger? But there are lots of smoothie recipes, too.

Downside? Okay. It is loud. And when it ramps up to full speed, it can do a little counter dance -- not bucking, but a bit of sliding on the granite. But only within an inch or two, not flying to the edge of the counter. (UPDATE: cut a square of rubbery kitchen drawer liner to fit under the Jamba, counter dance problem solved.)

The build quality is excellent. The controls are intuitive (just remember to turn the dial back to "1" when you're done using it). The pitcher cleans easily (I'm hand washing). And at $200 less (at the time of this writing) than the Vitamix and with an 8 year warranty, I don't see why one would spend the extra money.

So the Breville will find a new home (UPDATE, the Breville died before finding a new home at two years old and with just a one year warranty, no recourse). The Jamba is front and center.

(PS: We've re-imagined a small house kitchen with nothing but a hot plate, a toaster oven, a refrigerator and this.)

UPDATE November 2015: We like this so much we're gifting one to family for Christmas this year.
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I bought my Vitamix from the UK (voltage issues) but it came with the larger sized jar. I bought this smaller one from the US as it was cheaper than if I had bought it in the UK.
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Yup, I am one of the ones who tried to push down the veggies in the blender with the top off.  What I ended up with was a smoothie enriched with black plastic.  Not a good thing.  So I ordered a replacement and now I'm back in business.  What can I say about the tamper?  It works well at pushing the food down into the blender when it gets stuck because you have too much stuff in it or not enough liquids.  It's made pretty well and is sturdy enough to last for years as long as you don't push it into the blades when the blender is on.  It does what it's designed to do.
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Only top available. Does not say what model it fits. Does not fit the blender I bought from Amazon less than a year ago.
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Everyone should own one!  I wanted a Vitamix, but the videos lived up to the power of the Blendtec - I love it and so have my friends who purchased one.  Makes the best Smoothies..
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I owned a Vitamix 7500 for six months until the motor burn out blending peanut butter, oatmeal, a few frozen fruits and two scoops of protein powder for one of my daily shakes. I was very disappointed after paying $560 for that blender. To their credit Vitamix handled the warranty claim very quickly and had my blender fixed and sent back to me with a new motor in one week.

However I did not pay top dollar just to have a refurbished blender after a mere six months. So I sold it on craigslist and was on the prowl again for a new blender with commercial level power. I am a avid weightlifter so 3 to 4 shakes a day are necessary for me to maintain my lean muscle mass.  I heard very good comments on the Waring MX1200 from a friend of mine so I decided to give it a try and purchased one from Amazon this week. Received it in three days with free shipping.

I blended four shakes with it today. I can tell that it's motor is indeed more powerful than the Vitamix 7500. The Vitamix 7500 was a very good blender and blended my shakes very well. However the Waring MX 1200 blends my shakes to a much finer degree. There is no hint of leaves or pieces from my frozen fruit and certainly no grit leftover from my raw oats. With the Vitamix my ingredients would be grown down fairly fine, but their would be small pieces of fruit leftover at times or a bit of grit from my raw oats at the bottom of my cup.

Both blenders are great in their own right, however the Vitamix 7500 is very much overpriced, has a weaker motor, and does not grind ingredients down to as fine a mixture as the Waring MX 1200 does.

So there you have it a folks. A quick comparison between the Waring MX1200 and Vitamix's newest generation home blender which is the Vitamix 7500. And I'm here to tell you the Waring MX1200 wins hands down for two hundred bucks cheaper. And I'm a guy whose blending shakes multiple times a day so I'm a fairly heavy user.

I say get the Waring MX 1200 any day over the Vitamix 7500.
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After my original Vitamix container shattered after a freak accident, I quickly went online to find a replacement. I felt terrible when the container shattered because I make healthy smoothies daily and feel they are vital to my health! So I was so happy and relieved to find this affordable replacement.

Arrived quickly and looks nice after my other was pretty dull and discolored with my heavy use.

Now be aware there are no blades on the bottom, so you have to rescue the blades from your old pitcher or buy it separately.
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I got a refurbished-2 speed Vitamix some years ago. I live at home with my mom and she uses the Vitamix to make herself breakfast smoothies. Well, one day she couldn't find the top to the blender and tried to make a smoothie without the top. she promptly destroyed the Tamper when doing so because without the top, the base of tamper made contact with the powerful blender blades and was shredded. I was afraid I'd only be able to get a replacement tamper from Vitamix and pay $50, or some ridiculous amount, but I checked Amazon first and low-and-behold a cheap tamper. This tamper is the same exact length as the original Vitamix tamper. The plastic on this one may not be as strong, but it works just as it is supposed to and is a great replacement.
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I bought vitamix in Costco and work just 7 months than broke down. Engine issue. When I ask vitamix for help they ignore me. Than I bought Ninja blender for one third of price and work just fine already three years with no problem. Than do not buy vitamix unles you are super rich who can spend every 7 month to buy new.
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This was my second waring blender. Previously, I had one that was a bit shorter. This one can fit a lot of liquid, but apparently it is not meant for crushing ice. Huh? It is a bar blender. What is it for then? I only found this out because when my husband accidentally broke ours by blending a few cubes of ice (along with milk, bananas, yogurt), we contacted waring to see if it was under warranty and if it could be replaced. The blender would turn on but the blade didn't seem to be spinning anymore. Waring asked if we had used ice in the blender "because it wasn't designed to crush ice." We explained that t had, but only a small amount. Long story short, waring offered a once in a blue moon replacement blender top, but "just this time." Two to 3 weeks later it had still not arrived. My husband contacted the lady to ask her if she had shipped the replacement, because we really just wanted to know if we needed to buy a new blender so we could make smoothies in the mornings again. The replacement blender is $60-100, depending on where you buy it, so yeah we were waiting for the free one. The blender finally arrived, after hassling the lady again. I stuck my hand in the box and hundreds of shard of glass sliced into my skin. So, that was nice. The blender had been barely bubble wrapped. We didn't bother requesting a new one, and bought an entirely different blender instead. We bought the Farberware 4-speed  digital blender for $40.00 and have been happilly blending ever since. I used to be a blender snob, but unless you are going to fork over the money for a BlendTec or Vitamix, or something along those lines, there is really no point to spend a lot. I'm sorry but if a waring blender can't make a semi-frozen smoothie, what can it do? Puree soups?
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I love the blender. It came with two single serve cups. Does anyone know where I can buy more of them? I can't seem to find them anywhere. Mixing in the cups is one of the best features of this blender and I want to have some backups in case of loss. Thank you.
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It would be great if the blender came with a smaller jar to grind spices in small quantities. Else I have no regrets...no problems like getting hot that comes with most blenders.
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they sell as "fits all vitamixers"  however it doesn't.  I have the short container and when it is installed the drive doesn't fit into the mixer.  the shaft is not long enough.  So it doesn't fit all vitamixers.
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Is this a blendyec or vitamix. Noooo. But this blender seams to be on par with my expectations.  Nay exceeding them from a ninja blender user.  Comes with a huge plastic receptical and several pre program mixing buttons.  Hopefully this will last a long while for me.