Gadgetory

Acey met I'm reg Chris and I'm here at the Cuisinart PowerEdge 1,000 watt blenders now this is the most expensive and powerful blender that Cuisinart offers and the reason for that is right in the name the 1000 watts that it offers is more than any other blender they've got it's a very nice number can give you a lot of powerful results in addition to the high wattage you're getting this nice sturdy diecast metal base you're getting the preset buttons here you're getting this backlit LCD screen that counts up as you blend I like that feature quite a bit and overall it's a fine blender it does the job it blends and that's great however this is not the only blender that we tested and sad to say it's not the best blender that we tested we tested the Breville hemisphere control blender which is also $199 along with the ninja Ultima which is also $199 same price point on all three of those this one was the least satisfying in terms of the results let's take a look at this almond butter test that we did we filled each blender with almonds and then we grounded up into flour and almost all the blenders could handle this first step to get flour accept the fuser knife you see a lot of chunky almonds a lot of whole almonds you got almonds caught in the corners here it just didn't blend as well as we'd like and even after we mixed it up and shook things up we couldn't get that fine consistency that we wanted from almond flour the next step grinding the flour into almond butter the Cuisinart couldn't handle at all we couldn't get it to release the oils and make that nice buttery smooth texture the ninja could the high-end Blendtec and Vitamix models could that the Cuisinart could not so those thousand watts didn't do the job and it came to butter one point of note the $40 hamilton beach smoothie smart blender outperformed the Cuisinart despite being a fifth of the cost when it came to the nut butter it didn't make the nut butter but it didn't make almond flour that was very satisfying and smooth and consistency way better than the Cuisinart to be honest that said you'll still be able to make a lot of great things with this blender we made pesto we made whipped cream we made all sorts of things in our tests and it was able to do the job it makes good smoothies too so all the staples of blending you'll be able to accomplish with this blender however because it didn't perform quite as well as you would have liked and there are other models at the same price that did markedly better I say check those out instead and if you want a Cuisinart blender maybe don't spring for this one and go from one of the less expensive models for seeing that I'm right