Product Description

A powerful stainless steel blender with a glass carafe and a bonus stainless steel carafe for all your blending needs. 525 watts of power. Two speed toggle switch. Pulse button for burst of power at either speed. Stainless steel base. One year limited warranty. Instruction booklet included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #350939 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: Stainless steel
• Brand: Villaware
• Model: V41001
• Released on: 2005-09-15
• Dimensions: 11.40 pounds

Features

• 525 watts
• Two speed toggle switch
• Pulse button for burst of power
• Stainless steel base
• One year limited warranty

Customer Reviews

high end blender
This blender is very nice,it come with two canisters (metal and glass)I would have given this blender a higher mark of 5 stars if it wasn't for the fact that the metal canister leak at the seal.It's more on the high end scale at a cheaper price.Definetly worth the money spent for it.All other functions work perfectly well.

Not much better than the others I've owned
This is my third blender in the last year. The first lasted one day. My last one just wasn't making it when it comes for crushing ice and making smoothies and the 10 speeds were worthless.

I've owned this blender for about one month and the plastic gear already fell off of the bottom on the glass jar. It's still like the others in that I have to constantly open up the top and stir the ingredients to get it to make a simple smoothie. But I like the simpleness of the two-speed motor and the pulse control, as well as the two blending jars that come with it. If this one breaks, I will spring for a professional blender.

Update 4/25/07: The plastic bushing broke off of one jar and the threads stripped on the other. What a waste of a good banana!

Update 6/13/08: Reference the above update, I contacted VillaWare about the problem. Fortunately, it was still under warranty and they sent me a new blender. They also paid for me to ship the broken one back to them. The replacement blender has been working well. But summmer is here and I'll be making lots of smoothies and margueritas. We'll see if it holds up.

About average consumer-grade product
After watching our Braun go through yet another drive gear, we picked up the Villaware 41001. It does a very nice job on smoothies. It comes with two carafes, which you'll need, because the seal on the metal carafe leaks. The seal on the glass carafe is fine though.