Power and Output

Now, a simple task like the soup is a great exhibition of the full power of this blender.

And as you can see here, the results are a velvety smooth, perfect pureed soup.

Now, this is a good time to talk about the self-clean function, which a lot of blender companies market as a feature, and all it means is that you can add soapy water to a blender and run it, and it does a pretty good job of cleaning it.

Now, certain parts remain completely untouched, so you do need to wash the lip separately, but in general, the container as well as the base of the blender are quite easy to clean.

And despite this mixture getting incredibly thick and lava hot, it created the smoothest puree and the whole garlic which I added in the beginning completely disappeared.

I've made plenty of nut milk in the past and the Vitamix does exceptionally well.

I use about 500 g of roast peanuts and at low speeds once the nuts become hot enough and broken down enough they eventually become this beautiful crunchy peanut butter which turned out absolutely amazing.

The Vitamix 5200, however, is not like most other burgers. As long as you start on a low speed to break down all of those chunky bits and slowly turn things up to high and let it spin for about a minute, you are left with the creamiest smoothie or protein shake of your life with the bare minimum or even no bits at all…

Now, I've made blended frozen drinks with this in the past, like a margarita, and it handled it with ease.

But blending a lot of ice in this tall chamber seemed like a bit of a difficult task. For the most part, the ice at the bottom crushes perfectly. But the ice at the top remains chunky and very hard to blend, even with the temper.

And lastly, having a two horsepower blender is an incredible amount of power. But at max power, it's also incredibly noisy, especially with some thicker substances.

And this honestly does majority of tasks better in my humble opinion, but that's just me.

Guys, this thing does everything a food processor can do, but if you injected it with human growth hormone and steroids back-to-back every day for 5 years and it was on like an Arnold [music] Schwarzenegger training program.

if you have a broken emolion this will force that to be an emolion because of the horsepower that's in the engine in it

I also own the dry container, and with that attachment, I've used it to grind grains into flour. I sometimes will grind my peppercorns. So, again, that's something most standard blenders simply aren't designed to do well.

those portable those portable gas burners generally have a very concentrated flame that points up towards the center. Um so they're actually much more effective with their heat than a you know, a western range is designed to spread heat out evenly.

I find that actually even when I had a a portable a full gas range at home, um in general, a small portable butane burner um worked better for walk cooking.

Um, you want one that's going to be at least around 12,500 BTU per hour.

I enjoy putting vegetables in the blender and leaving the blender on high for a whole minute until it warms up close to body temperature at which point I can have a warm soup and enjoy that very much

although it's incredibly efficient at blending the Vitamix blender definitely pulls air into your food and and it aerates it which means that some of the oxygen sensitive nutrients are affected now if you eat the food right away we're really not talking about any issue at all because even chewing has that same effect…

for almost everything 801010 all you really ever need is just water now if water doesn't clean the Vitamix really well what I'll do is I'll fill the Vitamix half full with water and then put the top on put it on the base and turn it on with just water and mixing that water at high speed it just it just cleans it like…

if you put water in a Vitamix blender turn it on to high speed and walk away in a few minutes that water will be boiling hot and so you can actually boil clean the inside of your Vitamix

it just cleans it like crazy now you know if you put water in a blender or certainly in a Vitamix blender if you put water in a Vitamix blender turn it on to high speed and walk away in a few minutes that water will be boiling hot and so you can actually boil clean the inside of your Vitamix

Okay, so with the steaming, most likely the culprit is that either your burner um is not quite powerful enough for what the recipe recommends or it's diffusing the heat in the wrong way.

pretty loud but like I said it hasn't you know we've been using it for years it works really great

one negative I would give is when you do got a dough in there like especially sourdough that thing's cranking this thing is really working and this you know you think it's going to fall apart because this is like really jamming around

you'll see that it can like work its way up over that if it got it on there there's a good chance you might have got some of that in whatever you're making