after witnessing 3 or 4 blenders from costco and others which I thought were to be 'the blender' self destruct, I decided to do a little research. The waring professional bar blender got rave reviews so I bit the bullet and poneyed up for one. I must say, so far so good.
I like it's simplicity, 2 speeds (what are all those speeds for anyway), no funky plastic screw on base( the blades are integrated into a very nice heavy glass jar) and clean lines that look good with any decor. Did I mention that this thing eats ice, fruit and anything else like nobody's business...it does. It also seems create some sort of circulation pulling stuff down to the blades so that I don't have to continually shove things into the top to try to push unblended ingrediants to the bottom of the jar. Bottom line this blender works great, seems to have been designed to last a long time and looks good. Is it worth the price...... ( my only possible complaint)? after my frustration with various cuisinart, oster, hamilton beach ........I say yes

After reading blender reviews I decided upon this one. It is powerful enough to make great smoothies with frozen fruit and ice easily. I like that it only has two power selections. It's also beautiful enough to leave on the counter. A week after I received the blender, I dropped the carafe and broke it. I went to the waring website, ordered another carafe, and it arrived in 3 days. Great company support of the product.

This is a fantastic blender, and is perfect for the amateur or pro user. All I really wanted to do was make milkshakes and smoothies, which have been ultra-easy to do. While it takes some adjusting to understand what consistency of each item you're inserting to produce the taste you'd like, it's a fun process. The noise level is slightly high, but it only takes seconds to blend whatever you're making. After all, they put spleens into blenders on Fear Factor, and that didn't take long to chop up. Overall, it looks great in a kitchen and is VERY stylish. Cleanup is a snap.

I am very pleased with the blender's power after a full month of use. This blender is by far better than most you will find at department stores. It is worth the extra money if you like to blend frozen fruit. This blender handles frozen strawberries, grapes, peach slices, and banana chunks just fine. In my opinion this blender is the solid value - the Vita-Mix has more power but also is very spendy.

We purchased the Waring blender because we make protein shakes every day and the cheap blender was leaking and just not cutting it anymore. I found this blender at cooking.com and love that it is all one piece with the blade so you don't have the leakage around the seal and it is easy to wash with a bottle brush. It is super fast that when we put pudding in our shakes you have to watch it because they get so thick you have to eat them instead of drink them. I would recommend that when making mixed drinks to use crushed ice. That is the only thing I have found is that there are still ice chunks in the bottom of my shakes. Other than that it is a great blender and quiter than my last one which is a blessing. Love it and would tell others to purchase this product.