Susan—October 9, 2025
I've had this blender for over a year and am very happy with it. It's sturdy and has plenty of power to make good smoothies, my main use for it, and blended drinks with ice cream like grasshoppers. I'm careful to add the ingredients in the order called for in the instruction manual, and add ice cubes after blending the other ingredients. The smoothies have a very nice texture and no ice chunks. I'm not sure the result would be as good if all the ingredients were put in at the same time, though. The blades are very sharp. The plastic pitcher is large (holds 64 oz.) and durable, and is easy to clean by adding warm water, dish soap, and then blending for a minute or so. This blender is much quieter and works better than a Ninja Professional Plus blender I had before, but you can't honestly call it quiet. At least I don't have to literally plug my ears with this one. Read more
Louis J Soule—June 5, 2025
We bought one of these blenders about 20 years ago, a 2 HP one, and it is still working fine and blends much better than the cheaper ones. I don't know if this one is the same brand, but it is 3 HP, and it is very powerful and totally commercial grade. I just now finally loaded it up with bananas, pineapple, strawberries, and coconut milk to about 2/3 full. I turned it on for the first time, not knowing if I would need the whatchamacallit to hammer it in. No need. The bananas and pineapple and strawberries were soft enough for it to get started right away. It took only a couple of seconds to blend it all. I left it on for another 15 seconds or so just in case. What a great smoothie! This machine is a monster. I'll have to test it with the apples and cantaloupe for which I had to use the whatchamacallit pole dabber to get the stuff twirling at the beginning. This one comes with this whatchamacallit thing, which is why I bought it instead of the cheaper ones. My other one has this device, and it worked well. And the three horsepower is pretty good. I poured the contents from the mixer to an old half gallon plastic milk container, and it filled to the top, and I put it in the fridge. Good enough smoothies for several days. This is a monster blender, well built, and with good controls for variable speeds and such. It should last a lifetime. It is money well spent. Read more
Trish Kimbell—January 21, 2021
We got our blender just over three years ago and have loved it. We had a KitchenAid we'd purchased here for $80 that finally died after six years and we used it enough that we wanted to upgrade with our next one. After doing a bunch of research, we settled on the Cleanblend 3HP (the KitchenAid was 0.9HP). It had the features we wanted: high-powered motor, all metal drive for durability, 64-oz jar, long warranty. And it was at the edge of affordable; there's a huge jump between the blenders in the mid-range price tier like this one and the high-end, nearly 100%. I remember getting it and it felt like it should cost twice as much as our KitchenAid. It was heavier, the controls had a nice weight to them, and it was obviously well constructed. It was solid. It's been excellent, handled everything we've thrown at it, and I am positive we made the right choice. I took one star off the blending power because I think it's a valid criticism that the *low* power doesn't get low enough. But I don't think you can get a blender that at high power does a better job than this with things like nuts and berry seeds. However... after three years, the motor died. It started throwing our 20 amp breaker occasionally (tried on multiple circuits) and degraded quickly over two weeks to the point that if we turned it on, the breaker flipped. So I had to take a step I always dread: contact a company about a warranty issue. Cleanblend's policy is pretty simple: everything is covered by a five year warranty and if you have a problem, just send an e-mail (which I prefer over phone calls anyway). I sent my e-mail and someone quickly got back to me. I had two interactions: the first confirming the details of the problem I was having and the second to get my shipping info. I had my replacement blender in less than a week from first e-mailing support. There simply isn't a smoother consumer support process (maybe Apple). The customer support rep of course said that "Cleanblend has a very low defect rate", but I believe them: you can't have a process that easy and still make money if this happens a lot. I'm confident that our replacement will last even longer. Before contacting customer support, I prepared for the possibility of having to buy a new blender. Glancing at The Wirecutter, it looked like the research I did three years ago is still valid. The Vitamix is still the best, but for over twice the price you're only getting a somewhat longer warranty and a wider variation of speeds (feathering pulse isn't as effective, but I can live with it). I might have gone for the Oster, but... I probably would have just gotten another Cleanblend and gambled that the new one lasted longer. It's been a great blender. Luckily, that was all wasted effort. If the replacement dies in two years, I'll get a new one no question, knowing that I won't have to think about it again for at least five years. But I expect it to last quite a bit longer than that. And that's a large part of why I spend more on a product: I put a lot of research in to what I buy and once I've made my choice, I don't want to have to think about it for a long time. If you're taking the time to read all of this, then you're in one of two camps: you're debating whether it's worth it to spend this much on a blender versus just getting something cheaper or you're debating whether you want to spend more on a top-end blender versus saving some money and getting this. In either case, if you have to think about it, I think the answer is easy: just get the Cleanblend. It is more than worth the price. Read more
