Oster My Blend Smoothie Blender with Travel Sport Bottle, 250-Watt Personal Blender, Green

EDIT: 5 years later! Still going strong! This is just what I needed! It was pretty annoying having to use and then clean a full sized blender when I was only making a single portion of smoothie. This takes up significantly less space and makes making a single serving a breeze. It doesn't have any buttons, all you do is line it up, and then twist to make it blend, so you do need to be holding it while it blends. Since you're making so little though, it's not really annoying at all. I love being able to twist, blend, take it off the blender, shake it a few times and then put it back on, lets me get a nice even blend. I've read all the reviews here, and it seems like the best way to increase the lifespan of this blender is to realize its limits. It's not going to make super thick, milkshake consistency smoothies. It probably won't be able to handle huge chunks of frozen fruit. But if you give it a break and cut your fruit pretty small before freezing it, then it blends perfectly. I slice my bananas pretty thin and then freeze them, maybe just half inch slices or so- and it handles them with no issues. But I think a whole frozen strawberry would be too much for it. Another thing I read in the reviews is to never let it run too long at once. If you take my advice and make your frozen fruit thin and easy to handle, this won't be an issue. But if you use huge chunks and keep it running it will burn out this poor little blender pretty dang fast. It's a small blender with a small engine, be easy on it. Another thing I read is that it's best to, when done blending, unplug the machine before taking the cup off the blending engine. So you put it on the blender, twist, let it blend, unplug, take it off the blender. This means the engine isn't fighting you to keep the blades spinning, giving it a little more lifespan. It's a blender, so it makes blender noises, but I don't consider it loud. Since it blends pretty fast (if you take my advice above) it shouldn't bother anyone in the morning. And if you have multiple people who like smoothies, you can buy multiple cups (in multiple colors!) so everyone can have their own. That's amazing. They don't have to clean out a huge clunky blender container just so they can have whatever smoothie THEY want. Personally, I don't drink from the cup lid supplied, I just take it off and sip, or use a straw. It's mostly there to keep everything in. And the picture is a little weird, the lid goes where the blades are, so the bottle itself only has one opening. Don't know why they have the lid on top like that. Overall, it's a great little blender. Would recommend if you have kids and you want them to eat healthier. It's pretty safe, since you can't reach your hand into the blades while it's blending. Teach them the limits of the machine and it'll work great for them. My go to smoothie is frozen banana, almond milk, peanut butter and cocoa powder. Makes a nice, slightly sweet but not too sweet smoothie that rounds out at about 300 calories at most. Gives you things like potassium, iron, and protein, so it's a nice beginner smoothie for people who aren't a huge fan of fruit, like myself. If this blender dies on me, I'll get back to you with how long it lasted with the measures I have taken. Hope this review was useful to someone!

About two months ago my wife purchased a competitors smoothie maker. My 18-year-old daughter uses it five out of seven days weekly. I have been on this ability for the last five years and really look forward to new and exciting things to break up my morning routine. So after about two weeks of having to share the smoothie maker with my daughter and wife. I did the only thing 50-year-old man can do. I researched, read reviews, cost considerations, and the most important features for me were, power (of course) ease of clean up, brand name reputation. I craved, my very own so I didn't have to share. (Jokingly) First thing that struck me right away was I didn't have to poor my smoothie, from the machine, to a glass, travel bottle, to consume it. My daughter can now endure, cleaning the machine, the blades, the drink container. Let's not forget it's not an exact science. Her end result is generally either, too much smoothie for her container, or not quite enough. My turn, My OSTER, My Blend, My Personal, Best Designed, SMOOTHIE Creator. Blender base is, compact, attractive, & very powerful. Perfect design implementation, to blend, & enjoy my smoothie, from the same 20 ounce travel container. I have yet to have the not quite enough nor have I had too much smoothie for my container. Also I have never had to search for a container to consume my smoothie from. I simply rinse blade base, Exchange the sports bottle top. I am all finished with my smoothie, with my Sport bottle container, nothing left to clean or put away. Meanwhile my daughter has to clean the two part plastic unit and the four blade system with the competition. And then try to find somewhere to store beast the beast. The Oster my blend personal smoothie maker what's 35% less than what my wife paid for hers. At the same time I purchased an extra sports bottle. On sale, it's still in the box I haven't even had occasion to use it yet. I also called the customer service 800-number searching for smoothie recipes and was informed about the 12 month warranty. My experience was excellent customer service personnel. I AM, very very pleased definitely recommend the family I would buy a second one in a heartbeat

I bought the product around December 01st and we started to use from today, but it is not working. We tried many times but of no use..

Es de uso facil, solo mezclas y cambias la tapa, no es muy potente no esperes que triture hielo o frutas muy duras... para el batido del gym me funciona muy bien y muy practico que tiene 2 vasos... combina muy bien con mi cocina

Just got this a couple days ago. Have been using it twice a day. So far so good. (I bought the extra bottle) . I'm a truck driver so I'm always on the go. I make two smoothies a day it crushes ice and frozen fruits no problem. If you're looking for something small fast and easy to handle/clean this is a good blender. Again I've only been using it two days now but so far I am very happy with it. The price is great too. I would definitely recommend it so far.

Este modelo es sudamericano, y funciona con 110V, al conectarlo la primera vez a la corriente en espana se ha quemado. UNA VERGUENZA QUE SE VENDA ESTO EN AMAZON.ES!!

Esta increible. Super practico y facil de usar. El termo no se derrama y si licua frutas de manera normal. Me gusto tanto que la compre 3 veces mas para darlas de regalo