Cuisinart SmartPower Blender

The Cuisinart SmartPower Premier Blender is a heavy duty blender that can whip up smoothies and

The CBT-500 Cuisinart SmartPower Premier 600-Watt Blender comes in brushed stainless steel and has a massive 600-watt motor. A motor of this size will pulverize ice easily, but keep in mind that ice crushing is somewhat noisy. The blender features a digital counter that shows you how long you have been blending your food. It also has flashing LED lights to let you know that the blender is on and running.

The Cuisinart SmartPower blender is weighty. The product is 12 pounds and measures 16.5 inches high and 9 3/8 inches wide. It comes with a thick glass jar that has a 50 ounce capacity cylinder. While glass is a nice touch, it is heavy, and even though this is mitigated by the cheap looking plastic handle, the glass of the carafe is still too thick to properly pour without spilling.

Cuisinart does back up their product with a three-year warranty, so you can be confident in the event that anything goes wrong, although you will have to pay for shipping. This heavy duty product can be found online for about $100.

There haven’t been too many encouraging reviews on the Cuisinart SmartPower CBT-500, unfortunately, as many users note the powerful 600-watt motor gives off a burning smell. And while it has been noted that this odor goes away with repeated use, many who rated the blender with the lowest scores cited this smell as the primary reason for the low rating.

To be quite honest, there are better places our readers can invest their hard earned money than in a poorly conceived blender. If you are looking for a good, highly reviewed and popular unit in this power and price range, we recommend you go with the excellent Oster Counterforms BVLB07.

• Die cast construction that makes it virtually impossible for the blender to travel along the countertop as it is in use.
• Brushed stainless steel is attractive.
• The 600-watt motor easily crushes ice, even when the jar is filled to capacity.
• The jar container is the right size for making party drinks.
• Operation is super easy because there are high and a low manual speeds as well as separate button to activate the ice crushing feature.
• Warranty is one of the best around (others are typically 1 year).

• May be so heavy that you may not have any choice but to leave it o your counter at all times because it is too heavy to take out and put away every time to use it. It does take up valuable countertop space because it isn’t a small blender.
• The construction of the glass jar is very wide and spills no matter how careful you are when pouring the liquids into glasses.
• The glass jar is heavy to pour from when full. In addition, The glass jar comes with a plastic handle, which may have been done to keep the weight down, but it looks cheap.