Cuisinart dual blender food processer Review

I won the Cuisinart dual food processer and blender combo at an auction through my office.  I had recently broken my inexpensive blender so I was very excited about getting such a good quality blender, with a trusted name like Cuisinart.  When I got home I opened the blender to make my daily green smoothie and was a little disappointed.  First, the blender container was much smaller than I was used to working with (about half the size of the previous blender I had).  Second, the cuisinart dual blender did not seem to have nearly as much power as my old blender had.  The Cuisinart did not quite turn the greens, pineapple and ginger into a smooth smoothie consistancy.  There was still a lot of "pulp" type material in my smoothie, which didn't make it go down smoothly.

I did try to use the food processer part of the cuisinart when making homemade pickles...you have to slice up the cucumbers into even slices so I thought this would make it easy.  Well, all it did was slice off the tip of my thumb when I tried to put it on.  It was very disturbing.  I read and re-read the directions and am a very handy person, if I do say so myself, but I couldn't get the cuisinart put together.

I am happy to have a blender and found this one to do a decent job, but I would not recommend anyone spend the retail price on this....my $19.99 Oster blender from the local Target did much better.