Hamilton Beach Blender - WaveStation Dispensing 10-Speed Review

I burned up my old blender, which I always seem to do. Either I was doing something wrong or asking it to blend frozen strawberries, chunks of melon and some yogurt and juice was beyond the typical blender.

I asked for this one for my birthday because of the dispensing feature. I was forever dumping whatever I blended out of the top or couldn't get it to pour if I did remember to hold the top while pouring with my old blenders.

I used this to make a smoothie with fresh chunks of cantaloupe and honeydew melon, frozen whole strawberries and a carton of yogurt and voila - smoothie in about a minute...with no chunks! Press the dispense button, flip open the dispenser and out it comes into my glass. This is the first smoothie I've ever made at home that wasn't thick and gloppy. It was in fact actually smooth and easy to drink (rather than being like a thick milkshake with big chunks of unblended items).

Clean up was a snap. Put the body and lid in the disherwasher, rinse off the base and the blades and take apart the dispenser and wash it. I'm a little concerned that I won't be able to keep the blades really clean as there doesn't seem to be a way to take that off to wash it in the dishwasher. But who knows maybe I wasn't supposed to wash the blades that way on my old ones.

There are only two speeds on this blender - dispensing and high. I made some dip by blending cottage cheese with seasonings on high and it worked too well, making it more like dressing than dip. Next time I will try the dispensing speed to see if that can make it less liquid when it's done blending.