I have owned several blenders before I purchased my VITAMIX but none of them lasted very long due to their poor quality. — I purchased this one about five years ago and it is easy to use and performs outstandingly. I have yet to find anything that it cannot do other than clean my house. — It is a comercial quality blender that comes with  two containers, dry and wet, will grind meat for meatloaf to any consistency desired, grind wheat or other grains for flour and then you can actually combine all of the ingerdients in the container to make your bread or anything else in… read full review »