Factory Reconditioned Cuisinart CBT 500FR Brushed Stainless Power Blender

Customer Reviews

Patience Is a Virtue

2008-08-29
The people who complained about difficulty pouring from the pitcher are correct, it can be messy. The blender is loud, but it does the job IF you allow it time to work.

If you are impatient, you will be frustrated by an incomplete job. I use mine for frozen daiquiris and the result is excellent, but slow.

So in a nutshell: thorough; noisy; slow.

Reconded blender

2008-08-26
A very nice blender and it looks new. Very powerful, the price was good, and free shipping. No complaints.

grrrreeeeeaaaaatttttt!

2008-08-21
this is an awesome blender. I bought it for $34 in reconditioned form. The item came as if it were (maybe it was) brand new!! Everything was clean, not used, individually wrapped in plastic packages. You can tell it has a strong motor and it does a wonderful job blending, crushing, etc. The bottom of the pitcher is plastic although it looks silver. The base is stainless. Great product for what i paid for it!!!! Would highly recommend!

Like new

2008-08-18
Product like new. We broke our glass pitcher on ours and it was only a little more to buy an entire reconditioned blender than ordering a new glass pitcher.

So far, so good

2008-08-15
This blender is very powerful. It is also quite heavy and feels like it has quality manufacturing and finishing. It pulverizes ice in about 2 seconds flat, and has no problem blending even when completely full. The only problem is that the pour spout is almost non-existent, so depending on the consistency of what you blended, pouring can be tricky (particularly with thick frozen drinks). Great deal for the price.

Works Great

2008-07-24
Cuisinart Brushed Stainless Series CBT-500 SmartPower Premier Blender - Professionalism marks this no-nonsense blender from Cuisinart. No Nonsense but plenty of joy from the mixers and beverages you can whip-up in this blender. Instructions and Recipe booklet Cuisinart Limited 90-day Warranty

After 4 blenders, I can say this one is my favorit

2008-07-23
The delivery was really fast.
I was wondering, as the price is so low, if the product will be powerfull enough to deal with ice and hard things in general.
I used it only once, and I can say, so far so good!
It did reduce to a delicious smoothie a very big bag of frozen strawberries
which were kind of a compact block of ice...speed is really good and it's easily washable, even in the dishwasher!!
good deal!

Reliable but noisy machine

2008-06-06
I've been using this blender daily for the past couple of weeks. It is very sturdy, a little noisy because of the big plastic base but still makes an excellent smoothie if you get the liquid to frozen fruit ratio correct (my problem not its).

cusinart blender

2008-05-05
i received this blender today and it is worth every penny and i was surprised of the quality of it, one of the customers complained about too much plastic please it is solid.. very heavy buy this item you won't be sorry!

A Nice Blender to Have!

2008-04-20
The product has an attractive look. When I ordered this blender I wasn't sure about Factory Re-conditioned product, but it turned out to be as good as a new one! The negatives of this blender, the spout on the glass pitcher is too small, made it harder to pour drinks. Also, there's no cord storage as it mentioned.