Adequate for simple home use

First impression: Before commissioning the device must be cleaned of course only once. Since I have the same time tried the Easy Clean feature: Fill glass container halfway with water, washing up liquid in, a couple of times, press the pulse button and Zack, clean. The blade unit is fully removable. It's really easy and convinced me that before. However, there's the same here the first negative point: the smell. If you press the pulse button, it begins so to smell burning rubber that I once have to open the window.
In practice, the rubber cups are on the underbody, the fixed eyes, so that the device is safe. Also, the glass container can be easily set on the main unit and tighten. The noise is totally ok. (According Amazon reviews the unit is getting louder with time, because I'm curious. Even after some time to brown liquid withdrawn from the blade unit, consisting probably of rust and burnt rubber. I hope it stays with me from)

And now 2 selected function tests. I wanted to have the mixer especially for smoothie preparation and Eiscrushen, therefore I present you below both accurate before. Pesto's with me only rarely, so I complete the maybe later.

The first Smoothie:

The mixer only problems to crush the frozen berries. After I then juice gave with pure, everything works great. However, I am curious how it will look at, for example, pesto and carrots ... It came back to the smell, but decreased with time from time to time. Note:. 2

The first Crushed Ice:

The glass beaker was not even half full, but has nevertheless and crushed despite 2er passages only about 1/3 of the ice. Final result after 2 passages: There are large ice left, the rest is more snow instead of crushed ice. I'm disappointed! I have definitely more erwartet.Da I buy in the future maybe the ice pack at the gas station or use normal ice cubes for my cocktails. If I had to assign a grade, it would be at least one. 4

Conclusion: I have to Philips HR2096 / 00 Avance Blender now been a few weeks and unfortunately he can not totally convincing, but is sufficient in my opinion totally out for the average household. He gets to me, thanks to the easy cleaning, the practical accessories and the good Zubereitens the smoothies the overall grade = 2.)

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