Strongly advise against purchasing! Zero stars.

The negative reviews I can only confirm:
Cleaning is a complete nightmare:
- Picking up the glass jar goes with all his might (in fact we made it just the two).
- Then you can not remove the blade and there is great danger of injury during cleaning of the heating plate.
- Although I had with all his strength turned the glass jug after cleaning into the socket, the pitcher was subsequently leaked and water ran into the engine compartment, which resulted in a spontaneous Mixattacke the mixer, although the mixer was on standby (goes off completely only Steckerziehen so sucks always current). Fortunately, I was not about to scrape the contents of the inner wall, which could end badly, because a safety function, there is not.

The cooking function you can save:
- Soup content burns on the hot plate and can be cleaned only with great difficulty.
- Have a recipe from the booklet packaged tried: Potato soup with vegetables. Despite redoubled cooking the soup has tasted bitter, as if the potatoes were not even become.

Crush and blend:
- The mixer fails the grinding of soft ingredients such as tofu or chickpeas (mind you, despite attach a lot of liquid). The reason: When mixing forms around the knife around an air bell, the spin the knife. The Umrührfunktion does not help because you have to stir with a spoon (and without said security function)
- The only thing that worked perfectly, was the mixing of vorpüriertem with a hand blender tofu with liquid chocolate syrup. Not what I expect from a mixer. If you like, a very expensive Umrührassistent.

All in all, I strongly on this unit.
Gastroback 41019 Cook and mix