3 Comments on “Hamilton Beach 58148A Power Elite Multi-Function Blender Review
  1. 207 of 216 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Great Blender + Chopper, December 12, 2012
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    Eduardo Placido (Los Angeles, California) –

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    This Hamilton Beach Blender is amazing! It looks great from the outside and works perfectly up till now. Its wave action blending definitely works well and blends better than other blenders that I have used in the past. The lid on this blender though is probably what I like the best about it. It avoid all spills and/or overflows while it is blending because it goes tightly over the blender and the top actually enables you to pour into something without even taking the lid off! This saves a lot of time and keeps other pitchers clean since your blender becomes the perfect pitcher! The chopper is simply an extra, but the extra works fantastic. I have made a lot of salsas and chopped tomato, onion, etc and it chops them to perfection. I really like this blender and therefore, I rate it 4 stars out of 5 stars!

    I hope this review helped you out!

    Update: I have been using this blender now for a long time and if still runs perfectly and works just like it did when I bought it. It’s a fantastic blender for the price, I highly recommend it to everyone.

    New rating : 5 stars out of 5 stars!

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  2. 124 of 132 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Good buy. Blends difficult things well, April 19, 2013
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    It’s a versatile blender: I have crushed frozen veggies, fresh broccoli, fresh kale, pineapples, apples, oranges, and bananas in this thing with some juice/milk. The broccoli it tends to take longer to grind down and sometimes gets stuck. Initially, you’ll still get the texture of the broccoli florets in your smoothie, but if you put the pitcher in the fridge for a while, the texture dissolves.

    I’ve found usually the trick to make the blender go again with all that wave-action goodness is just to add more liquid so it has more to work with for churning.

    Except for the broccoli, this has blended everything very quickly – 30 seconds to a minute. The broccoli takes 5-7 minutes (with checking and adding liquid and sometimes poking things around in the blender).

    The blender has four settings, but it feels basically like two: heavy duty for ice/smoothies. More lightly for milkshakes and salsa. (the four settings are basically: pulse heavy duty (you have to hold the button down) , pulse lightly (hold button down), button for heavy duty (you press it and leave it), button for light (you press it and leave it).

    For the average joe, the fact that there are two settings is not a problem. My sister has a really fancy high-end blender. It’s much much noisier than this one (this one is okay, though I still like to wear earplugs while blending. It’s tolerable without earplugs though,e specially when it blends so quickly.) I don’t know if she’s ever used it on any more than two settings (very light and very heavy duty).

    The high-end blender takes a long time to crush thinks like broccoli + ice too, but it does it more finely. That is the only advantage I have found to the high-end blender over this one.

    What I like about this one that the high-end blender doesn’t satisfy however are:
    – really wide container so it’s so easy to clean, most things don’t even get stuck in the blades
    – the glass + pitcher shape are very classy and this blender is really designed for convenience – use the blender, use the container as a serving pitcher. I love just sticking left-over smoothie mix straight into the fridge after picking up the pitcher from the mixing base.
    – the cap seals tightly and has a really nice spout for serving and also a flap if you want to stick something in last minute but don’t want to lift the whole lid off, or need to poke a chopstick into the mixer to jog some things around.

    One of my happiest first kitchen-ware buys!

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  3. 103 of 109 people found the following review helpful
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Blending machine!, July 3, 2013
    By 
    Heather

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    We purchased this blender after our old Oster died and our Magic Bullet bit the dust. I agonized over various blenders- all with different features- but mostly, it came down to, “What can I get with the best features and not break the bank?” ($400 for a blender just seems outrageous to me!)

    Our Hamilton Beach 58149 Blender/Chopper arrived today and we opened it up and put it to use, right out of the box!

    Likes:
    -LOVE the easy-pour spout! This spout makes it easy to blend and then serve. No fuss, no muss.
    -The easy-clean feature is a nice feature that helps loosen bits of food that can get caught in the blades.
    -Our old Oster had a plastic pitcher and I hated it. It cracked easily and I didn’t feel like it was very good quality. I love that this blender has a glass pitcher.

    Dislikes:
    -The hinged opening on the top of the blender is kind of small. This makes it difficult to add anything too big while the machine is in operation.
    -Like other reviewers have commented, you do need to add more-than-you-think-you-need liquid in order to get a smooth, smoothie.
    -I kind of wish that the chopper had a glass bowl, but it’s not a deal breaker since I don’t think I’ve ever seen a chopper with a glass bowl. I just believe that glass lasts longer than plastic.

    Otherwise, we really like this machine and I’m please with the Hamilton Beach 58149 Blender and Chopper.

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