Vitamix - worth the cash?

[NumptyNu]

Can it really make soup and ice-cream???

I bet it can also gather dust really well too on your kitchen shelf

Lol.

I think you were right there......tumbleweed....

If it's on qvc it's crap normally

It is a great machine, well made and should last a lifetime. I admit due to circumstances I have neglected my healthy eating efforts so mine has gathered a bit of dust but I am hoping to get back to using it soon.

I think it is particularly good if you need to grind your own flour and would be worth it's weight in gold.

I can't think of any circumstance when I'd need to grind my own flour

Close relative has one. Tbh they tend to buy all sorts of random housewares at big home shows, but this one has actually turned out to be worthwhile! It's not used for ice cream so can't comment on that, but it gets used daily, typically for fresh juices and soups especially as it will make a hot soup from raw veg all in one and the juices apparently use all the random bits of the fruit so you get all of the vitamins.

I wouldn't have any use for one (not a soup-and-juice person myself), but if those sorts of features would be used daily in your home then it could be worth it.

DH says it is worth the money. I thought it would be another of his very expensive fads, but he is still using it most days after having it for probably about 6 months. He makes disgusting 'smoothies' in it using spinach, whatever kind of fruit we've got, frozen blueberries and assorted seeds and stuff. He is still talking about how amazing it is and how healthy because you get all the nutrients from the fruit and veg.
You can make soup in it without needing a cooker. We had vitamixed tomato soup for dinner yesterday. You just throw in the ingredients and nearly deafen yourself by switching the thing on for a long long time until soup is blended and hot.
You can make a sort of ice cream in it too using ice cubes and fruit and yoghurt. It is nice.
You can also make a chocolate dessert out of tofu, which is bizarre.
DH took to making hummus in it every weekend for a few weeks, decided this was the way forward, bought 3kg bag of dried chickpeas and then hasn't made hummus since.
We got a recipe book with it, and you can make all sorts of stuff in it, and I gather there are lots of ideas online.

So it's quite noisy then?

Very noisy.

happypotamus just cried with laughter at your deadpan post!