TribestPB-350 Personal Blender for Shakes and Smoothies with Portable Blender Cups, White, Large

I bought this personal blender because I cook a lot of southeast asian food that requires grinding up pastes (sambals & curries), dry spices, peanut sauce, and salad dressings for two people. I even use the 16 oz. cups for chopped shrimp for dumplings and fish for thai fish cakes. This is way more convenient than using my small 3 cup Cuisinart food processor. The small containers are perfect for putting the sauces away without having to get out another glass jar or container.I also make a lot blended acai & fruit drinks, & mango lassi's with no problem crushing the ice. Putting the fruit first, then the ice at the top and enough liquid may help crush the ice more for some people having trouble.Love it! Get it! It is the most used kitchen appliance in my kitchen.So far I've only had it for 3 months. I will update later on longevity.And as usual, no problems with ordering from Amazon.

It is a great blender, I like the fact that it takes any regular mouth mason jar to do the job.But it is not powerful enough to grind even the room temperature cucumber that is diced small, it leaves it so chunky.I just wish that the company makes it in 300 or 350 watts which would make it more powerful, taking one star off for that 200 watts machine. Like everything else as it is.

To my way of thinking mason jar ready means you screw on a regular mouth mason jar and BOBS YER UNCLE. But this isn’t that, instead it’s an adaptor that only works without leaking if you muscle it on so it won’t come off, you then screw that adaptor on their regular blender base. Two points of failure instead of one!This method leaves you with a permanent glass jar that only works as good as the plastic one that shipped with regular Tribest blenders. So after years of wishing, in vain, that I could find the perfect solution that lets me blend and use multiple glass jars of which I have dozens, I GIVE UP. No one makes it and I suspect for good reason. The Mason threads and glass lip standard described in a 1857 patent are far too course for any modern manufacturer. The only solution is to either 1) say it has a mason jar that is really only labeled and branded and looks like a mason jar but is sized and threaded just like the manufacturer prefers OR 2) ship an adaptor. Either way, you can’t really use a cabinet full of Classico Pasta Sauce jars, which should fit and not leak.Now let we say this is YAGSB (yet another great smoothie blender) but is not for people like me who wish someone would simply make a blender that has a base that screws on the regular mason jar and then sets directly on the blender.I’m sadly afraid to say that this is a great blender - but that it isn’t natively compatible with the age old mason jar. Wish it was though.

PLEASE READ THE BOTTOM EDIT AS I STARTED OUT THINKING IT WAS A GREAT PRODUCT...NOT ANYMORE! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!This blender is super in its use and I love it.Couple of things that are not so good:The downside is that the plastic tops are so fine in the rings that one of the broke/collapsed so that storage for one wasted already.The smallest glass jar arrived damaged. A piece of glass was broken on the outer srews and no one ever got back to me after reporting it with amazon. It is still usable but the cleaning is dangerous... too bad no one ever responded. Anyone know where to fill a complaint about it? Its nothing big but I just think the communication must be there, no matter what it says.Another thing, I got another mason jar and ..... the connection piece does not work on it, the screw is a little too big so I can't use it on this (larger) mason jar. Weird and I do not get why this is the case.Also I personally do not like that the glass ones are so narrow, it is hard to clean as my hand does not fit it. If you have small hands, it might not be a problem but I'm rather tall :)Apart from these I still love the blender and use it about 20 times a week and my partner started using it as well so I think we are getting some more containers. I would get it again, but not sure if I would go with glass again!_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________*** edit July 13, 2012 ***After 6 months of happy use my blade got a major leakage and a lot of liquid came out while I was blending...I discounted, cleaned it and let it dry for 2 days and tried it again with the dry grinder, the machine still works.I called Tribest and they ship me another assembly hooray! So awesome that Tribest has great customer service (I did buy on Amazon).I do use the glass only the little one for grinding occasional coffee fresh for guests or nuts/seeds which is working well. The larger glass onces we do not use (hard to clean as they are so narrow and the mug one has a weird internal whole in which we can't clean.Still love this blender and use it daily!_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________*** edit January 22, 2013 ***I would not buy this item again!! The same thing happened to my second assembly with much less use and its even more loose then the first one was. This time I never got a response after two emails to TRIBEST...wow. I guess it's such a common thing they can't even replace it anymore. Sad but true.My next purchase will NOT be from TRIBEST, I will change to a brand I have heard nothing but good from plus their many years of great costumer service can't be beat (7 years with option to but 3 more so 10yrs).In the end TRibest is way more expensive, super frustrating as food is running into the machine as I use it (and not just drops! picture it aaah) and it looks like the knifes will fall out any moment.

Guys, this thang is PERFECT for Bulletproof coffee! (See photo!) I absolutely love it. Grinds coffee well too (in small batches). Powerful, small, works wonders with Mason/Kerr/Ball jars. I disagree with the reviews that says the mason jar adaptor makes the blade too far away from the contents of the jar--not true at all for me. It barely extends the neck. I actually find it works much better than blenders I have had in the past: the small size (of the mason jar) makes the contents all very close to the blade and thus gives an even blend. My protein shakes and guacamole so far have turned out superbly (and my BP coffee).Blends hot liquids (coffee) beautifully without fear of exploding from steam pressure or anything.