 It's delicious. Awesome. It's perfect. What's up, guys? Lenny Gale, Life is Know-Yours. Today, I want to show you the new immersion blender from Vitamix. When I picked up the box, it felt like I was holding an Apple product. And this may just be because I've been making a career working with Vitamix and I'm used to huge boxes. But this thing is teeny. And then the other reason is, you know, you look closely and this verbiage is something like you'd see on an iPhone designed in the USA and then manufactured and assembled in China. And that's unique because all Vitamix products, you know, it's no secret, they source some of the materials overseas. But they're all assembled here in the United States, in Ohio. So it feels more like an Apple product. But then when you open up the box, you're like, oh, okay, yeah, this is a Vitamix. You can feel it's, it's heavy duty. I think the tech specs say it's 2.8 pounds. It's not break your arm or wrist heavy, but it's significant. The cord is long because, well, that makes sense. You need to have a, you don't need to kind of travel to your pot of soup. Stainless steel top, stainless steel sort of wand. And so this seems to have everything that the best immersion blenders have. On the top, it has a few speeds, but not too many to give you sort of precise textures. It feels good in the hand, it's easy to work with. It's long. I mean, it is designed to go all the way into pots of soup, not just halfway. And so the stainless steel is here to be heat resistant. The sort of bell bottom is plastic and that's to guard against scratching the bottom of a pot. And that's also one of the inherent safety features. This is to protect you and then also you can't drive the motor unless the wand is safely assembled on it. And then unique to Vitamix products in general, two things. One, the blade is teeny tiny and it's sharp. Vitamix blades on the full size blenders are dull. And then also unique to most Vitamix products, this thing is quiet. I'd say it has the same noise output as an electric toothbrush. I mean really, award for the quietest Vitamix right here. All immersion blenders are really good at one thing and that's blending in the cup or the pot that you're cooking it in or you're going to drink it out of. That's what it's best at. Cleanup is simple, no transfer, that's this thing's wheelhouse. So simple smoothies, simple protein shakes that are just milk, ice, banana and protein powder. Soups made with broth and vegetables to add a little bit of texture to kind of blend it up a little bit, great for dressings, emulsifications, little bits of baby food. We found and we were so pleasantly surprised, ice cream, frozen bananas, frozen strawberries, a splash of milk and go to town. You have a single serving of banana ice cream, strawberry banana ice cream. That's probably our favorite thing to do with this, only slightly ahead of a single serving of pesto. Usually you have to make a fairly decent amount of pesto in any Vitamix container. This thing made a little bit and what isn't pesto good on? What doesn't it make better? Pesto's the best. Pesto's the best. In general and true with this immersion blender, it's not great at making silky smooth smoothies and silky smooth protein shakes and velvety soups and there is a difference and this is the difference that only a full-sized Vitamix can provide. This is why smoothies and juices, whole food juices from a quick serve restaurant taste better than the ones at home that you make. They're made in a Vitamix. They taste different. It's the difference between a sugar cube taste different than granulated sugar taste different than powdered sugar and you can see the difference. So we tried to make our balsamic butternut squash soup using the immersion letter and it kind of looked and tasted like mashed potatoes but then we transferred it put it into our full-sized container and it transformed into this like a different color and a completely different taste and the soup that people rave about and that we knew was good but we're like wait a minute what's wrong with the soup like I thought it was a wonderful amazing magical soup. This cannot do that. Likewise with protein shakes we like to add oats to our protein shakes to make them less chalky. When we made a protein shake it was not chalky but there were still sort of chunks we had to kind of chew the oats. What was it? It didn't. Very bad. Why? I get the impression it would be the same thing with a sort of a peanut butter and jelly smoothie we make with raspberries and blueberries and blackberries. Those teeny tiny seeds probably wouldn't get pulverized, broken down like they do in a full-sized Vitamix. We didn't test our green juice but I would imagine that green juice that has kale in it would probably have some kale chunks but that's consistent with any Vitamix alternative. A Ninja, a Nutribullet, Oster, Breville, that's what you get when you make green smoothies with kale. You got to chew it a little bit and yeah I mean this is not deceptive marketing because you got a green smoothie in here but pineapple, grapes, a little bit of ice and spinach it can do that and that looks like about the consistency you would get. I would call BS if there was kale in here but there's not and it goes without saying the immersion wonder it can't do heavy-duty tasks so chopping like when you make our detox salad using it as a food processor replacement gave it a shot at making nut butter the simplest one peanut butter yeah so it just kind of turned off I mean a little bit yeah I mean it's kind of peanut buttery but I I can't say I would recommend doing this and then of course this thing also doesn't have the power to heat full-size Vitamix is going to be able to heat your hot soups not so much this thing was really easy to clean a couple of drops of soap and warm water drop it in turn it on it's quiet with some really sticky or thick blends which I'm not even sure you would do anyway you really have to get in there and it gets kind of tricky to get out under the blade most of what you're gonna be making is not so thick and like cement sticky that it would be an issue and would need more elbow grease than just sticking it into a cup with warm water but just put it out there if you do do that it's tricky to get in there like any immersion blender let's talk about who this thing might be for the new immersion blender from Vitamix might be for you if you're looking to get into the Vitamix family you're trying to adopt a healthy lifestyle and you're in the market for maybe a Nutribullet or maybe a Ninja Blender that's kind of your budget and you're intrigued by the durability by the three-year full warranty which covers everything free shipping both ways and you're intrigued by the convenience blend in the same cup you will be drinking from and you're intrigued by the versatility this thing can do a lot more than a blender you'll have for a year this thing might be for you if you have a small kitchen you live in a big city we have friends that live in tiny apartments and but they really are into cooking and want to get more into cooking the footprint of this thing is tiny and would be a great thing to have if you're looking to make more hot soups and occasionally a smoothie or some ice cream this thing might be for you if you're really into making hot soups or you want to get into making hot soups because if you ask top chefs what they need to make hot soups they'll always say an immersion blender this thing might be for you if you're already a Vitamix owner you have a full-size Vitamix and you're like hmm single-serve ice cream single-serve pesto playing around with hot soups in the pot sounds pretty good to me it might be for you if you like the idea of meal prepping so you're making smoothies for the entire weeks using mason jars so you're gonna fill five mason jars with ingredients put them in the fridge and then in the morning every day make yourself a smoothie you will love this thing and this might be for you if you know someone who is a Vitamix lover and you want to get them a gift this isn't necessarily something you'd buy for yourself if if you have a full-size Vitamix because it's not something you need but if you have it you're gonna love it on the other hand it might not be for you if you're looking to make silky smooth smoothies and whole food juices you don't like the idea of chewing your smoothies or your protein shakes or if you want velvety smooth soups ones that you would get at a Michelin rated restaurant okay real talk guys we like this thing probably never would have bought it for ourselves because we have a full-size Vitamix that can do all of these things better albeit maybe less conveniently like the soups and smoothies but we really liked it for making single-serve strawberry banana ice cream we love making pesto tonight we're making dressing and emulsified salad dressing for dinner using this and well we're probably going to be exploring more with soups not the velvety smooth soups that we have on our website but ones that are stock which is broth and vegetables to get a varied consistency we hope to well we're gonna upload a full review of this thing down the road once we've had a chance to use it really get a sense of how we use it in our home and so guys subscribe to our channel if you haven't already hit that bell to get notified and if you appreciate videos like this hit that thumbs up and thank you so much for watching we'll see you in the next one bye guys okay all right well that's super easy I would say all the Vitamix products for a second you can push it all right go for it nice okay let go ready good this is like Lucy Lucy we're safe classic immersion blender that you need to kind of go for a second like scrape the sides yeah yeah sounds like it did give me that pull that still ice cream that's cool this here and hold note back okay cool hands off yeah okay let's take a look I mean I think it looks good can you hold it upside down dangerous you're good now I'm good actually quite good so hang on we got to do the actual video part okay it doesn't need to be cut because it's really small cool really cool I'm impressed