Heavy duty piece of kitchen equipment.  This is no toy.  Great working blender with heavy duty cord, simple yet strong switches, and a large enough and strong enough poly "jar".  Very happy with the product.  Not so happy with the process, as I would not have ordered it had I known it would take 3 weeks to deliver.  And delivered by truck?  Why?  After way too long, in the end they just dropped it at my front door just like UPS would have, 2 weeks earlier.  Not impressed with Perigold's handling on this at all.  But again, great blender.