What a fantastic blender!! I like making protein shakes for breakfast, which ultimately leads to my kids needing one. With our old blender there were always larger pieces of fruit and/or ice, I don't have that issue with this blender just one button and BOOM! Smoothies are done! I'm REALLY looking forward to using the soup feature, I'm a firm believer in soup belonging in soup weather, and we're not quite there yet. So far I have zero complaints and only positive things to say!!