This is a great blender, high quality build, enough simple to use functions, powerful, a pleasure to use, I’ve used vitamix and prefer this one so far. Only gave it four stars as I would like the jug to be a little bigger, it makes smoothies for me and other half well but larger portions of food need splitting, this is usually no problem and I guess too big would be too much strain but a glass jug the size of the plastic one would be nice. Also health blenders are moving into vacuum blending. A vacuum lid and pump would be a great addition to this.