This blender is well designed and a real pro at grinding up materials for your drink. Blender pitcher is well built and comes with (2) generous sized drink containers. It is powerful and very easy to clean, the blades are very sharp and motor is quite powerful... it does the job exceedingly well.  I loved that it had a a selection of settings for blending. I really enjoyed the crush ice setting, and the smoothie setting. The blender was super easy to clean and use.