Giggling like a villain in Dexter, I cut through the tape with a boxcutter - and found myself staring at a Ninja NJ600 Professional Blender. A week later, a blender-sized package arrived at my apartment. To ensure that he bought the right one, I found a brochure and circled the 5200, several times, in black ink. I’ll buy the blender myself, and be done with it.īut lo and behold, that afternoon, my father offered to buy me the blender. By the time I settled in Manhattan, I felt bad about asking again. Unsure of my post grad-intentions (though sure that I didn’t want to drag a blender along during my travels), I requested that she table the purchase.

Because I was vocal about my intentions, my grandmother promised to buy me one for graduation. You can use it to make ice cream, for goodness sake. At $449, their entry-level 5200 was expensive, but I’d seen that baby in action at Whole Foods demonstration, and I was hooked. If you’ve never heard of Vitamix, they’re like the Global of the blender world: they make popular, utilitarian, quality products. After a good deal of research looking for the best blender available, I settled on the Vitamix 5200. During my senior year of college, I went on a health kick and decided I needed a blender.

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