Waring Pro MegaMix Specialty Blender - 48 oz.

by Waring

Product Features

• Blender with 27,000-RPM motor and a powerful 2-speed motor
• Heavy-duty blade and blade assembly; crushes ice to any consistency in seconds
• Blends soups and sauces, as well as slushy drinks and ice-cold smoothies
• Extra-large, dishwasher safe and durable, 48-ounce plastic jar
• Measures 16-1/2 by 6 inches; 1-year warranty; 5-year motor warranty

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 9.5 x 8 inches ; 11.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00007E8FA
• Item model number: HPB300
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,606 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Color: Brushed Steel

From the Manufacturer

Serious looking but simple to operate, MegaMix makes blending a pleasure. Built for professional bars, commercial kitchens, and smoothie shops, the MegaMix commercial blender by Waring is the choice when only the best will do. Waring puts a full horse of extra power into this blender to crush ice and pulverize frozen ingredients in a matter of seconds.

A real time saver, this blender is a workhorse that can blend soups and sauces, as well as ice, slushy drinks, and ice-cold smoothies. The 27,000-RPM motor runs much faster than other blenders, allowing you to prepare shakes, pina coladas, and favorite coffee drinks in record time. A solid cover houses the powerful two-speed motor that crushes ice to any consistency. Just toggle "high", toggle "low", or toggle "off". The heavy-duty blade and blade assembly are time tested under bar and restaurant demands, and are housed in an extra-large, dishwasher safe and durable, 48-ounce plastic jar.

Product Description

Whip up your favorite drinks, soups, sauces, desserts and more with the Waring Pro commercial blender. The classic and simple design uses only a two-speed toggle switch for either high or low mixing and blending that can crush ice, mix, chop, whip and puree. The single piece jar is made from unbreakable polycarbonate so you can put hot foods in it without having to worry and features easy to read English and metric graduated measurements. The heavy base kicks out a whopping horsepower from the commercial style motor. Even clean up is easier with the fixed, self-cleaning blade, which means the only separate piece is the lid.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

90 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a real blender, July 9, 2004

By 

David Swanson (Providence, RI) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Waring HPB300 MegaMix Commercial Blender, Brushed Steel (Kitchen)

I bought this to replace a Kitchen Aid.
The Kitchen Aid uses a coupler on top of the motor which spins the blade that's made out of rubber over metal which will break if you make lots of frozen fruit drinks. That's what I had happen.
The Waring uses the same type of design, but the difference is that you can buy a replacement ($5.95) and put it on yourself with a wrench If it were to ever come apart. The Kitchen Aid has to be serviced, take apart the motor to get to it from the inside etc.

This Waring Blender is very powerful! It's loud and spins very fast. Which makes it blend in a fraction of the time of others. It makes my old Kitchen-Aid seem like a childs toy in comparison.

It's much more obviously commercial through heft, simplicity of design and function and servicability.

It has only 2 speeds. Professional chefs say that's all you need. it has a simple toggle switch, no multiple speed electronic gimmics. Just very functional.

I originally really wanted a glass container. It provided some heft to my old Kitchen-Aid and I thought that it was a sign of higher quality.
For a commercial application you would prefer the unbreakable quality of the polycarbon plastic as well as the lack of weight. It's light as a feather.

I was also concerned that the blade being permenantly mounted inside the container would be hard to clean. (actually you can take it apart with a deep socket and extension, not for cleaning but blade replacement). My Kitchen Aids came apart for cleaning and I could put it in the dishwasher. I find the cleaning instruction are easy with the Waring, actually simple to clean you should just do it right away once your done mixing. Less time to clean and assemble.

What I see now with comparing this to the kitchen-Aid besides what I've already mentioned, is that the Kitchen-Aid looks simple through it's visual design. It's over designed through what appear to be valuable features which only make it more complicated. You have to do more work from cleaning, assembling and servicing.
The Waring on the other hand is bare bones functional. It was designed to blend and be easily serviced and quickly cleaned.

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Blender, January 7, 2005

By 

David Swanson (Providence, RI) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Waring HPB300BK Mega Mix Commercial Bar Blender, Black (Kitchen)

I bought this to replace a Kitchen Aid.
The Kitchen Aid uses a coupler on top of the motor which spins the blade that's made out of rubber over metal which will break if you make lots of frozen fruit drinks. That's what I had happen.
The Waring uses the same type of design, but the difference is that you can buy a replacement ($5.95) and put it on yourself with a wrench If it were to ever come apart. The Kitchen Aid has to be serviced, take apart the motor to get to it from the inside etc.
This Waring Blender is very powerful! It's loud and spins very fast. It blends in a fraction of the time of others. It makes my old Kitchen-Aid seem like a childs toy in comparison.

Note: You don't load the thing up with frozen fruit or else it may just jam and won't spin. Also you're supposed to drop the ice in from the top while it's running.

It's much more obviously commercial through heft, simplicity of design and function and servicability.

It has only 2 speeds. Professional chefs say that's all you need. it has a simple toggle switch, no multiple speed electronic gimmics. Just very functional.

I originally really wanted a glass container. It provided some heft to my old Kitchen-Aid and I thought that it was a sign of higher quality.
For a commercial application you would prefer the unbreakable quality of the polycarbon plastic as well as the lack of weight. It's light as a feather.

One of the first things I noticed was that the container doesn't lock to the base. I was originally concerned, but in a commercial setting you'd just keep your hand on it since it's not going to take long to blend, and then you just quickly pull it off and pour.

I was also concerned that the blade being permenantly mounted inside the container would be hard to clean. (actually you can take it apart with a deep socket and extension, not for cleaning but blade replacement). My Kitchen Aids came apart for cleaning and I could put it in the dishwasher. I find the cleaning instruction are easy with the Waring, actually simple to clean you should just do it right away once your done mixing. Less time to clean and assemble.

What I see now with comparing this to the kitchen-Aid besides what I've already mentioned, is that the Kitchen-Aid looks simple through it's visual design. It's over designed through what appear to be valuable features which only make it more complicated. You have to do more work from cleaning, assembling and servicing.
The Waring on the other hand is bare bones functional. It was designed to blend and be easily serviced and quickly cleaned.

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Daily user - fruit smoothies for breakfast, July 15, 2005

By 

Peter (Davis, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Waring HPB300 MegaMix Commercial Blender, Brushed Steel (Kitchen)

Over the past 3 years, we have owned a 'commercial quality' KitchenAid with a stainless steel pitcher and a high end Oster unit.
Neither blended milk, frozen fruit, soy powder, and cottage cheese properly. The Kitchen Aid always left a blob of non-blended material plus chunks of fruit in the bottom.
We purchased the Waring Mega-Mix 5 months ago after reading the reviews on Amazon.com. We use it at least once daily.

Pluses:
1. Blends frozen or fresh fruit amazingly quickly and completely.
2. Mixes powders, fluids, and solids completely and efficiently.
3. Incredibly powerful motor
4. Polycarbonade pitcher is light weight and seems very strong.
5. High quality construction and commercial look to it.

Minuses:
1. Initially offered us a 'burnt' odor for the first 3 weeks of use (Amazon reviews warned of this)
2. Very noisy! I have adopted a one hand over one ear and the opposite shoulder plastered against the other ear stance while keeping the other hand on the lid.
3. Does not crush ice for drinks as well as other reviewers indicated.
Overview: Not perfect, but far better than anything else that we have used!

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