Customer Reviews

Waring RB70 Retro Blender with 48-Ounce Glass Jar, Brushed Stainless

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1 star:		(4)

 

 

I recently replaced my broken Kitchen Aid Professional Blender with the Waring Pro Retro Blender. I LOVE this appliance. It's sleek styling looks great on my countertop and it crushes ice in mere seconds. I have made thick smoothies that fill almost the entire glass jar and the Waring has no problem blending ice and frozen fruit. I have read some negative reviews of this blender and I am truly mystified by them. I have tried many different brands and no blender comes close to this one in terms of blending power and pure aesthetics.

I've had two break within three months. The assembly gets loose and won't do anything. Very frustrating.

This blender had a lot of issues, the rubber black lines cracked and fell out after a few months, and then the blade stopped turning, even though the motor seems fine.

Called waring, tried to use their website, but it seems there is not even a customer service department. So disappointed, as I purchased this blender because of the 5 year warranty.

We bought this about 2 years ago. It looks great and we liked the fact that the jar is glass and the base has a clean stainless look. We use it often to make smoothies with juice, frozen fruit, etc.

However, it started breaking down in the last 6 months. My husband keeps tightening the blades inside the blender, but it has broken down to the point where we can't use it anymore. We may try to get it repaired, but it would probably cost the same to buy another, less expensive blender. I don't know how long a blender should last, I just wish this one would have held up longer. I wouldn't buy another one; it doesn't seem worth the money.

We make lots of ice cream shakes and smoothies. It handles it all perfectly! Love the look as well...we keep it out on the counter all the time. Needless to say, we are very happy with this purchase.

I bought this blender to make fruit smoothies (mostly strawberry) for my athletic husband and son. I bought a "top-of-the-line" because I knew it would get heavy use. It worked perfectly for about 2 months, and then I had to take it in to the authorized repair shop in our city for a new blade assembly because it no longer blended the frozen fruit; this was done under warranty at no cost to me. The repairman said to add the liquid first, and then add the fruit through the hole in the lid while the motor was running because the blades don't grind frozen fruit--they cause it to "explode". I took the repaired blender home, where it made 2 or 3 good fruit smoothies before going back to its old trick of not blending the frozen fruit again. It will still make shakes with ice cream and the like, but forget the fruit smoothies. So I guess I'll be going back to the repair shop and seeing what can be done--or asking for a replacement.

I bought this blender two years ago to upgrade from my Oster blender. I loved the retro look until the cool little black pieces started peeling off. Well, that was only cosmetic, but what was that burning smell when I "pushed" the motor too hard? Why didn't it make a simple fruit smoothie? This is a Waring, right? I have tried to love it. I have tried to forgive it. The truth is, I despise this blender. I gave my Oster blender to my mother-in-law. I wish I could take it back. I didn't know how good I had it. I wish I had returned it the first time it couldn't blend a frozen strawberry.

Couldn't slice through warm butter. First time I used it, to make a smoothie, couldn't chop through frozen fruit. I'm returning this pile of junk! As with most things these days, the quality of previous years isn't there. I'd recommend looking for a vintage model on ebay.

This was a complete waste of money. Purchased in Jan (06) - dead before the middle of March (06). Started smelling or burning motor in February - cutting assembly fell apart the beginning of the 2nd week of March. Completely frustrating experience. Consider that I was ripped off for $149 plus shipping. I use a blender once a day to make a smoothie with ice, chocolate & sweetener. Unless you want a "retro" look on your kitchen counter and you use it infrequently and only on soft items without the addition of ice I wouldn't recommend wasting your money.

I have had many blenders and they all seem to not live up to the hype. I am a heavy user making protien shakes and smoothies so I put a heavy load on my blender. I have had Cuisinart, Kithen Aid and many others that all broke down. This blender feels like it is better built already. While not whisper quiet, it is much quieter that any of the others. It is also very powerful and mixes with little effort. I highly recommend this product.