Vitamix 5200 Blender, Skilled-Grade, Container, Self-Cleansing 64 oz, Black/Gray

The Vitamix 5200: Your Ultimate Healthy Cooking Companion
The Vitamix 5200 is an incredible tool for healthy eating. Its versatility makes it perfect for preparing a wide range of nutritious recipes. You can whip up smoothies packed with vitamins, blend soups from fresh ingredients, or create homemade nut butters and dips. The ability to make whole-food recipes in just minutes encourages you to experiment with healthier options, making it easier to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your diet. With the variable speed control, you can ensure that your ingredients are blended to your desired consistency, preserving nutrients and flavors.The quality is exceptional, as you’d expect from Vitamix. It feels solid and durable, ready to handle everything from frozen fruits to tough leafy greens. Plus, the large container is perfect for batch cooking or entertaining. Cleaning is a breeze.

God of blenders!
The Vitamix 5200 Blender is an absolute powerhouse in the kitchen, exceeding all expectations for performance, versatility, and durability. This blender has revolutionized my cooking experience, making it effortless to create smoothies, soups, sauces, nut butters, and even ice cream with consistently smooth and delicious results.The powerful motor and sharp blades effortlessly pulverize even the toughest ingredients, leaving no chunks or gritty textures. The variable speed control allows for precise adjustments, ensuring the perfect consistency for every recipe. I particularly appreciate the ability to make hot soups directly in the blender, saving time and dishes.The 64-ounce container is perfect for family meals or batch cooking, and the self-cleaning feature makes cleanup a breeze. While the price may seem steep initially, the Vitamix 5200 is a worthwhile investment that will pay for itself in no time through the countless culinary creations and healthy meals it enables.The quality and durability of the Vitamix 5200 are undeniable. It’s built to last, with a solid construction and high-quality materials that can withstand daily use. I’ve been using mine for years, and it still performs like new.Overall, the Vitamix 5200 is an exceptional blender that deserves all the praise it receives. It’s a must-have appliance for anyone who values healthy eating, culinary creativity, and long-lasting quality. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade their kitchen arsenal.

Horrible and flimsy lid design and really cheap plastic food container
I sent this back before even using. I own several older blenders that both cost under $150, and the lid design on both are FAR superior to this one. This one has a “snap-on” design, and directions say to push down on lid until lid flaps “lock into place”. The lid itself, and especially the flaps are flimsy (made out of what feels like a light weight, cheap, thin, somewhat hard and inflexible rubber that has no strength to it and feels like it will either break completely, or lose what little strength it does have in a short order. There was no “locking” sound or any other indication that the lid was actually secure, and I had to instead get down at eye level and inspect the bottom of the flap from underneath to see if it was indeed under the ridge it was supposed to snap “over”… and I STILL wasn’t sure!!! The flaps did not look or feel firmly in place, and I knew immediately I would never feel comfortable using this blender, as a tight a secure blender lid is ESSENTIAL. Also, you have to sort of pry the flimsy flaps off the same ridge to take the lid off, and they felt like they might break right then and there! The removable “lid plug”, which you can remove to add more ingredients without taking the lid off, also felt flimsy and poorly designed. PLUS, the food container itself felt REALLY cheap compared to either of my inexpensive blenders (one has an actual glass container that has lasted over 15 years, and the other is made of a MUCH heavier and more solid plastic).The only part that felt worth the $400 price tag was the base with the motor, which was really heavy compared to my other two blenders. I just think Vitamix went the cheap route on everything else. The blending power may well be far superior to my other blenders, but I’m just not willing to pay $400 for a blender with ANY cheap parts, especially such important ones. I was so excited about finally owning a Vitamix, but was so immediately dissatisfied that I packed it up10 minutes after taking it out of the box and requested a refund. Perhaps they have recently redesigned and cheapened the lid and container, as I saw only one other person with my same complaint. For what it’s worth, this is only the second negative online review I’ve ever written about a product.

I am not – WAS not – much of a “blender guy”, but the Vitamix 5200 changed that. And even though I am typing this all out in a product review, where that sort of sentiment belongs, it still sounds absurd to me. Who gets impressed by a *blender*? Me, apparently.Prior to this Vitamix the only blender I had ever used in my *entire life* was an ancient Osterizer from the 70s. The thing is literally older than I am, but beyond all reasonable expectations it still somehow works. Go Osterizer, I guess? This year I grew way too many hot peppers, decided to make a bunch of hot sauce with them, and suddenly the Osterizer showed its age. While it was fine blending a couple of smoothies a month for us, it struggled to blend up 12 litres of hot sauce in one night, so I figured maybe the time had come to get a “real” (I.E. manufactured in this century) blender.After some internet research I selected the Vitamix 5200 as being the most likely not to struggle through my new hot sauce hobby, only to find that I was basically swatting a fly with a nuke. That old Osterizer took about 2 hours of blending and cooling down to do 12 litres of my (admittedly very thick) hot sauce puree. The Vitamix 5200 did all 12 litres in less than 2 minutes.The Vitamix 5200 is *absurd*. And that has made it life-changing for us.It doesn’t matter what you put in there. You can just shove the most fibrous of vegetables in there, right up to the brim, and *bvvvvvt*, instantly pureed. Shove a bunch of ice in there…instant slushy. Anything that is a solid that you no longer want to be a solid anymore this blender will handle.So we went from a household that might make a couple of smoothies every month to one that is now bulk-making sauces, soups, and so forth. We even just toss hole grains of various types (wheat, oatmeal, rye, flax, etc.) and turn them into our own multi-grain flower, then into pre-mixed dry bread ingredients.When we are “low spoons” – I.E. we just don’t have the jam to cook properly – we can just pull out some of our pre-made sauce from the freezer, drop it on some noodles, et voila: actual food groups get consumed.As an ADHD household we have been familiar with the concept of “a critical threshold of ease of use” for some time, but we never expected to find that in a *blender*. Somehow, however, the thing is both just easy enough to use and powerful enough to handle whatever we throw at it with zero prep work that has managed to make the “pre-cooking your nutritious meals” parts of adulting just easy enough that we can actually do them on a regular basis.If you’re looking for a top-of-the-line blender for your home, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything that would top it, I think. All those rave reviews on the internet were, for once, actually not lying.

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