Vitamix Ascent Series A3500 Blender, Brushed Stainless

I love this machine. It's La Machine on roids. It's powerful and can cut and puree anything in it's path. Cheese, vegetables, nuts Large. Etc. It's a dynamo to work with. If you need to grind up small seeds you will need to get the smaller attachments to get the seeds ground. I bought this in 2019 and is still going strong only the drive socket needed replacement. I highly recommend this machine even though you cant purchase this now the new one looks much better. I like that they stopped using the larger rubber stabilizer on the new one as this 3500 has that large rubber piece and it makes it difficult to clean off lol it attracts anything dry. But I will say the finest blender I have used.

I made a soup with some tough greens from the broccoli leaves and stems in the garden just before the Vitamix arrived. After blending with our old Ninja, there were unpalatable sharp slivers of broccoli stem, so I was thinking it might just have to be composted. Then the Vitamix arrived and blended it all smooth and absolutely delicious! I'll be able to make better use of so much more of my garden veggies next year! And I'm making tomato soup in 10 minutes for super quick meals, and amazingly yummy zucchini soups with all the zucchini in the freezer from last summer, not to mention the occasional quick treats.