Magic Bullet Blender, Small, Silver, 11 Piece Set

This it the 3rd brand of blender, of this type, that I’ve had in the last…mmmm.. about 15 years. The first 2 brands I used were magic bullet and another I can’t remember. Both of the others we like this, but you could push down on the cup to begin the blade spinning, and you could twist it to lock in place. On THIS one, you can ONLY spin the cup to lock in place for the blade to start. Meaning that you cannot just push it down and have it work for a couple of seconds at a time. This is a fault in my opinion. I use it for smoothies and milkshakes pretty exclusively. I use a lot of frozen fruits in it and need to be able to stop it quickly to remove and shake, then start again. I have to do this a few times usually to keep the frozen pieces from burning out the mechanism. This was true of all blenders of thus type, btw. Just too much frozen stuff in a clump right where the blades are. The issue is that the outside of the cups get wet with condensation, which makes them difficult to twist, and even harder to untwist quickly! So I’m worried I’ll burn the motor out not being able to stop the motor as quickly as I should be able to, and doing this over and over again.The motor is very good, and all of my shakes and smoothies have come out beautifully blended! And it’s fast! Takes maybe 20-30 seconds total to get everything totally smooth. I haven’t found any chunk of fruit or ice that weren’t blended down, and that’s very impressive!My daughter and I both love the suction base design! It’s great how it keeps the base totally in place during use and while just on the counter. I wish more kitchen items would adopt thus base style!I’ve been using daily for weeks now and everything is still working well. I even dropped a cup today and it didn’t crack or spill or anything! I was amazed, since it was full and I dropped it about 4 feet down onto tile flooring!No weird smell. I washed everything before use. No weird tastes, either. All good. Came with everything it was supposed to come with.What I make it in:For “smoothies” (not technically maybe but I call them that) I use a handful of blueberries, same for frozen bananas, and pour almond milk on top, then blend. My favorite. Sometimes use frozen strawberries. Sometimes add chocolate syrup.I like to make them in the morn and send half in the smaller cup, using the travel drink lid (which is awesome!), with my daughter on her way to school to fill out her breakfast a bit. She has a long travel time so it’s perfect. This morn she wanted something a bit more treat like, so I whipped up a shake using frozen strawberries, bananas, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, then added cow’s milk, then just a bit of choc syrup. It was so delicious!!! If you’re into drinking your fruit, there are some easy ideas for how to do it. Eyeballing the amounts becomes easy after you do it a couple of times. And using frozen fruits makes it a wonderful consistency. I prefer that to adding ice. It ends up being smoother than the typical smoothie you would buy somewhere, and the flavor is more pure without the extra water from all the ice. ?Happy blending!