Product Review: Dash Chef Series Digital Blender
Price Range: $125-$185
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Features:
- 1400 Watts of Blending Power
- BPA-Free Plastic Blending Container
- Sleek Design with Intuitive Control Panel
- Easily Crushes Ice with Help of Included Tamper
Pros:
Experience a level of blending similar to that of the highest priced blender for only a fraction of the price. With the Dash Chef Blender, the amount of blending power unleashed in the kitchen is on par with that of the Vitamix and Blendtec blenders. While Vitamix blenders may cost upwards of $400, the Dash Chef Digital Blender will cost you less than $200 to purchase. For only half the price, experience the full power of a high quality blender with all the great features included.
Blend up all your favorite treats in the kitchen, whether it be an icy green smoothie or homemade peanut butter. The Dash Blender makes it easy to blend tasks often thought to difficult for blenders that cost less than $200. Thanks to the 1400 Watts of Power and the durable blending blades, the toughest of things will be pulverized and liquified.
Digital controls on the dash and the sleek control panel make for simple operation of the blender. Choose from a diversity of blending options already programmed on the blender. Want to blend a smoothie and take care of other things while in the kitchen? Great! The Dash will blend for about a minute on its own until the smoothie is the perfect icy consistency. Making something like nut or seed butters takes a little more work, but a combination of manual blender pulses and tamper action will achieve the creamy quality everybody loves in nut butters.
Impress guests with a modern looking appliance fit for any American counter top. The Dash Blender has one of the sharpest looking builds on the market. Whereas many Vitamix blender are boxy and look somewhat clunky as a result, the Dash Digital Blender looks like a piece of futuristic technology in comparison. Along with a nice blending base, the blending basin also pleases the eye with its smooth, yet sharp shape.
Digital controls on the dash and the sleek control panel make for simple operation of the blender. Choose from a diversity of blending options already programmed on the blender. Want to blend a smoothie and take care of other things while in the kitchen? Great! The Dash will blend for about a minute on its own until the smoothie is the perfect icy consistency. Making something like nut or seed butters takes a little more work, but a combination of manual blender pulses and tamper action will achieve the creamy quality everybody loves in nut butters.
Impress guests with a modern looking appliance fit for any American counter top. The Dash Blender has one of the sharpest looking builds on the market. Whereas many Vitamix blender are boxy and look somewhat clunky as a result, the Dash Digital Blender looks like a piece of futuristic technology in comparison. Along with a nice blending base, the blending basin also pleases the eye with its smooth, yet sharp shape.
Cleaning the Dash after a blending job could not be any easier. Simply rinse the blender out of any remaining contents after pouring the newly made beverage. After that, add warm soapy water to about a third of the blending space. Place the blending basin on the blender and program to the Rinse function. Your blender will be clean after a final rinse off in the sink, and leave it to dry upside down for best results. Alternatively, the blending basin of the Dash may be washed in the bottom rack of a dishwasher.
Cons:
As many are quick to observe, the Dash Chef Blender takes up a decent amount of counter space. The blending base of this appliance is quite tall, but remains about the same width and length of what could be expected from a Vitamix. Unless you have high cabinets, you will be unable to store the Dash Blender with its blending basin on top of the base under a cabinet. This means you will likely need to store the blending basin in a cabinet when not in use.
If you are looking for a blender to function as a soup maker, I would recommend looking elsewhere. While there is a soup cooking function on the Dash Blender, I find it sub par when compared to the Vitamix. Small chunks may be left in the soup, and it does not seem to come out as silky smooth as Vitamix soups. Furthermore, soup making tends to be the most strenuous part of blending on the motor of a blender, so I would rather leave such a task to the more dependable Vitamix rather than the Dash.
Versus Similar Blenders:
- At nearly half the price, the Dash Chef Series of Blenders is far more affordable than Vitamix Blenders. Even with such a severe reduction in price, the power output, design, and functions of the Dash Blenders are highly impressive.
- Vitamix still remains the superior blender when it comes to power and design of the blender. Even with the impressive offerings of the Dash, there remains a reason why it is so modestly priced compared to a Vitamix. The Vitamix Blender line will deliver consistently superior results in terms of consistency and ability to liquify ingredients. Along with this, Vitamix blenders take up less counter space.
- Both blenders are intended for a diversity of uses in the kitchen, and both series of blenders deliver. Overall though, the Vitamix can just do more. As mentioned before, the Vitamix single handily wins in terms of soup making versus the Dash Blender. Also, I prefer the Vitamix when it comes to making things like green smoothies and seed butters.
- Dash Chef Series Blenders are a great buy, but the Vitamix remains King of the Kitchen. There are plenty of things to like about the Dash, but the Vitamix basically does everything better than the Dash.
Value for Money?
The Dash Chef Series Digital Blender is my top choice for a blender costing less than $200. Features on the Dash truly amaze me for its price point, mainly being the amount of power offered and the sleek design of the machine. While I would not label it as a perfect blender, I find there to be far more things to like than to discredit. Overall, I give the Dash Chef Series Digital Blender a total of 4/5 stars.
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I've had a DASH for about 18 months now, bought it on HSN. Heavy usage, sometimes 2-3 times a day. After 3-4 months, bearings at bowl bottom gave way. I was trying to puree frozen bananas into a "sorbet" with no additional liquid, using the tamper. No problems getting a free replacement, except for the downtime.
ReplyDeleteNo longer omit liquid, so haven't had problems, until recently. Now the switch energizing the digital feature is acting up, requiring me to to twist and hold down the bowl in order for it to power up. A matter of time before it gives up the ghost and quits altogether.
All in all I'd rate the blender ok. Compared to my sister's Vitamix, this one has to work longer to pulverize ingredients, and sometimes leaves small chunks.
I'm finally going to break down and invest in a Vitamix. Can get a refurbished one for about 100 bucks more than the DASH. In my years of avoiding the pricetag of the VM I've found that I've shelled out just as much money on lesser products. First I had a Ninja, which was a piece of crap, now the "just ok" DASH. Lesson learned, hopefully.