Just like the Vitamix, the Blendtec completely emulsified all of the olive oil into the other ingredients, and made a light and creamy, spreadable hummus. The Blendtec's hummus had a slightly less smooth mouth feel and was less airy compared to the Vitamix's hummus, but that's us splitting hairs; both blenders made excellent hummus.
Both Vitamix and Blendtec made delicious hummus; smooth, fluffy and creamy. Winner: Vitamix - Emulsification Expert. Oil and water do not mix - but you can emulsify them. For oil and water to combine into one, oil particles have to be small enough to surround water particles in order to not separate. Both the Vitamix and the Blendtec jars can achieve full emulsification of the oil and water in the hummus, Vitamix just made a better- consistancy hummus, slightly more airy and smooth compared to Blendtec's hummus.
Powdered Sugar Test. This one was simple: We put sugar into our blender, with the expectation of getting powdered sugar out of it. This tests the effectiveness of the blades. We're looking for a consistently fine, fluffy powder with no sugar crystals left unblended. That's all it took to create perfect powdered sugar. We sifted through it did not find any full sugar crystals left over, it was a nice, white, sugary dust, as powdered sugar should be.
After 30 seconds at the highest speed in our Blendtec, we also ended up with a pile of snow-like powdered sugar.
We sifted through and could not find any full sugar crystals. Blendtec makes a great mill for turning granular sugar into powdered sugar. Snow-like powdered sugar falls through the sifter dusting our test slate. Both blenders are excellent at milling. Both blenders excelled at breaking down full-size sugar crystals into powdered sugar. Both Vitamix's and Blendtec's blade design incorporate thick, blunt blades.
These blades spin so fast, they actually crush ingredients because there is more surface area for those tiny sugar particles to hit. This, along with the food-grabbing vortex, ensures all of the food you put into your blender gets pulverized. This also makes Vitamix and Blendtec great for milling whole grains for flours.
Hot Soup. Vitamix is famous for making hot soups without you ever turning on your stove. How this occurs is brilliant in its simplicity: Those super-fast blades create so much friction, food heats up while its blending. Blendtec also advertises the ability to create hot soup sans stove. So who makes the better soup? Blend Time: 5 minutes 45 seconds. We filled our blender jar full of cheddar-broccoli soup ingredients then pressed the Hot Soup preset and stepped back.
Vitamix delivers on its claim of making HOT soup. Now, the soup was steaming and technically "hot," but not as hot as we think a serving temperature should be. If you were to put this soup into a cold bowl, the soup would cool down quickly and be more room-temperature.
Now the soup was hot and ready to serve. Friction from the blades in a tight space creates enough heat to make a hot soup. Although the Blendtec created a hotter soup in the same amount of time as the Vitamix, we're declaring Vitamix the winner here because its Hot Soup preset gave better results the first time around, for an easier user experience. Both Blendtec and Vitamix passed with flying colors on making hot soup, you just have to do a little more work with the Blendtec to get an eating-temperature soup.
Ice Cream Test. Yes, we were looking forward to this test especially. We love ice cream. The smaller the ice crystals and the faster they're moved around, the more frozen and creamy the ice cream. Vitamix has a dedicated Frozen Dessert preset function for ice cream. We added 4 cups of ice along with milk, cream, vanilla extract, and cocoa powder to the Vitamix and started blending. The ice quickly crushed and started to freeze up on the jar sides, so we used the tamper to push everything back down into the blades.
After only one minute, we had thick soft-serve chocolate ice cream. The ice cream had very small ice crystals so it was smooth instead of "crunchy," and held its shape nicely. At first, Blendtec was doing great, but after only 20 or 30 seconds, the ice cream started to freeze on the sides of the jar and no longer blend.
We had to stop and push the frozen ice cream back into the blade to continue blending. After blending, the ice cream turned out pretty good. The ice crystals were small, but some chunks of ice were still there. All in all, Blendtec made a tasty chocolate ice cream and passed the test.
Both blenders made ice cream in their own way. It's interesting to see the texture difference caused by the blade design. Winner: Vitamix - Ice Cream Anytime. Vitamix is the big ice cream winner. With the use of the tamper, Vitamix made a better consistency ice cream without having to start and stop.
Blendtec advertises that their blender is tamper-free, which makes blending and storing the blender a lot easier, but in this particular application, a tamper would have been beneficial. For very thick blends, the tamper helps move food back down into the blender blades, and that's what helped Vitamix win this test.
Bread Dough Test. Both Vitamix and Blendtec advertise their blenders can make bread dough. Inertia then carries the fruit, ice, and anything else in the mix up the side of the jar until they reach the top of the mix.
At this point, they turn around and head back down, right into the business end of the blades. No tamper needed. They're also blunt instead of sharp. With a blade that spins over miles per hour, it doesn't need to be sharp to get the job done. Instead of chipping away at ice and frozen fruit with sharp edges, the large, blunt design pulverizes virtually anything. Modern touch controls enable walk-away blending.
Blendtec blenders feature modern touch controls that not only look great, but make everything from blending to cleanup easier than ever. And the easy-to-use dial allows you to safely and gradually increase the blending speed while keeping the ingredients spinning in a neat, controlled vortex. The Blendtec Designer , on the other hand, is so forceful that it creates a boiling cyclone, even on the hot-soup setting, which is meant to start out slow and blend hot ingredients safely.
We also tried starting our soup on the lowest manual speed setting, but that was too aggressive as well. In both cases the powerful motor flung ingredients up the sides of the jar, especially in the beginning when solid foods hit the blades. A blender should make the process faster and easier, and reduce your chance of failure. We believe the difference lies in the bottom of the jar.
To understand why the Blendtec fails at mayonnaise, you need to understand how emulsifying works. A blender is usually great for making mayonnaise because its fast-whirling blades can whip the oil into the emulsifier more efficiently than you could by hand. But the first few moments of blending are crucial, because the emulsification must start forming as soon as the first drops of oil hit the emulsifier; otherwise you end up with a pool of oil too large to incorporate into the mixture.
In order to start emulsifying immediately, the blades of the blender should be already beating the emulsifier before you introduce any oil to the mix. The Vitamix succeeds at mayonnaise because the narrow base of its jar keeps the tiny volume of emulsifier close to the blades, which sit low enough to beat even a small amount of yolks, lemon juice, and mustard.
Both the Blendtec Designer and the Vitamix can puree peanuts and oil into butter, but they produce different results. The Blendtec produces runnier, and noticeably chunkier, peanut butter than the Vitamix. Thanks to its tamper, the Vitamix also purees thick mixtures in half the time the Blendtec takes.
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