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Jessica Harmon
🇺🇸 Portland, OR · ✓ Verified Purchase · 1 week ago
★★★★★
I resisted buying a Vitamix for 8 years because of the price — I genuinely regret every single year I waited
I am a nutritionist and I have recommended Vitamix blenders to clients for years while personally using a $120 blender and telling myself it was fine. Last month I finally bought the A3500. I have used it every single day for 4 weeks and the gap between what I thought I was getting with my old blender and what this machine actually delivers is staggering. My green smoothie takes 45 seconds and comes out genuinely smooth — no fibrous texture, no visible spinach strands, no grit from chia seeds. I made gazpacho in 3 minutes, almond butter in 90 seconds, and last week I made butternut squash soup — raw squash from the garden to hot, ready-to-eat soup in under 7 minutes, no stovetop, no cooking. I physically cannot believe this is possible. Every year I didn't own this blender I was leaving nutrition and convenience on the table. Don't wait like I did.
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Raj Mehta
🇬🇧 London, UK · ✓ Verified Purchase · 3 weeks ago
★★★★★
Executive chef for 18 years: this is the only home blender I consider equivalent to professional commercial equipment
I run the kitchen at a Michelin-starred restaurant in London. We use a Thermomix TM6 and a Pacojet in the professional kitchen. When people ask me what blender to buy at home, I tell them without hesitation: Vitamix. The A3500 specifically. The blade tip speed on the Vitamix motor is the closest thing to a commercial emulsifying blender available for a domestic price. I use the A3500 at home to make restaurant-quality veloutés, emulsified herb oils, and smooth restaurant-style sauces that I simply cannot achieve with any other home equipment. The touchscreen and app are well-designed and the 10-year warranty means I can recommend it to friends without caveat. The only professional advice I'd add: buy the sound enclosure — it's worth the money in a residential kitchen, especially if you make hot soup at dinner time when noise matters. This machine will outlive most of the other appliances in your kitchen by a decade.
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Sophie Laurent
🇫🇷 Lyon, France · ✓ Verified Purchase · 4 weeks ago
★★★★★
Made vichyssoise, tapenade, and hollandaise sauce from scratch this week — all better than anything I've produced before
As a French cook, I am particular about texture in a way that makes most blenders deeply frustrating. Lumpy soups, slightly gritty sauces, and vinaigrettes that separate immediately are not acceptable. The Vitamix A3500 solves all of these complaints simultaneously. The vichyssoise I made last Sunday — leek, potato, crème fraîche, chives — was the silkiest I have ever produced at home; I passed it through a fine-mesh strainer purely out of habit and nothing came through. The tapenade from the Dips & Spreads program holds emulsion far longer than hand-processing. And the hollandaise, made by running egg yolks and lemon at speed 5 while streaming hot butter through the lid plug — flawless, with no risk of scrambling, which I manage consistently. The Perfect Blend app has excellent recipe guides for French preparations including crêpe batter and sauce beurre blanc that I have not seen in any other blender app. This machine speaks to serious cooks.
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Daniel Kim
🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea · ✓ Verified Purchase · 5 weeks ago
★★★★★
Used it to make doenjang jjigae paste, dokkaebi sauce, and mulberry sherbet — it handles Korean cuisine perfectly
I was curious how the Vitamix A3500 would perform with Korean cooking, which involves a lot of rough, fibrous ingredients — garlic, ginger, dried chilies, fermented pastes, and whole grains. The answer is: extraordinarily. The gochujang base I make from scratch (dried chilies, fermented rice, garlic, ginger, malt syrup) comes out of the A3500 smoother and more evenly processed than any version I've made with hand equipment. The mulberry sherbet from the Frozen Dessert program — frozen mulberries, lemon, honey — is a revelation of smooth texture. I have also used it to grind roasted sesame seeds into sesame butter and to process barley and rice for traditional drinks. The motor handles every task without any strain. The 10-year warranty is meaningful in Korea where Vitamix's service network is excellent. I bought a second one for my mother. She calls it the best appliance she has ever owned.
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Amanda Brooks
🇨🇦 Vancouver, BC · ✓ Verified Purchase · 6 weeks ago
★★★★☆
Four stars — machine is brilliant but it won't fit under my kitchen cabinet without removing the container first (common issue)
The A3500 is everything I hoped for in terms of performance. My green smoothies are glass-smooth, the hot soup program genuinely produces restaurant-quality results, and the touchscreen is clean and responsive. The reason for four stars rather than five is purely practical: at 17.5 inches tall with the container, the A3500 does not fit under my 16-inch clearance kitchen cabinets. I have to store it in a slightly inconvenient spot and move it to the counter for use. This is a well-documented issue and Vitamix's low-profile container design helps, but if your kitchen has standard cabinet height clearance this is worth measuring before you buy. The machine itself is faultless — the motor, the results, the interface, the warranty — all five stars. I've docked one star for the height issue because it affects my daily workflow in a real way. If your kitchen has the clearance, buy this without hesitation.
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Tomoko Ogawa
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan · ✓ Verified Purchase · 7 weeks ago
★★★★★
Made sesame tofu, ponzu jelly, and white miso smoothie — Japanese cuisine demands precision and this machine delivers it
Japanese cooking is among the world's most technically demanding cuisines. Texture, temperature, and consistency are considered with absolute seriousness. I was therefore sceptical that any Western blender could meet the standards I hold for kitchen equipment. The Vitamix A3500 exceeded them. The goma-dofu (sesame tofu) I make by processing roasted sesame paste, kuzu starch, and dashi at speed 4 comes out with a silkiness that I have never achieved with traditional stone grinding methods at home. The ponzu reduction I blend at speed 6 emulsifies perfectly with no separation. And the white miso, banana, and amazake smoothie from the Perfect Blend app — which I was deeply sceptical about — is genuinely one of the most delicious things I have made in my kitchen this year. The machine is also beautifully quiet compared to other high-speed blenders I have tried; 88 decibels is acceptable in a Japanese apartment context. The 10-year warranty and Vitamix Japan's excellent service network are the deciding factors for Japanese consumers. Highly recommended.
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Patrick Walsh
🇦🇺 Sydney, Australia · ✓ Verified Purchase · 9 weeks ago
★★★★★
My Vitamix is 11 years old, still running perfectly — I just bought an A3500 for my daughter's new home as a wedding gift
I have owned a Vitamix 5200 since 2014. It has been used every single day for 11 years — thousands of smoothies, hundreds of soups, dozens of nut butters, countless sauces. It has never missed a beat. When it eventually needed a new container (after 8 years and thousands of uses, the rubber gasket finally wore), I called Vitamix and they replaced it under the extended warranty at no cost. This is the single most reliable appliance I have ever owned, and I have owned many. My daughter and son-in-law just bought their first home together. I did not hesitate for a moment about what to give them as a wedding gift: a Vitamix A3500. I chose the A3500 specifically over the A2500 because the touchscreen and app will grow with them as their cooking skills develop — and because the machine they receive today will still be running when their children leave home. That is the Vitamix guarantee in practice, not just on paper. Buy one. You will not regret it for a single day over the next decade.
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Nina Baxter
🇺🇸 Austin, TX · ✓ Verified Purchase · 10 weeks ago
★★★★★
Whole food plant-based household — this blender replaced our food processor, soup maker, and nut milk machine in one purchase
Our household has been whole food plant-based for five years. We go through enormous quantities of leafy greens, legumes, nuts, seeds, and whole grains. We previously owned three separate appliances: a food processor for hummus and dips, a soup maker for weeknight soups, and a NutriBullet for smoothies. The A3500 replaced all three in a single purchase, freed up significant cabinet space, and produces better results than any of the three combined. Our daily smoothie with 2 cups of kale, frozen mango, hemp seeds, and flaxseeds takes 50 seconds and produces a texture so smooth that our 3-year-old now drinks it without complaint — previously an impossible task with our NutriBullet. Our midweek lentil soup — from raw, dried lentils that we blend with tomatoes, onion, and stock — comes out smooth and steaming in 8 minutes flat with zero stovetop involvement. The cashew cream, the tahini, the raw nut milks — all flawless. This is the most impactful single purchase our household has made in five years of plant-based cooking.
