I have had this blender twice, it has lasted 9mo each time. I use my blender Rarely, however primarily for smoothies, always careful to have the right frozen to liquid ratio. With my experiences, this blender blends unevenly and as mentioned - has not lasted long before the motor has quit. I gave up this blender for a ninja and am much happier.
Bought this mainly for ice crushing feature, but it doesn't work well. Leaves large chunks that just spin around. Usually just use it for shakes, so didn't want to spend a lot of money.
I bought it as a replacement as I thought having two glass jars would be handy. However I found that the thermal fuse was shutting the blender done way too often and regardless what or how much of anything I had in the blender. So for my needs, I would not buy this one again.
It stopped working with 2 months of receipt. Cuisinart would do nothing except have me send back for evaluation. As I use the blender every day. I declined their time consuming offer as I would need to buy another anyway. It wasn’t a cuisinart that I purchased.
I like using Cuisinart for my morning smoothies as it reliably crushes the ice and blends it perfectly. The one I replaced had timer and this new one does not hence the 4-star review.