I’m a professional chef, always looking for new gadgets to make cooking easier. When I saw this I couldn’t get it fast enough. Having to wait for 5 days for it to be shipped was torture. I’ve had my vitamix blender for a couple of years at home ( have several at work ), and use it every day. When it finally arrived, first thing I made after giving it a good wash was lemonade. Lemon slices, simple syrup, water and ice. 45 seconds on high, strain, pour over ice into glasses. Same for mojito’s, and other muddled drinks. Whip cream, 45 seconds, perfect hollandaise sauce in less than a minute. Fresh mayonnaise, less than a minute. If you have not bought a vitamix blender yet, then the AER is the perfect reason to finally buy on.
I purchased my Aer the first week it was offered. The recipe book only has a few recipes; it looks thick because it gives you the same recipe in four languages. The unit is nicely built and does what it says, so if you have a need for any of its functions then you might enjoy it. For the price, I can’t really justify its usefulness.
Pros: Texture Quality, Product features
Response from vitamix.comBy Household Customer Service, August 17, 2018
We encourage you to create your own recipes. We currently have 25 recipes on our website to get you started and will be adding more. The Aer Disc will craft muddled cocktails, emulsions, whipped cream and culinary foams like the pros!
The Aer disc container allows the Vitamix owner the ability to create low-calorie desserts like never before. All it takes is extremely ice-cold skim milk and fresh frozen strawberries (or another acidic fruit) with the lo-cal sweetener of your choice, to make a delicious strawberry (or other fruit) mousse in minutes. Prior to this development, such a whjipped dessert was only able to be accomplished in the home with handheld blenders for one serving. Now an entire family can enjoy a very healthy, low fat, delicious dessert using the Vitamix that they already own.
Pros: Speed of Service, Texture Quality, Durability, Easy to use, Versatility, Recipe Enhancement, Product features, Power
I have always struggled to make a great mint mojito until purchasing the Vitamix Aer. Wow! Perfection! I’ve also used it to emulsify a salad dressing. Very easy. I thought the fruit flavored whipped cream would be wonderful on waffles but that did not turn out well at all. It never became whipped. I’m sure it was operator error so I’m open to any suggestions as to where I went wrong. Overall, I’m happy with my purchase.