/ck/ - Food & Cooking

https://www.amazon.com/Vitamix-1891-Platinum-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B00KM03KGO/
So Vitamix has been having a sale on their certified refurbished models all September with $50 off their normal price ($250 + F/S). They still come with a 5-year warranty. I finally pulled the trigger on one after wanting one for ages.

That's still a lot of money though, and I'm stressing over it.
For those of you that have one or another high power blender like a Blendtec Total Blender or Oyster Versa/Ninja, did it live up to the hype?

I wanted it most for making homemade nut butter, powderized sugar/salt, and for soups/sauces. I might play around with green smoothies too later.

One day /ck/ one day...

>>7964296
A good vinegar. You can make a shitton of simple, delicious sauce recipes requiring only common ingredients and a good vinegar.

Also, a high-powered blender. They always seem more expensive than they are worth at first, since they can be 10x the price of a normal Target-tier blender, and they do the same thing - blend, right?
Nope. A professional level blender can make all the things a regular blender makes, but much better, plus make soups, make smooth sauces a regular blender can't handle, turn dried stuff into powder or granules, work like a food processor, do all kinds of shit. Use mine almost every day.

I juice everything with this motherfucker here. Nothing is left over, no pulp, you just annihilate everything.