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Title: Funky smell, low capacity
Review: The gasket that seals the blade base to the pitcher absorbs odors very easily. I pureed soup in this once, and cannot get the smell out of it. It appears that most all Hamilton Beach and Proctor Silex blenders use the same blade base (except one model, per Hamilton Beach's Web site), so this problem is not unique to this particular model. These consumer models are not NSF-certified (per NSF International's certified products database), nor do I expect that they would be certifiable given their odor-absorbing quality.The picture for this particular model is also misleading... there is no way this blender could blend a drink when its pitcher is that full.
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