Vita-Mix CIA Professional Series Blender

January 16, 2012

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The Vita-Mix CIA Professional Blender is often seen as the blender of all blenders and the one that other blenders are compared to. It’s a little more expensive than lower-grade blenders but performs beautifully in the kitchen.

Vita-Mix CIA Professional Series Blender Overview

Uses a commercial grade motor
Large 64-ounce jar
Spill-proof lid
Laser-cut stainless-steel blade
Dimensions: 20 x 8.8 x 7.2 inches

To begin with the Vita-Mix CIA comes in four colors, black, red, brushed stainless steel and Onyx.

It uses a commercial grade motor that can generate speeds of 240 MPH and the stainless-steel blades have been laser cut. The large 64-ounce jar is BPA-free and shatterproof. It’s designed in a way to force food up around the edges and then back down through the center, creating a whirlpool action to make sure all of your food is blended.

Included with the blender is a spill-proof lid and the exclusive recipe book “Recipes and Techniques from the CIA Master Chefs”.

What Do Customers Say?

The Vita-Mix CIA blender has got great customer reviews. It exceeds most people’s expectations and can do things other blenders just can’t do:

“LOVE LOVE LOVE my Vita-Mix”
“rockin blender”
“WOW! Exceeded my expectations”
“Just plain awesome”

Conclusion

The Vita-Mix CIA Professional Blender is a powerful blender to chop, mix, grind or blend all of your kitchen ingredients. If you need to do some heavy duty mixing or want something that you can depend on the Vita-Mix blender is the way to go.

Updating your Kitchen Cabinets (Where Upgrading them would be too much of an Expense)

July 6, 2011

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A newly done-up kitchen can be one of those things that you can do that leave you feeling especially well-off but yet that don’t strain you financially. And yet, in a time like this when people need to pay attention to every dollar they spend, a kitchen remodel, unless the kitchen is falling apart, can seem like an extravagance. But there are ways in which one could be selective about the parts of one’s kitchen that one renovates. Chosen well, a partial renovation could easily leave one feeling as great as a more thorough job would. Think of a kitchen remodel, and what is the first thing that comes to your mind? To most people, it could be either the kitchen countertop or the kitchen cabinetry. Somehow, new, quality kitchen cabinets come with a certain potential for feel-good satisfaction that almost no other kitchen improvement could ever offer you.

New kitchen cabinets happen to be an expensive a way to upgrade the look of one’s kitchen though; how does one change the look of one’s cabinets and yet not part with one’s hard-earned money? Fortunately, there is some good old-fashioned American know-how you could put to work on this. Instead of actually upgrading everything and getting new cabinets, one could actually pass off a little updating as a total upgrade. Done correctly, it can be pretty easy to pull this off.

One of the cheapest ways in which you can update the look of your kitchen cabinets would be to simply choose to change the hardware on them. Getting funky or modern-looking hardware can update your kitchen in a hurry. You can pick up all kinds of appealing designs at the clearance sale area at your local Home Depot. Done this way, updating the look of your kitchen cabinets could cost you no more than $100 or so.

When one is really struggling, spending $100 on a quick renovation project can seem criminally wasteful. If the existing hardware on one’s kitchen cabinets seems to be doing its job perfectly adequately, throwing it away can seem like quite a waste. Hardware really can be expensive to buy afresh; if you wish to slap a great new look on your kitchen cabinets without much outlay, you should probably consider repainting your cabinets yourself.

There are other budget-sensitive moves you could learn to liven up your kitchen cabinets as well. New molding for your cabinetry can be a great idea. You wouldn’t spend $20 on them; they attach to existing cabinetry with nothing more than a shot of wood glue; and with a length of beautiful crown molding, you can really come away feeling that you’ve pulled off a real upgrade.