We recommend the Vitamix 5200 Professional-Grade Blender. It's a longtime Serious Eats favorite and features a tapered blending jar that creates a powerful vortex. It has a no-frills, easy-to-use ...

I’ve used it for many years and find that no other blender gives results that are as thick and smooth as the Vitamix. With its tall, tapered plastic blending jar, it creates an effective vortex ...

Cheap, weak blenders are frustrating ... Four asymmetric blades at the bottom of the jar help produce an even blend by pulling the contents down into a vortex. The lid is also made of hard ...

A blender works by creating a vortex that continuously sucks food down to the blade. ATK says that a narrow jar, as well as ribs on the inside of the jar, facilitate that. Wider jars need to be ...

In the blender, the fluid includes both liquid ingredients and air. The vortex causes a vacuum at the centre of the jar, which pulls the strawberry toward the middle, much as a tornado does.