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Sunday 11-5 CST | |  | Cookbook Stands & Recipe Holders | Home » » » » » » Vitamix 1365 CIA Professional Series, Ruby | | | | | | | Description: | | Vitamix and the Culinary Institute of America have partnered to bring you the CIA Professional Series by Vitamix. The CIA has trained more than 37,000 chefs and foodservice professionals, including many celebrity chefs. Ordinary blenders can't begin to approach the speed nor the results you'll enjoy while using the powerful Vitamix CIA Professional machine. Like no other kitchen appliance available this multi-tasking appliance will unlock the deep rich flavor treasures hidden in all your select ingredients. You can create dishes the way professional chefs do. It easily handles the work of many appliances so you can blend, puree, chop, juice, grind and more, all in this one versatile machine! With variable speed control you control the blades allowing for flexibility and creativity - fine chop, grind or fully blend ingredients all in one container. The blade is laser-cut, one piece blade assembly. Superior cutting edges join forces with a pulverizing process. Powerful 2-Peak Horsepower motor propels the blade tip speed up to 240 miles-per-hour to blend even the toughest ingredients. BPA-Free, shatter-proof container with easy grip handle is designed to create a powerful vortex to force ingredients up from the blades and back down the center for thorough processing. Included is an exclusive new recipe book, "Recipes and Techniques from the CIA Master Chefs". The book features more than 20 recipes developed by the CIA's Certified Master Chefs. The CIA Professional by Vitamix also comes with "Create", an easel-design recipe book which saves counter space and is packed with over 300 easy-to-prepare recipes from some of the country's top professional chefs, including Joanne, Weir, Michael Symon and Hugh Carpenter. A "Let's Get Started" Cooking Class on DVD and owner's manual included. 7-year Performance Warranty guarantees performance as well as parts for 7 years . "It's not a blender - It's a Vitamix!" | | | Features: | |
• Commercial-grade 2+ Peak Horsepower Motor
• Large-capacity 64-ounce BPA-free Eastman Tritan copolyester container
• Spill-proof vented lid with removable plug
• Patented Tamper for processing thicker mixtures
• Made in the USA, 120V
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.25 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 20.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 16.85 pounds | | Package Length:
| 16.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 14.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 11.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 17.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 82 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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86 of 92 found the following review helpful:
 Does most of what it advertisesFeb 01, 2010
By J. Miller
However, please be aware that unit cannot handle heavy loads that thicken quickly. Be sure there is plenty of liquid if used on high speed. Unit twice in two weeks shut down on me, once for 8 hours because the ingredients thickened quickly (potato-leek soup). I had to finish recipe in my food processor. Because of this sensitivity, if I had to do it over again, I would put my investment elsewhere.
131 of 143 found the following review helpful:
Will do the things other won't but with some caveatsJul 10, 2010
By Mark Fellows
"Gadget Guy"
After about a week of use, I feel that I am qualified to write intelligently about this blender. I am very sure, and experienced that this very expensive blender will do what most others won't. However, there are some issues I have with the CIA. My first issue is that it has a variable speed control, but yet the manual says not really to use it for too long, or you could overheat the 2 HP motor. You are supposed to start in low, and as rapidly as you can take it all the way to the top speed on the variable control, and then switch it out of variable and into HIGH position.
I believe the variable control is there just to keep us from stripping the teeth off of the drive shaft that goes into the gear for the chopping blades. If you just turn it on in high, you will get a grinding noise. This is one of my main complaints.
The other complaint is how you can't run it too high, or you can't run it at too low, or you risk shutting the device off for up to 8 hours while the protection "resets", or you can burn the motor up.
Perhaps a lower speed, higher torque motor would be better. Or a motor with dual windings, one set for high speed, and one for low speed, high torque grinding.
High speed motors(37000 RPM, 240MPH) need many more of windings, that necessitates thinner wires that won't carry as much current without overheating. Which will cause the device to shut down, and smell hot(sound familiar).
High torque, lower speed motors have less windings, with thicker wires(which carry more current) without over heating.
I would like a tighter mesh on the gears that connect the carafe to the base, and a high torque, low speed setting that can run indefinitely.
All that said, the device can certainly grind up things that others can't, or at least not easily. Nuts, frozen bananas, etc. I have personal experience with this.
I also really like the 7 year warranty, and Vitamix gets good reviews on service. They are also listed by the Better Business Bureau as having a rating of A+, and have been members since 1967. [...]
I will update after some major time, and use and give feedback about reliability.
It gets only 3 stars for the reasons I have explained, which I think are kind of a crappy design in that I don't like the nob/button combo, and that I have read reports of these shutting down on people for WAY longer
than the manual says.
Hint: It has been said that the reason the unit overheats on low, is because the fan doesn't spin fast enough on low. Well, put the fan on a separate motor, and either leave it on high all the time the motor is running, or use a thermocouple with a circuit to control speed of the fan based on temperature.
Of course, I don't really believe the slow fan is the reason the blender over heats. I think it is because at low speeds, you tend to try and use more torque, which tents to stall the blades, making more current flow through the very high gauge windings of the high speed motor.
Mark :)
76 of 81 found the following review helpful:
 Necessity or Luxury?Dec 21, 2009
By Pat Srinivas
Necessity or Luxury: Depends on if you have experienced it (& if you plan on using it regularly)
As a guy who takes his smoothies and soups very seriously, it is a necessity for me. While some might argue about the price (Covers the purchase of an average blender every year into perpetuity if purchase price is invested in an annuity), I find comparisons to other blenders moot as the results from the Vitamix is not reproducible by an average blender (no strawberry/blackberry seeds in your smoothie, no bell pepper seeds in your soup). And, cleaning takes seconds!
The Motor of the Vitamix 5200 is the same as the CIA Commercial blender and costs a little less. The CIA edition comes with an exhaustive recipe book and a CD. Did I mention the blend sound reminds me of a revving Ferrari? (All the more reason to go RED!)
31 of 31 found the following review helpful:
100% SatisfiedJan 16, 2010
By Steven Friedman
"Steve's Kitchen"
The Vita Mix 1709 is what a blender should be, period.
It's not cheap, but holds with the maxim: "You Get What You Pay For". I watched hot soup being made
right there in the Vita Mix on youtube. It's true ! It will do that, and quickly.
The unit is very well made and I anticipate years of continuous use ( I'm using it every day and swear by it ).
As a juicer, it's great as well. There is no filtering-out the pulp as with a single-purpose, dedicated juicer.
But that's good from a health standpoint - you literally get the whole fruit or vegetable and thus retain vitamins
and minerals that you would be discarding if you used a true juicer. If you don't like "pulp", it's simple to
strain the juice ...
With one good knife, the Vita Mix and a Cuisinart processor I can accomplish more in my kitchen than I ever
dreamed possible.
24 of 24 found the following review helpful:
simply awsomeOct 04, 2010
By J. Koh
"curious J"
This is my second vitamix... one for the office and one for home. Just simply awsome. I use it to make my Boku superfood smoothies in the morning! A little trick... if you are using protein powders or other powders, put those ingredients in first before other solids and liquids... this avoids any messy powder "gunkying" on the side of the mixer.
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