Vitamix’s A2500i blender makes light work of the toughest ingredients
The IndependentGet our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, advice and interior inspiration Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, and interior inspiration Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, and interior inspiration SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. After initial success with a can opener, he focused on health food equipment, and on blenders in particular, with the family going on to invent the first Vitamix 3600 in 1969 – a blender that could make hot soup, blend ice cream, grind grain for flour and knead bread dough. Even very basic models are good to have on-hand, but top-quality blending systems – like the Vitamix – can change how you live and eat, encouraging you to consume more fruit and veg with their soups and smoothies functions, or empower you to create restaurant-inspired dishes at the touch of a button. Some blenders claim to be able to crush ice, like the Vitamix, which you’ll tend to pay more for, while others have preset self-heating soup programmes and inbuilt freezing for iced desserts. This blender should be able to tackle absolutely everything, so we purposely used notoriously hard-to-blend ingredients like frozen fruit, ice, different textured spices and even roasted nuts to see how the blender performed.