BlendTec KTec HP3A Total Blender Review. I recently purchased a new BlendTec Blender and I am in heaven! This is my favorite kitchen appliance. The BlendTec home blender was called the Ktec Total Blender Champ a few years ago, and the name was changed to the BlendTec HP3A Home Blender. It is a super heavy duty blender, similar to the VitaMix 4500 and the Waring 3HP, but much stronger and easier to use.

I recently made some delicious vegan milk from hemp seeds, raw organic honey, and cinnamon. This milk was a million times better than cows milk! I will never drink cow milk again now that I can make vegan nut milk with the BlendTec. The hemp seed milk was real creamy and I did not need to use my nut milk bag to strain out the fiber. This was a new and delightful experience! I tried to make vegan milk with my WalMart blender and it was chunky and powdery, whereas the BlendTec made a creamy, smooth liquid with no chunks.

Last week I read an excellent book titled Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko. She recommends using a BlendTec Blender to make smoothies, and we should add in leafy greens to the smoothie for extra nutrition. You can't taste the leafy greens because the fruit covers up the taste. Something most people don't know is that almost all leafy greens are edible, including carrot tops, beet tops, and strawberry tops! Simply blend these greens into a smoothie and you won't taste them. I recently made a Boutenko green smoothie with extra parsley in it. It tasted delicious, quite possibly the best food ever! I couldn't taste the parsley. The smoothie tasted more like fresh berries and mango. I delight in creating new recipes with all the fresh produce available. Every week I visit the farmers markets to pick up new ingredients to blend in my BlendTec HP3A.

The BlendTec has some really cool pre-set buttons that run on a computer memory. One button is for making soft serve fruit ice creams. A good BlendTec ice cream recipe is to mix together one cup of nut milk, such as macadamia nut milk, and blend with three cups of frozen fruits and berries. The one problem with the BlendTec HP3A blender is the loud noise. If there are other people in the room, I will wait until they leave to turn on the appliance. My friend has a delicious vegan raw cheesecake recipe that can only be made in the BlendTec HP3A. The cheesecake recipe calls for blending a creamy vegan cheese with pine nuts, cashews, berries, and raw honey. I am making this for breakfast tomorrow!

Another neat feature of the BlendTec home blender is that you can speed up or slow down the spinning blades. This helps to pull the produce down into a spinning vortex. When I make a soup or smoothie, all the food gets sucked into the blades through a vortex. It really does blend everything, even the hard nuts, beans, and grains!

The old model Ktec Champ Total Blender doesn't have preset buttons. A new feature on the BlendTec HP3A model is that it has six pre-set buttons. One for soups and syrups, one for smoothies, one for ice cream and frozen deserts, one for ice crush and milkshakes, one for batters and dips or sauces, and one for whole juice if you have a Nut Milk Bag from The Raw Diet Health Shop. The one touch button makes blending gourmet recipes easy. It takes the guess work out of the process.

The buttons use the blendtec patented and trademarked Smart-Touch Technology. This technology determines how fast the blades spin and the length of time with an automatic shut off. In my old, weak WalMart LaLanne blender I would find stray chunky pieces of greens and vegetables in my green smoothies. The BlendTec HP3A Blender recipes recommend making smoothies with whole fruits and vegetables, including the seeds! It will pulverize and liquify avocado pits, apple seeds, papaya seeds, blackberry seeds, and more. No more seeds getting stuck in your teeth! And, you don't have to add any liquid to keep it moving. I highly recommend the BlendTec as your next heavy duty blender.