Blendtec Mix N' Blend II Mixer and Blender on 1Motor Base

I purchased the Mix and Blend machine by K-tec over two years ago. I have had at least five if not six replacement machines. I grind my own wheat and bought the machine originally to mix my wheat dough, but the machines keep breaking. K-tec has been very good about replacing the motor bases, but in the end I had to purchase a more expensive dough maker from another company to solve my problem. Basically, I wasted over $300. Don't buy this machine if you think that you want to mix up wheat dough. It just does not hold up. The vital parts are plastic.

In the 10 months that I used the Mix and Blend mixer for kneading bread dough I had two failures of the machine. The first was when the outer case separated at one of the corners near an incompletely cleaned plastic locking clip. I was able to repair that with a small screw to the outside of the case. The second failure was catastrophic resulting in the total destruction of the flimsy plastic gear case. The failures occurred after letting the dough autolyse (rest for 15 minutes) in the bowl. Upon restarting the machine the removable drive shaft "safty link" failed to shear as designed (both times) and "prevent serious gear or motor damage" as clearly stated in the owners manual. Because I made the first small repair myself the factory refused to honor the 2 year warranty. They told me it could be repaired for $95 or they could dispose of it for me if I wished. I took the second option. In my opinion these units would be overpriced at Walmarts at $129.95, because thats more than...Read more

I have a older 'k-tec' (name of the company before they changed to 'blend-tec') version of this product but it looks identical except for some graphics. It is ridiculously noisy. I use it mostly for bread and I've had several parts break over the last few years including internal parts that necessitated sending the whole unit back to the manufacturer for service. I bought a old Bosch universal mixer at a garage sale last year for $40. The Bosch isn't rated as powerful, but I'll tell you that it's quieter and it handles the same size batch of bread dough better than the k-tec/blend-tec does.