Vitamix Pro 750 Review: 3 Years In (My $96 Mistake)

This cost me ninety-six dollars, because I shattered the pitcher. Not the machine's fault. Mine.

So this review answers three questions. Has it held up? Do I still use it? And would I buy it again at six hundred and fifty-five dollars? I bought this Vitamix Pro 750 almost four years ago, with my own money. Nobody is paying me for this. To answer properly, I have to start with a video I made two weeks after I got it.

Two weeks in, February 2023

Two weeks after it arrived I made a video called Should You Get a Vitamix? and I meant every word. Back then I was using it every single day. Whether I would still say that today comes down to what happened next.

The receipt and the early years

January twenty-first, 2023. Six hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty-four cents. For the first few years, this thing ran every day. Everything went in it. Smoothies, constantly. Ginger-garlic paste and brown onion paste for my curries, and the gravy for just about every curry after that. The chilli base for birria and for chili. Butter chicken sauce, blended smooth before the last step. Even my coffee beans.

And nut butters. Nutella from roasted hazelnuts. Peanut butter from raw peanuts. With the tamper pushing it all down into the blades. That is one of the hardest jobs you can give a blender, and it did it over and over.

So, do I still use it like that? No. And the reason is not what you would think.

What changed

These days it is a few times a month. Chutneys. Hummus. Baked oats. The tomato base for my dal makhani. And crepe batter: when I make crepes, the batter goes in here. A few pulses and it is smooth, no lumps. That has been true since 2023, and it is still true now.

The machine did not change. My cooking did. I just stopped making the things that needed it every day. But there is one job in my kitchen where nothing else works, and finding that out cost me a different machine.

The grind test

If you saw my Nigerian curry powder video, you have met these seeds. Fenugreek. Three tools. The first is a food processor, and I do not have it any more. These seeds are why. That one is on me: fenugreek is rock hard, and a food processor is built to chop and slice, not to grind spices. Wrong tool. My mistake, not the brand's.

Next, the mortar and pestle. The pestle just slides around. The seeds barely crack. Then the Vitamix. That is actual powder.

So, is there anything this machine can do that nothing else in my kitchen can? Yes. This. But this machine has its own breakage story, and that one was my fault too.

The pitcher

November 2024. I put whole frozen strawberries in the jug. No liquid. And I did not use the tamper. I use it every single time I make nut butter. That day, I just did not reach for it. The jug shattered.

So that is two broken machines in one kitchen, and both times it was me using something wrong. Which brings me to the thing most people never take out of the box.

What the tamper is

This is the tamper. It comes with every Vitamix. Take the plug out of the lid, and it goes in there. It stops before the blades; it physically cannot reach them. That is the whole idea. While the motor is running, you use it to push thick or frozen food down into the blades, so it keeps moving instead of jamming. That is exactly how I make Nutella. The one day I skipped it, it cost me a pitcher.

Has anything worn out?

The jug is newer, because I broke the first one. But this base, the motor, the part that actually costs the money, has been running since January 2023. Years of daily smoothies. Nut butters. Coffee beans. And the fenugreek, the job that finished off a food processor. I have not noticed any wear. The only part I have ever replaced is the one I broke myself.

To be fair, two-weeks-in me did have one complaint, and it is still true: the self-clean is great for smoothies, not so much for the thick stuff.

Would I buy it again?

Yes. All in, it has cost me seven hundred and fifty-one dollars, and ninety-six of that was my own mistake. It is an amazing machine and it does a lot. It just does not have to do everything, every day, any more.