Kitchen Blenders

Does anyone know if a blender that will blend Ice, Milk and fruit.

Consumer Reports is stating the Braun PowerMax MX2050 is the best buy but looking at reviews it is not a good blender.

Please read below for what I am trying to accomplish.

I am trying to make a smoothie. With 2 cups of ice 1/2 milk and some thawed cranberries.

One thing that makes me mad is the last few times I tried to make the smoothing it seemed to work ok then it progressively got harder to make them.

The blender I am using is a Hamilton Beach 12 speed.

I first blend the Cranberries and the milk then I slowly add the ice

Soon I will not see the food blending any more. I can hear the blender working but nothing is mixing.

I will dumped all ingredients in to a separate bowl. I do not see any chucks of ice so I put it back in to the blender and it will start mixing but it will get stuck again.

I did try to add all the ice at once and that did not work, I tried to add a bunch at once and that did not work. So now I am adding just a couple of pieces small ice pieces at a time and I am still having troubles.

Please help me figure out how to make these icy drinks

Sounds like the blender is "freezing" up, the more ice you add, the slower (and thicker) the smoothie becomes.

I like "Margaritaville DM1000 Frozen Concoction Maker" and you can see alot of blenders and reviews at Amazon.com

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