Waring Pro Xtreme: With the blast shield down I can't blend a thing!

The new 3.5-horsepower Waring Pro Xtreme commercial blender is so powerful it has its own separate polycarbonate blast shield, just in case your at-home depleted uranium smoothie decides to go ballistic. Just $700 before DARPA funding.

Waring Pro blender - hi-power Xtreme [Appliancist] (Thanks, Stuart!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous , January 5, 2009 6:29 AM]

Let me go out on a limb here and state that the polycarbonate blast shield is an unnecessary gimmick.

[#2 posted by dculberson , January 5, 2009 7:41 AM]

I'll call you back in from the limb and tell you that it's almost certainly for noise control and not safety.

[#3 posted by Ryan Waddell , January 5, 2009 10:43 AM]

I dunno what they're made of, but the BlendTec commercial blenders (the Will It Blend guys) that they have at Starbucks all have these shields too, and they advertise it as a noise reduction technology.

[#4 posted by Marshall , January 5, 2009 2:43 PM]

I better be able to make a shake out of a cinder block at that price. Anything with a blast shield has got something going for it in my book.

[#5 posted by Anonymous , January 6, 2009 2:53 AM]

Jeremy Clarkson did make a shake out of cinder blocks on Top Gear, "he" made a blender powered by a V8 engine. It also had raw beef (with the bones still in it, and Tabasco sauce).

I am sure the clip is on all the usually video sharing sites.