Tough blender for ice smoothies

[Seacrest]

Oster.

[Ombligo]

Ninja

A consumers report best buy and we love ours for smoothies. Constant use for 2 years, cost $40 and still works like new

[NewtonMP2100]

.....so you can BLEND it like Beckham [does]......???

[Lux Interior]

I was going to make a comment about getting the one they have on "Will it Blend?"

Apparently, it's the blendtec:

http://www.blendtec.com/categories/will_it_blend

So, if you ever want to blend your iPhnone...

[bazookaman]

I have a KitchenAid blender that crushes ice. But not really to my liking. Eventually I stopped using ice in my smoothies altogether. Since I use a banana in every one I just started freezing the bananas. So now instead of ice cubes I use the frozen banana. It blends much better.

[anonymouse1]

In addition to the high-end and oster/Kitchen Aid mentioned above, I really like Breville. I got mine on ebay maybe 2 or 3 years ago, 5 days a week smoothies with ice cubes and frozen fruit, and it's still going strong. Not the easiest to clean....