A2500i Ascent
Vitamix · £599

Nice, but provisional
£599 for three programmes and wireless connectivity, which Vitamix say lets it evolve with later software. Against the £498.95 Explorian that is £100 for a radio and the same three programmes. The wireless feature reads the container you fit and adjusts, which is genuinely useful if you own several containers and irrelevant if you own one.
- For
- Someone who will buy the smaller containers and wants the blender to recognise them.
- Not for
- Anyone who will use the jug it comes with and nothing else.
What we checked
- Three settings with variable speed, pulse and wireless connectivity. Harts of Stur
Marked provisional: the justification rests on 1 source(s); two independent ones is the bar. We publish it anyway and say so, rather than waiting for evidence that may never arrive.