Vitamix 5300 Blender Review — Best Vitamix Legacy Budget Model

Vita­mix 5300 is the fusion mod­el of Clas­sic Vita­mix 5200 and 7500 and has a low-pro­file con­tain­er with a big­ger 4‑inch blade, a 2.2 HP motor, and a pulse func­tion. Even though it belongs to the Vita­mix Clas­sic C‑series prod­uct line, its tech­ni­cal para­me­ters are close to the 7500 mod­el. But what is impor­tant is that this machine is avail­able at a dis­count­ed price with some retail­ers and the Vita­mix 5300 Cer­ti­fied Recon­di­tioned mod­el is one of the cheap­est refur­bished Vita­mix blenders. There­fore, cus­tomers who mind their bud­get but think about Vita­mix may find that the 5300 is a very rea­son­able option.

Are you inter­est­ed in an alter­na­tive Vita­mix Blender Option? Check our articles:

• Which is the Best Vita­mix Blender to Buy? – All Mod­els Com­par­i­son Guide 2020
• Vita­mix Cer­ti­fied Refur­bished Blenders – Are They Worth Consider?

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Functionality and Versatility

Smooth­ie: The Vita­mix 5300 pul­ver­izes every­thing you put in the con­tain­er into the best qual­i­ty drink. It will make a silky smooth smooth­ie from any tough or green veg­etable, and even tiny seeds from rasp­ber­ries, straw­ber­ries, or blue­ber­ries will be processed into a homo­ge­neous mixture.

Ice Crush­ing and Frozen Desserts: This blender han­dles ice cubes and any frozen ingre­di­ents with or with­out any liq­uid added. It is able to crush ice for frozen desserts and make ice cream or snow cones with­out much effort. You will usu­al­ly need to use a tam­per (which comes with a blender) for mak­ing ice cream or a frozen dessert.

Puree­ing: The Vita­mix 5300 will make a per­fect puree even with­out any liq­uid added from the tough­est veg­eta­bles or meat in 1–2 min­utes. How­ev­er, since this mod­el comes with a wide bot­tom low-pro­file con­tain­er, you will have to fill the con­tain­er with a min­i­mum of 2–3 cups of ingre­di­ents for processing.

Soup/ hot ingre­di­ents: This blender will han­dle not only frozen but also hot ingre­di­ents. It will heat the liq­uid from a frozen con­di­tion to a boil­ing tem­per­a­ture with­in 6 min­utes. This machine does not have any heat­ing ele­ment, but the high-speed blade will heat the food inside the con­tain­er from fric­tion. So, it can make a num­ber of deli­cious soup recipes. Since the blender is ready for the pro­cess­ing of hot ingre­di­ents, it could also be used to make bul­let-proof coffee.

Chopping/food prep: It will chop or mince any fruit and veg­eta­bles with lit­tle or no effort. The machine con­trol pan­el is equipped with a puls­ing func­tion and 10 vari­able speeds that are more than enough for any chop­ping job and for mak­ing deli­cious dips, spreads, and dressings.

Nut milk: The blender will pul­ver­ize any nut into con­di­tion so that you can make nut milk with it after strain­ing it through a milk bag.

Nut but­ter: The blender will make silky smooth nut but­ter with­in 2–3 min­utes with the help of the tam­per, which push­es the ingre­di­ents down into the vor­tex. The only prob­lem is that the low-pro­file con­tain­er that the 5300 mod­el comes with will not han­dle small batch­es of food. To make nut but­ter, you have to use at least 4 cups of nuts for pro­cess­ing. If you intend to make small por­tions of nut but­ter often, then you may ben­e­fit from buy­ing a small­er 32 oz. wet blade container.

Dough/batter: It can make cook­ie bat­ter or knead all types of dough even with the wet blade con­tain­er, but you may be bet­ter off buy­ing the dry blade con­tain­er if you are going to use this machine to make the dough regularly.

Grinding/milling: This blender will mill excel­lent qual­i­ty flour from the wheat berry, tough ingre­di­ents like rice, or tiny seeds like quinoa, ama­ranth, and pop­py seeds. It is also able to make flaw­less pow­der from cof­fee beans or var­i­ous herbs.

Some cus­tomers, espe­cial­ly those who used the Vita­mix 5200, com­plain that the 5300 mod­el may leave chunky pieces of some ingre­di­ents after blend­ing. It is usu­al­ly enough to add more ingre­di­ents or liq­uid to the jar to solve the prob­lem because the Vita­mix 5300 mod­el comes with a wider bot­tom low pro­file con­tain­er, and it is designed to process medi­um to large batch­es of food. If you intend to use this machine to process small batch­es of food, you may need to buy the 32 oz. wet blade con­tain­er. In fact, this mod­el does not blend any worse than the 5200 machines but is just designed for the big­ger vol­ume of food to be processed. There is also a learn­ing curve nec­es­sary to get used to the new design con­tain­er and exper­i­ment with how to use it most efficiently.

Speed Settings and Programs

The Vita­mix 5300 con­trol pan­el is equipped with a ten-vari­able speed dial knob in the cen­ter and two switch­es: the left one is the pulse switch (a new fea­ture for the C‑series prod­uct line), and the right one is the start/stop switch that starts or stops blend­ing when you press it. The ten eas­i­ly adjust­ed vari­able speeds and pulse func­tion offer a lot of flex­i­bil­i­ty to a user and allow you to pre­pare an array of recipes and achieve var­i­ous tex­tures. The selec­tion of low speeds allows you to make chop­ping and to puree easy. For coarse chop­ping, you have to use the puls­ing function.

Ease of Using and Cleaning

Oper­at­ing: This blender has the blade inbuilt into the con­tain­er, and that makes this machine very easy to use. It does not require much effort to set up for run­ning; you just fill it with ingre­di­ents, place the jar on top of the unit base, and it is ready to use. It has no lock­ing mech­a­nism, but it sits safe­ly and secure­ly. With a clever two-part lid-plug design, you can add extra ingre­di­ents at any time dur­ing the blend­ing process with­out stop­ping your blender.

Clean­ing: Clean­ing is also a very easy process that does not require any dis­as­sem­bling. Some­times it is enough to rinse with warm or hot water after use. For the self-clean­ing pro­ce­dure – fill the jar with half the vol­ume of water, add a few drops of liq­uid deter­gent and run for 30–45 sec­onds. Remem­ber, do not leave food in the con­tain­er to dry; oth­er­wise, you may need a dish brush to clean or apply a longer self-clean­ing cycle. The Vita­mix jar is not dish­wash­er safe, but that is not a prob­lem because what can be eas­i­er than self-cleaning?

Base Unit and Motor Power

Vita­mix equips its blenders with pre­mi­um qual­i­ty, durable motors that are like­ly to serve many years to come, and it is not unusu­al when a Vita­mix base unit is still in good work­ing con­di­tion after 30 years of use.

The Vita­mix 5300 blender comes with an upgrad­ed 2.2 HP (1640 watts) at-peak motor with an effec­tive pow­er of approx­i­mate­ly 1380 watts (120V X 11.5A). In addi­tion, it is con­struct­ed with ball-bear­ing tech­nol­o­gy that is known for high effi­cien­cy, dura­bil­i­ty, and low load on the sys­tem, so it out­per­forms many oth­er blenders with sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er wattage. To pro­tect the machine from over­load­ing, it is also equipped with a radi­al cool­ing fan that cools the machine dur­ing oper­a­tion at high speed and an auto­mat­ic shut-off sys­tem that stops the gad­get when it is over­heat­ed. If the shut-off sys­tem deploys, then you will be able to use it again with­in 45 minutes.

The Vita­mix 5300 mod­el has the stan­dard Clas­sic mod­els (sim­i­lar to Vita­mix 5200 mod­el) inte­ri­or hous­ing, despite the fact that it comes with a for­mer G‑series 2.2HP motor. This base unit is quite heavy and is equipped with a vibra­tion-damp­en­ing sys­tem that makes this blender sta­ble dur­ing oper­a­tion. It does not move over the counter as many oth­er blenders do. This mod­el is also equipped with an ON/OFF switch at the front bot­tom of the base unit, and with this switch, you do not need to unplug your machine when it is not in use.

Containers

This blender comes with a low pro­file, the wider bot­tom 64 oz. con­tain­er, which is an upgrad­ed design for the C‑series machines. All 5300 mod­el con­tain­ers are made of pre­mi­um East­man Tri­tan copoly­ester mate­r­i­al (the type of poly­car­bon­ate) that is stress and tem­per­a­ture resis­tant, looks like glass, is almost impos­si­ble to break, and is very durable. Ounces, mil­li­liters, and cups are clear­ly marked on the con­tain­ers for easy mea­sur­ing when you add ingre­di­ents. Vita­mix does not man­u­fac­ture blenders with glass con­tain­ers. How­ev­er, as a result of numer­ous requests from cus­tomers, it was released in July 2020, a new 48 oz. stain­less steel con­tain­er that is com­pat­i­ble with all full-size Vita­mix models.

Vita­mix 5300 blender comes with a high-qual­i­ty, flex­i­ble rub­ber lid that is very easy to close and open. The lid has two latch­es on the sides, hold­ing it secure­ly in place. As a result, it is unlike­ly that it will go off dur­ing the blend­ing process, and there is no need to hold the lid or mon­i­tor while the blender is oper­at­ing. The lid is also equipped with a remov­able plug for adding extra ingre­di­ents while blending.

The 64-ounce con­tain­er size is designed to blend medi­um to large batch­es of food that are equal to at least 2 cups or more. For easy pro­cess­ing, the ingre­di­ents should cov­er the blade to cre­ate the nec­es­sary blend­ing vor­tex. So if you intend to process a small amount of food often, then you may ben­e­fit from buy­ing an extra 48 oz, 32 oz wet-blade con­tain­er or a high pro­file 64 oz. container.

Blades

The 5300 mod­el has a non-remov­able blade built into the con­tain­er. The blade is 4‑pronged and 4‑inches in diam­e­ter and is specif­i­cal­ly designed for a wide bot­tom, low pro­file con­tain­er (all high pro­file con­tain­ers of the Clas­sic mod­els have a 3‑inch blade). It is made of high-qual­i­ty, air­craft-grade hard­ened stain­less steel and is dulled by design so that it will not have a prob­lem of dulling over time and is safe to touch when cleaning.

This blender comes with the wet type blade ( you can buy the dry blade sep­a­rate­ly) that is intend­ed to process liq­uid ingre­di­ents and does a very good milling and grind­ing job, and the same wet blade can also knead the dough. How­ev­er, if you plan reg­u­lar­ly use the blender for milling/grinding and dough knead­ing, it may over­load the motor and scratch the con­tain­er. There­fore, spend­ing the extra mon­ey and buy­ing the 32 oz dry blade pitch­er in this instance may be worth it. The dry blade pitch­er is avail­able on the Vita­mix web­site and from many oth­er retailers.

Special Features

Col­ors: This blender comes in two col­ors only – black and red.

Tam­per: Vita­mix 5300 comes with the 11-inch long tam­per that can be used only with the 64 oz low pro­file con­tain­er. It is not suit­able for 32. oz., 48 oz. or 64 oz high-pro­file containers.

Cer­ti­fied Refur­bished: There are reconditioned/refurbished blenders avail­able for this mod­el, and they come with a new pitch­er, blade, tam­per, lid, and plug, while the motor usu­al­ly comes from the returned unit (one that did not nec­es­sar­i­ly have a fault). Any­way, Vita­mix-cer­ti­fied refur­bished machines have a very good rep­u­ta­tion, are cov­ered with a 5‑year, FULL war­ran­ty, and are like­ly to serve as long as an orig­i­nal mod­el. More­over, they are very rea­son­ably priced, and at some retail­ers, they are priced less than a stan­dard Vita­mix 5200 recon­di­tioned machine.

Use in coun­tries out­side of the USA/Canada: The blenders sold in the USA come with a stan­dard USA/Canada plug, not a dual volt­age plug. The units bought through Euro­pean retail­ers come with a 220–210 volt sys­tem. It is pos­si­ble to use this machine with the volt­age adapter in oth­er coun­tries, but in this case, it is not cov­ered by the warranty.

Noise

The Vita­mix is a pow­er­ful blender, and it is quite noisy but prob­a­bly qui­eter than most of the oth­er pow­er­ful blenders. The mod­el 5300 out­puts noise of about 80 deci­bels, which is slight­ly less than the stan­dard Vita­mix 5200 but loud­er than the G‑series, qui­eter mod­els. For a bet­ter idea, the out­put of 87–95 deci­bels could be com­pared with noise com­ing from traf­fic when you hear it from inside your car. How­ev­er, you can always use a sil­i­cone pad hold­er under­neath your blender to dis­si­pate the sound com­ing from it.

Warranty and Customer Service

The Vita­mix 5300 blender comes with the stan­dard Vita­mix 7‑year FULL war­ran­ty and a cer­ti­fied refur­bished mod­el with a 5‑year FULL war­ran­ty cov­er­ing all repairs and replace­ments and pro­vid­ing free ship­ment. With­out a doubt, the Vita­mix war­ran­ty and cus­tomer ser­vice are the best in the indus­try, and the man­u­fac­tur­er will replace any parts and repair any issues with no ques­tions asked. Besides, the Vita­mix war­ran­ty is trans­fer­able (it cov­ers even sec­ond-hand machines), and you can reg­is­ter it online or via phone with the ser­i­al num­ber pro­vid­ed on the unit base of the machine.

This blender also comes with a 30-day mon­ey-back guar­an­tee. If you change your mind, you will be able to return it with the free ship­ping provided.

Optional Accessories and Attachments

There are a few addi­tion­al acces­sories avail­able for this blender model.

48 oz. stain­less steel con­tain­er that could serve as an addi­tion­al nar­row bot­tom jug for pro­cess­ing small recipes and has out­stand­ing dura­bil­i­ty that will last as long leg­endary Vita­mix motors last.

32 oz, 48 oz wet blade con­tain­ers: This blender comes with a low pro­file pitch­er that is designed for pro­cess­ing at least 2 cups of ingre­di­ents, so the small­er size con­tain­er may be an option for house­holds that are like­ly to process small batch­es of ingre­di­ents. Sup­pose you are an avid cook and will use the blender to make nut but­ter, sal­sa, and sal­ad dress­ing, or you need to process baby food that is usu­al­ly made in small­er vol­umes. In that case, these con­tain­ers are also an option you may want to consider.

32 oz. dry blade con­tain­er: The 32 oz. dry blade con­tain­er is the choice for bak­ing enthu­si­asts who intend to mill a lot of grain and knead a lot of dough.

Per­son­al Cup Adapter: The sin­gle-serve blender attach­ment is com­pat­i­ble with Vita­mix Clas­sic models.

Spat­u­las: There is also a set of 3 spat­u­las avail­able with Vita­mix. These spat­u­las are designed with a nar­row head and are use­ful for pulling out stub­born ingre­di­ents such as nut but­ter or spreads.

Set Includes

Vita­mix 5300 comes with

• a 2.2 HP motor base;
• a 64 oz. low pro­file container;
• Rub­ber lid with a plug;
• 11 inch­es cus­tom-made tamper;
• a Get­ting Start­ed Plus book that includes 70 recipes.

This mod­el pack­age does not include the stan­dard Vita­mix fan­cy cook­book and instruc­tion­al DVD. How­ev­er, you can always check the manufacturer’s web­site for an excel­lent recipe resource.

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Dimensions

The 5300 mod­el with the low pro­file pitch­er and lid on the top of the base unit is only 17.25 with a foot­print of 8.75 inch­es x 7.25 inch­es. How­ev­er, the base unit is quite mas­sive, and with a weight of about 11 lbs, this machine is very sta­ble dur­ing operation.

The blender is also equipped with a long two ft. pow­er cord that can be stored neat­ly under­neath the base unit, and the flex­i­ble plas­tic cable retain­ers tight­ly hold the unused part of the cord and return it to its posi­tion after usage.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• As are all Vita­mix blenders, this machine is ver­sa­tile, well-made, and durable. It pro­duces an impec­ca­ble qual­i­ty of blending;
• The 5300 blender comes with such new C‑series prod­uct line fea­tures as an upgrad­ed 2.2 motor, a pulse func­tion, and a low-pro­file container;
• With the new low-pro­file jar, this blender is like­ly to fit under most kitchen cabinets;
• This machine is one of the most afford­able Vita­mix mod­els with select­ed retailers.

Cons:

• It is designed for pro­cess­ing medi­um to large batch­es of food, and you may need to buy an addi­tion­al small­er con­tain­er if you intend to process small­er vol­umes of ingredients.
• Unlike all oth­er Clas­sic mod­els, the blender comes with no sep­a­rate Cook­book and instruc­tion­al DVD. But the pack­age includes the Get­ting Start­ed Guide with 70 recipes, and you can also check out the great Vita­mix web­site recipes resource.

Vitamix 5300 Blender Consumer Reviews

This mod­el has been around for a while on the mar­ket, so it has quite a few con­sumer reviews. It has a high rat­ing with Ama­zon, Wal­mart, and Cost­co con­sumers, and this is not sur­pris­ing as it is pro­duced by a well-known and trust­wor­thy manufacturer.

Vitamix 5300 Blender Price

Ama­zon has a fan­tas­tic offer for this par­tic­u­lar mod­el and under­bids many oth­er retail­ers and the man­u­fac­tur­er’s price. And if you decide to go for the Vita­mix 5300 recon­di­tioned mod­el, which is often avail­able at a dis­count­ed price.

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Summary

Vita­mix has man­u­fac­tured an expen­sive but excel­lent indus­tri­al-qual­i­ty blender for many years, and their machines have a gen­uine rep­u­ta­tion for being one of the best on the mar­ket. They are of high qual­i­ty, durable, and made in the USA. This 5300 com­bines the best fea­tures of the flag­ship 5200 and the 7500 machines. Although it is not the lat­est Vita­mix mod­el, it is still very pop­u­lar because, along with Vita­mix Explo­ri­an blenders E320 and E310, the 5300 mod­el remains one of the most afford­able ver­sions of the Vita­mix that will make a great option for cus­tomers who are look­ing for a bar­gain Vita­mix blender.

Will you be inter­est­ed in an alter­na­tive Vita­mix Blender Option? Check our articles:

• Which is the Best Vita­mix Blender to Buy? – All Mod­els Com­par­i­son Guide 2020
• Vita­mix Cer­ti­fied Refur­bished Blenders – Are They Worth Consider?