Vitamix Aer Disc Container Review

Vita­mix Aer Disc Con­tain­er: The Vita­mix Air Disc Con­tain­er comes with the stan­dard 48 ounces capac­i­ty Vita­mix Ascent-Series container.

How­ev­er, instead of blades, it has an inbuilt spin­ning disc with holes, which is sup­posed to pull ingre­di­ents down through the holes for aer­at­ing and emul­si­fy­ing them while the hard­er ingre­di­ents like fruits, herbs, and ice are not pureed. The con­tain­er is designed for Whip­ping, Emul­si­fy­ing, Mud­dling, and Foam­ing tasks with your Vita­mix blender.

Read More: Vita­mix Ascent Series Con­tain­ers Explained

Com­pat­i­bil­i­ty: The Air Disc Con­tain­er is com­pat­i­ble with Smart Sys­tem (A2300, A2500, A3300, A3500, and Ven­tur­ist V1200) and Clas­sic Series (5200 Stan­dard, Stan­dard pro­grams, Explo­ri­an E320, and Explo­ri­an E320, 5300, 6300, 6500, Next Gen­er­a­tion mod­els – 750, and 7500).

Warn­ing for the Ascent series blenders: Although the Air Disc con­tain­er looks like a Self-Detect Vita­mix Ascent-series jug and is com­pat­i­ble with Ascent machines and works with the Ascent blenders, it is not a self-detect con­tain­er, so the Ascent pro­grams (such as self-clean­ing and oth­ers) will not work with this container.

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Vitamix Aer Disc Container Performance

Here is the Vita­mix Air Disc per­for­mance for each task:

Whip­ping: The stan­dard Vita­mix Wet­blade con­tain­er is also able to make decent whipped cream, but the Air Disc Con­tain­er makes it quick­er and appears thick­er. You should select 4–6 Vita­mix speeds for this task. The Air Disc con­tain­er can make hot and cold whipped cream equal­ly well.

I tried to make the Peru­vian cock­tail called Pis­co Sours with the whipped egg white from the Air Disc recipe book­let, and it was amazing.

Foam­ing and froth­ing: The Air Disc excels at mak­ing foam. The stan­dard Vita­mix con­tain­er makes decent foam too. But the Air Disc jar pro­duces 30–60% more foam for the same time cycle, it can cre­ate both hot and cold foams(try the excel­lent book­let recipe for cold-brewed cof­fee and ice), and it makes excel­lent foam with skim milk and non-dairy milk (I tried the almond and coconut and it came out fab­u­lous). So you can enjoy your deli­cious foamy hot choco­late or cap­puc­ci­no with few­er calories.

To use the con­tain­er for mak­ing foam, you must run your blender using 2–4 Vita­mix speed.

Emul­si­fy­ing: You can make most of the may­on­naise, dress­ings, and mari­nade recipes in the ordi­nary Vita­mix wet con­tain­er. How­ev­er, Hol­landaise and Aioli are not always turned per­fect in my expe­ri­ence. The Air Disc con­tain­er solves the problem.

I also made a great bul­let­proof cof­fee in the Air Disc con­tain­er, which requires emul­si­fy­ing and foaming.

Mud­dling: Mud­dling is a bar mixol­o­gy tech­nic to smash and mix cock­tail ingre­di­ents to incor­po­rate fresh fruits and herbs into your drinks. The mud­dling is used to make such pop­u­lar cock­tails as the moji­to, mint julep, or caipirinha.

You will not be able to use a mud­dling tech­nic using your stan­dard Vita­mix con­tain­er. And this area is where the Air Disc is excelled. The Air Disc is designed to extract the fla­vor, pulp, and incense from the ingre­di­ents like mint, lemon, orange, and oth­er fruits and herbs, leav­ing the rind and fiber aside, and it does bet­ter than man­u­al mud­dling tech­nics. Air Disc is so straight­for­ward; you just slice your fruits, cit­rus, and herb ingre­di­ents, add them to the con­tain­er with water, ice, and sweet­en­ers, and the machine makes all the mud­dling for you. It must be men­tioned because the air disc will not crus, but if you have the ice pieces in the final cock­tails, a bit agi­tates it.

Aquafa­ba: The Air Disc recipe book­let is the source where I first time come across the Aquafa­ba term and, out of curios­i­ty, researched it.

Aquafa­ba (AF) is the water left after cook­ing some legume seeds like chick­peas, which mim­ic egg whites’ appear­ance and nutri­tion­al prop­er­ties (com­pris­es of pro­teins, car­bo­hy­drates, and anoth­er plant sol­u­ble). The Aquafa­ba can be used as a direct replace­ment for the egg white in many veg­an recipes, includ­ing meringues and marsh­mal­lows. How­ev­er, the stan­dard Vita­mix con­tain­er can­not foam the Aquafa­ba to make meringues and marsh­mal­lows, while the Air disc con­tain­er makes it easier.

A made a deli­cious Vita­mix Aquafa­ba Fluff recipe and was sur­prised by the qual­i­ty and test; it was worth trying.

Using and cleaning

The Air Disc blade, like any oth­er stan­dard Vita­mix blade, is per­ma­nent­ly inbuilt into the con­tain­er and not remov­able for clean­ing. So you have to clean it in a self-clean­ing way, man­u­al­ly with kitchen uten­sils or in the dish­wash­er (it is dish­wash­er safe).

The Vita­mix AER Disc Con­tain­er comes with an Aer Disc Con­tain­er Recipe Book­let, Low-Pro­file Tam­per, and 3 years Full war­ran­ty. In addi­tion, Vita­mix’s web­site has 28 recipes specif­i­cal­ly designed for the Aer Disc.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the app does not have any recipes for this con­tain­er yet, but Vita­mix promis­es to cor­rect this in the future.

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Summary

Cer­tain­ly, the Air Disc con­tain­er is not the most ver­sa­tile Vita­mix acces­so­ry. The Vita­mix blender can per­form Whip­ping, Emul­si­fy­ing, Mud­dling, and Foam­ing tasks with stan­dard Wet Blade con­tain­ers (mind the vol­umes, though), but Air Disc con­tain­ers are designed to make these jobs even bet­ter. So for some cat­e­gories of users, it could be a very worth­while addi­tion to the kitchen gear.

It is whip­ping dairy full-fat milk near­ly as good as the stan­dard wet con­tain­er. How­ev­er, it is much bet­ter to per­form whip­ping tasks with non-dairy milk and show out­stand­ing results with whip­ping Aquafa­ba which may bring the cook­ing expe­ri­ence for Veg­ans to a dif­fer­ent level.

If you make a lot of the mud­dling types of cock­tails, mock­tails, and lemon­ades, then these con­tain­ers are wor­thy of your atten­tion. It is excel­lent at extract­ing fla­vor from the fruits and herbs, and incor­po­rat­ing them into your favorite drinks even the pro­fes­sion­al bar atten­dees’ man­u­al mud­dling tech­nics can­not achieve a com­pa­ra­ble result at this task with the Vita­mix Air Disc container.