Blend soups, smoothies and frozen cocktails to your ideal texture with this powerful blender. Pair the preprogrammed menu option of your choice with your desired smoothness or coarseness level to create dips, purees, hot soups and frozen desserts exactly to your liking. For manual control, choose from among 10 speeds and a pulse setting. The stainless steel blade and unique triangular shape of the shatter-resistant Tritan jug ensures ingredients mix quickly and thoroughly. Once blending is complete, toss the removable parts in the dishwasher for easy cleanup.Braun was founded in Frankfurt, Germany, over a century ago.