I love the shape of the beverage containers and the mechanism. A few things I wish I would've know before I purchased this. 1st, the manual says not to put ice cubes or frozen fruit into the beverage you're making. Ummm... how does one make a smoothie without either ice or frozen fruit?? Only crushed ice, it says. Well, I do use frozen fruit and once in awhile I'll get an unblended chunk but for the most part it does fine. The other thing not mentioned in the description is that the beverage containers and the lids are not dishwasher safe. Aargh. The last issue is that the drinking spout cap on the lid doesn't flip back far enough to be able to tip the bottle in normal drinking without hitting your nose so you have to drink out of it sideways until you get to the bottom, and then you either have to unscrew the lid to finish your drink or tip you head back 90degrees to avoid the spout cap. These issues are somewhat trivial but still irksome.
