Hey, Lenny Gale, Life is NOYOKE.
Today, we're showing you 
the Vitamix Perfect  Blend.
Cool?
Yup!
[music]
So Vitamix sent us their new product,
the Perfect Blend 
Interactive Scale and Recipe  App.
We're really excited.
It's cool.
We've been playing with it 
for the last few days.
Actually, Shalva's been playing with it for
the last few days.
I'm more of a throw stuff in 
and see what happens...
So she's going to show you 
three cool things
that she likes about it.
And since we only have one microphone right
now, I'm going to pass the mic to her and
go behind the camera to 
make sure we get some good shots
of this new product.
Cool.
Cool.
Hopefully the...
[laughing]
I don't need to do that again, right?
No.
It was fine.
It was fine.
Okay, Shalvie's all mic'd up.
I'm going behind the camera.
So peace out.
So like Lenny said,
I've been messing around
with this Perfect Blend
for the weekend or so.
And there are three really cool things 
that I want to show you.
One is that it's pre-loaded with all these
really cool recipes.
Two is that
you can scale everything by calories,
by serving size, by servings.
And that really matters to me.
And three is
the precision of the scale, itself,
and how it, kind of, interacts with you.
So the first thing I want to show you
is the app that's pre-loaded 
with all these cool recipes.
So we'll see how well 
I do upside down here.
Everyone's going to 
know your password.
[laughing]
Oh no!
Okay, so the first thing 
you're going to see is that
it is pre-loaded with all these really
cool recipes that the Vitamix team 
has been  working really hard on.
So if you do a quick scroll, you'll see a
lot of smoothies, some soups, some dressings,
some sauces, and if you keep scrolling, 
you see some stuff like waffles,
I saw some crepes earlier.
Really cool.
So that's a neat feature that 
it has already built into the app.
The other neat thing is that if you have a
particular craving for something, let's say
it's pumpkin, which is a fall favorite 
around these parts...
How to type upside down...
Okay, so I typed in "pum",
pump, and it's showing me the four 
recipes that feature pumpkin.
So creamy pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie dip, a
pumpkin spice smoothie, and a wellness smoothie.
Now the wellness smoothie doesn't 
 actually have pumpkin in the title,
but it does feature pumpkin.
So I'm really interested in 
making this creamy pumpkin soup.
But I'm not sure that I have all of 
the stuff I need to make it.
So you can see the recipe right here.
And, if you're like, you know what,
I really do want to make this, 
but I don't have some
of the ingredients,
you can add them to your
shopping list,
which I think is a really really
neat feature.
So it makes it 
really easy on you.
I already have some of these 
things in my cabinet.
I have apple cider vinegar.
I have vegetable stock.
I have olive oil, etc.
So I can just add the things that I don't
think that I have to my shopping list.
Added.
Great.
So let's say that I have 
decided to make a smoothie.
So...
Quick do...
I'm going to pick this 
blueberry ginger smoothie here.
So the blueberry ginger smoothie has...
Oops!
It's a very good little thing, actually.
That's the first time it's tipped over on
me, so that's pretty good.
Okay, so, the smoothie here, the blueberry
ginger smoothie has 480 calories.
That's kind of a lot of calories 
for a morning smoothie for me.
So I'm going to choose to
edit it a little bit.
So right now I have one serving
of this blueberry
smoothie that's 16 ounces.
So you know what?
I don't need 16 ounces,
I'm going to go for
a 12 ounce smoothie
and that brings me down
to 360 calories, which is awesome.
That's about the range that I 
wanted to have my breakfast for.
What's really neat about this
is if this were another recipe,
I would have to scale everything
back by a certain percentage.
And that math is, honestly, 
kind of hard to do.
With this app, 
it just does it for me
because it's based on 
weight measurement
and not necessarily
a fourth of a cup, 
half of a cup, things like that.
So, that's one really cool thing.
That I can scale by calorie.
And, I can scale by serving size.
So Lenny likes bigger smoothies,
doesn't care
about his calorie content.
So he'll probably have 
an 18 ounce smoothie.
It's 540 calories.
That's great.
If I want to make 
a couple of smoothies
because I'm being nice this morning,
I can make two
12-ounce smoothies.
I'll still know that my calorie intake is
going to be 360 here.
But now I'm making 
two 12-ounces
and I'm just telling the scale,
"Yo, I'm making two smoothies.
Not one."
It's really easy if we had a 
couple of guests come over
to make that into four,
12-ounce smoothies.
Okay?
So that's one thing I really love.
You'll notice I'm wearing a FitBit.
I love tracking calories.
I love tracking my steps.
And this scale helps me do that so well.
Okay, so the third thing that's really cool,
not the last thing, there's plenty of cool
things, but we don't want to bore you with
a 20-minute video here.
The third thing that's really cool is once
you do decide to make something, and I'm going
to show you how to actually 
make a smoothie here,
you'll notice how precise 
the scale itself is.
So I've chosen to make this 
chocolate blueberry smoothie.
Right?
Is that the one we chose?
Yes, I have all those ingredients.
Okay, so I am choosing to make 
this particular smoothie.
I am going to make
three servings of this,
and I'm going to choose
12-ounce smoothies.
So it's only 140 calories.
That's pretty awesome.
I'm using this as a snack.
So 140 calories is 
pretty legit here.
Okay, so the first thing that I do is place
the blender jar on the scale.
So you'll see right here 
that it's flashing a little bit.
It's telling me what to do.
[beep]
That's a cool sound.
So I've got my bluetooth on,
which means the
scale is connected to my iPad here.
Very high-tech.
And I am telling the scale...
[beep]
...that I am here.
And I did that twice, 
I don't know why.
And that I'm setting this container on it.
[beep]
Okay, so that sound is telling me, okay, we
know how heavy your blender is,
and you can start 
adding ingredients.
Now, I made a little mistake 
because I put it on with the lid.
And I don't want the lid to be 
a part of the measurements, so...
We're going to go 
back to this step...
[beep]
[beep]
Okay, so now we have the measurement of 
the container minus the lid,
which is where we 
should have been in the first place.
Okay.
So then we're going to start 
adding some ingredients.
So, the cool thing about this 
is that I don't need to measure.
It's going to tell me.
So I'm going to start 
dumping ingredients in,
and it will tell me how I'm doing.
So you see that little 
yellow line that's going up here?
That's telling me good job.
Good job.
Good job.
You're almost there.
[beep]
Okay.
Stop.
That's pretty cool.
It's giving me 
instant feedback.
You're doing well.
Stop blending.
Okay, so the next thing is chia seeds.
Now normally, chia sees is something that
I would measure pretty precisely,
so let's see.
Ch-ch-ch-chia!
Aright, I'm almost 
at the brink here with chia.
[beep]
Aright!
So it's telling me 
I've reached my chia seed max.
The next thing is cocoa powder.
Now I told you guys Vitamix is the one that
put these recipes in, so they're doing it
in the correct order.
Liquids first then 
soft ingredients then frozen fruits.
So they know what's up.
They're doing it in the 
correct order for me.
Okay, so cocoa powder.
It's pretty precise.
So I'm being careful and slow.
[ding]
Aright!
Chocolate in.
Next...
Spinach.
So right now, it's showing me I have zero
calories worth of spinach in.
But once I start adding some spinach...
[laughter]
Lenny says my hair is in the way.
Once I start adding some spinach, it'll show
me how many calories I'm getting.
So that was two calories of spinach.
Three calories.
Six seven calories of spinach.
I'm obviously not 
 that precise with spinach.
I will eat buckets of spinach.
[ding]
Okay.
So 15 calories worth of spinach.
I reached my spinach goal here.
Banana.
With the banana, I can't just put the whole
thing in because I'm not really sure
how much I need  here.
So I'm just going to do this until it tells
me that I've reached my max.
Now, obviously once you get more comfortable
with it, you don't have to go nearly as slow.
But I...
[ding]
...want to make sure we doing it right.
Right?
Okay, so that was my banana.
And the next thing is frozen blueberries,
which I think we have, right Lenny?
Yup!
Aright.
Frozen blueberries.
[ding]
Woah!
Oops!
So it didn't move up yet,
so sometimes,
it's okay,
sometimes it gets 
a little confused
and thinks you're 
still going on the banana.
So my bad.
I needed to tell it my banana's out and I'm
moving on to blueberries now.
Now, like I said, 
it's a total learning process.
So if possible,
and this actually is an ingredient
that I can easily scoop out,
do that.
Because you don't want 
your whole thing to be way off.
Obviously it's not the worst if there's a
few extra blueberries in there, but...
Okay.
So now that it's highlighted...
The frozen blueberries are highlighted, that's
how it knows that I'm on to blueberries here.
Okay, so see how now it's measuring blueberries?
C'mon blueberries!
[ding]
Aright, so it's telling me 
I'm done with blueberries.
And see how the little line 
is just right there?
I'm actually going to 
actively choose ice
so that it knows that 
I'm on to the next ingredient here.
So, six ounces of ice.
Ice ice ice!
And this is in the right...
...the right order here.
Okay?
I am ready to blend.
So...
On to the Vitamix is goes.
Okay?
[blending]
I'm going to blend it 
for about a minute
because
there's spinach in there.
[blending]
This is gonna be good.
I've never made this recipe before.
It looks tasty.
The chia's are getting 
all smashed up in there.
[blending]
Aright, so I blended it.
All good on the blend.
And now I'm going to serve it.
So, what's really cool 
is when I choose to serve it,
I can put this pint glass down.
[beeps]
And it just measured it like 
it did with the blender jar.
It's saying, hey, I know 
there's a pint glass on me now.
And I'm going to pour
my serving
and it's going to tell me 
when I'm almost there.
Okay, so that black line means 
you hit your serving.
So...
That's my serving limit.
I've got almost 13 ounces 
and 116 calories.
So you know what?
I want a little bit more.
I'm willing to go to about 
140 calories on this here.
So, aright, perfect.
If someone is tracking that specifically,
that's the best way possible know exactly
how many calories of 
what you're making you have.
So, the last thing that you can do that's
really cool is track that serving.
So I've got 140 servings, and that is being
fed into my Apple Health app.
So if I pull up that app, I can see 
all of the carbs that I had
and all the fiber thatI had 
and the sugar, etc.
So...
It's a really, really cool product.
We'll be back with probably more of these
little features that are cool.
But the last thing I want to mention is that
you can actually add in your own recipes.
So one of our favorites, 
cashew queso,
we added into here.
We've got our 
PB&J smoothie right here.
So I've added this in.
This is one of our favorites.
At some point we'll 
show you how to do that, too.
But this is a pretty cool 
addition to your Vitamix.
If you're a Vitamix lover 
and you're a fitness app tracker,
this is a really, really cool
addition to your Vitamix collection.
So read our review,
see how we messed with
this a little bit more.
But, thanks for joining us!
Bye!
[music]
So I'm really excited to try this,
and I just wanted to mention 
that we have a full review
with more stuff that 
we really love about this product,
and also some stuff that we
wish that it would do.
And maybe it will get there.
But click the link below.
That's going to give you 
that full review,
all of our thoughts 
on the Vitamix Perfect Blend
at lifeisnoyoke.com.
Let's try it.
Can I have some?
It's really good.
Can I have some?
Yeah.
Is it perfect?
It's perfect!
