Quote Originally Posted by Raipizo View Post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?app=des...&v=ZI0PEviX0qg I found this.
I think the vitamix is a great blender so I don't think you could go wrong with one. That reviewer seemed a little bit biased towards the vitamix though. Many of the failures appeared to be more of an operator issue rather than the ninjas fault.

It's true about leakage when blending hot liquid in the ninja. One time we made soup that was a little too hot it sprayed out the seal due to the build up in pressure. The directions warn against doing this, however we decided to push the limits and paid the price by having to clean up a sizable tomato soup mess.

The lead and other chemicals they are referring to is a trace amount in the power cord. It's unlikely that we would ever purposely blend up its power cord so I'm not to worried about this one. Although they don't state it I think it's likely there's a similar trace amount of lead and other chemicals in the vitamix's power cord. I'm not an electrician so I'm just thinking out loud here with this assumption.