The Alterna blades are very sharp and there are 6 knives.

JTC Omni, and Waring blenders turn left - counter clockwise. The Blendtec blenders turn right - clockwise and the blades are not sharp. Hint: just swap out the blade unit for the appropriate blending assembly and knives. These are the most important high quality smoothie blenders in the world. The beauty of the Alterna jar is that you can keep using the jar if you happen to switch blender brands such as from Blendtec to Vitamix or to Waring or JTC Omni Blender. The Blendtec blenders are very powerful and handle the Alterna Jar very efficiently for a very smooth and fine blend smoothie texture, or whatever you are making with your high performance blender. The Blendtec lids fit the Alterna jar as well and the Alterna lid fits Blendtec jars.Д«lender operators who have a Blendtec blender and jars and want to change jars or add an 80 ounces jar with the versatility for replacement blending assembly cutting units, can use their Blendtec lids if that is their desire. Dimensions are 9 inches tall, fits into a 9 x 7 x 7 inches box, weighs 2. The patents pending super high-tech engineered jar devours its raw vegetable broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, Minimum blending size 16 ounces.

The Alterna jar is engineered and patent pending together with it proprietary replaceable and sharpened multi-purpose blade cutting unit blending assembly specifically for the following Blendtec Blenders - see below. There seems to be a problem serving the request at this time.

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