Sorry, Riley, I wasn't being cagey at all, I'm just suffering from early-onset Alzheimers (I'm just waiting for the email from Doug on this one....;-) ) and couldn't remember what brand it was. I got off my butt and looked it up. In Australia, I think it's the Breville 350, but I found it on the Breville UK site as the Breville classique blender. It's commonly available in the US, UK, Europe and Australia to the best of my knowledge. It's not cheap, I warn you (I paid Au$180, and I note it's ST69.99), but it has a solid base, solid glass bowl, commercial strength motor, and I'll swear by it. It's at http://www.breville.co.uk/product1.html -- ______________________________________________________ Tara Deen School of Geosciences Division of Geology and Geophysics Building FO5 University of Sydney NSW 2006 Phone: 61-2-9351 4271 Fax: 61-2-9351 0184 Mobile: 0410 538 655 email: tara@es.usyd.edu.au ______________________________________________________