Originally Posted By: Dignan
and the [Vita-Mix] carafe has a ton of edges that would make it hard to scrape stuff out.
100% correct. It is quite difficult to clean, and Vita-Mix says that the carafe is not dishwasher safe. They say the way to clean it is to put some hot water in the carafe along with a few drops of dish washing soap, and spin it up for half a minute or so. That works, not as well as my Bosch dishwasher would do, but adequate.

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