I loved using this for fresh nut butters, grinding grains and corn but have to say I'm very disappointed that mine cracked at the bottom.

I am disappointed with this purchase. I got the dry container for grinding whole grains, making Turkish coffee and mixing/kneading doughs. It is true that the dry container experiences less sticking to the bottom, but that is the only advantage. The quality of the grind or knead is similar or inferior to the wet container. Here are more details: 1- for whole grains, I ran it the maximum recommended time (which is 2min), and the flour did not come out super-fine. It is not powder like. I was afraid to run it longer because the flour became super hot. In comparison, the wet container produced a slightly better output after the same run time. 2- for coffee beans, the manual said that you should run it for 25 seconds to get Turkish grind. That is nonsense. I ran it for a minute and I was not happy with the output. You can feel the coffee particles with your hand. It is not a Turkish grind. 3- For doughs, the 32oz container is tight, and the dough does not rotate freely inside the container although I used 312g flour/240g water as recommended in the vitamix recipe book. In comparison, I use 500g flour/385g water in the 64oz wet container and the dough rotates inside the container and kneads better. I found my self using the spatula more often in the dry container. Am I using the dry container in a wrong way? I don't think so. My advice is to stick with the wet container and no need to waste money on the dry container.

I am very disappointed in my dry grains container. I've had my Vitamix for 3 years and have loved it, so I recently purchased the dry container because I wanted to make my own flours. I tried to grind wheat berries and could just not get a fine powder, so I thought maybe it was not made for that purpose, even though it is advertised as a DRY GRAINS container. However, today I attempted to grind oatmeal into a fine powder and, after stirring and grinding 3 times it was still very grainy. My smooth cake batter is NOT smooth at all. I had better results when using my original container. I feel like the grain container is a waste of my money. So unfortunate.