Hamilton Beach Smoothie Smart Blender with Pour Lid

Clean up is a breeze as the whole jar goes in the dishwasher. The NutriBullet Pro 900 is a much better personal blender than the Hamilton Beach Single-Serve Blender. The NutriBullet is significantly sturdier and has a better blending performance since it can make nut butter and produce a smooth puree with fibrous ingredients like kale. The Hamilton Beach Personal Blender isn’t suitable for soups. It can’t be used for hot blending, like most personal blenders, and its small jar won’t fit most soup recipes in a single batch. It doesn’t completely process fibrous ingredients, so pureed soups with kale or broccoli will be grainy or leafy.

First, I tried to make almond flour — a precursor to almond butter. Then, if the Hamilton Beach was successful, I would try to make almond butter. For your $40 you get a mix/milkshake, a pulse/ice crush, a puree/icy drink, and hamilton beach blender a smoothie setting. There’s nothing superfluous here at all, just good old-fashioned blender settings, nicely arranged for effortless reading and operation. As you know, blenders aren’t typically a very feature-rich appliance.

The convenient pour spout on the blending jar eliminates messy drips when pouring to make serving easy. Measuring lines on the front of the durable, BPA free blending jar eliminate any extra measuring cups hamilton blender or guesswork. The filler cap on the blending jar lid is also removable so you can easily add ingredients while blending. The smoothie blender includes a 3 year limited warranty from Hamilton Beach®.

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The overall design is very simple, but it’s sturdily built and it looks much nicer than its $40 price tag would suggest. Plastic jar can go in hamilton beach blender the dishwasher for easy cleanup – no disassembling of parts is necessary. The large size is perfect for entertaining or multiple servings.

Since a lot of blenders come with an ice crush setting, this seemed like an important test to conduct. So I tossed ice cubes, ice cubes in water, and bagged ice into the Hamilton Beach for three different measures of ice crushing performance. The user manual suggests crushing cubed ice right after it’s removed from the freezer and to make sure that no pieces are stuck together. This definitely helped the process along, but it still took a lot of pulsing to get the ice to a uniformly crushed state.