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A final “Off” button shuts down the engine regardless of what mode it’s in. Frankly it’s a heck of a lot more options than the Stay or Go which only sports a fat switch on its front face. Even the Ninja Nutri Ninja and Oster Beehive Blender have more basic controls, either push-down to blend or an old-school flip switch. My only real hamilton beach blender complaint here is that these keys feel a bit lightweight and tend to jiggle around in their housings. Another trait the MultiBlend shares with the Stay or Go is a small footprint. Compared with the monsters of the blending world, the Blendtec Wildside , Vitamix 7500 , or Ninja Ultima , the MultiBlend seems cute and even harmless.
Ultimately, it makes unevenly crushed ice with lots of chunks left over. Still, the ice is suitable for adding to cocktails, and the blender may perform better with even fewer ice cubes in the jar. This blender has an unusual design for a personal blender.
It performed well for making smoothies in testing thanks to an automatic smoothie setting, though we got very unevenly chopped salsa using the pulse mode. The original Nutribullet performed similarly to the rest of the brand’s models, which is to say really well. It’s the least expensive and least powerful of Nutribullet’s hamilton beach smoothie blender personal blenders, and it gets the job done nonetheless. However, it’s a bit smaller and slower than the Pro 900, and it doesn’t have the automatic cycle we liked so much in the Pro+. Personal blenders tend not to have very many different settings. Some simply blend when you push the cup down and stop when you let go.
The Hamilton Beach Personal Creations Blender is a fairly small, compact model. You can easily store it on your kitchen counter or in a cupboard without taking up much space. If you want a personal blender that’s portable as well as compact, check out the cordless NutriBullet GO. Oddly enough, the Hamilton Beach MultiBlend didn’t shine as brightly on our smoothie-making trials as its smaller, less powerful sibling. I measured the MultiBlend’s smoothie mix to have a lower consistency percentage of 87.5 (meaning it was less smooth) after the same 45 pulses.
Whether you’re blending drinks for a party or mixing soups or batters, a Hamilton Beach® Blender is a must-have for your contemporary kitchen. The main issue with the blenders we’re not recommending is that they weren’t able to create a smooth, grit-free texture consistently. Other problems we encountered included extremely loud motors, leaky hamilton blender lids, hard-to-clean parts, and machines that simply felt and looked cheap. When we tested multiple models from the same brand, we also tried to compare them to one another and highlight only the very best above. The top-end Nutribullet boasts an incredible 1,700 watts of power that was able to smoothie up everything we threw at it.