Recommendations for personal smoothie blender please?

barb40 · ‎03-09-2010

Hi...looking for recommendations for a personal smoothie blender. I only want it to make smoothies, reasonably priced, durable, easy to clean...

Thanks for any recommendations you may have!

hopi · ‎03-09-2010

@barb40

Just stay away from the one's that turn upside down to mix. A couple of disaters have occured. Don't know who thought that was a good idea.

ninjawife · ‎11-15-2011

We have a Nutra Bullet. It does turn upside down but we have had for years and have had no problem. My husband and I each made a smoothie every morning for over a year.

tucsongal · ‎03-10-2010

I love my Ninja storm. I don’t know if it’s still available here but just do a search, I think HSN has it. I like it much better than the Vitamix we had, which I donated.

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

My blender of choice is my Vitamix that I use for smoothies but I also have the Ninja Storm --I haven't used it for smoothies however, but for other things--- that little thing is the bomb---but I donated the Nutri bullet thing---it was just too hard for me to press down to power it up and was really hard to control it. I love my VM as my smoothies contain alot of greens and it pulvarizes them into liquid ---not sure if the Ninja can do that and not sure what type of smoothies you like to make, but it is great!!!!

Twins Mom · ‎04-03-2016

I have the simple Ninja that has one double blade. Does lovely job on smoothies using 1/2 c frozen ice cubes.

Eileen in Virginia · ‎08-25-2010

DH has an Oster that he uses almost everyday to make smoothies. It also came with a food processor base that I like better than my Cuisinart food processor.

Fressa · ‎03-20-2012

Ninja --great for personal size

blinksmom · ‎11-24-2011

I have a Fochea brand from Amazon. It's perfect for single serve and reasonably priced. I think it was under $50. I've had it for about a year. Hope this helps.

tucsongal · ‎03-10-2010

@wagirl wrote:
My blender of choice is my Vitamix that I use for smoothies but I also have the Ninja Storm --I haven't used it for smoothies however, but for other things--- that little thing is the bomb---but I donated the Nutri bullet thing---it was just too hard for me to press down to power it up and was really hard to control it. I love my VM as my smoothies contain alot of greens and it pulvarizes them into liquid ---not sure if the Ninja can do that and not sure what type of smoothies you like to make, but it is great!!!!

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You should try your Storm for smoothies. My Vitamix would never fully pulverize frozen banana slices, the Ninja does great!