Both blenders receive a top-notch rating here, serving up fruity drinks with a smooth, consistent texture. Icy drinks: To see how well blenders handle making smoothies, our testers whip up nonalcoholic piña coladas, then drain the blended mixture through assorted sieve sizes to check how many bits of fruit and ice remain after blending. It’s available in black, white, stainless, graphite metal, copper, and red, and it has a generous 10-year warranty. The Ascent series also comes integrated with wireless connectivity so that you can download new programs and updates from its smartphone app. This Vitamix has a programmable timer for custom recipes-you set the desired time and the blender will turn off automatically. Starter kits that include an adapter and a cup cost $145 additional cups are $30. There’s a compatible 8-ounce cup and a 20-ounce cup that you can purchase separately, and you’ll need an adapter to use them with the blender base. Like the Ninja, this blender automatically adjusts its program settings and blending times to the container size you use, but as mentioned, you’ll get only the 8-cup jar with your purchase. You use a dial to choose one of 15 speeds, or you can pick a setting on the LCD touchscreen for smoothies, frozen desserts, dips, hot soups, or self-cleaning. At 17 inches tall, it’s slightly shorter than the Ninja, but that difference means it will fit under most kitchen cabinets. Vitamix: The 1,440-watt Vitamix 3500, which is part of the brand’s Ascent series, has a plastic jar that holds 8 cups (one less cup than the Ninja). It has a one-year warranty and comes with a personal blender attachment, a food chopper attachment, a dough blade, and two 24-ounce cups with lids for taking smoothies on the go. The Ninja measures 18 inches high-a bit too high to fit under standard cabinetry on the counter. This blender features Ninja’s Auto-iQ technology, which automatically senses which jar is on the motor base and suggests presets to match. It also has a pulse function, a useful feature when you need a quick boost of power to get the right consistency and texture for a smoothie, for example. The touchpad controls have five speeds and preset buttons for making smoothies, crushing ice, extracting nutrients, chopping, and creating up to 2 pounds of dough. 7.Ninja: The Ninja Professional Plus Kitchen System BN801 is a 1,400-watt blender with a 9-cup plastic container and removable blade. In short, despite the smooth and drinkable enough smoothie yielded, the frustration was not worth it. This was further complicated by the space occupied by the blade assemblies from the top to the bottom. In order to get a passable result, we had to pause the blending process multiple times, manually forcing the ingredients down toward the blades using a spatula. In actual fact, we noticed how the centrifugal force constantly pulled the food outward and upward, away from the blades. Although an original design, it failed to consistently pull ingredients towards the blades for finer processing. This purpose seems to be to target all levels of the container, not just contents near the bottom. The Ninja’s blade features a stacked design with multiple blades positioned at different heights. We later surmised that this outcome was a direct result of the distinctive configuration of the blender's blade. This is four times longer than the pricey Vitamix 5200 and twice as long as other similarly-priced blenders, like the NutriBullet and the Oster Pro. However, it's important to highlight that the Ninja BN 701 required a total of 4 minutes to achieve this result. Dealing solely with frozen fruits in this trial, the blender produced a silky-smooth mixture.There was a negligible amount of strawberry skin which is quite common to various other blenders. In this test, the Ninja BN 701 delivered a slightly improved performance compared to the green smoothie test. These would include the NutriBullet, Oster Pro, and Black+Decker. There are more suitable blenders comparable both in price and power ratings. Ultimately, if you want to make green leafy smoothies, this is not the blender for you. This clearly suggested inherent constraints with the Ninja BN 701's ability to process leafy greens. The Ninja’s shortcoming became more apparent with further performance comparisons There was little change in the liquids consistency after 30 seconds of additional blending compared to extended periods of blending. Even with three extra minutes added to the blending time, the results were still wanting and the smoothie wasn’t really smooth. The same results, however, were not achieved with kale which landed up with significant leaf strips remaining. Notably, within a mere 30 seconds, it smoothly blended bananas, apples, and pineapples without any chunks left behind. In this test, the Ninja BN 701 proved how well it can liquify a range of fruits.
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