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Customers commend the Foodi Power Blender & Processor for its ease of use, powerful performance, and compact size, finding it excels at blending and chopping tasks. Many appreciate its versatility as a 3-in-1 appliance. However, some customers note that the blender can be quite loud during operation.
Tl;dr Overall, this blender has been a great addition to my kitchen counter. It’s compact, powerful, and versatile. It does all you want a modern, premium blender to do and few more things besides. I look forward to using it on a regular basis for (hopefully) years to come. My family likes smoothies. They also like baking bread and cookies. To do all that, we looked no further than the Ninja Foodi “blender”. On the box its called a blender, but it really is much more. The blades on the standard insert will chop, mix, blend, crush ice, and puree. I used it to chop an onion. The pieces came out uniform and appropriate sized instead of being minced as some choppers have done. The lid locks in place, keeping safety as a priority. This also reduces vibration as the spinning blade fits into a socket in the lid to keep it from moving around too much. It’s also small enough, even with the pitcher on, to sit underneath the upper cabinets in my kitchen. The same could not be said about the last blender I had from Nutribullet. There’s also a dough blade. We used this to make the pizza dough recipe in the instruction book. It was quick to make, with the mixing occurring within the advertised 40 seconds. it still requires a few minutes of kneading to get to the correct consistency for rising, but still MUCH faster than mixing by hand. Cookie dough went faster than yeast based dough. The snickerdoodle recipe (also in the instruction book) led to a delicious mid-afternoon snack. To round out the day, we made smoothies with frozen fruit. The Ninja cut through the ice quickly and easily to make a most delicious drink with no notable lumps. Clean up is fairly easy as well. From smoothies, you can simply put a few drops of soap in, add warm water, then run through the Bowl cycle to wash it all away. It’s also dishwasher safe. I cleaned mine on the bottom rack without any negative effects.
Posted by Dan0Sterling
My wife wanted to try all the features after using for a few weeks she loves it. Excellent, the pitcher is easy twist and lock on base, the suction cups on bottom hold the unit firm on counter, the pre select buttons are great. My wife makes cookies, brownies and banana bread the easy pour spout on top makes it easy. I love making smoothies for the grand kids it's powerful and fast chopping ice a bit loud but that's expected. It's the perfect size to handle all your baking and food processing all in one. Yes the blades are sharp just be careful and use common sense safety. We have several Ninja products but this unit eliminates using the others. All in one does it.
Posted by TheSurgeon
This one does it all! I have several appliances in the Ninja family, and this blender replaces a Ninja Professional Kitchen Series. The Professional had several bowls, cups and attachments for several different uses. The Power Blender does it all with just one pitcher. While I do miss the to go blend cups, the trade off for space in my kitchen is definitely worth it. So far, it has crushed everything I have thrown at it. Very powerful. Ice, nuts, smoothies, all with perfect consistency with no slow down. The pitcher feels sturdier than my last model, and is much easier to clean. Not sure if it is because it’s new or if there is a newer material, but everything just rinses right out with no residue. It can be a nuisance to put the pitcher in the dishwasher after every use, so this has been a great unexpected perk. This is also the first blender to have the Auto IQ feature. Very useful. I have used it a few times to test the adaptability. Surprisingly it actually adjusts to the load in the pitcher and automatically uses just the right speed and intervals to create the best consistency. All of my smoothie tests came out perfect. The setting I was most skeptical of was the chopping. But, just the same, somehow it adapted to the load and provided the perfect chop, and running it twice gave a finer consistency without turning it to mush. This has been/is great for onions! I made a fresh Pico de Gallo and barely needed to use my knife. My last Ninja lacked the basic Manual mode and opted for the Pulse button. This has both and I’m happy they included it. This really is a great all-in-one. No disappointment.
Posted by JKhan