Customer Ratings & Reviews

Made a smoothie with this Ninja Duo with FreshVac and i thought it had a better taste compared to others I've used. There is a manual, but battery powerred, step of vaccuum sealing mix before blending, but it made it better. I have not yet had a true need for the larger blender, but there will be occasions. The only negative may be in initial setup i managed to slice a small cut in my finger, perhaps better design could make that safer.

This is a 2in-one blender system. There's a normal blender base with blender cup/blade and a smaller cup with it's own blades for smoothies or drinks that will end up being maybe one or two servings. Additionally, there's a freshvac system that when attached to either the small cup or main blender cup, will suction all the air out. Ninja argues that this will help keep foods fresher (assuming you blend then refrigerate, leaving the food within the unopened blender cup) and reduce air bubble formation in general. The blade quality and performance are pretty good as one would expect from the ninja line. The connection between the base and cups is plastic, so there's some concern of this component wearing out but otherwise everything is tough and well built. The freshvac attachment is pretty easy to use. Powered from six AA batteries, there are attachment points on the blender cups which once you've added everything you need to blend, you can then remove air. The instructions says that it removes oxygen but I doubt it is sophisiticated enough to target only that gas. Once you push the power button, the freshvac operates on automatic. It runs until it detects it has extracted air. I think it essentially runs until the pressure it's exerting reaches a particular set point. Theres a plastic like valve which allows you to remove the freshvac without introducing additional air back into your blender cup. Of course, if you subsequently open the cup, you'll add air back in. The pictures suggest you can store food after it has been vacuumed either before or after blending. I'm not in the habit of preparing food and leaving it overnight in a blender cup in the fridge so I'm not sure the pre-blended use will be a function I use. There are times when I may blend food ahead of time and refrigerate overnight, the problem however is that I typically do this for meals where I need to blend either multiple things or quantitites larger than could be handled by the blender cup. Furthermore, I like to clean my tools once I'm done and not need to deal with additional cleanup later during the cooking stage. So, I'm unlikely to use the freshvac in this case as well. For me, there's just not a compelling use case. The blender base is interesting. It has a touch screen and will auto detect the cup that's placed upon it. From there, you'll get the option of selecting from three or four different blend modes. For example, the regular blender cup and smaller single serving cup will both have a frozen drink and smoothie program while the regular blender cup also has puree. These are just pre-programmed applications of the pulse, low, and high buttons which are present for all the cups. It's pretty cool that the blender can automatically settle and blend things for each mode. So far, I've always had to figure out a manual way of ramping things up with my previous blenders. Even though touch screens have been present on kitchen appliances for a while, based on the instructions, care will need to be taken to keep this one clean so that it remains responsive over the lifetime of the blender. The blending capability is pretty good. So is the food processor operation. This matches my previous experience with Ninja blenders. I'm a bit concerned with not having multiple speed/power settings for manual mode operation. Maybe that's not really needed but I've appreciated in the past the ability to ramp up the blender speed both as a way of managing food being processed and to minimize noise. Like other Ninjas, the blender base is not very quiet at the high or pulse output. Cleaning everything except the small blender cup is pretty straightforward. because of its size and only opening at one end, you'll need a cleaning implement that can reach inside for best results. It seems the major selling points are the freshvac and intelligent touch screen base. I think the freshvac is overrated and in practice will not be that useful. The touch-screen base's ability to provide different programs based on the attached cup is cool but the lack of fine tuned controls for the blend speed may turn some off. Unfortunately, the touchscreen's longevity is cause for concern here as well.

This blender is great. The screen is digital and comes with 2 jugs. a smaller (2)24fl.oz ones for on the go smoothies with lids and a big (1)72 fl. oz one well. it can crush ice with ease and makes great smoothies as well. The fresh vac technology takes the oxygen out of the food which makes it taste even better.

This blender is the best I have ever owned. I’m just a few seconds a smoothie is ready to go. The vacuum pump lets me make one today, and enjoy it in the morning fresh as ever!

This sleek powerful blender is a great addition to our kitchen. It has plenty of power to crush ice for smoothies. Two sizes of cups is great. Mix a little or a lot.

As always Ninja doesn’t fail to impress. Blends to perfection with ease. The added accessories are a great addition. Definitely worth adding to your household

i tired making my 1st smoothie doing nothing different. i used the same amount of ingredients that i used with my farberware single blender. only to find out this model could not break down 3 ice cubes, it stalled out and shutoff. it would not blend anything until i took out an ice cube.