tmm99
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I don't know how many products you ended up buying to get to the final product you could really be happy with, but I have had my shares of purchasing "not so good" products in the past. Some of them I returned to the seller; some I donated.
This has happened to me with steam mops, portable vacuum cleaners, and skincare products; probably more, but I am probably refusing to remember them all.
Anyway, I wanted to start a thread where everyone can share their own consumer reports for the products they personally have experience with.
My recent one is with the mixer/blender/smooth maker.
My Cusinart blender is good enough for blending, but not much more. I have a food processor (Cusinart) - not so powerful, plus it is bulky to take it out/put it back - it can chop and blend fine but again, not much more. A few months a go, I bought a Magic Bullet thinking this could handle making small amount of pesto, making frozen smoothies, but I was wrong. (it is not powerful enough for either. Basils stuck on one side of the bullet, and it just didn't do a good job, and smoothies with ice weren't smooth at all.)
Anyway, the winner for me was a Ninja Master Prep. This only cost me $45 on amazon (I think Magic Bullet was $70 or so - it came with a lot of cups) and the Ninja Prep crushes ice very fast and small (you can put pretty good size ice cubes and it crushes them up finely). I can just put frozen berries/fruit, ice cubes, yogurt and it makes a smoothie. Very powerful. It does chopping great too, and the head is small enough that I can just leave it on the kitchen counter).
I am glad I didn't have to resort to buying an expensive Vitamix (which I couldn't afford anyway - it costs about $350) just for making smoothies (mine turns out more like frozen yogurt since it is really thick...)
This has happened to me with steam mops, portable vacuum cleaners, and skincare products; probably more, but I am probably refusing to remember them all.
Anyway, I wanted to start a thread where everyone can share their own consumer reports for the products they personally have experience with.
My recent one is with the mixer/blender/smooth maker.
My Cusinart blender is good enough for blending, but not much more. I have a food processor (Cusinart) - not so powerful, plus it is bulky to take it out/put it back - it can chop and blend fine but again, not much more. A few months a go, I bought a Magic Bullet thinking this could handle making small amount of pesto, making frozen smoothies, but I was wrong. (it is not powerful enough for either. Basils stuck on one side of the bullet, and it just didn't do a good job, and smoothies with ice weren't smooth at all.)
Anyway, the winner for me was a Ninja Master Prep. This only cost me $45 on amazon (I think Magic Bullet was $70 or so - it came with a lot of cups) and the Ninja Prep crushes ice very fast and small (you can put pretty good size ice cubes and it crushes them up finely). I can just put frozen berries/fruit, ice cubes, yogurt and it makes a smoothie. Very powerful. It does chopping great too, and the head is small enough that I can just leave it on the kitchen counter).
I am glad I didn't have to resort to buying an expensive Vitamix (which I couldn't afford anyway - it costs about $350) just for making smoothies (mine turns out more like frozen yogurt since it is really thick...)