Here are our recommendations for our favourite smoothie maker models from our reviews of the past year. We have included the best model under $50, between $50 and $100, $100 to $200 and over $200.
Best Smoothie Maker Under $50
Our winner: Oster BLSTPB-WBL My Blend 250-Watt Blender
An amazing 63 out of the 89 people who have left a review on Amazon.com give the Oster My Blend four stars or the maximum five stars. The general comment amongst those who gave it four stars was that they would have given it five stars if the lid design had been better! This is a minor point on a machine that performs brilliantly – and less than $30 if you get it from Amazon!
Extract from customer review:-
“You just blend, put the lid on, and go! It’s great for drinking on the way to school or work and it is so fast to make!”
This model from Oster is a personal blender and allows you to make a delicious ‘smoothie to go’ because you make it directly in the carrying bottle. The supplied mixing bottle is a BPA-free 20 ounce container which fits into most cup holders perfectly – whether this is on the treadmill, your bike or in your car! The container is dishwasher safe so clean-up is a breeze.
It has a motor powerful enough to crush ice and frozen fruit – but if you overdo it and overtax the motor, the neat resettable fuse feature avoids you damaging the machine because it cuts out, allows fifteen minutes for the motor to cool safely – after which time, you can restart the machine. There are several recipes supplied with this machine – or why not try out some of the recipes on this site?
We all like the sleek design, the variety of colors, the fact that the bottle is BPA-free and comes with a carry hook. The Oster My Blend is a great, personal smoothie maker.
Our Winner: Cuisinart Blender Review, Cuisinart CPB-300 Portable Blending and Chopping System
Follow the link to visit our review of this model. We love it and so it seems, does just about everyone else! With an amazing 87 people out of the 147 who have (so far) left a review on Amazon, giving this amazing machine the full five stars!
Extract from customer review:-
“I was ready to write a great review for this blender the moment I got it, but I thought, no, I should test it out, see if it fails to perform over time. It’s been months and it’s just been a wonderful blender, no problems. The pulse button is a very handy addition, because it modifies both HIGH and LOW buttons with one push, so it’s very one-hand-friendly. It’s got a strong motor, which is not too noisy … you can smoothly lift the cups to stop it automatically, which is super smart. Altogether a very neatly designed product.”
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Younger people like the consistency of smoothies and shakes because they mask the grittiness of certain ingredients that need to be drank, especially for pre- and post-gym workouts. Beyond this, however, a diet in smoothie form is especially beneficial for the elderly because it helps them chew less and digest more. Even so-called “soft food” could prove hard to eat by people who have already lost most of their teeth. And medication or supplements which older people might find hard to swallow can be easily mixed in a smoothie.