This really works!
I needed a food processor and was doing some internet research when I came across this. I was skeptical because it was an "As Seen On TV" product. I bought it anyway since it was a food processor and a blender and felt like I was getting 2-for-1.
This thing is pretty amazing! The food processor chops food just fine. It gets 5-stars from me.
But the amazing thing is the blender! It has three blades - one at the top, one in the middle and one at the bottom. It blends EVERYTHING! In the informercial, they say that you can put ice into the blender and it will make "white, fluffy snow." I filled it with only ice, and lo & behold after about 30 seconds the blender had packed snow in it. Just for fun, I even made a snowball.
Today I started my annual New Years resolution diet. For breakfast I made a smoothie with fruit, yogurt, water and orange juice. I didn't have any OJ so I just put in a whole (peeled) orange. After 15 seconds, I had a smoothie that was...
Blades Got Dull VERY Fast
I thought I needed to replace my old 800 watt Oster blender because it was getting hot making green smoothies, and after all, it WAS 42 years old. I tried a new 600 watt Oster, which couldn't make smoothies smooth.
Then I looked blenders up in Consumers Reports and bought the Ninja. At first it went well. After a couple of weeks, though, I realized it was having problems smoothing things like peach peel, so I started getting concerned. Then in the 6th week I owned it, I made a Kale and Banana "smoothie", and it came out a "chewie". Now, Kale is a LEAF, and should not give anything sharp problems! I transferred it to my old machine, and even with the 3-4-year-old blades it became smooth!!
That's when I realized there was no way to replace the Ninja blades, nor sharpen them -- even if after only 6 weeks, I would have been willing to do so. Long story short: I exchanged the Ninja for $9 worth of Oster blades, the old machine is running cool, and making smooth...
I LOVE MY NINJA MASTER!!!
I haven't caved into the whole food processor gimmick because I think they just don't work/end up making the food texture too smooth/liquidy, but I was really tempted to get this during Black Friday of 2010 at Target (I think it was on sale for like 20 bucks or something), ended up being too lazy that morning and I didn't get it, but after reading so many good reviews I couldn't help myself and got it on Amazon (I think it ships from Target though...much more expensive than the BF price but still pretty cheap compared to other FPs).
LOVE IT! I will never go back to hours of chopping garlic/onion/ginger/tomatoes/carrots! I love how you can take the blades out completely and scoop out every last drop of food/smoothie and not waste anything. Careful washing the blade though, it's extremely sharp and I've sliced myself a few times on accident. Makes great ground ice for snow cones, blends up perfect smoothies super fast, and chops things in different sizes depending on how...
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