NUTRiBULLET 1200 Series - Smart Technology High Speed Blender - 1200W 12 Piece Set – Silver [Energy Class A]

I've been an avid smoothier since the craze took off, and I've been hammering my NutriBullet 600 most days for about 3 years. For reference, my standard shake is a couple of citrus fruits, kale, celery, ginger, cucumber and a bunch of seeds and other good stuff.With experience, I noticed frequent issues with my smoothies - not every time, but maybe 10-20% of the time. There'd be either a lost, unblended chunk of ginger, some strings of celery, or worst of all, a really mean chunk of kale stem (the bags from the supermarkets are brutal in this respect, as any Bulleter will know!). Any of these things are pretty miserable when you're necking a smoothie. Getting celery fibres hanging off your teeth is unpleasant, but when a few of your gulps have a big miscellaneous chunk in it, it can take some serious discipline to stop your body's gag reflex from pushing that smoothie out again (unpleasant, but true). To avoid these horrible incidents, my preparation time got longer and longer as I chased reliably smooth smoothies. I would spend 5 minutes fingering through a handful of kale, extracting any chunks of stem, any particularly hard stalky bits down the leaves, till it was all soft squeezable leaf. I would slice the ginger as finely as possible. I would do the same thing with the celery, working against the grain so that there was no chance of fibres. On top of peeling the oranges and lemons, it would take me about 30 minutes to get my smoothie down me. Hardly convenient nutrition.So although my 600 still blends just as it did from the start (honourable note: it's been one hell of a machine to take this kind of persistent punishment), I finally decided to splurge on an upgrade. Seeing that the 1200 had been released, I bypassed the 900W Pro model entirely, as I didn't want to take any chances.It arrived around 30 minutes ago. Got it all unpacked and washed, and thought I'd baptise it by fire. I reached into the chunky supermarket bag of kale and grabbed a chunky handful. As I rinsed it under the tap, I could feel all the stalks and stems, and could feel the fear growing - but in the cup it went. I took a big old chunk of ginger, peeled it, and chucked it in. I chopped a stalk of celery into two pieces, and left it at that. Roughly peeled the orange and lemon. This was going to be a Frankensmoothie.One minute later (once you lock the cup down, the automatic blending cycle starts, and stops itself when it's finished - hands free blending is a nice touch), it was ready. I threw on a lid, and took a deep breath. Yet all the fear was for nothing. It was one of the smoothest green smoothies I've had to date. Not a single chunk or fibre in sight.Perhaps it seems like I'm gushing too much for a blender, but for the NB faithful this does really change things. It's cut out 90% of the ingredient prep, and it's cut out 90% of the effort blending (you can walk away!). The cups feel far more substantial too, there's a weight to them and the rubber grips feel great.If you're looking to get into smoothies, I'd go straight for this one. If you're having dramas with your earlier NB600, don't even hesitate to upgrade. This one will do what you want it to.

I absolutely love this NutriBullet. I spent ages before I bought this debating the merits of a ridiculous amount of blenders, but I've had it for a few months now and I'm super pleased that I went for this one in the end.I use it mainly for fruit and veg smoothies and it has handled literally everything I've thrown at it with complete ease. Fruit is pulverized in seconds and it handles veg just as well - even chunky stuff, like carrots is absolutely smooth by the end of the cycle.I've never had a single unblended bit or lump in anything I've made. There are 2 settings - pressing the button on the front in the first 5 seconds of switching it on puts it into a kind of sensor mode which detects what's in the machine and blitzes it until the bits are small enough and then it switches to a full blend mode. The other setting is just a basic blend. In all honesty, I can't say I've noticed much difference between the 2 settings, both produce completely smooth smoothies.Cleaning it is simple too - because you use one of the (many) included cups and screw the blade mechanism directly onto the top of it, cleaning is not much more difficult than washing out a cup. The blades are easy to clean with a sponge, but I have used my bottle cleaning brush to get around the rubber seal and further into the middle of the blades if I've made anything with seeds (i.e. raspberries). For a deeper clean, put a tiny bit of washing up liquid + water in the cup and then blend for a few seconds (but don't overdo the washing up liquid unless you want a bath when you open it up!).It comes with 3 cups, which are all pretty massive! 2 plastic ones, one with and one without a handle, and one stainless steel, which keeps drinks extremely cold for a good few hours. I like them all, but they really are big, which is fine for me, but using one of the ones without a handle might be a bit tricky if you have smaller hands or if the cup is fairly full (they hold a lot of liquid so can be a little heavy). The size of them wouldn't be appropriate for kids, but you could always pour the smoothie into a little glass if need be.In all, by far the best blender I've ever had. I'm confident it can handle absolutely anything I throw in it, and I'm so pleased I bought it.

Bought after son told me about using similar product at uni.Great way to get to your 5 a day. I use frozen fruits (either bought frozen or fresh and prepped at home for freezing). Haven’t been too ambitious with ingredients - yet.Simple to use, quick to clean, quite noisy in operation. Can make a single glass or enough to share. Doesn’t always smooth out every chunk but manages most stuff, even quite big frozen pieces, so long as there’s some liquid as well.Minor quibble that the recipe book is a bit limited unless you’ve endless ingredients around (there’s an app which claims to search recipes based on ingredients but it currently seems to not be working properly) but frankly you just chuck in stuff you like with some water or juice to help thin it down, lock and load, whizz it and there you are.No idea if the two options to blend make any difference at all - if they do I can’t tell.Like the extra accessories I got with this one but probably not going to use them all, so could have possibly got a cheaper one with less bits ans pieces. Like the idea of the travel lids though for work.