Nutribullet?

[audi321]

I've just bought one off ebay for £90 (for the 900w version). Can't wait for it to come and get started.

One question though. My wife is nagging and nagging to stop using these tomato pasta/bolognese sauces, can this thing help in the making of that or is it just going to blend the tomatos to liquid?

[Du1point8]

audi321 said:

I've just bought one off ebay for £90 (for the 900w version). Can't wait for it to come and get started.

One question though. My wife is nagging and nagging to stop using these tomato pasta/bolognese sauces, can this thing help in the making of that or is it just going to blend the tomatos to liquid?

it blends as much as you let it.

quick blast of 2 or 3 seconds will leave lumpy bits, any more and it will be a liquid, I prefer liquid, plus make sure its all cold/room temp, nothing hot in the blender.

[dazco]

shakotan said:

AOK said:

shakotan said:

AOK said:

- I also use it for frozen margarita's + daiquiris

Completely off topic, but I thought I'd ask you the question. It's not a pisstake, a genuine question to understand the reasoning behind it.

Why do you find that you put an apostrophe within the plural of a word ending in 'a', but not in a word ending in 'i'?

Interesting you pick me up on that!

Unsure of how to spell either, I had originally written the following:

AOK's intentions said:

- I also use it for frozen margheritas and daquiris

And then my spell checker on this computer suggested those two spelling (and punctuation) changes... which I went with, without putting much thought into whether they are right or not!

I imagine neither should have an apostrophe?

Correct. I'm not being a grammar nazi (this time), I'm genuinely interested how people come to the conclusion of whether to include it or not.

Thanks for the honest response.

As for the Margherita/Magarita spelling, the first is a pizza, the second is a cocktail!

Margarita

[ali_kat]

toohuge said:

I personally prefer to eat my fruit and vegetables than drink them....

Me too

drfrank said:

f1nn said:

The wife has suggested we buy one, which is great as I'm a fan of a fruit/veg smoothly and could do with upping my five a day (or probably more like 2!) but Incan't help but think they are a marketing triumph, over a far less expensive, big standard blender.

@f1nn
I was of the exact same mindset !!
A glorified blender with an exceptional marketing budget/team.
However, I have now changed my mind !
It blitzes everything down to a smoothy - fruit, veg and even almonds, something my blender couldn't do. The other claims it makes I cannot confirm or deny but I didn't eat much fruit and now I do. If I want a smoothy I want just that and not something with unblended lumps in. With the nutribullet it's really smooth and I've lost weight. It certainly encourages me to take my 5 a day.

I bought one, then decided that as I dislike pureed food, it was a waste of £££ so it was returned sharpish, leaving me with a load of fruit & veg & nuts.

As an experiment I threw it in the blender for my Kenwood Chef; exactly how they tell you to do so for the Bullet & it pulverised it successfully, it has more capacity AND it goes through the dishwasher

Still makes me feel like I'm eating baby food

[Calza]

Is the nutribullet not safe for the dishwasher?

The ninja is fine.

[croyde]

s3fella said:

For 25 quid I can't fault the Breville one. Didn't know about the 20 quid Murphy Richards one though.

I just popped out to get a Nutribullet but next to it on the shelf was the Breville for £29. This was at Sainsburys.

A third of the cost to do the same thing. I hope I'm not wrong but if I'm still using it in a years time I'll by the Nutri

BTW as the Nutri cups are bigger I know I would only have used it to make my favourite, currently prepared by bashing and smashing.

Vanilla icecream, with a mashed up from the freezer Twirl bar and a couple of digestives.

ETA Well it does the job and I've just had my first smoothie of spinach, banana, apple with alpro coconut milk stuff (40 cal per glass). It tastes good. Very surprised.

The narrow bottles did mean that I had to take it off the machine to give it a good shake though.

Edited by croyde on Monday 22 June 18:02

[NordicCrankShaft]

Cheib said:

I bought my wife one for Christmas but it developed a fault. Unfortunately in the intervening period we'd met up with some friends....one of whom's wife is an uber beard about these things and had a Vitamix https://www.vitamix.co.uk/shop/G-Series

My wife's Nutribullet went back for a refund and we now have a Vitamix sitting in the kitchen! Ouch that was expensive. No friggin idea how it does it but you can make soup in it....actually heats things up. Comes with a 7 year warranty so it must be good.....

There is absolutely no need for anyone to spend this sort of money for an occasional use blender that is made for commercial use.....Crazy people.

We used these in Michelin starred kitchens to make all sorts everyday.

[Studio117]

NordicCrankShaft said:

Cheib said:

I bought my wife one for Christmas but it developed a fault. Unfortunately in the intervening period we'd met up with some friends....one of whom's wife is an uber beard about these things and had a Vitamix https://www.vitamix.co.uk/shop/G-Series

My wife's Nutribullet went back for a refund and we now have a Vitamix sitting in the kitchen! Ouch that was expensive. No friggin idea how it does it but you can make soup in it....actually heats things up. Comes with a 7 year warranty so it must be good.....

There is absolutely no need for anyone to spend this sort of money for an occasional use blender that is made for commercial use.....Crazy people.

We used these in Michelin starred kitchens to make all sorts everyday.

500 quid blender!

Kin'ell