breville - bbl800 - die cast blender review
3-Year Appliance Protection Plan Used & new (5) from $180.00 + $11.49 shipping Ships from and sold by 6ave. Breville 800BLXL Die-Cast Hemisphere 2-Speed Blender with 67-Ounce Polycarbonate Jar Breville BBL605XL Hemisphere Control Blender Breville BBL910XL Boss Easy to Use Superblender, Silver Jamba Appliances Quiet Shield Blender with 32 oz & Personal Single Serve 20 oz Jars, Gray (58916) Breville BBL605CBXL Hemisphere Control Blender, Cranberry Red The Breville Die-Cast Hemisphere Blender turns ice into snow with a powerful 1000 watt motor! The patented bowl/blade system utilizes a large, semicircular shredding blade positioned to hug the uniquely shaped bowl. Because of this design, there are no still zones around the blades and the results are finely shredded, consistent ingredients. The 67 ounce/2 liter polycarbonate pitcher is designed to resist fogginess and cracking. The baked enamel measurements provide for sharp viewing and accurate measurement.
The base control pad is designed without crevices for easy cleaning and gives you precise control over the motor's 2-speed settings and pulse functions. The base is die-cast stainless. The pitcher is dishwasher safe. It has a Breville assist lid and plug for easy removal. 11.5 x 9.2 x 16.5 inches 13.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues. 3.9 out of 5 stars #211,454 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen) #482 in Kitchen & Dining > Small Appliances > Blenders > Countertop Blenders Love It or Hate It! I bought this blender to make vegatable smoothies. I find I can blend everything I put in it. I guess maybe the Vit-a-mix may be better for some things but this works very well for... Great heavy duty blender, but loses a star for only 2 speeds. We literally burned out/up a couple of blenders, so I bought this because is was 1000 Watts and heavy duty built.
I got this blender as a Christmas present 2 years ago.
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oster blender blstcc-bfpI liked it immediately because of the power, how easily it chopped frozen fruit as my... Breville is the BEST!!!! Well worth the price, great warranty, great customer service, and product new, and delivered on Time... It really works well.I have used it for shakes and smoothies and it really is efficient. Fatal, it is plastic with a bad silver painting, the blender jar accumulates very much dirtily and smells badly. See and discover other items: blenders and juicers Date Purchased: Aug 2014 Amazing Blender had it for at least 3 years 5 out of 5, reviewed on Jan 16, 2017 Was this review helpful? Read the reviews for Optimum 9400.
Date Purchased: Mar 2013 Below level of other breville products. Solid, but not a great choice 3 out of 5, reviewed on Aug 27, 2016 Hi og8 - thanks for your feedback. The Boss can heat when making soups however that may not be the type of 'heating' you were referring to. posted on Aug 29, 2016 reviewed on Jan 08, 2016 Hi FlorianM - glad to hear you're enjoying your blender. Thanks, the Breville team posted on Jan 25, 2016 All l can say is fantastic ! It’s everything we have been looking for. reviewed on Oct 16, 2015 Poor base finish, lack of control, short useful life 1 out of 5, reviewed on Feb 03, 2015 2 people found this helpful, do you? Not good for vegetables/green smoothies but otherwise a very nice blender reviewed on Jan 12, 2015 4 people found this helpful, do you? Excellent blender for my requirements. reviewed on Dec 15, 2014 reviewed on Dec 06, 2014 Wouldn't buy this again
reviewed on Nov 21, 2014 1 person found this helpful, do you? Keep realistic expectations and you'll be fine 4 out of 5, reviewed on Nov 05, 2014 Breville Blender BBL 800 2 out of 5, reviewed on Oct 24, 2014 Happy with this product reviewed on Jun 02, 2014 Simple controls, looks good, good quality, easy to clean, BPA free plastic Sometimes grit gets caught in the blades and in the rubber seal (although I'm sure this would occur with all blenders, a little pricey if you purchase it full price 1 of 4 pagesAfter we spent 21 seconds trying to blend a banana mixed with some soy milk and ice, almost all of the banana remained. We mixed the contents around a bit by hand and turned the Tango on for an additional 36 seconds, but its blades came to a standstill against the ice and fruit long before that time was up. We smelled smoke and cut the motor. Results were similar with the more difficult-to-blend fruits—because the Tango's blades couldn't crush the small amount of ice in the blender, they never got close to blending up the fruit chunks.
Convinced that the Tango would never do any "extreme" blending, we tried a mixed drink test with ice and water. The tango performed a bit better here, blending up some of the ice completely, but many large pieces (longer than one inch) remained.This blender failed every test on our list, showing that horsepower alone won't lead to effective blending if the blades and blender pitcher don't do their part of the job.After forty seconds macerating a whole banana at top speed, the Blendtec had crushed the ice to Frappuccino consistency, but had only eaten through half the fruit. After we mixed the pitcher around a bit and blended for another minute, the results looked a bit better, but left a large chunk of fruit with the peel on. We were having similarly disappointing results with the whole orange, so we poured the contents of the pitcher into a larger Blendtec pitcher ($90) with a 4-inch blade. With this pitcher, the Blendtec ate through the orange easily and left us with something that looked a lot like orange juice.
But even with the larger pitcher, the blender could not blend an entire Red Delicious apple. We gave it plenty of time and used several settings—the whole-juice setting, the regular setting, even the ice-crushing setting. It didn't seem to matter. Half of the apple remained in the pitcher, leading us to question whether a blender that can't get through an actual apple can possibly blend Apple computer products.We measured the Blendtec's ice-crushing abilities by testing a peach ice cream recipe that came in the Blendtec cookbook. Its ingredients included frozen peaches, half and half, sugar, vanilla and ice cubes. The book says that this recipe can take as little as 15 seconds—less time than the normal ice cream setting affords. After three minutes in ice cream mode (three cycles), we had a delicious frozen treat—a chewy ice-cream-like slush.A more normal ice-crushing test produced ice of a very fine consistency—one of the finest in this test. But the blender required a fair amount of water to do its job;
it can't shave a pitcher of ice without more than a cup of liquid.While some of what we blended in the normal Blendtech pitcher came out remarkably smooth, other tests produced chunky results that we wouldn't expect in a machine priced at nearly $500.It took the Hemisphere one go and just 40 seconds to liquefy the banana, and it didn't need any pushing or prodding to get the job done. The orange was a similar story. The Hemisphere was one of two blenders that could turn a whole apple into applesauce without whining, smoking or leaving a large chunk of core. Though we rank the Breville number three overall, it made an impressive showing in the fruit-crushing category, and would be our number-two choice for whole fruit smoothies. Here's what kept it from the absolute top of the pack: Though it chomped through all the fruit and ice we fed it, the final consistency of the blended liquid was not completely smooth. It reminded us of the results from a food processor, while the results from our top two blenders were as smooth as toothpaste.
Though the Breville did a serviceable job of blending ice into liquid, a few frustrating half-inch chunks remained. The ice cream was similar to that of the Blendtec—tasty, but not smooth.The Breville isn't a cheap blender, but it does cost less than three of the blenders in this test. It struck us as a solid workhorse machine that will satisfy most people's blending needs.Without the tamper, the Vita-Mix can't compete with most of the blenders on this list. We first tried our banana test without it, and the blender made a poor showing, blending only half the fruit. With a couple of quick pushes from the tamper, however, the banana was gone—giving us pudding-smooth results in just 10 seconds. The results were similar with the orange. But with the apple, about a third of the fruit remained whole after blending—it didn't matter how much we pushed on it with the tamper. This disappointing result kept this blender from being an all-out winner.We made the same ice cream recipe with the Vita-Mix as we did with the Blendtec, and the difference was huge.
While the Blendtec ice cream was icy and chewy, the Vita-Mix ice cream had a smooth, ice cream-like consistency, impressing all of our tasters. It's a recipe we'd make again. The Vita-Mix was also able to crush our ice and water mixture effectively and without incident.With the exception of the apple flub, the Vita-Mix performed well, delivering the smoothest results in this test. The fact that it is tamper-dependent, however, led some in the office to write it off. The tamper is another part to clean—and to misplace in a messy kitchen drawer.The Kitchen Aid destroyed all the fruit we threw at it, and it did it quickly, without us having to turn the blender off and push the contents around. In this category, it was the clear winner, showing that sheer power can't trump good blade design.The Kitchen Aid ice cream, while tasty and reminiscent of real ice cream, was not as smooth as the Vita-Mix version.When it came to ice, the Kitchen Aid was the best at crushing more ice with less water, although the final consistency of the ice was a bit rougher than that of the Vita-Mix and Blendtec.The Kitchen Aid is clearly the best value on the list, in terms of performance per dollar.