On the other hand, the BlendJet is battery-powered, and some users may prefer the Hamilton Beach’s corded design. The NutriBullet Pro 900 is a much better personal blender than the Hamilton Beach Single-Serve Blender. The NutriBullet is significantly sturdier and has a better blending performance since it can make nut butter and produce a smooth puree with fibrous ingredients like kale. Create your favorite recipes with ease with the right small kitchen appliances from Sam’s Club®. Efficiently tackle the work of blending, chopping and pureeing ingredients.
The motor base has one button that you need to press constantly to blend. Simulating a pulse mode by pressing and releasing in short intervals is also easy. However, blenders with programs or that run continuously after one push of a button are more convenient since this design means you can’t multi-task while your smoothie blends. If you’re looking for other options, check out our recommendations for the best personal blenders, the best bullet blenders, and the best blenders for smoothies. Hamilton Beach commercial blenders make a convenient addition to your kitchen prep equipment or beverage equipment.
This personal blender has a sub-par build quality, so it doesn’t feel very durable. It also can’t hot blend, and it fails to crush ice and make almond butter. While it makes a passable smoothie, it doesn’t fully blend fibrous ingredients like kale, so there are leafy, grainy chunks left in the blend. On the upside, you can wash the jar and the lid in the dishwasher, and it’s also easy to wash by hand. The Hamilton Beach Personal Creations Blender is awful for professional use. It doesn’t feel very durable, and its 14-ounce capacity main jar isn’t suitable for making large batches of food.
Whether you need a single serve blender for your morning smoothie or a professional mixer for baking a mountain of cupcakes, you’ll find a large selection of brands at Sam’s Club. Frankly I’m surprised by how many home blending machines can’t quite wrap their blades around a mere 2 cups of supermarket bag ice. Thankfully though, where its less powerful little brother, the Stay or Go (650 peak-watts), stumbled at times, the MultiBlend fared better at chopping plain ice cubes. While it took a long series of motor pulses to get there (specifically 45), the gadget did manage to crush plain ice into a pleasingly fine frozen powder. That said, muscular devices such as the Nutri Ninja performed the same crushing with more skill (fewer than 10 pulses).
Some retailers let you buy this blender with an additional 14-ounce jar. Since this jar is identical to the 14-oz main jar we tested, we don’t expect a difference in performance. If you encounter any other variants of this blender, let us know in the discussion section below so we can update our review.
We tested the Black variant; you can see the label for the model we tested here. If this combination of ingredients means anything to you, we suggest you click on over to Walmart to check out its fantastic deal on a Hamilton Beach blender. A final “Off” button shuts down the engine regardless of what mode it’s in.
Keep in mind I also had to leave the machine running for 2 minutes on Puree/Smoothie/Icy drink mode for the slurry to gel properly. Another welcome design element is how the MultiBlend’s mixing jar uses a minimum of parts plus comes apart easily for hassle-free hamilton blender cleaning. And even though it’s a cinch to wash by hand the blender is dishwasher safe too, chances are most owners will simply toss it into the washer when it’s time to tidy up. It’s quiet for a blender, partly because of its lower motor power.
Despite running a slightly beefier 700 peak-watt electric motor, the MultiBlend demonstrated virtually identical almond-crunching prowess as the smaller (and weaker) Stay or Go. After 30 pulses on high speed (Grind/Crush ice mode), the blender reduced my 2 cup sample of whole raw almonds to mostly powder. Letting the engine roar for 15 more pulses (45 total) and I had legitimate almond flour on my hands. Unfortunately, no amount of time or motor pulses could transform my nutty materials into true, creamy almond butter.
The blades are fixed in the bottom of the jar instead of attached to a blade assembly that screws onto the jar like a lid. The blades are always attached when you use the jar as a travel cup. The Hamilton Beach Personal Creations Blender is awful for crushing ice. Even if you work in small batches of about four cubes at once, they tend to bounce around on top of the blades. It eventually makes slushy, uneven ice but leaves behind lots of unprocessed chunks.