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Tips: How To Find a Good Blender for Smoothie?

There are many questions for me to what a type of blender I use to make smoothies especially for a green smoothie which use leafy vegetables, vegetables and some fruit and berries which rich in seeds. Do you need a good blender or use any blender you can find on the market?

So for you who are looking for the good blender for smoothie, you will inevitably stumble upon the advice of choosing a high-performance model. This type of blender is a typical blender which has a strong machine which able to provide around 30,000 rpm or even higher.

Blendtec, Vitamix, and Oster are manufacturers who offer high-end blenders. The range price for that such of quality blenders is about $400 until $700 which is relatively expensive for some the people.

The most important factors when buying a blender for smoothies

Looking a blender by only refer to the price is not a wise decision, there are some factors that you need to check before you find a blender to help you make your smoothie:

1. Check the Wattage

Ordinary stand blender usually has between 200 to 500 watts, high-performance and professional equipment are once again clearly above it. Keep in mind, however, that not every single watt from the manufacturer's performance specification can be distributed to the blades. Therefore, the number of Watts is only a single parameter.

2. The quality of the blades

We agree that high engine power and high rpm impersonate a big role in a smoothie blender when it comes to its performance.

The smoothie ingredients itself, however, can only be well crushed by the blades. That is why the arrangement of the blades makes an important role. The quality and the blade design are sufficient, and the transmission of the engine power to the blades works.

At the latest, it is noticeable that a high-performance mixer or professional mixer is a highly complex kitchen appliance – and perhaps this is precisely the fact that justifies the comparatively higher price in the purchase compared to the classic stand mixer.

3. Jar design and quality

Finally, from a performance point of view, the jar design should also be adapted to the components mentioned so far.

Only then can all ingredients be crushed successfully and, if necessary, cell walls broken up. Also, it is worthwhile to deal with the topic of BPA – see the next point material.

4. The material of the blender itself

The first thing that you should check is the blender jar since this is the most used part in the blender. Occasionally you will find a blender with a hardened glass jar, such as the Oster Pro. But if the jar for a blender you are going to buy is made of plastic, make sure it is made from Tritan (triphenylmethane) material which also BPA-free.

Later then, you can check the buttons and dial, whether it made from cheap plastic or rubber? Check also for the blender base whether it looks easy to break or not. You don't want to buy a blender which is easy to break right?

5. Cleaning and handling

Just as often as you blend, you have to clean the device and the blender jar. Just think about how much time you would spend cleaning if you use the blender for smoothies every day. If this takes too long, it will be annoying quickly. Therefore, please pay attention to the details for cleaning the mixer and orient yourself, for example, to our evaluation in the smoothie mixer comparison.

For hygiene reasons, you must be able to reach the blades pretty easy during cleaning your blender. Ideally, the individual parts of the smoothie mixer can be removed quickly and effortlessly and cleaned individually. Only then will you enjoy your device for a long time.

Most of the mixers clean themselves independently – that is, they give enough water with a drop of detergent in the jar and then start the blending. The whirling also removes stubborn residues such as those of the homemade nut butter. However, it is also advisable to use a rinse brush on a regular basis, for a particularly thorough necessary cleaning.

Conclusion

Everyone has to decide which blender for themselves. In the end, it all depends on what is to be done with the blender. Fruit and vegetables are getting somewhat small even without a real vegetable smoothie blender. But for example, those who want to prepare green smoothies and achieve the first-class result will not get around a real high-performance mixer. In total there are three reasons to speak for a purchase.

In conclusion, I would like to note that to be able to make a delicious smoothie with ease a good blender for smoothie is essential.

Just Random Post: Suicidal Orange and Stuff That's Viral

A little while ago, a Swedish agency called Peacock visited our office in Copenhagen to offer their services. They'd even made an advert, which has since been named 'suicidal orange'. It's really good, but maybe not quite us. Have a look for yourself and see what you think:

After we met them, they posted it on youtube. We posted it on our own blog too, seeing as we liked it. We wanted to see what people thought of it. Some of our readers liked it and some didn't. Then the other day I noticed that the clip had gradually started to appear on advertising blogs (some links at the bottom of this post), some of which falsely credited us with producing it, which of course is unfair on the people at Peacock (can't find a URL for them anywhere).

I guess that when it started to spread on the web, it became 'viral'. 'Viral' is my least favourite term in the pantheon of adspeak, but it did make me take five minutes to have a think about how stuff 'becomes' viral? How does it spread?

The answer is, of course, that nobody really knows. Nobody can guarantee viralness. In this case, the fact that it's a bit weird and that it's also at odds (tonally) with what people have seen from us before means that it's interesting/unusual. Sometimes weird is good. Unexpected is good. So I'm guessing that some people are more likely to want to watch it than an innocent ad that features a pile of fruit and a packshot. People like new and unusual, especially on the web.

Of course, I'm still extremely wary of those who talk about 'viral'. I believe that the people who email me every day, telling me that they can make us excellent viral clips at the drop of a hat, are missing the point. You can't make things viral to order.

But you can do something else if you want to make stuff that people will send to their friends and post on their blogs. I think it's fairly simple. The more stuff you make, the more chance there is of something turning out to be good. And then people will watch it. So in 2007 we will be making more stuff, writing more stuff, posting more stuff and filming more stuff. Some of it will be rubbish and some of it might work. And seeing as we don't know which bits will work until we've done them, I guess we'd better get cracking.