Amazon: Hamilton Beach Personal Blender in Black Only $9.99 (Available Again!)
Yay! If you missed out on this the last time I posted, it’s back in stock!
Hurry over to Amazon where you can score this Hamilton Beach Personal Blender in Black for only $9.99 (regularly $21.99!). This blender is great for making smoothies, shakes, baby formula, marinades and salad dressings and the 14-oz. blending jar also functions as portable travel cup that fits most car drink holders.
(Thanks, Freebies for a Cause!)
Does anyone have this? Review?
I used to have one and the motor burned up. My suggestion would be to not use ice in it and stick with smaller things that are not hard or chunky. Mine lasted about 4 months and that was with occasional use, like every couple weeks or so.
I use it twice a day for green smoothies(frozen blueberries, spinach/kale, water) and it works great
I think it’s lousy. I got it to make smoothies, and it really doesn’t blend up food and protein powder well, and definitely not ice. The motor smells like it’s burning and I only have used it a few times! I gave up and bought a different one.
I have the same blender in lime green. I have noticed a burning smell when I tried to blend a smoothie with ice (I like to make smoothies with frozen fruit). However, now I let the fruit defrost a bit first and it seems to work just fine (no burning smell). Mine does a good job blending. I also like that it is small enough to make just a single serving at a time. I bought mine at Meijer for around 14.99 about a year ago.
I would say it’s worth the money as long as you don’t plan to blend frozen ingredients.
I just checked the ratings on Amazon they look pretty good.
One of my friends bought one awhile back to blend protein shakes because her ninja left them gritty. She said this one is perfect!! Blends them right up and no grittiness.
i own this for over a year now. I use it almost everyday. I only put fruit in it and bits of kale. that’s it and it does its job at that. I never tried using protein mix nor ice on it…I think ice would be too hard on the blender. Just few little tricks to it: pre-chop fruit to about 1 in pieces to facilitate blending (this aint a powerhorse vitamix). Second tip: with one finger pressing on blend button, use other hand to lightly shake the blender; this allows quicker blending and less sticking. Blades are stuck on bottom of blender so it gets washed with container. i wash immediately after use to avoid discoloration of plastic (swish water around it…done). it’s bpa free too (at least for the yellow colored one).
I have one of these and I like it. I don’t put ice in mine but I do add frozen strawberry’s and frozen Bluberry’s to my smoothy makes them nice and cold.
Is this good for making baby food?
Mine works great! I put frozen fruits, ice, and greens. I use this thing every day and I don’t have a problem with it.