What we love: Nutribullet might be best known for its personal smoothie blenders, but the brand recently debuted its full-size Power Core model with a whopping 72-oz. capacity and 1400 watts of peak power. The six-point stainless-steel blade effectively smoothed out leafy greens and chunky almonds, and I was able to get a creamy, cool, and ice-chunk-free smoothie out of it. Compared with the other top picks the pitcher is spacious, with a 72-oz. capacity, and I liked that the flat profile lid fit snugly inside like a plug. The whole assembly is only 17.5″ high, making it very countertop/cabinet friendly. Plus the pitcher and lid components are all dishwasher-safe (an exception to the rule I mentioned above for the Zwilling). All that for under $100 isn’t too shabby, especially if your blender only makes occasional appearances in your culinary repertoire.. What we’d leave: With only three speeds, your fine-tuning options are limited, and I was left with quite a few unblended bits flung around the top of the pitcher and into the nooks and crannies of the lid. The interface is a touch screen, which is always less desirable with wet or messy hands and occasionally took a couple presses to react. It’s a bit loud and whiny, but that’s also the norm with lower-priced blenders.. Speaking of the low price, there’s not much that feels especially premium, including the lightweight base that uses suction cups for stability (which in this case is a necessary feature to keep it from bouncing around), and the plastic pitcher, which we’d worry about dropping and cracking. Also, though I didn’t dock any points for this, it’s odd that Nutribullet didn’t opt to make this one compatible with its smoothie cups given its pedigree there.. Emma Jacobson. Back to the top. For more than half a decade other BA product testers and I have reviewed more than 35 full-size blenders (and dozens more personal and immersion blenders), giving them increasingly difficult assignments designed to weed out subpar models.
