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Kitchen systems Ninja 1100 – Model BL700
September 30th, 2011 
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Best of the Best Blender’s,
I got this for my birthday from my husband and son, they are good boys! It was something we had looked at on the TV ads and kept thinking on and surprise, I did get one! I was so happily surprised with the way this contraption did absolutely everything they claimed on the TV ad, although we’re not normally the infomercial buying kind of people, we wait for them to hit the stores to trek the “As Seen on TV Isle”.
I always start off with a warning when needed, so WARNING, THE BLADES ARE FREAKING SHARP, My husbands already cut himself at least three times just barely touching them, always-always-always keep the blade locked inside the containers, the other pieces can float around your drawers or wherever you keep them, but the blades, keep them locked inside the pitcher/blender units. The Pitchers are also plastic, they don’t mar or cut easily, but the blades can and will scar them up, so careful keeping your pitchers shiny and happy.
When washing, we place the blade in the dishwasher first, then the pitcher upside down on top of the blade, relative to which blade it belongs to, this keeps you from cutting yourself loading or unloading the dishes. You get the idea.. THE BLADES ARE FREAKING SHARP, AND THEY’RE EXTREMELY CLOSE TOGETHER SO IT’S VERY EASY TO CUT YOURSELF. It’s like a saw, you don’t grab it on the jagged side, and you don’t grab scissors open and in the middle, so don’t just go grabbing the blades here people, use the ends to handle it and keep yourself cut free.
Enough about the sharpness of it, because if you didn’t notice, IT’S FREAKING SHARP, really now, moving on..
Construction: This is very well constructed, the grade of the plastics and the materials used to manufacture the Ninja seem very well made.
What you’ll usually get the with the System, if it includes extras or perks you’ll have to check the description or with the seller:
1 Large Pitcher
1 Small Pitcher
1 Large and 1 Small Very Sharp Blades
1 Large and 1 Small Dough Paddles (not sharp)
1 Small Dough Hook (also not sharp)
The set also includes Two (2) distinctive locking lids that cannot be interchanged, although they are identical in size I believe, each with spouts, the lid for the small pitcher has a strainer built in. The locking mechanism is very important if you have little ones, or a clumsy spouse, you want to store your blades inside their respective pitcher, I cannot say that enough.
Makes a fabulous Margarita, a Colada, any Frozen Alcoholic Drink this guy handles with a smile, Throw in your favs, add ice, blended inebriating bliss. For some of you this might be enough and you can just hit Buy Now, for others I’ve covered a lot here so feel free to read on.
We crush ice, I make slushies and snow cones for the kids sometimes, other times I just like the take of the ice alone, nothing added. There was a time there I was doing this daily at first, several times a day in fact, there is nothing like obliterated ice. It tastes exactly like snow! There is a drawback, you cannot pour obliterated ice from the pitcher, and the blades are extremely sharp and in the way, carefully remove the blade and scoop out the ice if that’s what you’d like. Ice alone. For this and most drinks you want to use your Tall Pitcher.
I will warn you NOT to crush ice then add cold liquids, it needs to be one action, Ice + Liquid at the same time, otherwise, if you don’t add enough liquid to your Ninja to the crushed ice then it will freeze together and make it difficult to remove from the Ninja and virtually useless to you because you’ve turned your “snow” into a block that’s surrounded some EXTREMELY SHARP Blades, have fun thawing that mess out. There is one exception, an iced Latte or Coffee sort drink, using hot liquids, this wont freeze up your ice and liquid, that should be a duh there..
Remember: Hot + Frozen = blended bliss, Cold + Frozen = Nightmarish block of hell..
Speaking of making your own latte, read along ’til the end and I’ll give you my very own Vanilla Latte Recipe, taste’s amazingly similar to your favorite coffee shop on every corner, and this will cost you about $0.25 to make, I won’t mention their name.
Making Guacamole, you want to be careful making dips or other things that are meant to have a texture that adds to the appetizing nature of the food, make sure you’re not pureeing your foods. Texture is nearly as important as Taste is, unless of course you’re feeding a baby and want to puree the foods. My husband pureed some Guacamole, it wasn’t the greatest. Tasted fine, texture wise was too smooth.
Making Dough, for those of you that are Gluten Free using this to make your dough is amazingly simple. Especially when you’re dealing with various types of flours and want to make sure you’ve mixed the mixture thoroughly. I’ve used many…
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|Almost a Vitamix for $500 less,
I have had the Ninja 1100 for two weeks, and am very happy with my purchase. I bought the Ninja because my Oster blender doesn’t have the power to do a good job crushing ice for frozen drinks or blend frozen fruit and ice into sorbets or smoothies. My brother bought a Vitamix, which does an excellent job, but at over $600 is WAY outside my price range.
Overall, the Ninja does a great job. The blender is powerful enough to turn a full carafe of ice into fine snow. I take frozen fruit (peaches, mixed berries) add a little fruit juice, ice, Splenda and yogurt to make awesome fruit sorbet for dessert – it comes out the consistency of soft-serve ice cream. It also makes some of the best frozen margaritas ever – smooth and icy, but you can use less ice because it is so powerful.
If you read some other reviews, you will see that there are complaints that the blender doesn’t always blend everything perfectly smooth. The important word here is “perfectly” – it does sometimes leave small bits of ice or fruit. However, if “great” is what you are looking for instead of “perfect”, you should be really happy with this purchase.
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|Very fast,
My wife and I make shakes every day for breakfast and sometimes for dinner. So far, I have only used it a couple times, but I like it so far. Our shakes consist of 8oz of liquid, shake mix, sometimes fruit, and filling the container to just under 40oz of ice. 90% of the ice is crushed instantly. That last 10% is the top layer of ice in the machine. The blender doesn’t cycle the contents like other blenders do because of the multi-blade system. We end up with a shake that is extremely smooth, with some random big chucks of ice. I will be trying to do different things to see if I can get rid of the chucks in the near future. Those chunks are why it only gets 4 stars. Other than that, I really like the machine.
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