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Blendtec Professional 800

A sealed sound enclosure over a 3.8 peak horsepower motor. Quiet is the thing you buy here.

Batch size decides a blender before wattage does — #1

Overall

7.9

out of 10

Axis scores

Kitchen is scored on these 5 axes. The total is their plain average — nothing is weighted.

Blendtec Professional 800 — axis scores out of 10Horizontal bar chart of editorial scores out of 10 across 5 axes. Bars run from a shared zero baseline; longer is better. Blendtec Professional 800: Performance 9.2, Value 5.0, Durability 9.0, Ease of use 8.0, Quietness 8.4.PerformanceBlendtec Professional 800 — Performance 9.2 out of 109.2ValueBlendtec Professional 800 — Value 5.0 out of 105.0DurabilityBlendtec Professional 800 — Durability 9.0 out of 109.0Ease of useBlendtec Professional 800 — Ease of use 8.0 out of 108.0QuietnessBlendtec Professional 800 — Quietness 8.4 out of 108.4Editorial score out of 10 — higher is better
  • Performance — How well it does the core job
  • Value — What the same money buys elsewhere
  • Durability — Failure and fade reports past the one-year mark
  • Ease of use — Setup, daily operation, cleaning, maintenance
  • Quietness — Operating noise — a higher score means quieter

Specs

Motor
3.8 peak horsepower
Jar
90 oz WildSide+, 36 oz blending capacity
Controls
11-speed touch slider
Cycles
Six preprogrammed
Enclosure
Sealed sound enclosure
Warranty
10 years

As published by the manufacturer. We didn't measure these ourselves.

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • Early mornings in an apartment, where a full-power blender would wake the house
  • Batches for four to six people in one pass
  • You never want to think about a tamper again

Skip it if

  • Counter depth is tight — the enclosure adds bulk on every side of the jar
  • You want coarse results; blunt blades drive everything toward puree
  • You blend twice a week, in which case the outlay never comes back

The enclosure is a hinged shell you drop over the jar before starting, and it is the entire reason this machine exists. Underneath it the motor is louder than most of the field. Sealed, running a smoothie cycle, it sits at a level you can talk across — reviewer consensus puts it in a different class from every open-jar machine here, and owner reports from people in apartments say the same thing in blunter terms.

Blades are blunt on purpose. They do not cut, they hammer, spinning fast enough that the food tears itself apart against a dull edge. Sharpening never enters the conversation and a dull blade is not a failure mode. What you give up is control at the coarse end. Chunky salsa and rough-chopped nuts are hard to stop in time, and the machine’s instinct is always to go smoother.

The jar holds 90 ounces and blends 36. That gap is not marketing sleight of hand — the empty space above the batch is where the vortex lives, and the fifth side of the jar exists to break circulation so the mix folds itself back down. That is why no tamper ships in the box and why none is needed.

The consequence runs the other way for small batches. A single serving sits below the blade in a jar this wide and just spins under it. If most of your blending is one cup at a time, the wrong machine is a large jar with a good motor.

Cycles run on a timer and shut off by themselves. You press smoothie, walk away, come back to a finished blend and a stopped motor. That sounds minor next to a machine you stand over with a tamper, and after a month it is the difference you notice most.

The touch slider has no moving parts to gum up, and it also gives you nothing to feel. You cannot set a speed by hand position the way a dial lets you, so you end up watching the panel instead of the food. Owner reports mention wet fingers registering as drags, which restarts a blend at a speed you did not ask for.

Cleaning is one more surface than you expect. Self-clean handles the jar, but the enclosure rim collects splatter every time you lift it off a hot batch, and nobody puts that in a dishwasher. Ten years of warranty covers the motor and jar; the enclosure is the part you will actually maintain.

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