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NutriBullet Pro 900

A 900-watt motor under a cup you drink from. One person, one smoothie, under a minute.

Each of these removes a different weeknight chore — #2

Overall

7.0

out of 10

Axis scores

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

NutriBullet Pro 900 — 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. NutriBullet Pro 900: Performance 6.4, Value 8.8, Durability 6.2, Ease of use 8.8, Quietness 5.0.PerformanceNutriBullet Pro 900 — Performance 6.4 out of 106.4ValueNutriBullet Pro 900 — Value 8.8 out of 108.8DurabilityNutriBullet Pro 900 — Durability 6.2 out of 106.2Ease of useNutriBullet Pro 900 — Ease of use 8.8 out of 108.8QuietnessNutriBullet Pro 900 — Quietness 5.0 out of 105.0Editorial 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
900 watts
Cups
32 oz and 24 oz, dishwasher safe
Blade
Twist-on stainless extractor blade
Warranty
One year

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

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • One smoothie at a time, drunk from the cup it was made in
  • A dorm room, an office, or a counter with no room for a jar
  • Frozen fruit and greens, which is the job the extractor blade is shaped for

Skip it if

  • Hot liquids — the manual rules them out and a sealed cup has nowhere to vent
  • Anything that runs past a minute; the motor is duty-cycled and will cut out
  • Cooking for more than one person, unless you enjoy blending in shifts

The cup screws onto the blade and the whole assembly goes on the base upside down. Gravity then works with the machine instead of against it, feeding ingredients down into the blade rather than letting them ride up the walls, and that inversion is why 900 watts does work here that would bog down the same wattage in an upright jar.

It also caps what the machine can be. Run time is limited — the motor is meant for bursts of around a minute, then a rest, and it will shut itself off rather than push past that. Long cycles, friction-heated soup, and slow dough work are not on the menu and never were.

Cleaning is the best thing about it and the reason people keep using theirs. Twist the blade off, rinse two parts, put the cup in the dishwasher. There is no fixed blade at the bottom of a jar you cannot reach around, which is where blender cleanup normally goes wrong.

The gasket ringing the blade is the part that ends most of these. It stiffens over a year or two, then liquid works past the threads and down onto the base, and by the time you notice there is dried smoothie in the coupling. Owner reports converge on this hard enough that replacement gaskets are a standard purchase. Wash the blade by hand and it lasts considerably longer.

There is no speed control of any kind. Push down for a burst, push and twist to lock it running. That is the entire interface, and for the job this machine does it is enough — you are not modulating a hollandaise here.

Fibrous ingredients show up in the glass. Kale stems, date skins, and raspberry seeds come through as texture rather than disappearing, and the gap between this and a full-size premium machine is exactly there rather than in whether it can blend at all.

Noise is sharp and it is brief. Forty seconds of loud beats six minutes of loud, and in a shared flat that tends to matter more than the peak level does.

Watch the max fill line, which sits lower on the cup than the shape suggests. Past it, liquid gets pushed straight into the gasket under pressure, which is the fastest way to start the leak described above.

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