50 reviews for Ninja BL660 Professional Compact Smoothie & Food Processing Blender with Nutri Ninja Cups – Black
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- ULTIMATE POWER: 1100-watt motor powers through the toughest ingredients and pulverizes ice to snow in seconds for creamy frozen drinks, smoothies, sauces, and more..Special Features: Manual
- VERSITILE FUNCTIONS: Professional performance with 3 manual speeds, pulse, and the single serve function for to-go cups. Stainless steel design ensures long-lasting use.
- XL CAPACITY: 72-oz. Total Crushing Pitcher is perfect for creating creamy frozen drinks and smoothies for the whole family, or entertaining guests. 64 oz. max liquid capacity.
- FOOD PROCESSING: Chop fresh ingredients evenly without any mush. Effortlessly mince, chop, grind, and blend a variety of ingredients for easy meal preparations and recipes.
- ON-THE-GO CONVENIENCE: Blend directly in the 16-oz. single-serve cup, attach the spout lid, and enjoy your creations on the go.
- EASY TO CLEAN: All parts are BPA free and dishwasher safe.
- RECIPE INSPIRATION: Includes a 28-recipe inspiration guide to get you started with easy-to-prepare smoothies, frozen drinks, sauces, and more.
- WHAT’S INCLUDED: 1100-Watt Motor Base, 72 oz. Total Crushing Pitcher with Lid, Stacked Blade Assembly, (2) 16 oz. To-Go Cups, (2) Spout Lids, Pro Extractor Blades Assembly, & 28-Recipe Inspiration Guide. 24 inches or two feet power cord
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I drink smoothies 5 times a week and this has no noticeable degradation in sharpness or efficiency in over a month of use. I will update if anything differently happens with this blender but I could not be happier with the blending power and ease of use of this blender.
Once again ninja delivers on a quality product!
It’s also great for sauces, dips, and even chopping veggies. The 3 preset functions make it easy to use, and everything feels solid and well built. Plus, it looks sleek on my counter. If you want a blender that actually does what it promises and fast this one’s totally worth it. I use it almost every day and it hasn’t let me down.
Pros +
+ Blends evenly, smooth and effective, (blends everything, nothing stuck on sides)
+ Safety locks to keep parts snug while blending and in good working order
Cons
- A few extra parts to clean with multiple sharp blades
Use as bludgeoning weapon not as effective as other glass blenders but not entirely useless however
I have had to replace my original purchase with this one because the handle on the pitcher warped right at the point where the lid locks to the rim.
The manual states that it is “dishwasher safe” and specifies that the blade and lid should be placed on the top rack. By process of elimination one could assume they mean that it is safe to put the pitcher on the bottom rack. HOWEVER, if you own a dishwasher that has a heated drying element option, you should be advised that the heat coming off of that element can warp the plastic handle. In my case it warped it away from the pitcher surface by about a half of an inch. That space is just enough to prevent the lock in the lid from ever aligning properly with the safety switch in the pitcher. If you can’t fully close and lock the lid, you cannot operate the blender. It’s that simple. It you’ve warped the handle, you have bricked the appliance.
I was.
“From now on it’s vegetable smoothies and walks around Central Park until we both look like Brad Pitt,” I said to Garbage. “Well, vegetable smoothies for me and canned tuna for you,” I corrected myself realizing that cats don’t eat vegetables. At least mine doesn’t. In any case, one two click and we’ve got a case of wild albacore and a Ninja BL610 on the way from Amazon. Great. Next, I figured we’d get a head start on the exercise so I strapped a harness onto Garbage and off we went to the park. (The thing barely fit around his fat torso.)
We hiked around the little trails above Loeb Boathouse, I took it slow because I could see that Garbage was having a hard time. His body was visibly weighing down on his tiny knees. He looked like a barrel on four shaky sticks. But I didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to embarrass him. Instead, I pretended like I was the one struggling, giving off sighs here and there, asking him to slow down. I tried to keep his mind off the physical exertion with stories about mice and fish when, out of nowhere, a large mama-goose cut us off leading a string of babies across the path. We stopped. Garbage looked up at me. I shrugged my shoulders, “we gotta wait,” I said. And as soon as I did, the goose hissed violently like a manic cobra. I got a little scared, I’ll admit. “Step back,” I calmly whispered to Garbage. He moved behind my leg. Seeing him move, the goose started flapping her wings and hissing even more aggressively.
Now – just to clarify – when I said that I got a little scared, it wasn’t so much that I was afraid of the goose itself. I mean, you have to keep a leveled head in situations like that, have to think logically. And logically speaking, I’m over six feet tall. The goose is what? A foot maybe? I weigh… a lot, hence the whole diet and exercise thing. The goose weighs how much? Maybe 10, max 15 pounds? I say this to say that I’m pretty sure I could take a goose down if push came to shove. Let’s say she flew up at face-level and tried to peck my eyes out. I’d treat her with a double jab, cross, hook. And if she came after my legs, I’d simply swat her with a low kick. Done deal. It’s not complicated. But it is beside the point because I would never actually do anything like that. Not in my right mind at least. And this is where things start to crumble. Because how can I know if I’m in my right mind at any given moment? Everything I do or think makes sense to me because I’m the one doing or thinking it. So if the thought of boxing it out with a goose pops into my head that means that somewhere in there this is a possibility waiting to materialize. And that is what I was scared of when I said I got a little scared. Because the only thing worse than beating up a goose is being SEEN beating up a goose. I mean, Imagine that? You’re walking around Central Park, minding your business, relaxing, when suddenly you see some cretin with a morbidly obese cat on a leash punching a goose. Front page New York Times next morning guaranteed.
Long story short, we turned around and walked in the other direction. Did another 30 minutes around the lake and went home. Exhausted.
Two days later we got our stuff from Amazon and went hard with the diet. The blender is great. It’ll chop anything. It’ll turn frozen vegetables to puree. It’ll turn almonds into almond butter. It’ll turn your fingers into ground meat if you’re not careful. The knives are sharp Sharp SHARP. I’m pretty sure it would turn rocks to sand but I haven’t tried that yet. The long and the short of it is this: the Ninja BL610 does the job exactly the way the job needs to be done. Go for it. You can feel confident.
As for the results of our diet, Garbage looks like a Persian show cat and I’m down to 180.
Update: It's January 2018, I owned the Ninja about 3 months and ended up getting a Vita Mix. I still stand by my original review, but there is a difference. The Ninja starts out pretty great, but then over time things do no blend as well. I drink 2 smoothies a day (one veggie, one fruit), so I use it a minimum of 2x a day. Over time I started calling my Ninja smoothies: "grainies." The blades start out very sharp, and the technology depends on that, but they dull with use and it shows in the results. The Vita Mix does not depend on blade sharpness, but power, it pummels everything to pieces (itty bitty pieces). I am amazed at the flour I can make with it. Also, the heat i mentioned is not a factor but a feature. Most things are blended in less than a minute (35 seconds often), so nothing really gets warm unless you leave it on in order to generate heat. The Ninja is a good blender, especially for the cost, but I don't think one can fairly compare it to a Vita Mix, it's like comparing apples and oranges.