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Ninja BL700 Kitchen System
From Ninja
List Price:$159.99
Price: $151.39
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Average customer review:
(143 customer reviews)
Product Description
Experience Ninja's unmatched versatility. Discover how
smart-speed technology and our 5-star rated multiple blade system make it easy
to juice, blend, chop, and mix just about everything - from frozen drinks and
soups to ice cream and pizza dough. It's more than a food processor. It's more
than a blender. It's the Ninja Kitchen System.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #19262 in Kitchen & Housewares
Size: 40 Ounce
Color: black/silver
Brand: Ninja
Model: BL700
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: 14.80" h x 10.43" w x 16.73" l,
6.00 pounds
Features
72-ounce pitcher with lid
40 oz. processing bowl with lid
5 attachments to make everything from cookies to salsa to
margaritas
Knead dough for pizzas, breads, pretzels and cookies!
Grind seeds such as flax seeds, or nuts to make nut butter
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
942 of 981 people found the following review helpful.
Best of the Best Blender's
By R. Taylor
Updated 02-02-2012 * Sugar free version added to recipe
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 different recipes for Gluten Free mixes, including
cakes, cookies, pancakes, and pizza dough, all turned out perfectly wonderful,
well aside from the fact they don't have Gluten in them (which I terribly
miss). Again, with baking too, textures are often necessary in the baking
process, read the recipe carefully and make sure if it says the end result
should be lumpy that it is.
We make quite a few things in our Ninja, things we would
normally use a blender for smoothies (which we did toss out, rather donate, our
Blender when we got the Ninja, I'm not a clutter person). Do exactly as it
says, add frozen fruit, instead of ice and it taste's fantastic!
For you Gluten Free and Lactose Free people, we found using
Coconut Milk (So Delicious or Silk brands) and a little Coconut Flour adds
quite a bit of fiber and Coconut Sugar tastes fantastic too.. (both of which
you can find at your local health food store, it is a little pricey, but if
you're on this GF diet you know it's expensive). Add 3 Cups of Coconut Milk,
about 3 Tbs of Coconut Sugar, a 1/4 Cup of Coconut Flour (for Fiber), and about
2 Cups (to taste) of frozen mixed fruit and you have a fantastic smoothie on
your hands. * If you require a sugar free version of this, try using splenda or
a generic splenda, I tried several versions of artificial sweetener and splenda
by far was the nearest to actual sugar, the others were very bitter, one type
gave me an immediate headache. As far as artificial sweetener measurements
Splenda is one to one, others check the label.
This is MY Latte recipe, I didn't take it from any company,
my comparison is simply that it tastes like a very well known brand. I do
fiddle around in the kitchen and I do have a lot of great recipes I've come to
love just by playing around with ingredients.
Vanilla Latte Recipe: 2 Servings, about 16 to 20 oz each +/-
Large Ninja Pitcher
Large Dough Paddle (Black one)
1/3 Cup of Ground Dark or Medium Coffee
2 Cups of Water, or to 4 Mark on your coffee machine
3 Cups of Milk
2 Tbs of Pure Vanilla, or imitation, it doesn't really
matter
2 to 3 Tbs of Sugar in the Raw sugar, NOT HEAPING (we use
nearly 3, about 2 & 3/4 Tbs), you could also use regular sugar, although
I'm not sure what the variation would be, it's finer so be careful you don't
make it too sweet.
In the Microwave bring 3 Cups of Whole or 2% milk to a boil,
about 3 & 1/2 to 4 Minutes
Pour the Milk into the Large Pitcher
Add Vanilla and Sugar
Turn Ninja on DOUGH!!
** BE careful of the speed here, you will end up with hot
milk shooting out the top if you use any faster speed** I will not be liable
for failure to follow my directions.
Let that mix for about 3 to 4 minutes or while you brew your
coffee
1/3 Cup of Ground Dark or Medium Coffee
Fill your coffee Maker with water to the 4 mark, which is I
believe 2 cups give or take
Once you've Made your coffee in your Coffee Maker, and
You've made your milk in your Ninja
Pour 3/4 to 1 Cup COFFEE (depending on your taste, start
with less you can add more but you cannot take away) into each Cup
Open the Ninja and remove the Dough Blade leaving the lid
off
Pour the Milk on top of the Coffee equally going back and
forth between the two cups until you reach foam, then pour the foam equally
into each cup spooning or using a spatula to get it all out and viola, Vanilla
Latte.
* If you require a sugar free version of this, try using
splenda or a generic version of splenda, I tried several versions of artificial
sweetener and splenda by far was the nearest to actual sugar, the others were
very bitter, one type gave me an immediate headache. As far as artificial
sweetener measurements Splenda is one to one, others check the label. Splenda
will foam the milk just as well as regular sugar also, taste is nearly
identical :)
Careful, it is HOT!
Add more Coffee to taste if you want..
All in all the positives of this product outweigh the danger
of the blades in my opinion, as long as you're careful, keep the blades locked
in the pitchers at all times I think you'll be extremely satisfied with your
purchase.
That's all I have, I hope to have helped you with your
purchasing decision.
Thanks for reading!
237 of 244 people found the following review helpful.
Almost a Vitamix for $500 less
By Richard Patterson
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.
79 of 81 people found the following review helpful.
Wicked awesome
By Bradley P. Pederson
This machine is even better than the infomercial. I have
owned 3 blenders in the past year - all junk from generally good name brands.
Well, 3am feeding for my 2 month old son and ESPN channel on the bug and I am
watching the Ninja. I have used it to make smoothies, malts and even a banana
bread and this thing rocks! Ice truly does turn to powder. Clean up is a
breeze. I don't generally like to share my opinion on these things but after
getting shafted 3 times, I really feel obligated to let you know that this is
one machine that is truly wicked awesome.
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