Some mornings you’ve got time for a proper breakfast. Most mornings you’ve got about four minutes and a bus to catch. A hand-held blender turns whatever’s sitting in the fridge into something you can actually drink on the way out the door. And with only one thing to wash when you get home.
The kit: a blender with no jug to hunt for
The NutriBullet 600 Series comes as a seven piece kit: the motor base, the blade, and a tall cup and a short cup that both double as the cup you drink from once the blade’s off. NutriBullet build it around a 600W motor, meant for breaking down frozen fruit, nuts and ice rather than leaving lumps floating in your drink. There’s no separate jug to find room for. You blend straight into the cup you’re about to walk out the door with.
Good to know
The cups and blade go in the dishwasher, but the motor base is wipe clean only, so don’t be tempted to hold it under the tap. NutriBullet’s own guidance is to keep ice to roughly a quarter of what’s in the cup, and to steer clear of hot drinks or anything carbonated, since neither is what this is built for. We haven’t used this one ourselves. The details above come from the maker’s own site and the current Amazon listing, so it’s worth a read of that listing before you buy.
Three breakfasts, no cooking involved
Treat the cup like a lunchbox you drink instead of eat, and a few combinations earn repeat visits:
- Porridge oats, a banana and milk, blitzed the night before and left in the fridge, so it’s grab and go by morning.
- Frozen berries, a spoon of yoghurt and a splash of orange juice, somewhere between a smoothie and a milkshake.
- A handful of spinach, half an apple and a thumb of ginger, for the mornings you’re trying to convince yourself you’re the sort of person who drinks green things.
None of it takes longer than the kettle does to boil, and there’s nothing to stir or heat on a hob. Blend, twist the lid on, go.
Why it’s worth a look
The appeal here is really what it doesn’t ask for. No jug to find a cupboard for, no extra lid rattling around a drawer on its own. The cup is the jug and the cup is what you drink from, so when you’re done there’s one thing standing on the draining rack instead of three. It won’t replace a full sized blender for soup or batter, but for one person’s breakfast it does the job in less space than a mug tree.
A quick note on the pictures in this post: they’re illustrations of what this type of blender generally looks like, not photos of the actual product, so the one that turns up at your door will look a little different in the details.
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