Magic Bullet Express 17-Piece High-Speed Blender Mixing System
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Magic Bullet Express 17-Piece High-Speed Blender Mixing System
Customer Review: "Magic Bullet"? Well, its a food processor.
Summary: 4 Stars
Before I address my experience with this, I see lots of people's broke really fast the first time they used it. Let me just say: when we bought ours it had a one-year-long money-back guarantee. We've had ours for much longer than a year and it has never broken.
Anyways. The Magic Bullet is a great blender for cold drinks (yes, ice works FINE in it), food processor for cooking (way handy for whipped eggs with a whipping blade or to chop veggies, etc), and whipper for hot drinks (we use the whipping blade to make whipped hot chocolate, chocolate milk, tea, etc). We never use our blender anymore, and we don't have a food processor, so we use it when we want to blend smoothies or to cook or make nice Starbucks-esque hot chocolate.
We have a family of 3, so it doesn't get used TERRIBLY often. Maybe once a week at most. But we really do love it. It is a fine little machine.
It mushes salsa to bits. Sometimes, the things get stick in it and you are hard put to take out the cups. Occassionally, the cups will not fit all the way down into the Bullet like they should, and it has to be carefully cleaned in all the nooks and crannies with an ear swab and some rubbing alcohol. Other than that, though, it works like a dream.
In the past month, I personally have used it:
to blend some strawberries and cream together for a tart
to crush oreos into dust for a pie
to whip hot chocolate
to make a Chai Mocha Hot Chocolate
to beat eggs for meringue
It does all of those things MARVELOUSLY. We like it, it saved us money because then we didn't have to buy a blender AND a food processor, and we've never had need for either with the Magic Bullet.
Excellent, that's what I say.
Customer Review: Good multi-function gadget
Summary: 4 Stars
I have owned a Magic Bullet for almost 2 years now, it was given to me as a house-warming gift by a neighbor. I use it almost everyday to make a smoothie, and they are exceptionally fast and easy to make, with very little cleanup (the only downside is that I've lost some of my re-sealable lids and so it's a bit of a pain to make more then 2 smoothies at a time).
I also use the flat blade as a coffee/flax seed grinder (you can buy a pound of flax seed for a $1 and grind it yourself...or pay $10 for preground stuff).
I used this as a substitute blender, and for the most part, it works nicely. As many people said, it does not chop or slice or dice very well, so buyer beware.
The unit will make sauces, pestos and salsas too. Here is a salsa recipe/trick that you can use, which might make it much easier...it wont be chunky salsa, but it wont be pasty either:
First add the following and then blend until all ingredients are chopped and mixed well (this will form a paste, but bare with me):
1/2 yellow oninon
1 clove garlic
handful of cilantro
zest and juice from 1 lime
salt to taste
1/2t vinegar (can be omitted)
1 jalepano (makes hot salsa...add less for less heat)
Once these have been blended, open it up and add 3-4 plum or vine tomatoes. Squeeze them in tight and then put back onto bullet, but this time use the PULSE method. Just 4 or 5 pulses, and your tomatoes will be nice and chunky but everything else will be well blended. The salsa is a little brown, but it tastes amazing.
Love my bullet. Good substitute for a blender, but even if you have one, can still be used for quick smoothies, easy cleanup, and multi-functionality.
Customer Review: As advertised!!! Awesome product!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know why so many people are putting this thing down. I have had NO problems with it, and I have had it for over a year. The person complaining about the "host" on tv not having to scoop out chunks etc., is nitpicking little things. In my opinion it is better than any blender I have ever owned, and I have had at least 4 blenders, the last one was a smoothie maker. I thought that was the best blender out there, but I was wrong.
This thing chops, blends, and pulverizes. I made my own peanut butter the other day, and it was yummy! I just bought some peanuts, put them along with canola oil in the bullet and pulverized it. Then I added some splenda to sweeten it, and it was a great sugar free peanut butter. I have also made smoothies with it, and I HAVE chopped ice with it plenty of times, and when the bullet is done with it, the ice looks like powder, so the ones out there saying it does not chop ice good, well they may have a defective product. I love making pina coladas with it also.
I am currently on a low carb diet, and this bullet is great for making low carb recipes. Especially ones that call for using crushed pork rinds as a breading. Before I had to crush the rinds with whatever I could find, and I was always left with big chunks, but now I put them in my magic bullet, and I am left with a fine powder.
Clean up with this product is a breeze. When I am done, all I have to do is rinse the blades under hot water, and that's it. If it's something messy in the cup, most of the time I soak it in hot water and dish detergent, and wash it later with no problem. All I have to say is FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS!!!! Read them first before you attempt to use this product! It will help you to keep it in good shape!
Customer Review: I use my Magic Bullet everyday
Summary: 5 Stars
How interesting that so many people don't like this thing, because I use it everyday. My boyfriend laughed when it came, something from an informercial. Even I thought it would have limited uses, but I've used it almost everyday for 6 months. It depends on your imagination. If you don't want "mush" as some complain, PULSE the machine. Yes, it does chop onions. And herbs like parsley. And nuts for brownies. Heck, if it's a small recipe, mix the brownies (corn bread, whatever) in it! (There's only 2 of us, so it's just right.) I make my meatballs - make a slurry of garlic, onions, herbs, milk, breadcrumbs - and mix it into the meat so that no one bites into a big onion. I make wholewheat pancakes, wholewheat ginger muffins, and blueberry, etc. I whip up a sour cream/egg/cheese mixture of mini quiches in muffin cups. We are health enthusiasts, so we use if for protein pancakes, and protein drinks, and, well, the list goes on and on. The blades do engage (perhaps someone else's was defective), just a little pulsing and sometimes a little shaking to redistribute, but honestly, I use this thing all the time. Reversing the blades from the bottom of the container to the top makes so much sense when it comes to pouring the contents out. And when I'm finished, I fill it with a little water and soap, blend it, and it's clean to use again (although I throw all the parts in the dishwasher everytime I run the dishwasher - so easy). Forget the recipes in the book . . . just get used to it and think of what you're cooking and where the Magic Bullet would help out! Oh, and we're addicted to our banana "ice cream" sundaes - using protein powder and frozen bananas with a splash of milk - cold, creamy, topped with a little chocolate and good for us!Customer Review: worth every penny even when I payed approx. $100 when it first came out.
Summary: 5 Stars
I payed approx. $100 when this product first came out a few years ago, and I still think the purchase cost of product was worth every penny.
I love this multi-function blender/processor.
I use it on a regular to freshly grind coffee!
I need additional short cups since I usually store additional grounded coffee in it for 1-3 more uses for a week or two, and possibly 2 more closed lids cuz I take my fresh orange carrot juice (I buy prewashed baby carrots and mix it in with OJ) "to go" in the morning sometimes...
which takes 2 seconds to make thanks to the magic bullet blender!
Plus since it lready sits so conveniently on the counter I often make crushed beans with it for quesadillas, nacho chip dip, and veggie enchiladas (I just nuke it in the microwave for 3 minutes-dinner plate reheat-button) after using it for beans I store the left over bean paste (mixed with canned crushed or stewed tomato sauce and jalapeno) into the fridge for next time I want a 5 to 15 mintute prep meal! Then I have to use it to make salted (frozen or shaken) margaritas to go with my mex meal too!
bar margarita = TSLT
T= tequila (1 shot = 2 second count with pourer)
S= sour mix
L= Lime juice (not the green one, but the yellow sweetened kind) (1 shot = 2 second count with pourer)
T= Triple Sec (a.k.a. Orange Liquer) (1 shot = 2 second count with pourer)
fill glass with ice, add the measured ingredients, finish filling with sour mix.
empty into mixer, moisten rim of just emptied glass with lemon or lime wedge, invert into salt(optional jose cuervo margarita specialty salt).
mix the liquids, and pour back into salted glass.