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: very disappointing!
Summary: 1 Stars
we have been using a bulky juicer to produce our daily dose of carrot juice. a lot to clean up for sure despite great juice!
then came the magic bullet ad on television. so clean. so nifty and neat. you could dress like the beaver's mother, June, and with a touch do wonders in the kitchen. WOW! let's get it now!
i come home from work one night, still dressed in my work clothes, ready to juice with the included juicer. but i only have 60 seconds to mash my carrots before the motor burns out. and i have to turn the motor on before i put the carrot in the extractor. just like beat the clock with bud collier. so i throw in a perfectly good carrot. nice, you know. carrot pieces start flying out of the hole at the top as i race to apply the plunger to the doomed carrot. i get a piece shooting into my hair. carrot top? but i'm bald. how could that be. i see a little juice in the juicer, but not enough for all my trouble. i try to break the carrot into little pieces only for them to get jammed in the blade. i get a fork to try to get those pieces out. it doesn't work. the kitchen is a vegetable nightmare. a coating of little orange flecks is all over the counter and the floor.
i try an apple. same thing. stuck in the blade. nice washington apple too. papaya - same deal. what a mess!
strawberries worked but i could have mashed them with a fork myself in 10 seconds.
i need also to point out that so much of the fruit stayed in the blender. good fruit and vegetables and so much waste.
what a loser. i guess if you want chicken salad its okay. or if you want to grind coffee beans. for me, all this machine did was grind my teeth. maybe you like to play beat the clock.
not for me. good riddance to it and to my costs for shipping and
handling.
Customer Review: I can no longer recommend this after 6 months of use
Summary: 2 Stars
Let me just say I will NEVER consider getting another one. The components are made of decent quality plastic but they are poorly designed. When working it can do a lot of great things though.
Pros: small, very powerful, does what the promos says but the unit does not last very long. (See Cons 2)
Cons 1) The glasses, cups, and attachments are all made out of the type of plastic that scratches very easily when cleaning with a mild scrubber sponge.
Cons 2) The bottom of the blade attachment uses a rubber gear to engage with the motors spin mechanism. To run the blender the user pushes down on the cup which comes into contact with the gear on the motor. So when the user pushes down too lightly the base motor grinds and burns off the rubber on the underside of the blade. This is how I ruined my first blade. There will be smoke and rubber smell in the air with rubber shavings around. So when you use the bullet make sure you push down with authority so you don't grind away the engaging rubber on the underside of the blade.
All I thought I had to do is be conscious of this with the second blade. WRONG. I was VERY careful to push down with authority from that point on. Situations came up, and guess what, I eventually burned up the second blade too. My $45 bucks for the thing only lasted me 6 months.
Cons 3) I wish the glasses and attachments were stackable to reduce/space needed to store away all the components.
Cons 4) The inside of the glasses/cups are ribbed/reinforced with a lines of plastic from bottom to top making it hard to just insert a sponge and wash out. Probably the dumbest thing about the bullet.
Cons 5) When ice gets ground in a smoothie there are always good chunks of ice that don't get ground good enough and get left behind.
Customer Review: Overpriced and designed to fail
Summary: 1 Stars
I needed a blender/food processor and decided to splurge on the Magic Bullet which at first glance appeared sleek and well designed. After buying it though, I quickly realized that the design was inherently flawed and it was poorly constructed. Don't waste your money on this. Here's a list of reasons why I rated it poorly:
1. When you place food in the bullet, anything at the bottom becomes liquid before the top portion even has a chance to be chopped. There is not nearly enough power to pull the food or ice uniformly into the blade.
2. The plastic seal which is designed to keep food and liquid from getting into the motor mechanism failed within the first few times I used it. It is awkward to push the seal into place and even a tiny bit of food lodged in the crevice prevents it from being airtight. This resulted in a mess, but even worse, it now leaked liquid and food bits into the interior, causing the entire device to malfunction or work sporadically. Not surprisingly, it only comes with one extra seal- you have to buy more if you need them (and you will, quickly).
3. Won't chop ice at all. It just stalls.
4. The volume of the bullets is very small. I thought it would be useful for chopping small items like ingredients, but instead it just liquefies part of them and doesn't even chop the rest. It might be useful for gazpacho---if it could actually hold more that a few ounces of food.
It has now become an expensive and useless kitchen counter sculpture which I haven't the heart to throw away due to its price tag.
Lesson learned though. Just because it appears to work well on TV doesn't mean that it will actually work well in reality---and all those TV commercials are expensive, which no doubt ups the price of the item. Oh well, buyer beware.
Customer Review: Sometimes A Bullet Shoots Blanks
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved the party ad with Mick and Mimi hawking the advantages of the MAGIC BULLET. Having purchased several devices from TV infomercials, I was naturally cautious about buying a fairly pricey mini food processor. I watched the ad several times as I tried to anticipate what might go wrong. It was hard to do that so I phoned in and bought it. As with any device that one puchases without having tried it out first, I found that it performed well what Mick and Mimi asked it to do on screen. Indeed, it could blend a variety of foods in several seconds and the clean up time was minimal. I liked its ability for the user to experiment deftly on disparate ingredients. Further, the numerous colored attachments made creation of several different concoctions both feasible and easy.
However, there are a few definite downsides too. It is no surprise that the promoters zero in on the MAGIC BULLET's time frame of 10 seconds or less to create a meal. The MAGIC BULLET is run on a high rev small motor that would quickly overheat if it were to run for more than 10 seconds. Thus, any meal that requires more time cannot be done unless one is willing to wait for the motor to cool down. Further, the stress that a small high powered motor generates puts considerable strain on the MB's component parts. I have used it daily for three months and it has broken down twice, necessitating costly repairs. The juicer is a joke. It was clearly conceived as a throw in. It is too delicate to be a serious juicer. Far too much juice remained in the pulp.
THE MAGIC BULLET is an overhyped small food processor that does do what it claims to do, as long as the user does not ask it to do it too often. For serious heavy duty food processing, one must look elsewhere.
Customer Review: I have to write this review because I am watching the Infomercial Right NOW...
Summary: 1 Stars
And Yes the characters are hillarious... With that said. I thought about buying this product until I noticed that they do some slick video editing. Everything they mix isn't what it seems... LOL, the say, "in one, two three three and a half four five six seconds" you have chicken salad, pesto sauce, etc. And they proceed to pour out of this "magic bullet" a perfectly blended chick salad, pesto sauce and a whole slew of other concoctions.
Helloooooo, it is all a lie... they are supplanting the real product with "perfect product." You can tell because they continuously change the camera angle every time the bullet finishes to the point where they pour the product... it is a 1 2 switcharu...
To top it off, the true Genuis of the rip off is you think the Aussie guy is talking from one point to the next, but listen closely to the Audio... He is narrating not talking... meaning, because they are "cutting" (or stopping) production they have to "keep talking" and to make it seem like they are, they have the guy narate his voice over and thus giving the impression he is talking while working the machine. Watch carefully you will notice the whole deal of BS this kook trying to pull one over.
Alas, they dont' do it every time, of course not because some things really will mix easy, i.e. the guacamole... I could stir that with a plastic spork in a styro cup.
So, what did I do to confirm that this was a rip off... I came here to my trusty Amazon and read the reviews... Alas... this product is a complete rip off... Per all of your reviews and comments... I am only sorry that you had to experience the nonesense in the first place...
Don't waiste your money... I didn't buy one and neither should you.