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Breville Fresh & Furious Review

With its user-friendly interface and stellar fruit-blending abilities, this blender is great for the daily smoothie drinker
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Breville Fresh & Furious Review (Breville Fresh & Furious fruit, oat, nut smoothie test)
Breville Fresh & Furious fruit, oat, nut smoothie test
Credit: Genaveve Bradshaw
Price:  $200 List
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Manufacturer:   Breville
Hayley Thomas
By Hayley Thomas ⋅ Review Editor  ⋅  July 22, 2025
Contributions From: Genaveve Bradshaw
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RANKED
#10 of 16
  • Smoothies - 35% 8.0
  • Pureeing - 20% 4.0
  • Frozen Drinks - 20% 6.0
  • Controls - 15% 10.0
  • Ease of Cleaning - 10% 7.6

Our Verdict

The Fresh and Furious is extremely easy to use with nine presets, a digital timer, and a clearly labeled interface. The 60-second green smoothie setting produces some of the best green smoothies. Except for some unblended berry seeds, it also twists up a nice fruit smoothie. The lid can be a little fickle, resulting in quite the mess, but that problem is most prevalent when making soups. This blender is clearly not meant for grinding, and it struggles with pureeing. It is a great option if you are looking for a blender specifically for smoothies and do not plan to make nut butter or grind kernels into flour. See our comprehensive blender review to find out how this Breville model tests next to the competition.
REASONS TO BUY
Great green smoothies
Presets
Visual timer
REASONS TO AVOID
Finicky lid
Struggles grinding & pureeing

Our Analysis and Test Results

The Breville Fresh and Furious is a convenient blender that stands out with its juicing cone and visible digital timer. The 50-ounce blender pitcher is on the slightly smaller side but still takes up the same amount of counter space as most blenders, with a blending capacity of 60 to 70 ounces. This blender works very well in specific scenarios, but falls short in others.

breville fresh & furious - the fresh & furious offers an easy-to-understand interface and...
The Fresh & Furious offers an easy-to-understand interface and produces tasty smoothies.
Credit: Genaveve Bradshaw

Smoothies


The Breville Fresh and Furious can whip up most smoothies in a quick 60 seconds with the smoothie setting, but some are better than others.

breville fresh & furious - this color may not be the most appealing, but the fresh and furious...
This color may not be the most appealing, but the Fresh and Furious makes a mean green smoothie.
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The Fresh and Furious creates a velvety textured green smoothie, complete with hearty greens like kale, blended with orange juice. It leaves a few small pieces of kale unblended, but the mixture flows nicely through a sieve, leaving only a small amount behind. The green smoothie made by the Fresh and Furious is one of the best we've tasted.

breville fresh & furious - the fast and furious, pre-blend.
The Fast and Furious, pre-blend.
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The fruit with oats and berry smoothies are both equally delicious, although the texture leaves a little to be desired. These smoothies have a pretty significant presence of noticeably intact berry seeds. Although, the oats and almonds blend right in with the rest of the fruit, producing a thick but not grainy smoothie. The straight berry smoothie also requires roughly 120 seconds of blend time to ensure the right viscosity, which is twice the time of the smoothie setting. The Oreo milkshake is a little runny, more closely resembling melted ice cream than a proper malt milkshake.

breville fresh & furious - the oats and fruit smoothie remains a little chunky.
The oats and fruit smoothie remains a little chunky.
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Pureeing


Unfortunately, the Fresh and Furious has a lot of room for improvement in its pureeing department.

While pureeing soups, the lid becomes pressurized and difficult to remove, and this blender cannot heat its contents, meaning you'll have to cook your soup over the stove. The nut butter takes a long time to get to a decently blended consistency and remains grainy regardless of how long you blend it. It also requires turning the concoction over while adding lots of oil to get to this subpar consistency. Overall, we would not recommend this blender for nut-fiends looking to make their own nut butters.

breville fresh & furious - the fresh and furious eventually blends the nuts into butter, but it...
The Fresh and Furious eventually blends the nuts into butter, but it is inconsistent and very labor intensive.
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Frozen Drinks


The Fresh and Furious produces mostly uniform crushed ice and an almost Slurpee-like texture.

breville fresh & furious - check out the snowy crushed ice texture.
Check out the snowy crushed ice texture.
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The crushed ice has a bit of a grainy texture to it. While the ice chunks are crushed into uniform pieces, visible crystals cover each piece like powdered snow. It also takes a full 60 seconds to crush the ice fully, which is on the longer side. The margarita leaves us with a similar feel. The Fresh and Furious efficiently blends ice, alcohol, lemonade, and strawberries in 60 seconds to make a delicious margarita. Still, the texture is slightly off, and it struggles to get started. The blender has to work very hard to begin the process, but calms down quickly for the remaining 52 seconds of its cycle. This blender also leaves some ice chunks in the margarita.

breville fresh & furious - the fresh and furious crushes ice satisfactorily but this is not...
The Fresh and Furious crushes ice satisfactorily but this is not where it shines brightest.
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Controls


The Fresh and Furious is very easy to use. The interface and presets are intuitive. This blender has nine presets: auto clean, green smoothie, ice crush, smoothie, mix, chop, blend, puree, and liquify. These options are convenient and provide a good baseline.

breville fresh & furious - here we made quite the mess trying to pry the lid off after making...
Here we made quite the mess trying to pry the lid off after making soup.
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Ease of Cleaning


The Fresh and Furious is very easy to clean, and we especially appreciate the effective cleaning preset. The lid, pitcher, and blades are dishwasher safe, and the shorter power cord prevents spills.

That said, the lid can be difficult to remove as the pitcher's contents become pressurized as they blend. At times, the lid becomes so pressurized that the contents explode out of the jar once you pry it off.

Should You Buy the Breville Fresh & Furious?


The Breville Fresh and Furious produces pretty amazing smoothies and okay margaritas, but falls short in most other categories. It is not the most expensive in our test suite, but it is far from the least, so if you plan to make anything other than smoothies, we recommend that you look at some of the other options we tested.

What Other Blenders Should You Consider?


The Fresh and Furious is easy to use with a clearly labeled interface, and nine presets. Unfortunately, it does not measure up to some of the other options in our test suite in pureeing and grinding.

breville fresh & furious - the fresh and furious leaves a lot of kernels unground.
The Fresh and Furious leaves a lot of kernels unground.
Credit: Genaveve Bradshaw

If you're willing to make the investment in a blender that is nearly perfect in every way, then we recommend the Blendtec Total Classic. This burly blender has withstood the test of time against all other models over the years, and pulverizes the toughest of ingredients. The Cuisinart Hurricane Pro 3.5 also does a beautiful job of making velvety smoothies and mouth-watering margaritas, but is slightly easier to clean.

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Hayley Thomas and Genaveve Bradshaw