Cleanblend Commercial Blender Review

Smoothies

This appliance got off to a great start with the fruit & oat smoothie, which is one of the more difficult drinks of the group due to the lack of liquid. We had to stir the ingredients once at the start, but the Cleanblend easily mixed them without issue after that. We appreciated that it didn't heat up the drink when blending, but the overall texture was grainier than the top models.

It also did exceptionally well with the Oreo malt, though it needed a bit of encouragement at the start to get the ingredients blending, and the texture was just a tiny bit grainy.

The Cleanblend struggled a bit more with the green smoothie, which ended up being very pulpy. A few unblended chunks of pineapple were caught in the sieve, compared to other products. However, the taste was great.

It did about the same with the berry smoothie. The Cleanblend struggled the most with the berries, and we definitely had to use the tamper until everything was partially liquefied.

The final drink had quite a few fruit skins, and tons of whole strawberry seeds were caught in the sieve. Generally, only the top-tier blenders could completely obliterate fruit seeds.

Ice

This blender made an excellent margarita, easily crushing up the ice without any issues and producing a much more liquid margarita than almost any other product. Unfortunately, we didn't think the final drink was as homogeneous as some of the other beverages made by the top blenders. The Cleanblend's blades just don't make the same kind of vortex that other models do.

It also did very well crushing ice without any liquid. It wasn't terribly effective if we just ran the blender continuously, but it did a fantastic job if we pulsed it — the blade never even slowed down when cutting through the ice cubes.

Convenience

The pitcher, lid, and blade of the Cleanblend are all dishwasher safe, making it one of the easiest to clean. If you don't have a dishwasher, this blender is also quite easy to clean by hand. The lid is one of the easiest to clean, with no tiny nooks or crannies that trap food. Food doesn't frequently get stuck to the pitcher's sides, and the pitcher and blade are both reasonably easy to clean, although you don't have a ton of room to maneuver around the blades.

There is plenty of ventilation for this product to adequately dry when placed on the base, and the text is clear and easy to read on the controls. However, we missed the presence of a digital timer or any preset functions.

Finally, the lid is very easy to take on and off, almost never sticking.

Pureeing

Starting off, the Cleanblend did quite well at creating nut butter — one of the hardest challenges we put before each blender. It took about 8 minutes for the Cleanblend to make an acceptable nut butter, though it took a bit of convincing to get it started. It came out a little dry and chalky, but this could probably be remedied with some extra oil — something the best models didn't require.

It struggled a little with tomato soup, leaving behind plenty of leftover pulp and an overall thicker soup that didn't pour through the sieve very well.

For the last test of this metric, the Cleanblend delivered a mediocre performance. Though it heated up the tomato soup, it never really got it to serving temperature, producing a rather lukewarm soup.

Grinding

This blender got off to a great start, making some excellent powdered sugar with almost no leftover granules.

It struggled a bit with the parmesan cheese, leaving a ton of larger pieces and failing to achieve any semblance of a uniform size.

It did a little better than average when we tried to make cornmeal. It milled most of the kernels, but the resulting meal wasn't very consistent, and a decent number of larger pieces didn't make it through the sieve.

Should You Buy the Cleanblend Commercial Blender?

The Cleanblend is a decent blender, but the bottom line is that there are better blenders out there for similar prices.

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