Power blenders are marvellous things. You can pulverise just about anything in them. It goes without saying that one of these is an incredibly useful piece of kit to have in the kitchen. Here’s a review of the Optimum 9200A Next Generation high speed blender.
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Yes, a new and powerful beast has taken up residence in my kitchen. It has such a commanding presence that I can’t help but use it again and again. What, you may well ask, is she wittering on about now? I have a new blender, a Froothie Optimum 9200A Next Generation to be precise.
Finely grinding many foods, especially fruit, vegetables and nuts enables the body to more easily absorb any available nutrients. Whilst my old blender was useful for making basic smoothies, it wasn’t very efficient at grinding up anything course.
This meant, when making smoothies with goji berries for instance, I’d end up with a reddish bitty sludge at the bottom of the jug that wasn’t desperately appealing. I was also unable to make ‘green’ smoothies. I tried with some of our home grown kale once and it was just not meant to be. We found coconut water with large pieces of kale floating about in it was rather hard to drink.
Optimum 9200A Power Blender
The Optimum 9200A Next Generation*, on the other hand, is a high speed super blender with a 2,611 watts motor and a scary top speed of 44,000 revolutions per minute (RPM). The jug which is made of ultra strong, heat-resistant polycarbonate has a 2 litre capacity and can take both wet and dry ingredients. The blades are stainless steel and very sharp.
It has automatic blending options, which means I no longer have to hover over my morning smoothie when I have so many other things I need to do. I can set it to low, medium or high speed and it also includes a pulse function. It can blend pretty much anything. I’ve used it to make smoothies, nut butters, ice-cream and even soup. It even crushes ice.
Handily, the jug has measures, for cups, fluid ounces and litres, so can cope with pretty much any measurement you care to throw into it. I have the rather smart black model as shown above, but white, red and silver models are also available.
Smoothies
In the West’s recent drive to embrace a healthier lifestyle, the smoothie has really come into its own. Smoothies are nothing new, they made a regular appearance on our breakfast or lunchtime table when I was growing up. However, they were fairly simple, usually consisting of milk, wheatgerm and banana.
Now, not only do we have a wealth of additional ingredients available, but blenders are far more powerful. With a good power blender, you can add pretty much any sort of fruit or vegetable you like.
I’ve made beautifully smooth drinks with raw beetroot, carrot, kale, celery, cucumber, spinach and garden weeds, including nettles. This new power blender of mine whizzes frozen berries, apples with their skins on and all sorts of other tough stuff.
Other Optimum 9200A Blender Recipes
I don’t only use my power blender for smoothies, however, oh no. Sauces, pestos, spreads and cauliflower rice are regularly whizzed up. I’ve even made my first ever bean to bar chocolate in it too. You can see some of the recipes I’ve created with it on my blender page.
Optimum 9200A: How Did I Find It?
I’ve put it through its paces a few times and conducted a number of tests, all of which it passed with flying colours. When I made a raw chocolate and goji berry smoothie, it was impossible to detect even a tiny bit of goji berry.
Our kale blended to a fine green juice and a couple of other ingredients I wasn’t sure about had similarly successful results. I will be posting some of the things I’ve made in due course. This raw cashew chocolate spread, for instance, is a good example of grinding nuts into a super smooth paste.
I do have a couple of quibbles, but all in all, I’m delighted with my new resident beast.
The quibbles are on the cleaning front. I’d heard that it was a synch to clean. Apparently all I needed to do was to put some water in the jug with a dash of washing up liquid and blend. This works to a point, but of course doesn’t clean the top or lip of the jug.
Whereas I used to just dunk my old blender in the washing up bowl along with everything else, it is not a good idea to get the bottom of this jug wet. So cleaning the jug overall is a little awkward. I must stress, this hasn’t put me off using it. I am super excited about its capabilities and will continue to use it on a regular basis.
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Choclette x
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Jacqueline Meldrum says
I don’t know how I missed this Choclette. Good review. I find it super easy to clean. I pour the soapy water from the jug over the lid in the sink, give a wash with a sponge and rinse both under the tap.
Choclette says
Thanks Jac, I’m getting to grips with the cleaning now, but I still find it a bit fiddly. Other than that I LOVE it.
Bintu Hardy says
I super duper love the froothie and cant wait to try more things in it.
Choclette Blogger says
Yes, there is so much to try Bintu, it’s very exciting.
Helen @ Fuss Free Flavours says
I love my Froothie and could not live without a power blender now, what an amazing green juice !
Choclette Blogger says
Yes Helen, I can quite see why. I’m loving being able to blend so many exciting things.
Jane Sarchet says
Yay! Welcome to the wonderful world of the Froothie!
Janie x
Choclette Blogger says
Thanks Janie, I’ve made some pretty amazing things I’d never have managed without it 🙂
Madeleine Morrow says
I need one of these – I broke my blender crushing ice! Looks wonderful. Need to put aside the pennies.
Choclette Blogger says
I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s meant to be brilliant at crushing ice Madeleine.
Helen - family-friends-food says
Looks great! I keep thinking about one, but not sure I do enough ‘blending’ to warrant it!
Choclette Blogger says
Now I’ve got one Helen, I’m using it more than I used to use my old one – it can do so much more.
Jayanthi Sindhiya says
Very nice ,blender
Choclette Blogger says
It is indeed Jayanthi, I’m really enjoying experimenting with it.
Karen S Booth says
Very precise review Choclette – I find the cleaning easy, funnily enough, but then I wasn’t making smoothies, so maybe not so much mess!
Choclette Blogger says
Ah, I’m wondering what your secret is Karen. I’ve made a nut butter as well as a smoothie, but that made even more mess. It could just be that I don’t have much space, so pretty much everything is awkward.
Baking Addict says
Excelllent review, really good to get your take on it. I would love to have one but just can’t justify it at the moment. Maybe one day… for now I will see what delights you come up with.
Choclette Blogger says
Thanks Ros, it surely is a great addition to the kitchen and I’m using it lots.
Johanna GGG says
great to hear your thoughts on your froothie – I have one that I like but I agree the cleaning it is not quite as easy as it sounds – I find cleaning nut butter hardest and usually soak it – but I do love being able to make my own nut butters! that is such luxury.
Choclette Blogger says
Yes, I saw you had one Johanna, they are rather splendid aren’t they? I’ve had a go at a sort of nut butter Johanna and it took a couple of blends to clean, but wasn’t too bad. I found getting it out of the jug tricky though.
Kate Glutenfreealchemist says
Great blender! We went to see Shrek the musical at the weekend….. I am wondering if he is on a regular diet of kale smoothie?….. he was exactly that colour!
Choclette Blogger says
Oh I’m sure Shrek would be eating tons of Kale Kate – I wonder what blender he uses 😉