Froothie Evolve is a first in next generation power blenders. It has not one, but two GLASS jugs. Yes that’s right no more plastic jugs. It cooks, blends, steams and has a vacuum function. And you can talk to it if you want to. It might even respond.
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Froothie Evolve Power Blender
The Froothie Evolve is a powerful beast. It’s also quite possibly the healthiest high speed blender on the market. I’m loving it so far. You can see what I really like about it further down the post. But suffice it to say, it cooks, steams, blends, crushes ice, makes nut butter and so much more. It even has voice activation if you desire it.
Like any good friend, it takes a while to get to know it properly. It’s not always obvious which is the best function to use for what purpose, but some of them need no explanation at all. I’ve only been using it a few days so I’m still getting used to it. But I’m already certain that this is the best high speed blender yet.
So far I’ve made a smooth soup, a chunky soup, smoothies and apple sauce. I left the skins on for the apple sauce, but you absolutely wouldn’t know from the super smooth result. My mother would have loved the baby food function. She used to push all my baby food through a sieve manually and it took her an inordinate amount of time and effort. Oh thank goodness we’ve moved on. Viva Evolve.
I’ve picked out some of the specifications I think are particularly pertinent below. But you can see further details and a comparison with other blenders on the Froothie website*.
Power
Like all of the Froothie power blenders I’ve tried so far, this is a truly powerful machine. I really don’t know how I managed before I had one.
Motor Power: Rated Power 1400W for blending. 900W for cooking. Maximum Blending Power 1800W.
Presets
There are ten presets, five for each jug. But if you don’t want to use one of these, you can manually select your own, time, speed and temperature.
Cooking Jug: smooth soup, chunky soup, baby food, sauce and steam.
Blending Jug: smoothie with vacuum, fruit & veg with vacuum, sorbet, nuts and clean.
Accessories
Jugs
The Froothie Evolve comes with two tempered glass jugs: 1.75 litre cooking jug and 1.8 litre vacuum blending jug. The blades are made in Japan and are of high quality stainless steel. Each jug has six blades which accounts for the super smooth results I’ve had.
As you can see, the jugs are clearly marked in easy to read ml measures. For hot food in the cooking jug, you should only add up to 1,400 ml. But for cold blending you can add up to 1,750 ml in the cooking jug or 1,800 ml in the vacuum blending jug.
Everything Else
As well as the jugs, you get a stainless steel steaming basket, 1 cleaning brush, 2 spatulas and 1 plastic measuring cup.
Colours
The Froothie Evolve is available in a range of colours. As you can see, mine is a fabulous shade of red. But you can also get it in black, silver, blue or white. I’ll stick to the red, thanks.
Watch Froothie Evolve in Action
To get more of an idea of what Froothie Evolve can do, you can watch it live in action soon. Yes it will be on Ideal World TV (Sky channel 664, Virgin channel 747, Freeview channel 22) for one hour. I’ll add the date here when I find out when it is. Don’t forget to come back and use my affiliate link. This will give you an additional two years on your warranty. You can find the details at the bottom of this post.
What I Really Like
Glass
I absolutely love the Froothie Evolve glass jugs. I grew up with a glass jug blender and my mother used to use it all the time. It lasted for years too. It was really annoying when they stopped making them and plastic blenders were all you could get. I’ve never been happy with plastic as, quite frankly, I just don’t trust the chemicals in it not to leach into our food. Plus plastic always ends up looking a bit tired and shabby.
Anyway, Froothie are now ahead of the game and have developed a power blender with tempered glass. This can cope with both the high speed blending and the cooking. Not only do I feel happier blending my food in glass than I do in plastic, but glass is much easier to clean. It looks nicer too.
There is one caveat to this, however. The jugs are heavy. But they’re solid and I don’t want to have to handle something I use every day with kid gloves. I trust that these jugs are not likely to break easily. At least I can retire my dumbbells for now.
Wide Jugs
The jugs are a much better shape than the tall narrow plastic ones that have gone before. They are a lot wider at the base and somewhat squatter. This means it’s much easier to scrape out the contents and also to clean. There’s something comforting about that broad reassuring shape.
Vacuum Function
When I tried out my Optimum Vac2 Air Vacuum Blender for the first time, I was so impressed with the vacuum function. I’m equally excited by it in the Froothie Evolve. Basically, excess air is removed from the ingredients before blending occurs. This means there is no oxidation with the result that more of the nutrients and colours are preserved. It also prolongs the shelf life of your juice or smoothie. And, the revelation for me was that it stops your smoothie from separating out if you leave it for a while. See my Optimum Vac 2 Air Vacuum Blender review for more information on this.
To use the vacuum function you will need to do it with either the smoothie or fruit & veg presets. If you need to blend for longer than the preset allows, just set the time and speed after it comes to a halt, but before you release the vacuum.
Super Smooth
I can honestly say I’ve never had such smooth smoothies as the ones I’ve made in the Froothie Evolve. I blended carrot, ginger and apple with kefir and a few other ingredients and in terms of texture you’d have no idea carrots were included. I often use carrots in my smoothies and whilst the results have been good in other blenders there’s always a certain grainy quality. That’s simply vanished with these super smoothies.
I’ve also made apple puree with the apple skins on. I’ve tried this before and the results have been OK, but you’re always aware of the skins. But with the Froothie Evolve, you wouldn’t know they were there. The puree is totally smooth and it tastes delicious to boot. Likewise my blended squash soup was silky smooth and I left the squash skin on that too.
Cooking Jug
It’s really nice to have the option of cooking as well as blending. I haven’t tried the steam function yet, but I have made two different types of soup. There’s a preset for a smooth blended soup and another for a chunky one. Both programs run for thirty minutes. I was impressed with both types. What I particularly like about the soup functions are that you can load the ingredients into the jug, set the appropriate preset and walk away for the duration. The Froothie Evolve beeps at you when it’s done and the soup is then good to go. It seems that this Froothie Evolve has come between me and my old mate, the stick blender. Sorry buddy!
It’s also useful to have a second jug if you’re needing to blend two different lots of ingredients at more or less the same time. The cooking jug can be used for cold blending too.
What I Wasn’t So Keen On
Noise
This is one powerful blender and it can do amazing things. But along with that power comes noise. This is fine if you’re just making a smoothie, cleaning a jug or pulsing something for a few seconds. But I tried the sauce function and it blended for six minutes. That’s a long time to put up with a lot of noise. I had to leave the kitchen.
If you have a utility room, I’d recommend operating the Froothie Evolve there. You can bring the jugs into the kitchen to fill them, but blend somewhere where the noise won’t annoy.
Presets
The presets are fine, but you have no control over them. They’re a guide to an ideal, but everyone’s cooking is different and sometimes real life gets in the way.
I’ve made a couple of smoothies now with the smoothie function. The first time I tried it, whilst most of the smoothie was incredibly smooth, a few bits escaped the whirling samurai swords. Admittedly I’d added carrot and ginger as well as apple, but this has never been a problem with previous Froothie blenders. I found I had to pulse the smoothie for thirty seconds after the smoothie function had finished to get a lump free smoothie.
It’s worth noting that neither the sauce function nor the baby food function do any cooking. I was caught out by this with my first attempt at apple puree. I haven’t tried the baby food function yet, but the sauce function blends for six minutes. Because the blender is so powerful, this does heat the sauce up quite considerably, but it doesn’t actually cook it. All you raw foodies will love it.
Smart Blender
The Froothie Evolve has the option to use voice activation if you so wish. It’s pretty cool. You just say hey Froothie, followed by one of the commands such as “make my soup”. This could be useful for any number of reasons, but would be particularly good for those with visual impairments who might find it difficult to read the screen. As a west country luddite, I was initially sceptical. But as they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and now I really like it.
You can also download the menu onto your smart phone and operate the blender remotely via Bluetooth. You’d obviously need to have already added your ingredients to do this. But I can see it might be useful to have your smoothie ready and waiting for you when you stagger out of the bedroom in the morning. Or just want to escape the noise.
I haven’t downloaded the app as I’m quite happy operating it manually. But there are plenty of people out there who are keen on smart technology and you may be one of them. Who knows, I might even try it myself one day.
Froothie Evolve Top Tips
- Cut your fruit and veg into chunks rather than adding whole. This will ensure that everything is well blended. For example, I cut carrots into four pieces and apples into eight.
- If you want to make a smoothie which includes hard veg such as carrots, blend for a further 30 seconds after the smoothie preset has come to a stop, but before releasing the vacuum.
- To make a “raw” hot soup or sauce that isn’t actually cooked, use the sauce preset.
- To clean the vacuum jug, you can use the preset clean. It’s very simple. First add a couple of drops of washing up liquid to about 400 ml warm water. Then rinse carefully under the tap. It’s really important that you don’t get any water on the base of the jug or you run the risk of an electric shock, shorting your power supply or ruining your Froothie Evolve. For the same reason, the jugs must not go into the dishwasher. Follow the same process to clean the cooking jug, except you’ll need to use the manual pulse button as the clean preset doesn’t appear on the display for this jug. You can activate it from the app if you download it, however.
Froothie Evolve Reader Offer
At time of posting the Froothie Evolve is on offer for £499. It comes with a five year warranty and free delivery in the UK. As an ambassador for Froothie UK, I can offer you an additional two year warranty on any Froothie product* you buy. This brings your total warranty up to seven years.
There’s a whole range of power blenders on the site from the fabulous glass Froothie Evolve* to the equally fabulous, but more basic Optimum 9200A*. Just use one of these links to get your extra two year warranty.
If, for any reason you don’t like your blender, there’s a 30 day money back guarantee with free return postage costs. And if you don’t have the cash up front, Froothie offer a 0% finance deal so that you can spread your payments.
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Jacqui – Recipes Made Easy:Only Crumbs Remain says
I’m loving my Froothie evolve. Have made apple sauce but i peeled my apples first. Didn’t think to try without peeling but I can well imagine it would work just fine. It is an impressive blender.
Choclette says
Glad you’re getting on well with it Jacqui. I’ve not peeled an apple for cooking purposes since I tried this.
Melanie Pitches says
Hello yes happy for you to email me…
melanie says
i am sure when i followed the affiliated link previously for the Evolve there was a discount but i’ve just done again with the intention to purchase but there is no discount, did i get it wrong first time or did it change? I could swear it was £100 off which i’d consoled myself with…….I’m struggling to justify £450….
Choclette says
Hi Melanie. Are you OK for me to contact you via e-mail?
Nico @ yumsome says
I love the wide jugs too – so much easier to get everything out, isn’t it? I don’t have large hands but these jugs do lessen the likelihood of my shredding my fingers when digging out bits of nutella and hummus! Ha ha! Great review, BTW! xx
Choclette says
Thanks Nico. You’re a braver woman than I. I’d never dare go anywhere near those blades with my hands. I use a spatula.
Cathy @ Planet Veggie says
That red is gorgeous – I thought it might be a shiny red but it looks beautifully matte and stylish. I’m also pleased to read that the jug is wider as I avoid using my current blender for hummus or anything that’s difficult to get out of the bottom, so it sounds like it might be easier in this one?
Choclette says
It’s a lot easier Cathy. Not that I’ve tried making nut butter or hummus yet. And yes, I’m really pleased with the colour.
Corina Blum says
Such a great detailed review! It’s great to know that it makes such good smooth apple sauce and that there’s no need to peel the apples first. I definitely need to make it for my son as he loves apple sauce!
Choclette says
Thanks Corina. If you try making apple sauce, don’t use the sauce function for it. That definitely didn’t work. I tried it and it both liquified and went a horrid sludgy brown colour.
Jan says
A brilliant detailed review. I didn’t leave the skins on my peppers when I made soup because I was a bit concerned the first time I used mine; but next time I will give it a go as like you said it really does a great job of blending resulting in silky smooth soup.
Choclette says
Thanks Jan. Do try peppers with the skin in. I had peppers and squash in my soup and left all skins on. You really wouldn’t have known.
Jo Allison says
I must say that with Evolve I rediscovered smoothies for breakfast again. Thanks to the vacuum I can make a bigger portion to finish the following day without the loss of nutrients, colour and with no separation! I love the bright red colour of your blender!
Choclette says
The vacuum function is awesome. I do exactly the same as you which means there’s one breakfast day that’s completely faff free. The red goes with all the other bits and pieces in my kitchen, so I’m really pleased with it.
Janice Pattie says
I love the red model, it looks so smart. Such a clever Blender and your puree looks so smooth.
Choclette says
Love the red too. It goes with the rest of the stuff in my kitchen. I’m really excited about being able to make successful apple puree with skins on.
Lucy says
It’s great to hear the smoothie with vacuum function works well. I don’t make smoothies often as I don’t have the time, but will make one for the kids before school and see if they enjoy it!
Choclette says
The vacuum function is a game changer. I’m a big fan of smoothies for breakfast as I can get a good proportion of my five a day in early.
Mina Joshi says
Love your detailed review. I can’t wait to try out the soup and smoothie functions.
Choclette says
Thanks Mina. The soup functions are fantastic and I’ve never had such smooth smoothies as the ones I’ve made in the Froothie Evolve.