Breville Blend Active Personal Blender & Smoothie Maker |
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Breville Blend Active Personal Blender & Smoothie Maker | 350W | 2 Portable Blend Active Bottles (600ml) | Leak Proof Lids | White & Green [VBL246]
Just Blend & Go!
One-touch blending action delivers perfect results in seconds.
Powerful Motor
Smoothly blends frozen berries and ice with juice and other liquids.
Easy to Clean
Detachable blade and blending bottle are dishwasher-safe for quick cleaning.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Blending Bottle | 2 x 600 ml | 2 x 600 ml & 2 x 300 ml | 1 x 600 ml |
| Food Processor Bowl | – | – | 1 x 450 ml |
| Removable Blade | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dishwasher-Safe Blade & Accessories | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| One Touch Control | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Crushes Ice | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recipe Ideas Included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weight: | 1.23 kg |
| Dimensions: | 22.7 x 20.2 x 17.4 cm; 1.23 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Breville |
| Model: | VBL246 |
| Colour: | Green |
| Dimensions: | 22.7 x 20.2 x 17.4 cm; 1.23 Kilograms |
I got it for my mum for her birthday and she blitzed up some apples and made slushies with ice.
Works so good and the extra flasks were worth it!
Very lovely. Blends so well, even crushes ice. Really love it. The bottle is big enough. For someone who has owned a Blendjet I can say that this is the bes
Easy to use, easy to clean, easy smoothies. All for 20! Accidentally ordered this but makes a great smoothie! Comes with 2 bottles, the blade is easy enough to clean but am worried about the connecting gear as it seems almost 3d printed.
Powerful for quick smoothies. Easy to use and clean. Two strong drinks bottles that are used to make the smoothie, saving on washing up. Only negative is that it’s quite loud.
So good, I also bought one for my uni kid and they love it.
Really great value for money. I’d already bought one for myself and purchase this for my daughter. The power is sufficient for most smoothies, but if you’re making frozen smoothies and using ice, it can struggle a bit and takes time but if you use plenty of liquid or soft fruit, it works like a treat.
Very easy to clean and use and this has a great capacity too.
Bought this for smoothies for the Mrs and Protein shakes for me, destroys frozen things in an instant and makes me lovely protein shakes without bits in and very easy to clea
So far so good, wanted a blender to make milkshakes but we also wanted to be able to blend ice. It’s a powerful little thing, so far we’ve only used it a couple of times to make smoothies or milkshakes but it works great. Can’t complain , reasonable price also .very loud though lol
Use to make fruit smoothies and milkshakes. Great to have 2 bottles, easy to clean, I’ve bought 3 of these now, one for me, one for my son for mine and one for my parents to help increase their fruit consumption in an easy palatable way. Thoroughly recommend.
I have a nutri bullet at home and bought this for my caravan to save bringing it back and forth all the time. This is just as good in my opinion and can’t see an awful lot of difference for making a smoothie.
Lids are HORRIBLE!! But the rest is good. Only thing is it doesn’t blend the base of the bottle you have to scoop with spoon
The lids ruined an otherwise perfect machine
The new one in my opinion is much better than the old one. I use mine to make shakes in the morning using Huel meal replacement powder. The Huel scoop is quite large and I had to use a funnel before to avoid spillage. However these new bottles have a much bigger top so the scoop fits no problem!
The blender itself seems more powerful but I don’t have any facts to back that up.
I definitely recommend this blender for its price and I’ve had absolutely zero problems using it.
20ish with two bottles is a bargain.
Such a good blender, I love it. Key thing for me is that it blends ice and it does this with no effort at all. I made a shake and out a whole tray of ice in and it was blended in seconds!
The bottles are ace and it’s so convenient to blend and then drink straight away.
I have had a few different brands and this is most def the best I have used at an excellent price!
Perhaps you could get the supplier to take a look at these weak lids.
After a few simple instructions, my grandson was able to experiment with various ingredients with only minimal supervision, which boosted his confidence. It effortlessly blended a variety of ingredients, including fruits, vegetables, and even ice, resulting in smooth and well-textured beverages. We tried everything out.
The two portable blend active bottles included with this blender are a great design feature and fantastic addition. With a capacity of 600ml each, they are the perfect size for single servings. The bottles are made of durable BPA-free plastic, ensuring they are safe for everyday use. Going on a picnic, I appreciate the leak-proof lids, which allowed us to carry our smoothies without worrying about spills or messes. The white and pink colour scheme is also a nice touch, giving the blender a stylish and vibrant look.
What sets this blender apart from others is its convenience and simplicity. The blending process is incredibly straightforward. All we needed to do was fill the bottle with our desired ingredients, attach it to the blender base, and blend away. There are no complicated settings or buttons to navigate, making it user-friendly for everyone, even those who are new to blending.
The cleanup is also a breeze. The blades detach from the bottle, and both are dishwasher-safe, saving me time and effort.
One minor drawback is that the blender is not suitable for blending hot liquids, as the bottles are not designed to withstand high temperatures. So, if you’re looking to make hot soups or beverages, this might not be the ideal choice.
Overall, I highly recommend the Breville Blend Active Personal Blender & Smoothie Maker. It delivers excellent performance, offers convenience, and is aesthetically pleasing. Whether you’re a busy professional, a fitness enthusiast, or simply someone who enjoys a refreshing smoothie, this blender is a reliable and worthwhile investment.
For me and my grandson, it provided a day of fun and enjoyment. Ultimately, he chose to make banana and pineapple with yoghurt, and I chose tropical fruit. On our walk and picnic, we shared with each other, and he was very proud of his achievement.
I’ve been able to have fruit smoothies every day…and prior to having this I really wasn’t eating much fruit.
Largely due to me having sensitive teeth, so biting down on cold fruit was painful and ultimately made eating fruit less enjoyable.
But with this, I’m now having fruit every day (my kids too!!) And it’s so easy to use.
Just drop all the fruit you want in it and blend!
Only thing I’ll say, is it struggles a bit with frozen fruit, so what I tend to do is put the frozen fruit in orange juice and leave on the fridge for a bit to thaw more, then blend. It does leave some bits, so I never gave a totally smooth smoothie, but I can live with that.
I even made a chocolate and banana milkshake which was yummy!
Dropped the star as it struggles with frozen, so does mean if I don’t have all fresh fruit, have to wait for my smoothie and this is advertised as coping well with frozen…which in my opinion it doesn’t.
Wish I’d got one soone
It’s compact: I can keep the base unit out without cluttering my counters. The bottles fit easily in cupboards.
It’s easy & simple to use – screw cap shut, click into place press one button, unclick from unit, unscrew cap, screw on lid.
For those with strength/mobility issues: it’s not at all difficult to twist/click the bottle into the base unit and the button only requires a gentle pressure. The most resistance is in screwing/unscrewing the various caps, as they have a rubber seal, but it’s very little resistance, the same as your average juice screw cap I’d say.
That said, it is still a pulse blender, so you have to keep the button pushed in for as long as you want it to blend. It really doesn’t need long at all, though; the instructions say not to run it continuously for longer than 30 seconds to prevent overheating but I’ve never yet approached that length of time. I have been using this every morning for 2 weeks now (and my kids every other day or so on top of that) and I’ve never yet needed to press it for longer than 10 seconds. My smoothies are banana, frozen berries (including chunky strawberries), powder and liquid, so maybe if you’re crushing ice you might need to, but it really is remarkably quick and efficient.
The spout is nice and wide and easy to drink from.
It’s powerful – frozen berries get chopped up with ease (something my old-but-expensive jug blender couldn’t manage). I’ve not tried it with ice yet.
It’s easy to clean (see video) – a drop of washing up liquid and some hot water, cap on, blitz for a few seconds and rinse! If there’s stuff stuck to the sides then a quick scrub with a bottle brush is all you need. I’d definitely recommend a bottle brush as the bottles are long and narrow and might be tricky with a normal washing up brush.
I know many reviews have mentioned the cap getting in the way when drinking, but I’ve not found this to be the case. The cap is free to move but you can push it a little further and it stays open and out of the way.
The catch on the lid cap could be an issue – it’s solid moulded plastic clicking onto a solid triangular ‘lip’ on the lid, which means you have to lift a loop of plastic up to disengage the catch. This means it could potentially bend and snap over repeated usage, but I’ve personally not felt it was weak or at risk of breaking. That said, I’m conscious of not being too rough with it.
I’m not sure how long the rubber loop will last – I can imagine if you’re regularly carrying a full bottle from the strap it won’t last forever, but I carry mine by the body.
All in all, this is an excellent, powerful little blender at a great price.
Blender is pretty powerful. Mixes things thoroughly, using it for meal shakes and they are quite powder heavy (400ml liquid + a lot of powder) and this thing blitzed it up super well and left no residue anywhere on the bottle or any lumps of any kind.
It’s a bit noisy and i think it would be a nicer design for the button to run the machine for 30s rather than having to hold it but that’s a minor niggle.
The lids on the bottles aren’t amazing and i can see why people don’t like it as the clip is just flexing plastic tab rather than a hinged design so i understand why it might not last.