Kitchen in the box Smoothie Blender

Is the Kitchen in the box Smoothie Blender worth buying?

The Kitchen in the box Smoothie Blender is worth buying if you want a full-size jug and a serious motor for under £45: it costs £42.47 and gives you 1,500W driving a 2L BPA-free jug. Families who blend soups, sauces and smoothies in batches get the most from it, and 197 owners rate it 4.3. Anyone making one small shake a day is paying for capacity they will never fill.

The money argument is straightforward. Each watt of motor costs 2.8p here, against 3.5p on the Reemix 2000W Jug Blender at £69.99 and 5.5p on the WantJoin Professional Blender at £98.99. At this price you buy the motor and the jar rather than programmes, glass or a travel cup, and those two things decide how a blender behaves every morning.

What does a 2.8p watt actually get you?

Split the asking price across the motor and you land on 2.8p per watt: £42.47 divided by 1,500W. The Chefman Obliterator is the only machine in this class that undercuts it, at 2.6p per watt, and the Reemix asks £27.52 more for its 2,000W. In other words, this is the cheapest way here to put 1,500W into a 2L jar.

In use, 1,500W means a full jar of frozen fruit and ice clears without you stopping to scrape the sides, and the eight-point 3D stainless steel blades sit low enough to catch seeds and hard vegetables instead of skidding over them. Soups and sauces come out smooth enough to serve straight from the jug, and the pulse button shifts a thick mixture when it stalls.

What comes in the box and what does it measure?

You get the motor base, a 2L blending jug, a blending stick and a lid designed so you can drop ingredients in mid-blend without stopping the motor. The jar is plastic around stainless steel blades, it lifts off the base, and it is dishwasher safe. A 30 to 60 second run with warm water and a drop of detergent cleans it out if you would rather not load the machine.

The unit stands 46 cm tall, 21 cm wide and 25 cm deep, and it weighs 4.1 kg, so it wants a clear stretch of worktop with space above it rather than a shelf beneath a wall cupboard. There is no travel cup, no second jar and no measuring cap in the box, which keeps the price down but means a single serving is made in the full 2L jug.

Where does the Kitchen in the box Smoothie Blender fall short?

The controls stop at variable speed and pulse. There is no preset programme for ice, smoothies or soup, so every texture depends on how you turn the dial, and the first few blends take trial and error before you find the setting for a thick shake or a fine puree.

Only 197 buyers have rated it, against 4,073 on the WantJoin Professional Blender, so the 4.3 average rests on a much smaller group of owners than the machines ranked above it. The 2L jar is also plastic, and plastic clouds and scratches with heavy use of ice, where a glass jug keeps its clarity for years.

How does it compare with the Chefman Obliterator and the Reemix 2000W?

The Chefman Obliterator costs £35.99, which is £6.48 less, and it puts 1,380W into a 1.2L jar with a 600ml travel jar in the box. Buy the Chefman for one or two people who drink on the move, and this machine for four servings of soup or smoothie in a single batch.

The Reemix 2000W Jug Blender costs £69.99, £27.52 more, and it brings 2,000W, a 2L BPA-free Tritan jar, 10 speeds and a 2 year warranty. If you crush ice daily and want the extra headroom and the longer cover, the Reemix is the better buy; for everything else, the 1,500W machine here saves you the difference.