Product Description
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5062 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Color: Gray
- Brand: Oster
- Model: BLSTIM-000-000
- Dimensions: 14.90" h x6.70" w x6.90" l,3.70 pounds
Features
- Blend your favorite smoothie or shake right in the sport bottle
- Dishwasher safe 20-ounce bpa-free plastic sport bottle
- A powerful 250-watt motor and stainless steel blade crush ice easily
- Convenient One Touch blending
- Sport bottle features a slip resistant rubber grip and convenient clip
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
39 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
By Paul Cassel
This is a light duty blender useful for those who wish to mix and run. The chief feature which differentiates this product from similar ones is that the blender container is also a drinking bottle. Thus you can mix up whatever you choose in the blender and instead of decanting to a drinking bottle, you only need take the blending chamber with you.
Keep in mind that this is about 1/3 of a horsepower or 250 watts. This will do a good job of blending up powdered mixes or make smoothies from softer fruit but this isn't one of those 2 hp in which you can thrown all sorts of odd ingredients such as tree branches or peach pits and have a smooth mixture emerge.
The unit comes with one bottle / blending chamber. Most folks who train will wish more capacity than the one bottle but of course, you can buy more to your heart's delight.
The only downside to this device is that there is a lip inside the bottle / blending chamber which is hard to clean. If you're not careful cleaning in this area, you'll leave detritus - hardly desirable.
Overall works as expected with nothing startling either good or bad.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
By E.M.
I have been using this daily for 2 weeks for smoothies and it is perfect for my situation (I have 10 minutes from waking up to getting my fiance out the door with his breakfast/lunch/coffee)
This is perfect for those with a grab-n-go lifestyle who do not need the power of a Vitamix/Blendtec
Blending power:
Semi-frozen fruit chunks - perfect
Kale - did really well and left only a few tiny identifiable bits
Whole flax seeds - not so good (mostly stayed whole)
Ground flax seeds - mixed them in, but they were still noticeable
Protein powder - complete mixed
(I have not tried ice or frozen fruit)
Bottle design:
The rubber grip and thumb loop make it easy to hold
The bottle is clear, but tinted; the stuff inside is mostly visable (not good when trying to sneak in kale)
Note: the bottle has indents for the grip that create ridges on the inside. Bits stick in ridges
The flip cap is not locked when closed
Cleaning suggestion: Contigo Cleaning Brush set (the various brushes work perfectly to get into all of the nooks and crannies)
Volume (for anyone like me who doesn't know how much food equals 20 oz):
Perfect fit:
1 average banana
1 cup frozen fruit chunks
1½ cups liquid
4 Tbsp additives (flax seed, protein power...)
My usage:
At night, I dump in all ingredients except the additives and put the bottles in the fridge (fruit gets partially defrosted). In the morning I switch the blade for the lid, dump in the additives, blend for 20-30 seconds, switch the lid for the blade, rinse blade... I have a clean kitchen and yummy breakfast to go in under 2 minutes.
Note: I tried putting the additives in the bottle at night, but I ended up with concrete (tried putting them in both first and last with the same results)
PROS:
Very quick
No blender to clean
Easy to hold
CONS:
Bits get stuck in the ridges
Flip cap does not lock
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
By LA
UPDATE:
As convenient as these blenders are, they don't last. Mine has already died. Granted I used it just about every day, but products should last at least a year. Another issue I had was that the bottom started leaking. The result was a huge mess every time I used it. I can't recommend this brand.
I like this blender a lot. It's quick work to put in apple juice, ice, and an Emergen-C envelope. Sometimes I add a banana or other fruit. The result is refreshing and delicious. I look forward to it every day.
The blender will only work if you actually have your hand turning the bottle. That's a great safety feature, and one that I've grown to like.
I've noticed that some ice stubbornly refuses to be crushed, but overall the machine is effective.
One other thing I should mention--if you don't run your dishwasher every day, you'll need to invest in a bottle brush. I could not get the bottle clean by hand washing it (fruit pulp clung to the interior).
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