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This $50 Portable Blender Made Me Ditch My Vitamix For Good

In a quest to make super smoothies, frozen summer drinks, and saucy salsas, I invested in a Vitamix 5200 to the tune of several hundred dollars. It’s been a mainstay in my kitchen arsenal and is one of the few appliances I leave out to admire. It obliterates kale, crushes ice, pulverizes pecans—there’s really nothing (edible) that I put past the Vitamix’s abilities. It’s a reason why this model frequently ends up on a list of the top blenders on the market.

So when I first saw the BlendJet2, I was skeptical. Could it really make a smoothie that didn’t have icy chunks of berries? Would it choke out on cubes of ice? Burn out on some pine nuts for a quick pesto?

But the promise of portability was compelling. As an avid day-tripper, hiker, and traveler, could the BlendJet2 be an ideal option for smoothies on-the-go?

I put the BlendJet2 through its paces and let’s just say this: It has left my Vitamix collecting dust while this portable…