Magimix Blender Power 4 Review: Very powerful

Verdict

The Magimix Blender Power 4 will not be essentially the most versatile kitchen gadget, however as a blender it’s a powerful mixture of favor, compact packaging and big energy. Its 1,300W motor needs to be sufficient to assist it chew by even the hardest meals, whereas its dishwashable, 1.8 litre glass jug is comfortably sufficiently big for a household’s price of soup. It’s not the most affordable – or quietest – blender, however in the event you’re ready to pay for high quality the Blender Power 4 delivers it.

Introduction

Magimix’s Blender Power vary consists of three fashions. The Blender Power 4 sits within the center. It comes with a largish 1.8-litre jug with a safe lid and stopper, however you can too purchase equipment, together with mix cups for smoothies, and a mill attachment. This blender is obtainable in brushed silver, pink, black, or a fairly retro cream end.

You should buy less expensive blenders than the Blender Power 4, however they’re unlikely to come back with this product’s three-year guarantee, or its powerful 1300W motor – which is assured for 30 years. The smaller Blender Power 3 provides 1.2 litres and a 1000W motor, whereas the Blender Power 5XL has a two-litre jug and 1500W, however each solely are available in silver.

Design and options

• Sensible and strong design
• Plastic-free and dishwashable
• A spread of programmes

The Blender Power 4 contains a wise and fairly compact metallic base, with a footprint little greater than the jug that sits on prime of it. Unusually, that is comprised of thick glass, whereas its detachable blade part is stainless-steel. Most blenders have plastic jugs, exterior of the KitchenAid Artisan Blender K400, so it’s good to see glass used right here.

Solely its double-sealed lid and stopper are plastic, though there’s a small plastic ring immediately underneath the blade surfaces. All of the detachable parts are dishwashable, which is especially helpful on the subject of getting the blades clear.

With a jug that weighs 1.9kg and doubtlessly double that when full, this maybe isn’t the perfect blender for these with decreased mobility or power of their arms.

There’s a massive deal with at one nook, nevertheless, which makes it simpler than it may in any other case be to manoeuvre. Over the long run, I’d be virtually assured to drop this jug on our tiled kitchen ground, smashing each, however in any other case the selection of glass guidelines out the staining and scratching you’d count on from plastic after just a few years’ use.

Simply as importantly, the jug is borosilicate glass, which doesn’t increase or contract a lot with temperature adjustments. Which means you’ll be able to fill this blender with nearly something, from scalding scorching soups right down to cubes of ice.

Magimix is so assured that the motor, blades and jug are sturdy sufficient for the latter that there’s even a particular Ice setting on the management wheel. This huge management additionally provides smoothie, soup and desert settings, alongside variable guide pace management.

The ultimate automated programme is marked Clear. Add a little bit heat, soapy water to the jug, begin it up, and it’ll loosen up any gathered gunge from the blades and jug sides, making handwashing a lot simpler.

Good design touches abound within the Blender Power 4. The primary jug is calibrated to measure litres and pints, whereas the clear plastic stopper measures as much as 70ml or two flowing ounces. You get a free aspect scraper and a beneficiant recipe e book within the field, plus there’s a free recipe app to go together with it. Lastly, this blender is Quiet Mark permitted – I’ll come again to that.

Efficiency

• Indomitable and efficient
• Noisy

Completely nothing stops the Blender Power 4. I examined it with soups, sauces and smoothies, and the outcomes had been at all times evenly blended, with no rogue lumps having escaped the chop.

Whether or not you’re utilizing the automated or guide settings, it’s pretty simple to keep watch over how the mix is progressing, hitting the cease button in the event you attain the correct degree of coarseness earlier than a programme is finished.

Usually I discovered this wasn’t crucial. The programmes mix quite a lot of speeds to make sure meals is sucked down into the bottom and pulverised about as a lot as you’d need. The aspect scraper can assist on the subject of thicker, stickier blends, however I hardly ever used it.

One factor I did discover was that the thick glass jug tended to suck warmth out of smaller portions of scorching meals – in the event you want one thing to remain piping scorching, you may must decant it and microwave it briefly, or pre-heat the jug with boiling water.

On the flip aspect, the Blender Power 4 made quick work of standard-sized ice cubes I’d frozen right down to -20°C, with the ice programme rapidly rendering them right into a slush appropriate for ice-cold summer season drinks.

After just a few makes an attempt I managed a satisfactory facsimile of a sure espresso chain’s frozen mocha drink, whereas my children loved slushy squash. One warning is that you just’ll want lots of ice to get an honest sized drink – it’s additionally onerous to get the final bits out from underneath the blades.

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My one actual criticism of the Blender Power 4 is that, regardless of Quiet Mark approval, it’s fairly noisy. The motor itself appears fairly quiet, however there’s additionally a gruff noise on prime of it that feels like a bag of gravel in a moped engine. That is conspicuously absent from Magimix’s promotional video, suggesting there could have been a problem with the instance I examined, which in any other case labored completely. At full pace, with the blender empty, I measured 68dB from a metre away.

I like the way in which this blender’s base has no uncovered cooling grilles, preserving it smarter and serving to shield in opposition to spills. Its buttons and dial are simple to make use of and really simple to learn, however the dial may do with extra texture or indentations that can assist you flip it with greasy fingers.

I measured a standby energy use of 1 Watt (1W), together with a quick peak of 600W when crushing ice. Extra sometimes, energy peaked at round 375W. That’s clearly far in need of this blender’s 1300W score, however motors solely draw their peak energy after they’re totally loaded. In on a regular basis use it’s unlikely you’d ever actually tax this blender’s energy plant, but it surely’s good to know the grunt is there must you want it.

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