Customer Reviews

Back to Basics SJR1X Smoothie Blast

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I'm very please with this little blender. Holds quite a bit and was powerful enough to handle hard, frozen fruit. Haven't tried ice yet but I know it will do great. It blends quickly and the dispenser actually works great! It's made of plastic so may crack if handled too rough, but overall I'm extremely pleased. Does exactly what it's supposed to.

Chops ice good. Does a good job making Smoothie's. A bit
noisy. Good price / value.

I got this smoothie maker several years ago for my husband. It does work okay, but this is the loudest little blender ever! It's a bit difficult to clean, too, especially the spout. After many, many smoothies, the poor little thing is having problems. I'd get another one except for the noise factor.

My old blender wasn't doing the job anymore, so I thought that I would try this. It is very poor at chopping up ice, so you have to stop it several times in order to get the ice unstuck. When you finally have your smoothie made, you have to wait a few minutes to let it thaw, so that it will run through the spout. We had to use a ladle in order to get the smoothie out, since the top does not have a place to pour from. Then, it started to leak from the spout. I think that I will go back to the old blender.

Great product for making smoothies. Helpful to start with liquid and soft ingredients first. Add the frozen fruit or ice cubes last. It will blend better. The pulse rate and stir stick come in handy. The bottom will not unscrew for cleaning.

I bought it because I thought I would be blending alot but I wasn't so I gave it to my grandparents. They love it because they don't have to pick up the whole thing to pour it out. The spout works fine. It may be loud but all blenders are loud.

I bought this about two years ago and yesterday it finally died on me. However, I did use it a a lot, like 4 times a week at least. It did the job, though loud as heck, and the spout was useless. I could not unscrew the bottom also. It was so clogged that it was impossible to unscrew to clean the base. I would not buy the back to basics for the spout. But the best thing is the stir stick, which is terrific and the best thing about this manufacturer. All blender companies should take note. Now that mine died, I kept the stir stick and bought a warring blender that is about 10 times faster than this one.

If you buy a budget blender and can get a few years use out of it, that's par for the course. You simply just get a new one. I've used the Vitamix blender costing 500. But these budget blenders will chop ice just fine.