- Brand: Ninja
- Color: Black
- Special Feature: dishwasher safe
- Capacity: 72 Fluid Ounces
- Product Dimensions: 9.48″D x 7.51″W x 17″H
- PROFESSIONAL POWER: 1000 watts of professional power can crush ice and breakdown any tough ingredient.
- XL CAPACITY: The 72 oz professional blender pitcher is excellent for making frozen drinks and creamy smoothies for the entire family. 64 oz. max liquid capacity
- INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY: Total Crushing Technology delivers unbeatable power with blades that pulverize and crush through ice, whole fruits and vegetables in seconds.
- ICE CRUSHING: Blast ice into snow in seconds and blend your favorite ingredients into delicious resort-style frozen drinks
- RECIPE INSPIRATION: The included recipe guide provides drink and dish making inspiration.
- EASY CLEANUP: Pitcher is BPA free and dishwasher safe, making cleanup just as simple and easy as using the blender.
- WHAT’S INCLUDED: 1000 Watt Motor Base Professional Blender & 72 oz Total Crushing Pitcher with Lid.




















tallslenderguy –
I’m a healthcare professional and bought this after researching the competition (i.e., “Vita-Mix). After reading through a gazillion comments and reviews (including CR who rates the Ninja #2) I opted for the lower priced Ninja. I have used mine twice a day for the 6 weeks I have owned it, I use it for making smoothies. I blend for health, I have a morning fruit and berry smoothie and I have an afternoon veggie smoothie. Blending is a really convenient way to get in all your servings of fruit and veggies each day without removing the (very important) fiber. So far, I love my Ninja. I have had stuff made with a Vita Mix in the past, but have never done a side by side comparison, though I can think of a few differences that are meaningful for me. One, the Vita Mix generates heat. They use it as a selling feature, that you can use it to make soups, but I like my smoothies cold, so it’s not something I look for in a blender. Secondly, Vita Mix seems to win in all the comparisons with Ninja on smoothness, or thoroughness of blending. The only reason I knocked one star off the Ninja is because I have noticed that my smoothies are a bit chewier after several weeks of blender use. I attribute that to the fact that Ninja relies (apparently) on their sharp blades, which naturally dull with use-especially when blending frozen berries or ice (which both of my smoothies contain). I’ve noticed a subtle change in texture, no chunks, but definitely not a fine blend. My understanding is that Vita Mix has dull blades that work for years, they do not rely so much on sharpness as they do on speed? The other thing (in addition to heat) that you get with a Vita Mix is aeration (foam), which I do not notice with the Ninja. My smoothies are full of fruit and veggies, so they are full of fiber. If you are okay with having some noticeable fiber in your blend over time, the Ninja is a great deal at about 1/5 the cost. If that matters to you, expect that you will have it in time (I started to notice it after about 25 blends). The blender cleans very easily and is simple to use. I’ve never had to remove the top to tamp stuff down and I use 3 cups of leafy greens like kale and arugula, as well as whole carrots, celery, apples, and never have chunks. Overall it’s a great machine. I cannot rate longevity since I’ve only had it 6 weeks, but so far I’m very pleased.Update: It’s January 2018, I owned the Ninja about 3 months and ended up getting a Vita Mix. I still stand by my original review, but there is a difference. The Ninja starts out pretty great, but then over time things do no blend as well. I drink 2 smoothies a day (one veggie, one fruit), so I use it a minimum of 2x a day. Over time I started calling my Ninja smoothies: “grainies.” The blades start out very sharp, and the technology depends on that, but they dull with use and it shows in the results. The Vita Mix does not depend on blade sharpness, but power, it pummels everything to pieces (itty bitty pieces). I am amazed at the flour I can make with it. Also, the heat i mentioned is not a factor but a feature. Most things are blended in less than a minute (35 seconds often), so nothing really gets warm unless you leave it on in order to generate heat. The Ninja is a good blender, especially for the cost, but I don’t think one can fairly compare it to a Vita Mix, it’s like comparing apples and oranges.
Matt D –
I noticed that my cat was starting to get fat. Not sure why because he’s been getting the same amount of food as always so the only explanation is that he must have been sneaking the left-over pizza I’ve been leaving out on the stove every night. In that moment I realized that I’ve been eating pizza every night and beelined to the hallway mirror to check if I was getting fat too.I was.“From now on it’s vegetable smoothies and walks around Central Park until we both look like Brad Pitt,” I said to Garbage. “Well, vegetable smoothies for me and canned tuna for you,” I corrected myself realizing that cats don’t eat vegetables. At least mine doesn’t. In any case, one two click and we’ve got a case of wild albacore and a Ninja BL610 on the way from Amazon. Great. Next, I figured we’d get a head start on the exercise so I strapped a harness onto Garbage and off we went to the park. (The thing barely fit around his fat torso.)We hiked around the little trails above Loeb Boathouse, I took it slow because I could see that Garbage was having a hard time. His body was visibly weighing down on his tiny knees. He looked like a barrel on four shaky sticks. But I didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to embarrass him. Instead, I pretended like I was the one struggling, giving off sighs here and there, asking him to slow down. I tried to keep his mind off the physical exertion with stories about mice and fish when, out of nowhere, a large mama-goose cut us off leading a string of babies across the path. We stopped. Garbage looked up at me. I shrugged my shoulders, “we gotta wait,” I said. And as soon as I did, the goose hissed violently like a manic cobra. I got a little scared, I’ll admit. “Step back,” I calmly whispered to Garbage. He moved behind my leg. Seeing him move, the goose started flapping her wings and hissing even more aggressively.Now – just to clarify – when I said that I got a little scared, it wasn’t so much that I was afraid of the goose itself. I mean, you have to keep a leveled head in situations like that, have to think logically. And logically speaking, I’m over six feet tall. The goose is what? A foot maybe? I weigh… a lot, hence the whole diet and exercise thing. The goose weighs how much? Maybe 10, max 15 pounds? I say this to say that I’m pretty sure I could take a goose down if push came to shove. Let’s say she flew up at face-level and tried to peck my eyes out. I’d treat her with a double jab, cross, hook. And if she came after my legs, I’d simply swat her with a low kick. Done deal. It’s not complicated. But it is beside the point because I would never actually do anything like that. Not in my right mind at least. And this is where things start to crumble. Because how can I know if I’m in my right mind at any given moment? Everything I do or think makes sense to me because I’m the one doing or thinking it. So if the thought of boxing it out with a goose pops into my head that means that somewhere in there this is a possibility waiting to materialize. And that is what I was scared of when I said I got a little scared. Because the only thing worse than beating up a goose is being SEEN beating up a goose. I mean, Imagine that? You’re walking around Central Park, minding your business, relaxing, when suddenly you see some cretin with a morbidly obese cat on a leash punching a goose. Front page New York Times next morning guaranteed.Long story short, we turned around and walked in the other direction. Did another 30 minutes around the lake and went home. Exhausted.Two days later we got our stuff from Amazon and went hard with the diet. The blender is great. It’ll chop anything. It’ll turn frozen vegetables to puree. It’ll turn almonds into almond butter. It’ll turn your fingers into ground meat if you’re not careful. The knives are sharp Sharp SHARP. I’m pretty sure it would turn rocks to sand but I haven’t tried that yet. The long and the short of it is this: the Ninja BL610 does the job exactly the way the job needs to be done. Go for it. You can feel confident.As for the results of our diet, Garbage looks like a Persian show cat and I’m down to 180.
R. A. Black –
I made pesto and hummus in this last night, first time I used it, and it was terrific. I don’t see me dragging out my big Kitchenaid food processor to make things like this anymore, because this blender does it beautifully. I still have not made any drinks with it, but I’m more than positive that it can handle them after the test I put it through. I didn’t even chop anything up before I put it in the blender either like I normally would the food processor, everything was whole and it still made a fantastically smooth pesto and hummus.
Kelly O. –
I bought one a few years ago for myself to make juices. (Juicers just waste so much of the veggies and fruits) I love mine!!My daughter wanted something to make baby food with. I got her this not knowing how good a job it would do. She trashed it out – PERFECT consistency for baby food!
andrew holladay –
Honestly, we have had this blender for about 5 years, but last year the pitcher began to develop stress cracks around the base. We never abused the pitcher, but just general smoothie making and the like. Replacement pitchers are impossible to find for anything less than 90% of a new unit purchase price. I guess 5 years is a good run?
Paulette Schein –
This is our second Ninja… guess we wore out the last one. I like that it has a light, plastic pitcher instead of the heavy glass ones. It has power (though this has so many fewer buttons/speeds… surprising). But it gets the job done, so far. Biggest problem with Ninja is the noise. Otherwise, really good product.
mo –
Used many others, none works as well, and my wife uses this one every day for vegetable smoothies. It is a little loud, but so are all the others
Frank Eggleston –
This bad boy has me eating the peels, the core, the seeds, everything. Blends everything REALLY good, and Quick. When I get to be really old, and can’t eat solid foods, not a problem!