Ninja Professional Plus Blender DUO with Auto-iQ, Nutrient Extraction

Just the upgrade I needed. Very powerful blender. I had an older version that lasted me a while it still works but I wanted a new one. Caught it on sale Mother's Day weekend and couldn't pass it up

I love this so much that I have now bought this same package for my daughter last year and then for my other daughter last week (she begged for it after seeing mine). It has earned its place in my kitchen for coveted counter space and is one of the few appliances to stay out all the time. I started drinking smoothies for breakfast, and this is simply the best way to do it. No mess. Literally, I just rinse off the blade and that is it. There is NO cleanup. When you compare the horsepower on this machine with anything else on the market, it's like apples and...well, teeeny baby apples. :) This thing has 2 to 3 times as much horsepower as the others. I had a choice between the Ninja that was only the smoothie maker and it came with the 32-oz blender cups or paying a little more and getting this DUO with the 24-oz blender cups. I love the blender, so I got this (all three times when I bought it). Most of the time I really want a bigger smoothie (and yet, I've lost really quite a lot of weight drinking even the large fruit smoothies). So, 24 ounce might be big enough for most people, but I ended up buying replacement cups at a bigger size. I still would buy this set just so I could have the blender. Speaking of the blender, this one solves the problem that I've always had with blenders where you have to stick a spoon down in there to get things to mix up halfway because they don't blend evenly unless it is just liquid. That doesn't happen with this. The stuff that is on the top smooshes down to the bottom like magic. It just works perfectly throughout. It crushes ice better than anything you could ever imagine. So, I sound like a paid infomercial, right? I'm NOT. I paid my hard-earned money for these. I bought them repeatedly because they are great.