Raise your hand if your parents had an Osterizer back in the day! Right off the bat, this blender is beautiful! The blender itself is glass and the base is a brushed nickel. This blender does have a pulsing smoothie setting and for the first 40 seconds, we were crossing our fingers just waiting for it to finally get after all the frozen mango. Once it kicked in, it seemed to have no problem blending.

The smoothie was a little fibrous and ice crystally, but overall not too bad. It does come with an individual smoothie cup that you can blend right into if that’s important to you!

As you can see, a Vitamix is definitely an investment kitchen appliance. It’s easily known as one of the best blenders, if not the best. It kicked in with blending the frozen mango on the smoothie setting immediately. I’ll note, it does come with a stick attachment to assist with moving the contents around as they become stuck, but there was no need to use it!

Upon tasting, there was an immediate difference from the Oster. The smoothie was almost like whipped cream consistency. Very creamy and smooth, no chunks of leafs to be found. Something we noticed is that the smoothie didn’t stay very cold. It’s almost as if the intensity of the blending warmed the smoothie up a bit. That aside, it was definitely one of the best blenders.

This blender is as budget friendly as you can get! Similar to the Oster, it took about 30 seconds for it to finally “catch” and start blending the frozen fruit. Although it does have a smoothie setting, it didn’t have an auto shut off. The most minor inconvenience!

The smoothie itself stayed really cold as opposed to the Vitamix and we were really impressed with how well it blended! It was a tad bit grainy, but nothing alarming. Bonus points are given for being glass!

Looks alone? This is the most stunning blender there is. I wouldn’t even hide this puppy away in the appliance garage because it’s just cute. Getting it to start wasn’t as intuitive as you’d expect. We had to google it, but hopefully once you figure it out the first time it’s smooth sailing from there on.

The smoothie setting started blending at a low speed and gradually picked up. Over the span of a minute, it wasn’t as smooth as we’d hoped. It’s a bummer because aesthetically it’s my favorite, but the smoothie was a bit stringy and fibrous. I think it has something to do with the square jar design. Particles tended to get stuck in the corners.

We had never used a Magic Bullet before so we didn’t really know what to expect. There’s no smoothie setting of course, so we just held it down for about 1 minute straight which is about how long the other smoothie settings were. Maybe we would have been better off pulsing it because it never quite caught ahold of the frozen mango. We actually had to give it a little shake (not a big deal at all) and gave it 30 more seconds.

We were really impressed with the consistency! Super smooth and refreshing. No chunks at all. Single serving smoothies isn’t super practical for us at all, but I’m sure for somebody it is!

This one comes with all the bells and whistles! Blender, two single serving blender cups, a food processor, and a dough blade for the food professor. Is more always better though?

This blender did not have a smoothie setting, but it does have multiple speeds so we tried to mimic a gradual increase like the other blenders did. Something unique about this blender is it the blades are on a cylinder, rather than at the bottom. Rather than gravity pulling everything down to the bottom to blend, it almost pushed everything to the walls of the blender.

By far the most grainy smoothie! Because of the blade design and square shape, the smoothie contents got stuck along the edges and never got blended up all the way. Bummer, because it’s such an affordable price for all that it comes with.

Last but definitely not least we have the Blendtec. We’ve had many a Blendtec and have loved every one. We couldn’t let our bias get in the way though!

The smoothie setting for this bad boy started with slow pulses and gradually picked up. There was absolutely no hesitation with blending up the frozen mango, but we did notice a few little spinach leafs getting stuck in the corners of the blender. That stubborn square-shaped design!

The smoothie itself was really smooth, but we did find a few loose spinach leafs hanging around. We really wanted to get a spatula and push those down along the edges to get blended, but for the sake of the test we held back. Besides that, it was super super smooth!