The Magic Bullet product reviews

I was really excited about this one, I thought it was going to make life so much easier, and when I first got it, I was really impressed as I used it to make baby food, and it did a good job, but when I started to try other things like using ice and making whipped cream etc...

I was really disappointed as it had to work alot harder to get the desired result, nothing like they showed you on tv, I felt the ad was kind of misleading to what the product actually could do and handle.

After having this product for about 15 months it died on me, and I would not get another one nor would I recommend this to anyone.

I purchased a magic bullet because I was so impressed by the advertisement on TV but sadly I was so disappointed in it.
When it first arrived I was pretty impressed by all the gadgets and bits in pieces it came with, and thought it was definitely worth the money, however it seems possibly some of the bits n pieces it came with a really pointless.

I also found it really didn't work as effective as I expected it to. It was actually quite disappointing. It definitely didn't do some of the things that were claimed on TV anyway.

I tried a few of the recipes and after struggling with the bullet found that simple elbow grease and traditional methods were much simpler and quicker for chopping and mixing and mincing etc.

If you have time to waste then by all means its a good product. If you are expecting something quick, efficient and quiet then definitely worth it.

i have had my one of these for nearly 3 years now. bought it through their website after reading the first review. i havent had any problems with the rubber/plastic cog thingie on the bottom of the blades because i make sure it is well meshed with the cog on the motor first and push firmly to activate. by doing that there is no way for the motor to chew away at the cog on the blade piece. like all things if you treat it well and be smart about using it then it will survive a lot longer. i have watched other people use theirs (i bought two as presents for friends) and seen how they dont bother to make sure the two gears are well seated before pushing down and activating the motor. i cringe when i hear that gear-stripping noise of the motor spinning up and grinding away at the blades cog. 5 minutes of patient effort soon has them doing it right and the cogs are still working 2 years later! funny how people blame the tools.

I had the same thing happen to me that mandaz79 did. All was going well but then after a few weeks one of the blades wouldn't work so I then changed to the other one. Once again after a few weeks that was not working and the same thing had happened to both and that was the black hard rubber bit which acts like a cog to turn the chopper had worn away. So the whole thing was rendered useless and thrown away.

Again, i brought this product because im an impulse buyer. At first i loved it!!! i used it mostly for onions, which was very effective. I then ventured into omlettes. Great easy omlettes. So far i loved this product. Then i thought Cheese. this got the big thumbs down. It did not grate it at all. I found after the 2nd or third time, the cutting blades had come loose. After about 3 months i found that not only had the blades become so loose, but the rubber bits at the bottom of the cutting attachment had worn down so much that i could no longer use that blade. I ended up throwing the whole product away after it sat in the cupboard unused. It was an expensive onion chopper!!!

Oh the years I have suffered from Onion Tears, the number of times I have chopped hot chillis and gotten some on my fingers, then stupidly rubbed my eyes, the number of bowls I have used just to make a dip or spread... if only the magic bullet unit had been around when I first started flatting. -sigh-

Let's start with the features... the foremost, of course, is it's blending ability. Grab a blending cup, stuff your ingredients in, screw on the appropriate blade unit and whizz whizz whizz... all done! Onion chopped finer than even the most deft-handed cook... a pate smoother than any I have made before... thickshakes blended faster than I have ever done it previously, and no sore wrists afterwards... oh, it made it all so easy!

Thickshakes can be made using the blender attachment, if you want a large volume of the same flavour, or you can use the individual cups with their coloured thread-covers if you wish to make a single serving of each flavour, as I did for my son. He had Willy Wonka Chocolate Caramel, while I stuck with a standard chocolate ultra-thickshake. I like them so thick you have to hammer the straw in, or simply eat it with a spoon. -drool-

I made a chicken dip after that... using freshly cooked chicken that just slid off the bone, half an onion, 2 fresh green chilli's, and a half jar of tartare sauce, all blended into a fine smooth consistency... it was about the same thickness as a thickshake, but trust me, you wouldn't want to jam a straw into this mix. It went perfectly with salsa-flavoured corn chips, carrot and celery sticks, and 'snax' crackers. By the time it was half-way gone, I had already whipped up a batch of spicy Avocado dip, with similar ingredients, basically replacing the chicken with avocado, and adding a good squeeze of lemon juice. Both dips took less than a minute to prepare. Total.

Cleaning up is a breeze... simply put a tiny squirt of washing liquid into the cup, 3/4 fill with hot water, slap on the blades again and give it a 10 second whizz... rinse with hot water and whizz again for 10 seconds, then slap them on the drying rack. If it got any easier, it would wash itself!

There are a couple of things to note for anyone who is a first-time user of such equipment... the order you put the ingredients in the cup will affect the results you get. If you want a well-blended mix, put your soft ingredients in first, with the harder stuff in last, closest to the blades. If you don't, you can end up with the blade whipping the soft stuff to a puree, leaving the hard stuff glued to the sides and base of the cup, unchopped.

Secondly, you should buy 2 other things from the nearest Adman shop when you buy your Magic Bullet... firstly, buy some extra mixing cups if you can. The one large and one small, they simply won't be enough. because they double as storage containers, you'll use them, and then be unable to make full use of your blender... it'll be out of bullets. Also, try to buy some extra, small'ish resealable containers, to hold all the goodies you are going to be making. I saw a container and storage rack system on sale at my local Adman shop for around $40, which gave you quite a few containers and lids, in a great little rotating storage rack.

Overall, if you like to cook, or host parties, or just want to get into something a bit more adventurous than pizza and takeaways, this is what you have been looking for... and it will do everything you could want, and a bit more. It will surprise even the most jaded kitchen warrior, like me.