Beast Mighty 850 Blender Review

The Beast Mighty 850 is a fairly small personal blender. It's a few inches taller and wider than the Beast Mini Blender Plus.

It has an excellent build quality. The motor base is made of plastic, but doesn't look or feel cheap. The gears on the motor base and jar are made of metal. The base also has feet that help prevent it from moving around on your counter. It's easy to assemble and disassemble all removable parts and accessories. The jars feel sturdy as well and have a ribbed design that helps with grip. The power/start button on the front of the motor base feels sturdy and clicky, but the on/off switch at the back is a bit wobbly. Overall, its build and design are very similar to other Beast blenders.  

The biggest jar has an overall capacity of 785mL and a blending capacity of 600mL. A couple of other jars are included: a smaller personal jar with a 640mL/500mL capacity and a 'Chopping and Grinding' jar with a 415mL/275mL blending capacity. The Beast Mega 1200 can be considered a bigger version of the Beast Mighty 850. It comes with a similar selection of jars, but they all have a slightly bigger capacity. 

The jars, lids, and accessories are all dishwasher-safe. 

The blade assembly consists of six blades angled in different directions. Most have blunt edges, but the ones that are angled downward are sharp.

There are a few different lids that each work with any jar. Like most personal blenders, the blade assembly fits onto the jars like a lid. There's also a flat storage lid included, along with a drinking lid that can be used with either the straw cap when you're on the go or with the carry lid, which has a handle to make it easier to tote around.

It has a fairly long power cord for a personal blender. 

• Blender Base
• Blade assembly
• 785mL Main jar (Blending Vessel)
• 640mL Blending jar (Blending Vessel)
• 415mL Blending jar
• 2x Storage lids
• Drinking lid
• Carry cap
• Straw cap
• 2x Straws
• Blade cleaning brush
• Straw brush
• User guides

It's fantastic for processing small batches of fibrous ingredients. It only requires a single one-minute blending cycle to make a nearly perfectly smooth blend. It does a better job of blending the ingredients in a single cycle compared with the Beast Mega 1200, likely in part because of the smaller jar size. However, there are still a few tiny specks left over. 

It's outstanding for processing fibrous ingredients at full capacity. You'll need to run a couple of blending cycles for the best results, but it's still a fast and easy process. It makes a basically perfectly smooth puree. 

It's not a good ice crusher. Even if you use a relatively small batch of four ice cubes and pulse, you must shake and scrape the jar to help it process the ingredients. This works okay for a couple of batches, but if you need more ice after that, the motor heats up, and it starts to struggle to crush the ice. 

You can get better results using just three ice cubes at once. It's still not very fast, but makes more uniform crushed ice that way. You can see a video of the process with a smaller batch as well as a photo of the results.

The Beast Mega 1200 and Beast Health Blender are both better ice crushers. This is likely because both have slightly bigger jars and more powerful motors. 

It's decent for making nut butter, but it's a somewhat inconvenient process. You need five blending cycles, but more importantly, it requires quite a bit of shaking and scraping the jar. Since it's a personal blender, scraping requires you to undock the jar and remove the blades, so it's a little annoying. Still, in the end, it makes creamy, spreadable nut butter, although it's a little grainy compared with what some blenders can do, including the Beast Health Blender. 

It's quiet for a blender, especially compared with some personal blenders such as the Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO.

Like most personal blenders, it has one fast blending speed. Its blending speed is faster than the Beast Mega 1200 and Beast Health Blender, which is a little surprising since it's smaller and less powerful. However, its blades are also smaller and have less surface area, and the faster blending speed may help compensate for that. 

The controls are very simple and consist of one start/stop button on the front of the motor base and an on/off switch at the back. You can pulse by pressing the start/stop button quickly (for under one second). A longer press (over one second) starts a one-minute blending cycle.

Instead of maintaining a consistent blending speed, it alternates between blending at max speed and slowing down, which is meant to allow ingredients to settle. 

It's easy to clean by hand overall. The blades can be removed from the jar and aren't extremely sharp. There aren't any parts that are impossible to reach. However, the jar's ribbed design makes it harder to clean. It's tricky to reach under the blades, so you may need a brush for that. The groove where the jar screws onto the blade assembly is also hard to reach, even with a brush, so if you were working with sticky ingredients, you might need to let it soak first.