The Magic Bullet Portable Blender is a battery-powered blender that comes with a 16oz jar with a 12oz blending capacity. The jar has a drinking lid that opens with the push of a button, and it also comes with a flavor infuser for infusing water with ingredients like lemons or herbs. It charges with a detachable USB-C cable and is advertised to last for 15 blending cycles of 20 seconds each off of a single charge.
Our Verdict
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender isn't good for multi-purpose use. As a portable personal blender, it's mostly meant for drinks like smoothies and protein shakes. It also comes with an infuser cup that you can use to infuse water with ingredients like herbs and fruit. However, it struggles with more difficult blends like making nut butter and crushing ice cubes. Its 12-ounce capacity is quite limiting if you want to make something besides a single-serve drink.
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Makes a decently smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Great build quality.
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Struggles with ice crushing.
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Difficult to use for nut butter.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender is alright for single-serve smoothies. This portable blender is meant for making smoothies, protein shakes, and other drinks for one when you're on the go. It can make an adequately smooth blend with difficult ingredients like leafy greens and fruits in its 12-ounce jar. While it's not good at crushing ice on its own, adding a couple of ice cubes isn't an issue. It's also fairly easy to clean by hand or in the dishwasher.
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Makes a decently smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Great build quality.
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Struggles with ice crushing.
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Blades aren't dishwasher-safe.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender isn't meant for multiple servings of smoothies. Its 12oz jar can only fit enough ingredients for one smoothie, and since it's a battery-powered blender, it's not the fastest at processing common smoothie ingredients like leafy greens. You can buy additional jars, but the motor base must be attached if you want to drink from the jar, so it's best suited for single-serves for one.
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Makes a decently smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Great build quality.
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12oz blending capacity.
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Struggles with ice crushing.
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Blades aren't dishwasher-safe.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender isn't good for crushing ice. It struggles to crush a batch of four ice cubes, even if you shake the jar constantly as the blender runs. It can make a bit of crushed ice if you put in a lot of effort, but it doesn't crush ice uniformly and leaves unprocessed chunks behind.
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Great build quality.
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Struggles with ice crushing.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender isn't safe to use for blending hot ingredients, so it's not suitable for making soup. If you let your ingredients cool, it makes a fairly smooth blend with fibrous elements like kale and broccoli. However, its 12oz capacity won't fit most soup recipes in one batch.
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Makes a decently smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Great build quality.
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12oz blending capacity.
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Can't hot blend.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender isn't intended for professional use. It feels well-built, but its battery-powered design and 12oz jar make it best-suited for blending single-serve drinks on the go, not producing batch after batch in a professional setting. It makes a fairly smooth blend with fibrous ingredients but struggles with harder jobs like crushing ice and making nut butter. You can't use it for hot blending.
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Makes a decently smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Great build quality.
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12oz blending capacity.
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Struggles with ice crushing.
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Can't hot blend.
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Difficult to use for nut butter.
- 5.4 Multi-Purpose
- 6.8 Smoothies (Single Serving)
- 5.3 Smoothies (Multiple Servings)
- 4.5 Ice Crushing
- 2.5 Soups
- 4.3 Professional Use
- Updated Aug 14, 2024: We changed the result for 'Programs' under Controls and Programs from 1 to 0. The blender stops automatically after 20 seconds but doesn't have blending programs for specific processes.
- Updated Apr 17, 2024: Review published.
- Updated Apr 15, 2024: Early access published.
- Updated Mar 12, 2024: Our testers have started testing this product.
- Updated Mar 07, 2024: The product has arrived in our lab, and our testers will start evaluating it soon.
- Updated Feb 23, 2024: We've purchased the product and are waiting for it to arrive in our lab.
Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender comes in four colors: White, Black, Flamingo Pink, and Silver. We tested it in 'White', and you can see the label for the unit we tested here.
If you encounter another variant, let us know in the forums, and we'll update our review.
Compared To Other Blenders
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender is a battery-powered blender meant for single-serve drinks like smoothies. Compared to some other portable blenders like the PopBabies Portable Blender and the BlendJet 2, it makes a smoother blend with fibrous ingredients. It also comes with an infuser cup to help with making infusions like lemon or cucumber water. It comes with a 16oz jar with a 12oz blending capacity, and you can buy additional accessories from the manufacturer, including a 20oz jar and a blade cover.
If you're looking for a recommendation, check out the best portable blenders, the best personal blenders, and the best bullet blenders.
The Ninja Blast is slightly better than the Magic Bullet Portable Blender. They're both well-built, portable blenders and perform similarly for processing common smoothie ingredients like leafy greens and fruits. The Ninja is quieter and has a somewhat bigger 18oz capacity. However, you might like the Magic Bullet because it's shorter and has an infuser cup for infusing water with herbs or lemons.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender and the nutribullet Flip are similar, but the nutribullet makes a much smoother blend with fibrous ingredients, like fruit and leafy greens. It also includes a straw that you can use with one of its lids if you'd rather not drink straight from the spout lid.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender is better than the BlendJet 2. The Magic Bullet has a better build quality and makes a smoother blend with fibrous ingredients like leafy greens and fruits. On the other hand, the BlendJet is a bit quieter when it's running, and it's easier to clean by hand.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender is a slightly better battery-powered model than the nutribullet GO. The Magic Bullet has a sturdier build and makes a smoother blend with common smoothie ingredients like kale. It's also quieter. However, the nutribullet is quite a bit smaller and lighter, which is nice when you're carrying it around.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender is a better battery-powered model than the PopBabies Portable Blender. It has a much better build quality and makes a smoother blend with fibrous ingredients. The PopBabies is smaller and lighter, so you might prefer it for that reason, but its smaller jar opening can be inconvenient when adding ingredients and cleaning the jar.
Test Results
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender is a small, light blender. It's a few inches shorter than the battery-powered Ninja Blast and easily fits into bags and cupboards.
The blender is very well-built. While it's entirely made of plastic except for the blades, it feels sturdy. There are small feet under the motor base to help keep it from moving around while it's running. The spout lid is spring-loaded and has a button that you push to open it. The 'Flavor Infuser' is removable and fits into the jar under the lid. The lid locks closed and has a handle to make it easier to carry the blender around. The power button on the motor base has an LED light that indicates different statuses. It's also very easy to assemble.
The blender's main jar has a 16-ounce overall capacity but a maximum fill line at just 12 ounces, so its capacity is slightly smaller than other portable blenders' like the Ninja Blast or PopBabies Portable Blender. However, you can purchase a bigger 20oz jar separately from the manufacturer.
The jar and lid are both made of dishwasher-safe plastic.
This blender has four blades that are fixed onto the motor base. Because of that, they aren't dishwasher-safe, and the manufacturer recommends wiping them with a damp cloth. The blades are sharp, so you must be careful not to cut yourself.
The lid is easy to attach and remove from the jar. The spout cover opens with the push of a button, so you can easily drink from the jar on the go. The lid also has a handle for easier carrying or attaching to a bag or backpack.
It comes with a USB-C cable that plugs into the motor base for charging. There's no place to stow it when not in use, but you can detach the cable. The manufacturer advertises that a fully charged battery provides 15 blending cycles that last 20 seconds each.
- Magic Bullet Portable Blender motor base
- 16oz blending jar
- 'Sip & Carry' lid
- Flavor infuser
- USB-A to USB-C charging cable
- User manual, Quick Start guide, and recipe pamphlet
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender is okay for blending small batches of fibrous ingredients. To get the best results, you have to shake the jar and remove the lid to scrape the walls of the jar with a spatula. It's not the fastest blender, either. Still, it makes a decently smooth puree with fibrous ingredients like kale and fruits. Some unprocessed bits are left over, but it's not extremely grainy. It doesn't heat the ingredients much.
This blender's jar can only fit a small batch of about 12 ounces, so it performs the same way for small batches and at full capacity. The results and scores here are identical to the fibrous ingredients (small batches) results and scores.
The Magic Bullet Portable Blender isn't a good ice crusher, which is pretty normal for a portable blender. You have to shake the jar constantly and stop to scrape the sides of the jar for the best results. Even with all that effort, it crushes ice inconsistently, so you get some crushed ice and big, unprocessed chunks. If you only use a couple of ice cubes at once, it makes more uniform crushed ice, although you still have to shake the jar a lot, so it's still not an easy process. You can see how it performs with two ice cubes in the jar here and see a photo of the results here.
It's not good for making nut butter, but it's possible if you use only one cup of nuts at once and don't mind putting in quite a bit of effort. You must shake, knock, or scrape the jar constantly to keep the ingredients moving, which the blades can't manage without help. All the stirring and scraping makes a mess around the blender, and eventually, it overheats, preventing you from blending until it cools. You can leave the spout lid open to help ventilate, but it's not intended for that purpose and ends up making more of a mess. Ultimately, the blender makes a dry, crunchy nut butter that isn't easy to spread.
Like most portable blenders, it's quiet. Since it's not very powerful, it's significantly less noisy than plug-in options like the NutriBullet Pro 900.
Its blending speed is quite fast, which is helpful for smoothly blending fibrous ingredients. There's only one speed setting, so you can't slowly ramp up the speed or use a lower speed to avoid over-blending.
The controls consist of one button that you press to start a 20-second cycle. You can push it again to stop a cycle early, which you can do if you want to pulse to break up bigger chunks. The button has a ring of six LEDs that light up in different colors depending on the blender's status. One LED flashes red when the battery is low. When charging, the LEDs will light up one after the other in blue, with all six LEDs illuminated when fully charged. The light ring will flash red to indicate 'too many blends,' which means you've exceeded the limit of nine blending cycles in six minutes. The LED lights will go solid red when the blender has overheated.
It's fairly easy to clean. You can use a sponge to clean the inside of the jar and the underside of the lid. The blades are more difficult since they're fixed to the motor base, which you can't immerse in water. You must use a brush or sponge to clean them, especially the rim where the jar fits, which can be time-consuming.