Russell Hobbs 12732 Smooth > Reviews > From Smoothie to Healthy

Author's product rating:   

Performance	Good
Ease of use	Very easy
Durability	Satisfactory
User's Manual	Good
Value for money	Good

Advantages:	easy to use, bid capacity
Disadvantages:	clean

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

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From Smoothie to Healthy

I purchased this Smoothie maker a couple of weeks ago from Amazon.co.uk. It cost me £14.99 on the sale price. The whole package includes the maker in separate pieces, a guarantee leaflet, an instruction booklet and a Smoothie recipe.

Why Smoothie to healthy? ======

We all need enough vitamins and mineral to keep healthy bodies. And Fresh fruits and vegetables contain many of those. However, blocks of vegetables and fruits may not be absorbed easily by human body. That is why it is better to drink Smoothie. Well blended Smoothie can be easily absorbed to get essential nutrients for every day. Smoothie has been treated as very good recipe to keep healthy body.

There are lots of vegetables and fruits you can blend into Smoothie and actually you do not need to follow the routine recipes unless you are on certain diet. You can mix them together to make sure you get 5 a day. Vegetables can be easy blended and have good taste are carrots, cucumber and celery. Carrots are rich in vitamin A and celery is great recipe to deal with high blood pressure. Fruits can be blended are strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, banana, apple, kiwi, orange, mandarin, mango, melon. Fruits are rich in different vitamins. And the important thing is you can mix them and get all by just one cup Smoothie. You can even add some small nuts into your Smoothie, which will add extra nutrition and flavour.

== Put them together

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Before using it, I had to put the necessary parts together. It didn’t take me much time. There are a couple of parts needs to be done carefully. First, the main part has to be carefully concerned is installing the tap tube into the cup. You have to install it tightly and in the right direction. Otherwise, it will leak between the cup and the base when you are using it. Second, when you fix the cup and base together, you have to notice the two triangular matching up symbols and make sure them being installed securely.
***************************** Good points ======
1. Easy to use
After installation, I found this Smoothie maker is very easy to use and save much time. There are three buttons there which allow switching among Speed I, Speed II and Stop. To start blending, you can choose one of either Speed. During blending, you are able to switch between them or Stop. I would normal start with Speed II for a few seconds and then switch to Speed I for another few seconds then Stop blending and enjoy the fresh Smoothie.

2. Enough capacity
This Smoothie make offers 1.8 Litre big capacities. This means blending once will be enough for almost every one in families. It saves a lot of time and efforts.

3. Easy pour with tap
Once the fruits and vegetables are well blended, you can pour them into glasses through the tap. Meanwhile, you don’t have to worry about drink all at once. You can pour a glass as whenever you like. However, I do recommend drinking up as fresh as you can.

4. Good top cap design with stirrer
This Smoothie make has overcome the traditional one cap design and come with a separated small cap in the centre of the main cap. You may wonder why the extra cap is good. It just makes blending easy. During blending, you may need some manual work to help mixing the ingredients. In such case, you do not have to unlock the whole top cap to let juice split out. All you have to do is unlock the centre small cap and use the stirrer to stir a little bit in order to help blending. The stirrer is designed in the right length. You can stir the top bits but without reaching the bottom blades. It’s much safer and easier to use.

5. Ice blending function
Summer is finally reaching us this year. You may want to enjoy a bit chill and cool feeling with your Smoothie. This is what this Smoothie maker can provide to you. It offers a extra button for blending ice as well.
***************************** Not very good points ======
1. Need some efforts to clean
Not a lots efforts as you may thought, but you do need to clean it as soon as possible after you using it. And make sure you flush the tap tube until it is clean. Do not fix the cup with the base directly after cleaning. It is better you leave all parts dry until next day you use it.

2. Tap doesn’t work well sometimes
For some hard ingredients such as apple and carrots, you may find sometimes they are not finely blended. In this occasion, the blocks will stuck on the tap area and you may not pour tough the tap. You have to pour directly from the cup.

== Tips of using it

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1. Chop vegetables and fruits before blending
Chop the big vegetables and fruits into small blocks for blending. It will save your time as well the machine.

2. Add fluids to speed up blending
Don’t blend only dry ingredients, it won’t work as usual as using manual blender. Try to add some milk, water or Soya milk in as well. It will assist blending.

3. Add different ingredients together and put soft ones first
When you mix different ingredients together, I found it is easy to blend when you ass soft ones (such as berries, mandarin and banana) in the bottom.

4. Add a small amount of water when blend ice
Don’t blend ice without adding a small amount of water. Otherwise, it won’t work and will break the blender if you try to blend a quite long time.