NUTRI-BULLET - My New Kitchen Gadget: I Think This Might Be Love!

I have just received my Nutri-Bullet, and I was pleasantly surprised by what came in the box.

Since I had not seen , either in the ads or in the packing materials, what I was going to get, I will explain here what I was happy to find in my box:

I was really expecting to get the base, a blade assembly, and a jar/cup.  
Instead, my Nutri-Bullet came with 2 small cups (about 1 to 1-1/2 C), 
1 larger jar/cup (maybe 2 C), and two different blades. (The extractor blade of the blades looks like a regular blender blade. The milling blade looks like the blade on my Magic Bullet that I use for grinding nuts and seeds into powder/flour)).  Two lids also came with the package.

This Nutri-Bullet is a good bit larger than my Magic Bullet, but it still fits on the same shelf where I use my Magic Bullet on (good thing – kitchen space is at a premium here).

In the box, there was also a Nutri-Bullet User Guide and Recipe Book, which contains warnings against over-filling the Nutri-Bullet cups (they mean it – most of the complaints in on-line reviews come because the users filled the cup too high, and, so, experienced leakage). This User Guide is also very specific about how to clean the Nutri-Bullet (I looked all over my kitchen, but I could not find the dishwasher, so I will just clean this thing the old-fashioned way, with the dishwashers which are attached at the ends of my arms). The User Guide and Recipe Book contains nice quite a few nice recipes, as well as suggestions for how to use the Nutri-Bullet to start a nutrition-rich lifestyle.

I’ve already made 
CUCUMBER/WATERMELON JUICE

1/2 small baby watermelon

2  cucumbers

Optional: juice of 1 lime  (I didn’t put this in mine simply because there were no limes hiding in my refrigerator when I wanted to inaugurate the Nutri-Bullet).

The noise is not so bad – I’m used to the noise  of a Magic Bullet, a blender, a VitaMix, and a Champion juicer, so … noise is a relative thing.

You might wonder why I wanted this Nutri-Bullet: I have a VitaMix that stopped working promptly on the day after the warranty expired (okay, that might have been my fault, and VitaMix assures me they can fix it, but… I saw the  Nutri-Bullet, and thought I would check it out before I sink the money into a VitaMix  repair, so I took a little off the top of the rent money and ordered my Nutri-Bullet)

The only complaints I have with this product, so far, are:

• It doesn’t come with a listing of what you’re getting, so, as you unpack the box, you find all these things, and then you have to carefully read  about 1/3 of the way into the User Guide and Recipe Book to find references the extractor blade and the milling blade
• The product information erroneously calls the “blender type” blade an extractor blade: It doesn’t extract anything. It  pulverizes (for want of a better word) whatever you put in there, making a fiber-rich smoothie, soup, or whatever you are up to. There is no extraction – extraction happens with juicers where the juice comes out in a rich liquid, and then there is pulp left over from the vegetable.

At this point, I will still give my Nutri-Bullet a 5-star rating. I bought it after having read quite a few positive ratings and a goodly number or low-star ratings).