The Chefman Obliterator is a full-sized blender with a minimalist design. It comes with a 48oz main jar and a 20oz travel jar and lid. The main jar lid includes a removable measuring cup, so you can add ingredients during a blending cycle or allow steam to escape while you blend hot food. There's also a tamper and scraper that fit together. This blender has three preset programs, including a 'Clean' mode and a wide range of manual speed settings.
Our Verdict
The Chefman Obliterator delivers excellent multi-purpose performance. This blender does a fantastic job processing fibrous ingredients like fruit and spinach in big and small batches. It can blend hot ingredients and make snow-like crushed ice very quickly. While it also makes superb nut butter, the process is a pain—you have to run the 'Auto Blend' program at least a couple of times and scrape the jar between each cycle. It's not a particularly quiet blender, but it's well-built, and with a 'Clean' program and dishwasher-safe components, it's easy to wash.
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Smoothly blends fibrous ingredients.
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Can hot blend.
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Makes snow-like crushed ice quickly.
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Making nut butter is very difficult.
The Chefman Obliterator offers outstanding performance for single-serving smoothies. It comes with a 20oz travel jar and makes silky smoothies even with tricky ingredients like kale and pineapple, though you'll have to stop and scrape or shake the jar once to incorporate everything. Adding a few ice cubes is no problem either—this blender makes easy work of them. It includes a 'Clean' program that takes some of the work out of the washing-up process, though you may still have to spend some time detailing the lid's rubber gasket. It's a bit loud, but needless to say, that's not uncommon for a full-sized blender.
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Smoothly blends fibrous ingredients.
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Includes a personal jar.
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Features a 'Clean' program.
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Lid's rubber gasket can be tricky to clean.
The Chefman Obliterator does an excellent job of making multiple smoothie servings. It can easily process fibrous ingredients, even at full capacity. While its main jar's 48oz capacity is a bit small compared to other options, it has no problem crushing 12 ice cubes at once. It's also durable and easy to clean—you can use its 'Clean' program, put the jar into the dishwasher, or clean it by hand fairly quickly.
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Smoothly blends fibrous ingredients.
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Makes snow-like crushed ice quickly.
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Features a 'Clean' program.
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Somewhat small 48oz main jar.
The Chefman Obliterator makes excellent crushed ice. It has a sturdy build and a 48oz Tritan plastic main jar. While its jar is on the smaller side, it can still easily handle 12 ice cubes. This blender also features an 'Ice Crush' program, which works quickly and makes the process a breeze.
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Makes snow-like crushed ice quickly.
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Great build quality.
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Somewhat small 48oz main jar.
The Chefman Obliterator does an excellent job of making soup. This blender can hot blend, so you can add freshly cooked ingredients right from the stove. While its 48oz main jar is a bit small, its lid has a measuring cup that you can remove. This allows steam to escape while the components blend. It does an outstanding job processing tough ingredients, like broccoli and squash, so you won't need to limit your recipes. This blender feels well-built and is easy to clean, with a dedicated cleaning program and dishwasher-safe components.
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Smoothly blends fibrous ingredients.
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Can hot blend.
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Somewhat small 48oz main jar.
The Chefman Obliterator is very good for professional use. This blender is well-built and easy to clean, and it works well for various applications. It can make exceptional nut butter, though it's a difficult process. You can also use it to blend hot ingredients for soups or sauces. It can blend ice cubes into fluffy, snow-like ice for frozen cocktails, mocktails, and slushies, and it does an outstanding job with hard-to-blend ingredients for smoothies, too. The major downside is its jar; at 48 ounces, it's quite small for a full-sized blender and may increase the number of batches you need to blend.
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Can hot blend.
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Makes snow-like crushed ice quickly.
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Great build quality.
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Making nut butter is very difficult.
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Somewhat small 48oz main jar.
- 8.9 Multi-Purpose
- 9.0 Smoothies (Single Serving)
- 8.5 Smoothies (Multiple Servings)
- 8.8 Ice Crushing
- 8.7 Soups
- 8.1 Professional Use
Changelog
- Updated Apr 29, 2025: Review published.
- Updated Apr 23, 2025: Early access published.
- Updated Apr 16, 2025: Our testers have started testing this product.
- Updated Mar 12, 2025: The product has arrived in our lab, and our testers will start evaluating it soon.
- Updated Feb 21, 2025: We've purchased the product and are waiting for it to arrive in our lab.
Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Chefman Obliterator is available in 'Concrete' and 'Midnight' colorways and is sold as a stand-alone blender or with a travel jar. We tested the 'Concrete' variant with the travel jar. See the label for our unit.
If you come across another variant, let us know in the comments, and we'll update our review.
Compared To Other Blenders
The Chefman Obliterator is an excellent full-sized budget blender that stands out for its class-leading performance. It comes with a 48oz main jar and can also be purchased with a 20oz travel jar. Its main jar is smaller than many other full-sized blenders, like the Breville The Q. Compared to other budget models, like the nutribullet Blender Combo, it has excellent multipurpose performance, and it even makes single-serve smoothies as well as much more premium offerings, like the Vitamix Ascent X3. It's also an excellent ice crusher, though cheaper options like the nutribullet SmartSense Blender Combo outperform it in this regard. A standout feature for this class of blenders is its program that automatically adjusts its speed and run time depending on what you're blending. Overall, anyone looking for a blender that offers well-rounded performance without breaking the bank should consider this model.
If you want more to consider, check out our recommendations for the best blenders, the best budget blenders, and the best blenders for crushing ice.
The Chefman Obliterator and the Calphalon ActiveSense have different strengths, but the Chefman comes out ahead overall. The Chefman is better built, makes better nut butter, makes a smoother blend with small batches of leafy greens and other fibrous ingredients, and makes snow-like crushed ice with slightly less work from the user. It's also a bit quieter and easier to clean. By contrast, get the Calphalon if you primarily blend large batches of food; it has a larger capacity jar and does a better job dealing with big quantities of fibrous ingredients.
The Vitamix Venturist Pro is a better blender than the Chefman Obliterator for most people. It has a better build quality and larger capacity. The Vitamix also does a better job processing large amounts of fibrous ingredients and making nut butter, so it's a better choice if you make a lot of soups and spreads from scratch. The Chefman, on the other hand, performs better with smaller batches of fibrous ingredients, and it comes with a travel jar, so if you plan to make a lot of individual smoothies, you may prefer it. It's also a bit easier to clean.
The Chefman Obliterator and the Breville the Fresh & Furious have different strengths, and depending on your priorities, you may prefer either. The Chefman has a better build quality and does a better job of crushing ice, so it's a great choice if you make a lot of frozen drinks. It's also easier to clean. On the other hand, choose the Breville if you often blend large batches of food—it has a slightly larger capacity and does a better job processing bigger batches of fibrous ingredients, like fruit and leafy greens. It's also easier to make nut butter with. The Breville is a little bit quieter, too.
The Chefman Obliterator is better than the Magic Bullet Combo Blender. Both blenders come with a 48oz capacity main jar and a smaller travel jar, and while it's a bit easier to make single-serving smoothies with the Magic Bullet, the Chefman outperforms it in every other area. It does a better job with larger batches of fruit and leafy greens, so it's a superior choice if you plan to make larger portions of food. Unlike the Magic Bullet, you can also use it to crush ice and make nut butter, making it more versatile. Plus, it's better built and easier to clean.
Test Results
The Chefman Obliterator has an impressive build quality. Its motor base is made of smooth plastic, and its feet have rubber pads underneath for stability. The Tritan plastic jar comes equipped with metal blades that can't be removed, while the motor gears are primarily plastic with metal teeth. Overall, the blender is very easy to assemble, but its lid can be tricky to remove. It has four rubber prongs for the jar to rest on in any orientation. In terms of controls, it has a physical pulse switch that is satisfying to use and a dial that features a digital display.
The main jar has a 48oz capacity. There's also a travel jar included; it has a 20oz capacity.
The jars and accessories are dishwasher-safe.
The main blade assembly comes fixed to the main jar. It includes two blunt, tapered blades with notches on each, one angled upwards and the other downwards.
The travel jar blade assembly has four large blades angled in different directions and two smaller blades in the center, angled upward. This configuration helps process leafy greens and other fibrous smoothie ingredients.
This blender comes with two lids: a two-part lid for the main jar with a removable 1oz measuring cup in the center and a screw-on drinking lid for the travel jar. The main jar lid can be tricky to remove, so you'll likely need to hold the jar to pull it off without spilling.
The power cord is quite long, which is handy if you need to plug it into a farther-away outlet.
- Motor base
- 48oz jar with built-in blade assembly
- 20oz travel jar
- Travel jar blade assembly
- Main jar lid with 1oz measuring cup
- Sipping lid
- Tamper/scraper
- User guide
- Registration card
The Chefman Obliterator is outstanding for processing small batches of fibrous ingredients, like kale. For the best results, you should use the manual setting and stop to scrape the jar once during the process, as ingredients can get stuck at the top. Still, it's a decently easy process, and the result is an exceptionally smooth blend with just a few tiny bits of kale left in the mix.
It's fantastic for processing fibrous ingredients at full capacity. Using the manual blending mode, you have to stop and scrape or shake the jar once to fully blend the ingredients, but it works quickly, and the resulting blend is remarkably smooth and only has some tiny pieces of kale left in it.
This blender is outstanding for ice crushing. You can quickly and easily process 12 ice cubes at once with its 'Ice Crush' program, resulting in fluffy, snow-like crushed ice.
The Chefman Obliterator makes superbly smooth and spreadable nut butter; however, it's a very difficult process. When using manual mode, the nut butter gets stuck at the bottom of the jar and won't blend.
Using the 'Auto Blend' function works better. The program varies its speed and pulses, allowing the nut butter to dislodge and move around the jar, so it can process properly. Still, you need to run the program a couple of times, scraping the jar with a spatula in between.
There's also an 'Add Liquid' notification that displays during 'Auto Blend' when the machine senses it's struggling to blend something. This was the case during our nut butter preparation; however, our recipe doesn't use any liquid, so we continued blending without adding anything.
This is a pretty loud blender. Of course, all blenders are loud, but there are quieter options, like the Hamilton Beach Professional Quiet Blender.
This blender has a wide range of speed settings, including a minimum speed that can help you avoid overblending recipes like hummus or pesto and a maximum speed fast enough to blend soups and smoothies smoothly. With five main speed settings and three smaller increments between each, you can easily fine-tune the speed. The travel jar and blade assembly uses the same speed settings.
This blender has a dedicated 'Pulse' switch and three blending programs:
- Ice Crush: Crushes ice using the pulse function (25 seconds)
- Auto Blend: Automatically detects the consistency of ingredients, adjusting the speed and duration of the blending cycle to match
- Clean: Runs a blending cycle meant to remove any residue (75 seconds)
There's also an on/off switch on the side of the blender.
This blender is very easy to clean. It has a 'Clean' program which removes a lot of residue, though, if you're working with sticky ingredients, you still have to use a sponge or brush to finish the job. Cleaning the jar, blades, and lid by hand is pretty quick and easy. The blades aren't sharp, though it can be tricky to clean underneath of them. It also takes some effort to properly clean the lid's rubber gasket, as ingredients can get stuck in its ridges and grooves.