The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is a mid-range personal blender with a 24oz jar and a resealable to-go lid. The lid has a covered spout and a carry loop, so you can easily carry it or hang it from a bag or backpack. Unlike many personal blenders, it has a dedicated 'Pulse' button on its motor base, which is helpful for ice-crushing.
Our Verdict
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is intended for blending single-serve drinks like smoothies, and it's best suited for that purpose since it comes with a 24oz personal jar and makes a smooth blend with common smoothie ingredients like leafy greens and fruit. It can also crush ice. However, while it produces a fantastic result with thicker recipes like nut butter, it's not the easiest to use for that purpose. Like most personal blenders, it can't be used for hot blending.
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Makes a smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Quiet for a blender.
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Well-built.
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Only one jar included.
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Multiple blending cycles required for best results.
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Can't hot blend.
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is great for single-serve smoothies. It comes with a 24oz personal jar and travel lid. If you fill the jar to full capacity, it makes a nearly perfectly smooth blend with fibrous ingredients like kale and fruits. It's a fairly easy process, although you have to run several one-minute blending cycles to get the best results, and some blenders can make a similarly well-blended smoothie faster.
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Makes a smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Quiet for a blender.
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Well-built.
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Only one jar included.
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Multiple blending cycles required for best results.
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is decent for blending multiple servings of smoothies. The jar has a 24oz capacity, so it's too small to blend more than one or two smoothies in a single batch. It takes a while to blend fibrous ingredients at full capacity, and you have to stop and scrape the jar to get the best results. However, it makes a very smooth blend with common smoothie ingredients like leafy greens and fruits.
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Makes a smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Quiet for a blender.
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Well-built.
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Multiple blending cycles required for best results.
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Small capacity.
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is adequate for ice-crushing. It can hold about six ice cubes at once, and you can use the 'Pulse' button to crush most of them in a few seconds. However, ice tends to build up under the blades.
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Quiet for a blender.
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Some ice can build up under the blades.
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender isn't good for soups. It's a personal blender and can't be used to blend hot ingredients. Its 24oz capacity is too small to fit most recipes in one batch. That said, if you let your ingredients cool first, it can make a smooth blend with fibrous elements like kale and broccoli.
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Makes a smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Quiet for a blender.
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Multiple blending cycles required for best results.
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Can't hot blend.
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Small capacity.
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender isn't good for professional use. It's a personal blender that comes with one 24oz jar, so it's not ideal for making multiple batches of anything. It's not easy to use to process thicker mixtures and can't be used for hot blending. However, it makes a very smooth blend with fibrous ingredients, which is useful for recipes like fruit smoothies.
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Makes a smooth blend with fibrous ingredients.
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Only one jar included.
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Can't hot blend.
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Small capacity.
- 6.9 Multi-Purpose
- 8.1 Smoothies (Single Serving)
- 7.2 Smoothies (Multiple Servings)
- 6.4 Ice Crushing
- 3.4 Soups
- 5.9 Professional Use
- Updated Oct 16, 2024: We've updated the results to more accurately reflect the blender's performance. The score for Fibrous Ingredients (Small Batches) processing changed from 8.0 to 6.5 and the score for Fibrous Ingredients (Full Capacity) processing changed from 7.5 to 5.0 because of the blending time and need to shake the jar.
- Updated Jul 17, 2024: Review published.
- Updated Jun 19, 2024: Early access published.
- Updated Jun 11, 2024: Our testers have started testing this product.
- Updated Jun 05, 2024: The product has arrived in our lab, and our testers will start evaluating it soon.
- Updated May 09, 2024: We've purchased the product and are waiting for it to arrive in our lab.
Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is available in 'Black' (with orange accents) or 'White.' We tested it in 'Black,' and you can see the label for the unit we tested here.
If you encounter another variant, let us know in the comments, and we'll update our review.
Compared To Other Blenders
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is a personal blender intended for blending single-serve drinks like smoothies. Compared to similarly-priced models like the NutriBullet Pro 900, it has lower motor power and takes a little longer to process fibrous ingredients like leafy greens and fruit. Still, it ultimately makes a very smooth blend. Unlike most personal blenders, it has a dedicated pulse button that helps with breaking up bigger chunks like ice cubes. This model only comes with one jar, unlike comparable blenders like the Ninja Fit and NutriBullet Pro 900. You can buy an additional jar and lid directly from the manufacturer.
If you're looking for a recommendation, check out the best personal blenders, the best blenders for smoothies, and, if you're considering a battery-powered blender, the best portable blenders.
The NutriBullet Pro 900 and the Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender have different strengths. The NutriBullet comes with two 32-oz jars instead of just one. It makes a smoother blend with fibrous ingredients like leafy greens faster. It's also easier to use for thicker recipes like nut butter. However, the Cuisinart has a better build quality. It's quieter, and you can use it to crush ice without liquid in the jar, unlike the NutriBullet.
The Ninja Nutri-Blender Pro with Auto-iQ is a better personal blender than the Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender. The Ninja blends fibrous ingredients like leafy greens faster and produces a smoother result with small batches. It's also better for crushing ice and easier to use for recipes like nut butter. It comes with a couple of jars instead of just one jar. However, the Cuisinart is much quieter when it's running.
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is a bit better than the Ninja Fit. The Cuisinart is sturdier and you might prefer its button controls, since with with the Ninja, you have to push down on the jar to blend. The Cuisinart is also significantly quieter. However, the Fit comes with two jars instead of just one. It's also easier to clean by hand.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is better than the Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender. The Ninja performs better for most uses, including smoothly blending fibrous ingredients, crushing ice, and making nut butter. It has more blending programs and comes with three jars instead of just one. However, it's very loud, while the Cuisinart is significantly quieter.
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is better than the Beautiful Personal Blender. The Cuisinart has a better build quality and performance for most uses, including making smoothies and crushed ice. However, it only comes with one jar. The Beautiful is sold as a 12-piece set, and its accessories include several jars and a grinding blade.
Test Results
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender is a small personal blender. Its base is a little bigger than the NutriBullet Pro 900's.
The Cuisinart Soho Compact Blender has a good build quality. Aside from the blades, it's entirely made of plastic, including gears on the jar and motor base, but it feels sturdy and is easy to assemble. There are rubber feet under the motor base that help keep it from moving while it's running. Its motor base design is a little unusual, with the jar set off-center on the base, leaving room for buttons on its horizontal surface. The buttons are covered in glossy plastic, which can attract fingerprints. The jar has a rubber hand grip and comes with a lid with a carry loop.
It comes with a single 24oz jar. Cuisinart sells the jar and lid separately on its website if you want another jar.
The plastic jars and lids are top-rack dishwasher-safe.
The blade assembly has four very sharp blades. The blades are recessed in the assembly, which makes them harder to reach when cleaning.
The blade assembly fits onto the jar like a lid. It also comes with a separate drinking lid. Both lids are easy to twist on and off. The lid has a drinking spout with a cover, which is hard to pop open, although that may be to prevent it from accidentally opening and spilling.
The power cord is about a foot shorter than the NutriBullet Pro 900's, so you'll need an outlet nearby. There's no place to wrap up the cord when it's not in use.
- Motor base
- 24-oz 'Easy-grip' blending cup
- Blade assembly
- Travel lid
- Manual and warranty info
It's excellent for small batches of fibrous ingredients. G It makes a mostly smooth blend with ingredients like kale, with just a few unprocessed bits left over. However, it's not the most convenient process since getting the best results takes a couple of one-minute blending cycles and requires shaking and scraping the jar. Some blenders, like the Beast Health Blender and NutriBullet Pro 900, can make an even smoother blend; it's still a fantastic result.
It's fantastic for processing large batches of fibrous ingredients. When the jar is at full capacity, processing the ingredients takes longer than processing a smaller batch, and you still have to stop and scrape the jar once to get the best results. However, it produces a smoother result than with the smaller batch, with no unprocessed bits left over.
The jar can hold six ice cubes and crushes most with a few pulses. However, ice can build up under the recessed blades, preventing some ice from being fully processed. Ultimately, you get mostly snow-like ice with a few chunks left over. When ice builds up under the blades, you'll probably need a spatula to dislodge it.
It's great for making nut butter. It's not an easy process, as you have to stop often and shake or scrape the jar, which is messy because of the recessed blades. You also need to run multiple blending cycles, and by the end, the blender and the ingredients start to heat up. Still, in the end, it makes very smooth and creamy nut butter.
The manufacturer recommends blending only 1/4 cup of nuts at once. This would likely make it easier to process the ingredients but would result in a lower processing score or a failure on our test.
It's a quiet personal blender. It makes noticeably less noise than other personal blenders like the NutriBullet Pro 900 and the Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO.
This blender has a relatively low 400-watt motor power, so it's less powerful than alternatives like the 1200-watt NutriBullet Pro+. This is likely why it blends ingredients slower, but this also helps keep the noise down. It has a single fast blending speed, which is typical for personal blenders, and helps blend fibrous ingredients smoothly.
There are two buttons on top of the motor base. The 'Blend/Cancel' button starts a 60-second blending cycle or cancels it, and the 'Pulse' button runs the blender for as long as you hold it down.
It's decently easy to clean by hand. You'll want to use a brush to properly clean the recessed blades and the ridges inside the jar. You also have to use caution when handling the sharp blades. However, they aren't as razor-sharp as Ninja blenders' blades; you're less likely to cut yourself accidentally.