Magic Bullet Kitchen Express Blender Review

The Magic Bullet Kitchen Express is a small, compact personal blender. You can store it on your kitchen counter, and you can even remove the jar for easier storage.

The Magic Bullet Kitchen Express has a fair build quality. The body is mostly made of plastic, and it sits on four pegs with suction cups to help it stay in place. The jars are also made of plastic. Unlike the BELLA Rocket Blender and the Magic Bullet Mini, it has a dedicated pulse button. Unfortunately, the motor fan is visible via a plastic vent under the blender.

The main jar has a 15-ounce capacity, so it's ideal for making single serves of your favorite foods. You can put the jar in the top rack of your dishwasher for an easy clean, but the manufacturer advises that you shouldn't use the sanitize cycle.

The additional jar is identical to the main jar. You can also wash it in the top rack of your dishwasher, as long as you don't run the sanitize cycle.

The blade assembly has four sharp, fixed blades. You can wash the lid and the blades in the top rack of your dishwasher, but you shouldn't use the sanitize cycle.

The lid is attached to the blade, and it screws onto the jar. There's also a to-go lid that screws on to the jar which has a covered drinking spout.

The power cord is long enough to reach most outlets, but there isn't a stowaway compartment to hide it when it's not in use.

• Motor base
• Blade assembly
• 2x 15-oz cups
• To-go lid
• Reversible slice/shred disc
• Chopping/work bowl with chopping blade
• Bowl lid with feed chute and food pusher
• Manual

This blender only has one speed, which is quite fast and pretty loud. There's also a pulse mode. The manufacturer advises that you only run the blender continuously for a minute at a time and let it rest before starting it up again. We followed this recommendation during our tests.

The Magic Bullet Kitchen Express is sub-par for almond butter. It makes a dry, grainy almond butter, with some unprocessed chunks of almonds left in the mix, even after ten minutes of blending. You may have to undock the jar and shake it to get unprocessed ingredients closer to the blades.

The Magic Bullet Kitchen Express is excellent for smoothies. It makes a silky smoothie, and it processes fibrous ingredients like kale without any leftover chunks. You may need to shake the jar to get the ingredients closer to the blades.

Update 08/31/2020: Updated the Smoothie (Other Jar) score to 8.5 from 0 to better reflect that we expect the additional jar to perform the same way as the main jar since they're identical.

The additional jar is completely identical to the main jar, so it should produce similar results when used to make smoothies.

According to the manual, this blender isn't designed for crushing ice.

This blender doesn't have any programs or modes.

The Magic Bullet Kitchen Express is decently easy to clean. You can rinse off liquid messes like smoothies using water. While soap and water clean sticky messes like almond butter, you may need to use a small brush to clean leftover residue around the assembly gasket. The lids, cups, and blades are also dishwasher-safe.

This blender comes with a food processing attachment, a reversible slice/shred disk for the food processor, and an additional 15-oz jar.