ZWILLING ENFINIGY Personal Blender Blender Review

It's on the big, heavy side for a personal blender, but it's still easy to store on your counter or in a cabinet, especially if you remove the jar.

It has a decent build quality. The motor body, jar, and lid are made of plastic, and there are four rubber feet under the motor base to help with ventilation and stability. Although there aren't any metal elements, the blender feels sturdy overall. However, a few elements are somewhat poorly designed. There's a lot of resistance when you turn the control dial to the left, and its smooth finish makes it hard to grip. No mechanism locks the jar onto the motor base. To dock the jar, you fit it into the slot on top of the motor base, but it doesn't lock or twist into place. and it's held in place through friction by four plastic tabs. These tabs don't seem particularly durable, and when you're using the blender, it can be unclear if the jar is properly installed on the motor base.

The jar has a 24-ounce capacity. However, there's a maximum fill line at 20oz. There are also measuring marks in mL that end at 550mL (19oz). If you like the blender's design but could use more jars, you might prefer the Beast Mini Blender.

The cup and drinking lid are made of dishwasher-safe plastic.

The blade assembly has four sharp blades with a serrated design. This design is unusual for blenders, and it doesn't have any obvious benefits over non-serrated blades like the Beast Health Blender's or the Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO's. Serrated blades are sometimes used in food processors for pureeing and grinding, and the design might help it excel at making nut butter, even though it's not as powerful as the Beast or Ninja.

The blade assembly isn't dishwasher-safe, unlike the jar and drinking lid.

The blade assembly attaches to the cup like a lid, like most personal blenders. There's also a drinking lid designed to open and close so that you can use the blending jar as a travel cup. The lids are easy to put on and remove. While the drinking lid is dishwasher-safe, the blade assembly needs to be cleaned by hand.

The power cord is quite long, but there's no place to wrap up or hide it when the blender's not in use.

• Motor base
• 24oz blending cup
• Blade assembly lid
• Drinking lid
• Blade assembly
• Manual and registration card

The ZWILLING ENFINIGY Personal Blender is excellent for small batches of fibrous ingredients. If you're blending a smoothie with something like kale or blueberries, it takes about three 40-second blending cycles to get the best results. The process is still very easy, and it makes a uniform blend. However, you can see tiny unprocessed grains, so blenders like the NutriBullet Pro+ and Beast Health Blender make smoother purees.

It's excellent for processing fibrous ingredients at full capacity. It takes longer to process larger volumes of ingredients, so you need about four blending cycles to achieve the best results. There are tiny grains left over, and blenders like the Beast Health Blender make an even smoother blend, but most people will be very happy with the results.

It's a poor ice crusher. If you use pulse mode, the blades can shave off parts of the ice cubes and partially crush them. However, the crushed ice starts to build up around the walls of the jar, out of reach of the blades, making it hard for the blender to process any remaining ice cubes. You also need to constantly turn the pulse dial, which isn't as easy as pushing a button.

It's fantastic for nut butter. It makes extremely smooth, practically liquified nut butter, and more surprisingly, it's a very easy process. All you need to do is run 40-second blending cycles for about five minutes in total. Unlike most personal blenders we've tested, you don't need to undock the jar at any point to shake it. The motor base doesn't feel hot by the end, even without rest time between blending cycles.

It's not very loud for a personal blender. The noise will still be irritating after a few minutes if you're right next to it, but it's not a bad choice if you're looking for a quieter blender.

It has one speed setting, like most personal blenders, so it's not possible to fine-tune the blend speed to suit what you're making. Compared to many similarly priced personal blenders, it has a weaker motor and a slower blending speed. While it's not a huge difference, blenders with a faster speed and more power, like the Ninja Nutri Ninja Auto-iQ, or even blenders with a faster speed and less power, like the Magic Bullet Essential, can process fibrous ingredients more fully for recipes like smoothies.

The blender has slick-looking controls that light up when the jar is docked. When you turn the dial to the right, it starts a 40-second blending cycle, which is the blender's manual blending mode. Turning it to the left activates the motor for as long as you hold the dial there, which acts as a pulse mode. However, there's quite a bit of resistance when you turn the dial, which is small and smooth, so it's not very comfortable to use if you need to use pulse mode for a long time, like for ice crushing.

It's decently easy to clean by hand. If you're working with sticky ingredients, running the blender with soap and water in the jar cleans some residue from the blades but doesn't do the best job of washing the sides of the jar. Because the jar is narrow, you may need a brush with a handle to reach the bottom. The rim of the jar and blade assembly lid also require some scrubbing, as well as the blades themselves.