Best Quiet Blenders – Reviews and Buying Guide 2022

It is chal­leng­ing for con­sumers intol­er­ant to noise to deter­mine a qui­et blender with a sound shield. First, the choice is very lim­it­ed. Sec­ond, the noise lev­el con­sumers may expect from the select­ed blender is not easy to ver­i­fy and thus to decide if it is worth buy­ing the one.

Blender engi­neers usu­al­ly incor­po­rate two ways of design­ing qui­et blenders. First, they muf­fle the noise com­ing from the motor hous­ing and seal it with the sound enclo­sure of the blender con­tain­er, the major emit­ter of the annoy­ing sound. Even using the best prac­tice, there is no way to build the mute machine, but it is like­ly to reduce the sound to tol­er­a­ble deci­bels that are not dis­turb­ing for sen­si­tive ears. An exam­ple of what the noise lev­el con­sumer may expect from the “qui­et” blender is the com­mer­cial type blender’s noise with sound enclo­sure emit­ted in Jam­ba Juice and oth­er pop­u­lar smooth­ie shops.

We are here to help you to solve all prob­lems by select­ing a decent qui­et blender. Fur­ther­more, we will assign and rate the best blenders with a sound shield avail­able on the market.

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How We Selected The Blenders

As was men­tioned above, there is a lim­it­ed choice of qui­et blenders with sound enclo­sures for home use. Because this type of gad­get is usu­al­ly man­u­fac­tured for com­mer­cial use, and the most pop­u­lar among them are Vita-Mix Qui­et One Blender, Vita­mix 36021 Blend­ing Sta­tion, Blendtec Stealth 825/ 875/ Q‑Series blenders, War­ing Com­mer­cial B00BHQSR6U MX1500XTX with Sound Enclo­sure, and Hamil­ton Beach Com­mer­cial HBH755 The Eclipse Blender.

How­ev­er, com­mer­cial blenders are not a good choice for the home envi­ron­ment. It is not only because they are nor­mal­ly over­loaded with cus­tom pro­grams and pro­grammed cycles (often there are more than 30) and thus not easy to use. They are also designed for heavy use (up to 200 cycles a day) that is not need­ed in the home envi­ron­ment. As a result, they are very expen­sive and come with a 1–3 year lim­it­ed war­ran­ty that is much short­er than the house­hold blender’s war­ran­ty. The aver­age con­sumer will not load the machine with so many cycles and will expect a much longer war­ran­ty for the blender.

So, there is no point in over­pay­ing for com­mer­cial gad­gets. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, until recent­ly, a house­hold blender with a sound enclo­sure was unavail­able. The con­sumer had to use tricks to reduce annoy­ing noise or buy sep­a­rate sound shields, which are usu­al­ly suit­ed only for high-end blenders and were also very expen­sive. For­tu­nate­ly, this sit­u­a­tion changed.

Hamil­ton Beach 950-Watts Sound­Shield Blender is avail­able in 4 mod­els. The basic 53600 mod­el comes with three speeds and a pulse func­tion; the 53601 mod­el has 5‑Speed, 3 Pre-Pro­grammed Set­tings, and a pulse func­tion; the 53602 mod­el is equipped with five speeds, three pre-set pro­grams and pulse func­tion, 3 pre-set pro­grams, and a sin­gle-serve attach­ment; the 53603 comes three speeds, pulse func­tion, and addi­tion­al trav­el cup.

Here, we select­ed the best high-end, mid-range, and basic types of house­hold blenders with sound enclo­sures that will suit all budgets.

#1 Hamilton Beach 950-Watts Sound Shield Blender (53600 / 53601 / 53602 / 53603)

Hamil­ton Beach 950-Watts Sound Shield Blender is avail­able in 4 mod­els. The basic 53600 mod­el comes with 3 speeds, a pulse func­tion; the 53601 mod­el has 5‑Speed, 3 Pre-Pro­grammed Set­tings, and a pulse func­tion; the 53602 mod­el is equipped with 5 speeds, 3 pre-set pro­grams and pulse func­tion, 3 pre-set pro­grams, and a sin­gle-serve attach­ment; the 53603 comes 3 speeds, pulse func­tion, and addi­tion­al trav­el cup.

Motor and power

The blender is equipped with 950 watts of motor and a plas­tic motor dri­ve. The machine base also has a sound-absorb­ing jar pad that con­tributes to the reduc­tion of the sound dur­ing blend­ing. The motor hous­ing seems sol­id, sta­ble, and equipped with rub­ber feet that pre­vent the unit from mov­ing about when processing.

Con­trol pan­el and speeds

The gad­get fea­tures a sim­ple, leg­i­ble, and straight­for­ward con­trol pan­el but dif­fers by mod­el. For exam­ple, the 53600 and 53603 machines’ con­trol pan­el has 3 speeds (low, mid, and high), the pulse and stop but­tons. While the 536001 and 53602 machines’ con­trol pan­el comes with 5‑speed but­tons, 3 pre-set pro­grams (SMOOTHIES, ICE CRUSH, AND CLEAN), and the pulse and stop buttons.

The ON/OFF pow­er switch is locat­ed on the right-hand side of the blender base.

Qui­et shield

It is equipped with a trans­par­ent sound shield hinged at the back and swings up and down eas­i­ly with the han­dle at the front. It could be removed for clean­ing. The man­u­fac­tur­er claims that the sound shield reduces the noise from the machine by approx­i­mate­ly 55%. And I rather believe this because even when I have frozen ingre­di­ents inside of the jug, the noise is not over­bear­ing, and you will be able to talk over it with­out yelling. With Hamil­ton Beach, the noise lev­el is per­fect­ly accept­able, and you can even still con­verse with oth­ers in the same room.

Rough­ly, the gad­get with the sound enclo­sure releas­es 70db at the low­est speed, increas­ing 5db for each speed incre­ment increase. So the deci­bels dif­fer­ence between shield­ed and unshield­ed con­di­tions is approx—3–4db at all speeds.

Func­tion­al­i­ty

• Makes good smooth­ies from soft ingre­di­ents. If you blend greens (pars­ley, kale, and cel­ery) and hard ingre­di­ents (fresh gin­ger), most like­ly, it will leave some small unprocessed food fragments.
• It can crush ice and frozen ingre­di­ents. The pulse func­tion is a great help, but some­times it may strug­gle and leave some chunks if you use more than 2–4 ice cubes at once. Nev­er­the­less, it can still make a decent mar­gari­ta and oth­er iced drinks.
• This blender is very good at small chop­ping or puree­ing tasks. It will eas­i­ly puree sauces and mix sal­sa or dips. In addi­tion, it can blend hum­mus to your pre­ferred smooth­ness or puree a fresh sauce.
• The blender comes with a glass jar, so it is designed to han­dle hot ingre­di­ents. It will eas­i­ly puree boil­ing ingre­di­ents for soup or make bul­let­proof cof­fee. Remem­ber to open the cen­ter vent lid when blend­ing hot liquids.
• It is good at chop­ping nuts, mak­ing bread crumbs, and pul­ver­iz­ing cook­ies for pie crusts.
• The grind­ing func­tion is not the pow­er side of this blender.
• It is cer­tain­ly not pow­er­ful enough to process nut but­ter or blend nut milk.

Using, clean­ing

The blender comes with a remov­able blade assem­bly that includes blades and the jar col­lar.  The bot­tom col­lar fits well and does not leak. After con­nect­ing the blades, you just place the jug on the top of the base, fill the jug with ingre­di­ents, the lid secure­ly, and the sound shield, and it is ready to use.

For clean­ing, just dis­as­sem­ble the blade sys­tem, and you can wash them by hand or place them in the dish­wash­er. The blade sys­tem parts, jug, and lid are dish­wash­er safe.

Con­tain­ers, blades

All Hamil­ton Beach Sound­Shield Blender mod­els (53600, 53601, 53602, and 53603) come with 52 oz. sol­id thick glass con­tain­er and lid with a hatch-style pour spout where you can add ingre­di­ents dur­ing blend­ing. The con­tain­er also fea­tures a han­dle and clear marks in ounces, cups, and milliliters.

The 53602 and 53603 mod­els also include an addi­tion­al 20 oz glass sin­gles serve con­tain­ers. You can use them as sin­gles that serve as an attach­ment with the includ­ed remov­able blade assem­bly or use it as a trav­el cup.

The blender comes with stain­less steel 4‑pronged remov­able blades. It is fixed to the bot­tom of the jar with a plas­tic collar.

War­ran­ty 

The blender comes with 3 years lim­it­ed war­ran­ty for U.S. and 5 years lim­it­ed war­ran­ty for Cana­da. The cus­tomer ser­vice will repair or replace faulty parts; how­ev­er, the con­sumer will be respon­si­ble for all the ship­ping costs.

Sum­ma­ry

The Hamil­ton Beach 950-Watts Sound­Shield is a good val­ue-for-mon­ey blender. It makes good smooth­ies from soft ingre­di­ents but may need to run longer to get a green smooth­ie or iced drinks than more pow­er­ful gad­gets. How­ev­er, it is very sim­ple to use and clean also.

The blender has a glass jar and a well-designed sound shield that prop­er­ly damp­ens blend­ing noise from the strong points. Although the shield seems bulky but still fits under a stan­dard kitchen cab­i­net: 9.06 x 10.24 x 16.14 (inch­es).

Weak points

The jar col­lar is made of very thin plas­tic and could crack when over­loaded. It also has a plas­tic motor dri­ve that reduces the life expectan­cy of the motor, and it does not have an auto­mat­ic shut­down system.

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#2 Hamilton Beach Professional 1500W Quiet Shield Blender (58870)

The Hamil­ton Beach Pro­fes­sion­al 1500W (full review) is anoth­er blender with sound shields for your con­sid­er­a­tion. The blender is pow­er­ful, sol­id, and pro­duced by a well-known US con­sumer man­u­fac­tur­er, so it is def­i­nite­ly worth pay­ing atten­tion to it.

Motor and power

The blender’s strong and stur­dy motor base is equipped with a pow­er­ful 1500-watt (2hp) at-peak motor. How­ev­er, that will be attained only dur­ing the first sec­onds of oper­a­tion and when the gad­get needs the most pow­er to process ice, frozen fruits, and oth­er stub­born ingre­di­ents. The motor is also designed with an opti­mal air­flow sys­tem to cool the gad­get and an over­load pro­tec­tion sys­tem to pro­tect it from motor over­heat­ing and damage.

It also has the Jar Pad, a rub­ber-mount­ed com­po­nent that will muf­fle the sound emit­ted by the motor.

Con­trol pan­el and speeds

The con­trol is pret­ty min­i­mal­is­tic and straight­for­ward but very func­tion­al. It has PULSE, START/STOP but­tons, and a dial knob. The dial knob con­trols 11 vari­able speeds and 4 pro­gram set­tings (CLEAN, PUREE, CRUSH, and SMOOTHIE).

START/STOP func­tions acti­vate the blender. Rotate the con­trol knob clock­wise for select­ing one of the vari­able speeds and anti­clock­wise for pre-sets. The gad­get will run just by turn­ing the knob to the desired speed or set­ting; the blender auto­mat­i­cal­ly stops at the pro­gram’s end and thus elim­i­nates any guess­work for the user.

The PULSE func­tion could be used with any vari­able speed. Turn the dial knob to the desired speed and push the PULSE func­tion. The selec­tion of vari­able speed and pre-pro­grammed set­tings allows ulti­mate con­trol to the user over the blend­ing process.

Qui­et shield

The remov­able qui­et shield is designed as an upside-down pitch­er placed over the blender jar. The rub­ber pad on the motor base also con­tributes to the blender noise’s damp­en­ing. Although it has a rather uncom­pli­cat­ed design for a sound enclo­sure, it can still muf­fle the amount of noise released from the blender to a more com­fort­able deci­bel (rough­ly 80 decibels).

Of course, it is not whis­per-qui­et but not as aggres­sive and irri­tat­ing as an ordi­nary non-quite blender. Even with the frozen ingre­di­ents inside the jar, you can still hear and talk with a raised voice when the blender is running.

Func­tion­al­i­ty

• Blends very smooth drinks from soft and hard fruits, veg­gies, leafy greens, and nuts with no chunks; effort­less­ly destroy berries seeds;
• Crush­es ice and blends frozen ingre­di­ents very well using a high speed or CRUSH pre-set pro­gram; able to make sor­bets and iced drinks such as refresh­ing mar­gar­i­tas and Pina Coladas;
• Pow­er­ful enough to make whole juice or nut milk;
• Eas­i­ly mix­es and purees a vari­ety of sal­sa, sauces, pesto, and dips like hum­mus and sal­ad dress­ing or horseradish;
• Chops veg­gies and onions;
• Eas­i­ly purees pota­to, broc­coli, or baby food recipes;
• With some effort but being able to make nut but­ter, includ­ed tam­per will help to mix thick mix­tures to the per­fect consistency;
• Designed to han­dle hot ingre­di­ents and will eas­i­ly puree boil­ing hot ingre­di­ents for soup, it is also able to make bul­let­proof cof­fee; how­ev­er, despite 1500 watts pow­er motor, it will not heat liq­uid with frictions;
• Grind herbs, cof­fee beans, and grains, mak­ing decent flour for baking;
• Able to mix muf­fin and pan­cake batter;

Using, clean­ing

With inbuilt into jug blades, it is very easy to use. Just place the pitch­er on the top of the motor base, close the lid, and it is ready to use.

Clean­ing is a breeze as well. It has a pre-set CLEAN pro­gram, so you just add some water and soap and set it to the CLEAN pre-set. Alter­na­tive­ly, you can clean it by hand or in the dish­wash­er; the pitch­er, lid, and tam­per are all dish­wash­er-safe parts.

Con­tain­ers, blades

The blender comes with 32 oz. shat­ter­proof and BPA-free plas­tic con­tain­ers. It does not have han­dles, so you would need to use a hot mit­ten when han­dling it with hot liq­uids inside. How­ev­er, it has clear mea­sur­ing on its side and is equipped with a tight­ly sit­ed rub­bery lid and a plas­tic filler cap. Besides, it comes with a handy tam­per tool for pro­cess­ing thick or stub­born mix­tures such as frozen desserts and nut butter.

The blade assem­bly is per­ma­nent­ly installed in the blender con­tain­er. The 4‑prongs blades are sharp and high-qual­i­ty, durable stain­less steel resis­tant to wear and tear.

War­ran­ty

Hamil­ton Beach 1500W Qui­et Shield Blender comes with 5 years lim­it­ed war­ran­ty. It cov­ers the repair or replace­ment of blenders and parts if found to be defec­tive. The lim­it­ed war­ran­ty assumes that the cus­tomer is respon­si­ble for all ship­ping costs, which some­times could be pret­ty high. The war­ran­ty is not trans­fer­able and is applied only to the orig­i­nal con­sumer or gift recipient.

Sum­ma­ry 

This pow­er­ful, stur­dy, and ver­sa­tile blender can per­form quite a few func­tions typ­i­cal for pro­fes­sion­al blenders to a very high stan­dard. Although it claims to be pro­fes­sion­al, it will not per­form all the func­tions that Blendtec and Vita­mix do, and the qual­i­ty of the out­puts is not quite sim­i­lar. Nev­er­the­less, it is a decent blender that will pro­duce good qual­i­ty fruit, veg­gie and green smooth­ies, frozen treats, pureed hot ingre­di­ents, mill flour, and oth­ers. It is very sim­ple to oper­ate and clean. Although it is not equipped with the qui­et shield as sophis­ti­cat­ed as the oth­er gad­gets on our list, it still does help cut down on the noise to a tol­er­a­ble lev­el. It has a decent 5 years lim­it­ed war­ran­ty. The gad­get is quite a com­pact 11” X 15.5” X 12.4” and eas­i­ly fits under­neath the cupboards.

Final­ly, it is avail­able at a rea­son­able price for such a pow­er­ful blender, only $120-$160, depend­ing on the retail­er and the dis­count offers.

Weak points

Rather, it has a small 32 oz jar with no han­dle and a basic sound shield design.

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#3 OmniBlend Omni‑Q Commercial Blender with Full Sound Enclosure Shield

Although the OmniBlend with Sound Enclo­sure Shield is mar­ket­ed as a com­mer­cial machine if it is pur­chased for domes­tic use, the man­u­fac­tur­er treats it as a house­hold blender and offers a 7 years warranty.

The JTC Omniblend blender has been dis­trib­uted over the world since 1996; it was engi­neered in Tai­wan but assem­bled in Chi­na. The gad­get was intro­duced to US cus­tomers in 2009 and is cur­rent­ly ser­viced for US and Cana­di­an cus­tomers by JTC Elec­tron­ics USA Inc. of Eagle Moun­tain, Utah.

Motor

This blender has a very pow­er­ful car­bon brush 2200W/3HP at peak motor. How­ev­er, it most­ly oper­ates at only 950 watts but with a per­for­mance com­pa­ra­ble to the high-end motor. The motor also has a noise reduc­tion and self-cool­ing fea­ture (ther­mal over­ride protection).

Besides, it is equipped with auto­mat­ic over­load pro­tec­tion. So when the motor strug­gles to process the con­tent, the auto­mat­ic over­load pro­tec­tion will cut off the pow­er imme­di­ate­ly. That makes the machine to be safe and lasts longer.

Con­trol panel

The OmniBlend Blender con­trol pan­el is equipped with the Pow­er On/Off switch encased in a trans­par­ent rub­ber cas­ing, three speeds (LOW to MED to HIGH), three timed pre-sets (35”, 60”, 90”), and pulse func­tion. Just press any but­ton to stop the oper­a­tion at one of the speeds or cycle at any time.

Timed pre-sets spec­i­fy the blend­ing time cycles — 35 sec, 60 sec, and 90 sec. When you select one of the pre-sets, the machine will run the cycle and stop auto­mat­i­cal­ly after the select­ed time has passed. The blend­ing speed increas­es from LOW to MED to HIGH dur­ing the cycle. When high or med speed is pressed, the machine will start from low speed for 1–2 sec­onds and then increase to high.

The Pulse func­tion instant­ly works at high speed and can be acti­vat­ed by press­ing the button.

Qui­et shield

OmniBlend blender is equipped with the hinged, 2‑piece sound shield that opens and clos­es over the blender jar. The sound enclo­sure is con­struct­ed with high-qual­i­ty mate­ri­als used in air­craft wind­shields and fight­er jet canopies. It ful­ly wraps around the blender to max­i­mize noise reduc­tion. The shield pro­vides at least 80% noise reduc­tion. As a result, the blender’s noise will reach a max­i­mum of 72 dB and allow the user to car­ry on a nor­mal con­ver­sa­tion dur­ing the blend­ing. The OmniBlend is tru­ly one of the qui­etest blenders cur­rent­ly avail­able on the market.

Func­tion­al­i­ty 

• Makes per­fect­ly smooth fruit and veg­etable smooth­ies from soft and hard ingre­di­ents, includ­ing kale and oth­er greens; skin, stem, and seeds are eas­i­ly oblit­er­at­ed by this machine;
• Process frozen ingre­di­ents in sec­onds to make smooth­ies, ice slush, ice cream, and frozen desserts;
• Blends qual­i­ty nut or soy­bean milk;
• Mouss­es, whip­ping creams, and oth­er dessert treats;
• Makes per­fect sal­sa, sal­ad dress­ings, var­i­ous dips, sauce and pates, chops and minces veg­eta­bles and roots, grate cheese;
• Minces meat for mak­ing fresh burg­ers, meat­balls, and koftas;
• Can puree veg­gies for side dish­es or baby food;
• Can make super healthy and deli­cious baby food;
• Han­dles hot ingre­di­ents to puree soup or make bul­let­proof cof­fee, makes hot soup from scratch via fric­tion in 6 minutes;
• Crush­es any grain such as bar­ley, wheat, buck­wheat, oats, brown rice, or soy­bean into bak­ing qual­i­ty flour; pow­der cashew, pine, grinds cof­fee beans or spices; grinds spices in seconds;
• Makes the bat­ter for cup­cakes, muffins, and sponge cakes and kneads dough for bread;
• Able to process nut butter;

Using, clean­ing

The gad­get is very easy to use and clean. Place the Jar on top of the base, fill the con­tain­er with the food ingre­di­ents, close the lid, close the Noise hood, and it is ready for use. Push the on/off switch to the on posi­tion, press one of the speeds or pre-set func­tions, and the blender will run. The speed func­tion (low, mid, high) will run con­tin­u­ous­ly until they stop by press­ing any of the but­tons on the con­trol pan­el. The pre-set func­tions (35”, 60”, and 90”) will run on the high speed (grad­u­al­ly increas­ing from the low speed) for the rel­e­vant dura­tion and stop auto­mat­i­cal­ly. To stop the machine at any time, just press any but­ton on the con­trol pan­el. If you need to use the tam­per, you will have to open the hood to use it.

Clean­ing is also an easy task. Fill the jar with water and soap for self-clean­ing and blend for 10–30 sec­onds. Anoth­er way is hand clean­ing using clean­ing utensils.

Con­tain­ers, blades

The OmniBlend blender comes with the qual­i­ty 1.5 liters (50 oz.) East­man Tri­tan copoly­ester con­tain­er. The East­man Tri­tan is a US man­u­fac­tur­er that pro­duces copoly­ester blend con­tain­ers for Vita­mix and Blendtec. The shat­ter-proof, scratch and impact-resis­tant jug are FDA and UL-approved. It is also designed to with­stand up to 125 degrees (257F).

The con­tain­er has a square design with round­ed cor­ners, allow­ing for con­ve­nient pour­ing from any of the three sides. It has ounces, cups, and mil­li­liters marked. It also includes a rub­ber lid, lid plug, and tam­per. The lid does­n’t “lock” in place but fits tight with rub­ber inserts, and the cov­er secure­ly holds it in, so it can­not come open unless you have the cov­er open.

The 6‑prong sharp blades are per­ma­nent­ly inbuilt into the con­tain­er. The blades are designed for wet and dry blend­ing and grind­ing. The heavy-duty blade assem­bly is made from high-qual­i­ty, Japan­ese-pre­ci­sion stain­less steel. The blender also has a durable met­al dri­ve socket.

War­ran­ty

The OmniBlend blender has a 7‑year lim­it­ed war­ran­ty cov­er­ing the motor and con­trol func­tions. Lim­it­ed means the user will pay the ship­ping cost for the gad­get ser­vice both ways. The con­tain­er, blade assem­bly, and dri­ve sock­et have only 1‑year cov­er­age. Although the cost for the con­tain­er, blade assem­bly, and dri­ve sock­et replace­ment is afford­able repair for these parts, the cus­tomers should accom­plish it themselves.

Sum­ma­ry

OmniBlend is very pow­er­ful and one of the qui­etest blenders on the mar­ket. The machine per­forms all func­tions that the high-end blender does at a com­pa­ra­ble qual­i­ty (but requires 20–60 sec­onds longer time to pro­duce an equiv­a­lent result). The good point, it is avail­able at a notice­ably low­er price (around $50) than the best on our list high-end blender Blend­ed 800 with Sound Enclo­sure ($799).

It is also not very bulky; even with an enclo­sure, it mea­sures 260 mm x 290 mm x 420 mm and will fit under most kitchen cab­i­nets. It comes with a nice recipe book and instructions.

Weak points

Only 3 speeds.

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#4 Blendtec Professional 800 Blender With Sound Enclosure

Blendtec Pro 800 is a com­mer­cial qual­i­ty blender for domes­tic use that comes with an array of top fea­tures. It is equipped with a stealth noise reduc­tion hood and is known as the qui­etest domes­tic blender.

Motor and power

Blendtec Pro 800 hous­es 15 amp/120 volts/2800 watt/3.8 peak horse­pow­er direct-dri­ve motor. It is one of the most pow­er­ful blenders on the mar­ket and allows the finest and smoothest blend­ing of almost anything.

It is equipped with an all-met­al dri­ve cou­pling and a jar blade shaft. The sock­et has a life­time war­ran­ty. The motor hous­ing con­tains the elec­tric motor, dri­ve train, and oth­er com­po­nents that opti­mize sound and air­flow for cool­er, qui­eter oper­a­tion. In addi­tion, it is undoubt­ed­ly equipped with an auto­mat­ic shut-off sys­tem to ensure the longer life expectan­cy of the motor.

Con­trol pan­el and speeds

The Blendtec Pro 800 con­trol pan­el is a smooth black sur­face (easy to clean) with back-lit touch-sen­si­tive con­trols. It has, from right to left, a Pow­er Key, Switch­er Key (to switch between 6 pre-sets and the man­u­al speeds), 11 incre­men­tal speed capac­i­tive touch slid­ers (from 4,000 RPM to 29,000 RPM), 6 pre-set pro­grams (Bat­ters, Mixed Drinks/Cocktails, Smooth­ies, Ice Cream/Frozen Treats, Whole Juice, Soup) enabling you to press a but­ton and walk away, the Pulse Key, Stop Key, and LCD Infor­ma­tion Center.

Such a vari­ety assumes an incred­i­ble ver­sa­til­i­ty of the gadget.

Qui­et shield

The Blendtec Pro­fes­sion­al 800 fea­tures the most advanced sleek sound enclo­sure; it is made of thick, clear plas­tic hinged at the back and ful­ly remov­able for clean­ing. It damp­ens blender noise so well that you will not hear it blend­ing in the next room, even when it is work­ing at the high­est speed. Accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, it max­es out at 67 deci­bels, and it is tru­ly qui­eter than a dish­wash­ing machine.

Func­tion­al­i­ty

• It makes super smooth smooth­ies from soft and hard ingre­di­ents, includ­ing raw spinach leaves, kale, hard frozen berries, nuts, and core the apple. Thus it is per­fect­ly suit­able for green smooth­ies also. In addi­tion, it effi­cient­ly blends berry seeds to give you per­fect smoothies.
• Crushed ice and frozen fruits make frozen treats, includ­ing ice cream, sor­bets, and frozen yogurt, shav­ing ice for snow cones, mar­gar­i­tas, daiquiris, and oth­er frozen concoctions.
• It com­plete­ly oblit­er­ates tough and dense ingre­di­ents, includ­ing stems, seeds, or skins, and out­puts per­fect whole juices.
• Per­fect­ly han­dle hot liq­uids. More­over, heat liq­uids with the pow­er of blade fric­tions, from cold water and fresh ingre­di­ents for home­made soup in a few short min­utes will cre­ate steam­ing hot and ready-to-eat soup. Like­wise, I will eas­i­ly make hot choco­late, syrups, fon­dues, or bul­let­proof coffee.
• Will stir, chop, mince, or use a Pulse function.
• Puree­ing and baby food.
• Makes hemp seed, almond, coconut, and oth­er nut milk with­out effort.
• Although Blendtec rec­om­mends using a spe­cial Twister Jar for nut but­ter, it is per­fect­ly pos­si­ble to make it with a Wild­Side+ jar, it will take a bit longer, but the algo­rithm is avail­able from Blendtec recipes online.
• Per­fect­ly capa­ble of mak­ing sauces, dips, dress­ings, and bat­ters. Quick­ly mix bat­ters or knead the dough for pan­cakes, waf­fles, cook­ies, muffins, crêpes, piz­za, and cakes.
• It will grind seeds, nuts, and any­thing you put into it. This blender can also make per­fect flour from absolute­ly any grain.

Using, clean­ing

The Blendtec Pro 800 comes with blades inbuilt into a jug; thus, it is very easy to assemble/disassemble, use, and clean.

It is very easy to assem­ble. To set it up, sim­ply open up the noise hood and place the jug on the top of the base unit, ensur­ing it is cor­rect­ly fitted/aligned. Stuff the ingre­di­ents into the blend­ing jar and pour a suit­able amount of liq­uid on top of them. Select one of the blend­ing cycles and run it or an 11-speed touch slider.

To clean it, pour some water and wash liq­uid into the jar, select the low pow­er set­ting, and leave for 40 sec­onds before turn­ing it off. This will remove any gunk around the blade.  Stick­i­er jobs such as nut but­ter and bread dough usu­al­ly require addi­tion­al scrub­bing after the first self-clean­ing. Rinse the blend­ing jar. Clean the base by sim­ply wip­ing the base and inter­face with a damp cloth.

Con­tain­ers, blades 

The Blender comes with high-qual­i­ty East­man Tri­tan co-poly­ester 90 oz. Wild­Side+ con­tain­er and Vent­ed Grip­per lid. The con­tain­er is impact and tem­per­a­ture-resis­tant (up to 212 degrees F).

The Wild­side + jar has a unique five-sided design, cre­at­ing a vor­tex and pulling the ingre­di­ents down into the blades. In addi­tion, you can scrape out the thick­er mix­tures thanks to its square, flat-sided design.

The jar’s nom­i­nal capac­i­ty is 90 oz. The actu­al capac­i­ty is 72oz, but the mark­ing on the jar goes up to 36oz. The line for 36 is only about halfway up the jar. The con­tain­er does not have a spout, but a squared shape allows it to pour out liq­uid effi­cient­ly with­out spilling it out.

The lid is made of a rub­bery mate­r­i­al, needs to be firm­ly pressed into posi­tion, and fits snugly.

An open­ing at the cen­ter allows steam and pres­sure to escape when you are blend­ing hot ingre­di­ents or through which you can add ingre­di­ents dur­ing processing.

It does not include a Tam­per because the patent­ed five-sided jar design auto­mat­i­cal­ly pulls ingre­di­ents toward the blade.

The Blendtec 800 has inbuilt into the con­tain­er laser-cut stain­less steel blades. It is a wingtip, two-pronged, and blunt blade design. The wingtips break up larg­er ingre­di­ents, allow­ing a quick­er blend—the blunt blades make a jug safer to clean and handle.

War­ran­ty

Blendtec Pro 800 comes with a very good and one of the best in the indus­try with 10 years war­ran­ty and cov­ers ship­ping both ways for service.

It also offers a free 30-day mon­ey-back guar­an­tee if you tried out, did not like it, and decid­ed to return it. How­ev­er, the war­ran­ty is not trans­fer­able and applied only to the orig­i­nal cus­tomer, so if the unit is sub­mit­ted for repair must be accom­pa­nied by proof of orig­i­nal purchase.

Cus­tomer ser­vice is good and reputable.

Sum­ma­ry 

It is a stur­dy and well-made machine, tru­ly the qui­etest blender in the world for home use, and fea­tures com­mer­cial pow­er and ver­sa­til­i­ty. So if you can man­age the cost, it will be an excel­lent addi­tion to your kitchen that will last you a long time. The hinged cov­er makes such a big dif­fer­ence in the noise lev­el. It still has the same loud jet engine fea­ture, but the enclo­sure muf­fles the sound so much that my wash­ing machine is loud­er than it is while run­ning. With an 1800-watt 3.8 horse­pow­er peak, it has more than enough pow­er to go through all your blend­ing needs.

This is a heav­ier blender that is not meant for trav­el. It weighs 16.2 pounds. The height of the swayed-up shield is 24 “(62 cm) and will not fit most of the kitchen cab­i­nets. While when it is swayed down closed, it is only 16.2” tall and fits under the cabinets.

Weak points

It is very expensive.

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Summary

Which blender is the best for you depends on what you want from your gad­get? For exam­ple, if you are look­ing for the best com­mer­cial type of qui­et blender with a sound shield, then you have to choose between Blendtec Pro­fes­sion­al 800 and OmniBlend Omni‑Q Com­mer­cial machines. On the oth­er hand, if you are OK with basic to medi­um range blenders, you will decide between Hamil­ton Beach Pro­fes­sion­al 1500W and Hamil­ton Beach 53600/53601/53602/53603 950-Watts gadgets.

Blendtec Pro 800 is no doubt the most sophis­ti­cat­ed high-end blender for home use, with the sound enclo­sure avail­able on the mar­ket today. It is not only a very pow­er­ful machine but equipped with many very advanced fea­tures, such as six pre-pro­grammed set­tings, 11 con­tin­u­ous speeds, a touch screen con­trol pan­el, and a beau­ti­ful design. The blender will be per­fect for any recipe, from green smooth­ies to hot soup or ice cream. The sound shield is also top-notch, and you will be able to con­tin­ue the nor­mal con­ver­sa­tion even if it blends ice next to you (max at 67 dB). Besides, it comes with 10 years of unlim­it­ed war­ran­ty and excel­lent cus­tomer ser­vice. It has only one draw­back; it is very expen­sive. How­ev­er, if you can afford the best of the best com­mer­cial type blender with the qui­et shield at a pre­mi­um price, then it is the best option for you.

If you are still hop­ing to grab the high-end gad­get with the sound shield but can­not splash the $800 on it, then you must con­sid­er the OmniBlend Omni‑Q Com­mer­cial machine. It will also make per­fect­ly smooth green smooth­ies, hot soup, nut but­ter, and ice cream; the out­put is not as per­fect as Blendtec but very close and will take 20–40 sec longer to achieve a com­pa­ra­ble result. Although it is Chi­na assem­bled, it has a good rep­u­ta­tion and sev­en years lim­it­ed war­ran­ty ser­viced by US Com­pa­ny. It has only 3 speeds, and the con­trol pan­el is not the same state of the art as the Blendtec con­trol pan­el. But the sound shield is top qual­i­ty and muf­fles the sound almost as effi­cient as Blendtec. The good news is it costs half as much as the Blendtec Pro 800, which is almost half the price of the Blendtec 800.

The Hamil­ton Beach 950-Watts is a rather basic blender but still pow­er­ful enough to per­form many func­tions such as decent smooth­ies, chop­ping, puree­ing, and mix­ing, but it will not do per­fect green smooth­ies. How­ev­er, it has a prop­er­ly engi­neered hinged sound enclo­sure that will muf­fle sound-emit­ting to the lev­el you can con­tin­ue a nor­mal con­ver­sa­tion with a slight­ly raised voice. It has a well-known man­u­fac­tur­er and is good for this type of blender with three years lim­it­ed war­ran­ty. The good point is it has a very attrac­tive price of only under a hun­dred dol­lars (depend­ing on the model).

The Hamil­ton Beach 1500W has a more pow­er­ful motor and is able to per­form more func­tions to a bet­ter qual­i­ty than HM 950 watts. It will make decent green smoothest, good dips, and almost per­fect soup. How­ev­er, it has a rather more prim­i­tive sound shield than oth­er blenders on our list. There­fore, we should acknowl­edge that it will not pro­vide an effi­cient sound reduc­tion as Hamil­ton Beach 950-Watts. 

So, if you pre­fer bet­ter qual­i­ty blend­ing with not very effi­cient sound reduc­tion, then Hamil­ton Beach 1500W must be your best option. On the oth­er hand, if you are OK with a rather basic blender, but the sound reduc­tion is real­ly impor­tant to you, then you will be bet­ter off with the Hamil­ton Beach 950-Watts machine.