The best blenders are versatile kitchen appliances, whether you’re making smoothies and soups, blending nut butter or tackling everyday chopping and food prep. If counter space is limited, they’re a useful all-rounder, helping you cover a whole range of tasks without needing a cupboard full of different gadgets.

The term “blender” can cover quite a few different types of kitchen appliance, each suited to slightly different jobs. You’ll find hand blenders that are ideal for blitzing soup directly in the pan or in a jug. Then there are jug blenders, as well as food processors, which tend to offer even more options for chopping, slicing and preparing food.

When choosing the right blender for you, start with space. What will fit in your kitchen? Look at the real estate space a blender will take up – remember to take into account all those attachments. Many blenders are designed to slot into cupboards, and some offer lots of different attachments.

Think about what you’ll use your blender for most. If you regularly tackle lots of chopping and grating, a food processor-style model with a powerful motor and multiple attachments may be the best choice. For soups, a hand blender lets you blitz straight in the pan and often comes with useful extras such as a chopper and whisk. Jug blenders, meanwhile, are ideal for smoothies, soups, nut butter and curry pastes, although they can be bulky to store.

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The best blenders for 2026 are:

  • Best overall– Ninja foodi power blender three-in-one: £199, Amazon.co.uk
  • Best budget buy– Judge glass blender: £38.97, Amazon.co.uk
  • Best compact design– Zwilling Enfinigy personal blender: £49.95, Zwilling.com
  • Best for soups– Braun powerblend 9 jug blender: £148, Amazon.co.uk

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  • Bestblender overall
  • Why we love it- Flexible
  • Dishwasher safe
  • Easy to use

I was thoroughly impressed by Ninja’s foodi power blender three-in-one. It did more than I ever knew this type of appliance could do and it was the best blender I tested.

Designed to offer flexibility, the Ninja blender comes with three different attachments. One 2.1l jug that has more capacity. It will chop, blend and mix, as well as knead doughs with the attachments included.

The cup attachment is designed for smoothies and has the capacity to make a single drink and can then be taken on the go with you. The “power nutri bowl” is for making smoothie bowls and thick desserts, such as frozen yoghurt, as well as nut butter. Best of all, every cup and blade is dishwasher safe.

The easy-to-operate dial will let you choose from the different programs, including blend, mix, crush and chop. The base will know which cup or bowl you have attached and offer you the right programs for that attachment. Seriously clever.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:1,200W
  • Functions:Chop, blend and mix, kneed dough
  • Capacity:2.1l
  • Speed settings:10
  • Weight:3.7kg
  • Dimensions:37cm x 21.4cm x 20.8cm
  • Dishwasher-safe jug:Yes

  • Attachments:2.1l jug, cup, power nutri bowl, crushing/chopping blade, dough blade, hybrid blade, storage lid, cleaning brush

  • Bestbudget blender

  • Why we love it- Simple
  • Easy to use

  • Lower price point

  • Take note- Fairly loud when in use

  • Not hugely versatile

This Judge glass blender is pretty straight up – it’s simple but gets the job done. It won’t take up loads of space in your cupboard but will blend smoothies and soups to smooth perfection. It’s quite loud when it’s on, but it made short work of everything we threw at it. The slightly tapered style of the glass jug meant ingredients slid towards the blades without us having to stop and scrape down every so often. The lid also enables you to add ingredients as you go – good for hollandaise and other sauces in particular. However, the blender will operate without the lid on, so beware.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:500W
  • Functions:Blend and pulse
  • Capacity:1.5l
  • Speed settings:2
  • Weight:3.65kg
  • Dimensions:39cm x 17cm x 21cm
  • Dishwasher-safe jug:Unspecified

  • Attachments:Jug

  • Besthand blender

  • Why we love it- Small
  • Easy to use

  • Handy attachments

  • Take note- Not super powerful

  • A faff to wash

I was instantly impressed with this Dualit hand blender. The chrome finish is sleek and doesn’t have the same plastic feeling that other hand blenders tend to have. Owing to its lightweight and compact design, it can fit in a drawer or cupboard fairly easily. In terms of performance, I was impressed with its chopping power on onions using the chopper bowl attachment, finely cutting the onion without pulverising it into a paste. If you need to add food gradually, you can also feed ingredients into the bowl as you chop. The chopping bowl has a small capacity though, so there’s only space to chop one onion at a time, and when I attempted sturdier vegetables, such as carrots, it wasn’t up to the job. What it is good for though is making chunky dips or purees for weaning babies.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:700W
  • Functions:Blend, chop, purée, whisk
  • Capacity:1l
  • Speed settings:Five
  • Weight:1.9kg
  • Dimensions:12.6cm x 6.4cm x 37.8cm

  • Dishwasher-safe jug:Yes

  • Bestluxury blender

  • Why we love it- Very powerful
  • Easy to clean

  • Versatile

  • Take note- Noisy

  • Expensive

This is a big investment. Sage claims it’s a commercial-grade blender, so it’s a great pick for large-scale cooking. Thanks to the powerful 2400W motor, it whipped up an absolute storm during testing, producing silky smooth soups and nut butter without breaking a sweat. My one gripe is that it is loud – it does have a noise reduction feature on it, but it was still reverberating around my house and probably my neighbour’s too. I loved the versatility of it – it took on nuts and root vegetables easily. The dial allows you to adjust the texture of what you’re creating from stirring right up to milled. This is great for whole spices and if you want to make your own flour or nut milk (I salute you for having the time for this endeavour).

As well as a hefty 2l jug, there’s a personalised 700ml cup too, which I found handy for making use of the two smoothie settings. There are also soup and frozen dessert options, but it won’t heat soup or freeze your ice creams in the way that soup makers and ice cream makers do. You simply add the hot pre-cooked ingredients for soup or add the frozen ones for desserts. While I was impressed with the soup-making option, I would go for a traditional soup maker over this if soup-making was the sole purpose of buying it. What I loved was how easy it was to clean – blitz some warm water and washing-up liquid and it’s pretty much clean.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:2,400W
  • Functions:Smoothie, ice/crush, frozen desserts, soup
  • Capacity:Jug–2l, cup 700ml
  • Speed settings:12
  • Weight:8.9kg
  • Dimensions:28.9cm x 17.8cm x 31.7cm

  • Dishwasher-safe jug:Yes

  • Bestpersonal blender

  • Why we love it- Small
  • Modern design

  • Dishwasher friendly

  • Take note- Not the most powerful

  • Only one bottle size

Modern and stylish, the Zwilling personal blender can fit in small spaces but still packs a punch. Fill the attractive BPA-free bottle with your ingredients and then tighten the blade on top, flip it upside down and lock it into the blender base. The Zwilling offers 600W of power, which isn’t the most powerful model within this review, but it handled jobs like smoothies and sauces well. I made an impressive pesto sauce in mine.

When testing, I liked that this blender offered a greater degree of control than other blenders in this format; there’s a dial to switch between blend and pulse to allow you to get the texture you want. Clean-up was relatively easy as the bottle is dishwasher safe (although handwashing is going to prolong the life of your blender). There’s a lid for the bottle, so you can take your smoothie with you on the go without having to decant.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:600W
  • Functions:Smoothie, pulse
  • Capacity:550ml
  • Speed settings:Two
  • Weight:2.3kg
  • Dimensions:13.7cm x 13.7cm x 35.7cm

  • Dishwasher-safe jug:Yes

  • Bestblender for soup

  • Why we love it- Customisable textures
  • Powerful motor

  • Relatively lightweight

  • Take note- Only one jug size

The Braun jug blender perhaps offers the best range of programs in this review. There are six food programmes – smoothie, soup, chop, ice, frozen dessert and spread – from there you can choose from three textures: coarse, medium or smooth. You can of course also pulse. I found it made a mean chunky peanut butter using the coarse and spread options.

The soup and frozen dessert options are similar to Sage’s blender in that the machine won’t cook ingredients, but it will warm them up through the friction from the blade. It also won’t freeze ingredients – these need to be pre-frozen before the blending. However, it did perform impressively well and offers a dizzying range of options. The clean function also makes light work of washing up, as I just filled the jug with water and a drop of fairy liquid, pressed the clean function and it was pretty much done.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:1,600W
  • Functions:Smoothie, hot soup, soup and purée, frozen desert, chop, spread, pulse, clean
  • Capacity:3l
  • Speed settings:10
  • Weight:4.6kg
  • Dimensions:40cm x 20cm

  • Dishwasher-safe jug:Yes

  • Bestblender for versatility

  • Why we love it- Versatile
  • Great for food prep

  • Loads of attachments, including storage boxes

  • Take note- Takes up a lot of space

  • Expensive

Clear out some cupboard space, as this bad boy comes with highly useful extras. It blended anything I threw at it with ease, including a very smooth nut butter that was absolutely delicious, thank you very much. The 550W motor seemed to be unfazed by thick and claggy mixtures, and it was relatively quiet, too.

As well as blending, the expert prep pro can grate, dice, slice, spiralise and mix. It has two different-sized bowls, and various-sized feed tubes to minimise this. Gloriously, the accessories come in a lockable display box, keeping everything neat and tidy.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:550W
  • Functions:Chop, blend, purée, mix, slice, grate, dice and spiralise
  • Capacity:3l
  • Speed settings:High and low
  • Weight:10.2kg
  • Dimensions:20cm x 25cm x 41.5cm
  • Dishwasher-safe jug:Yes

  • Attachments:Small bowl, large bowl, mall chopping/mixing blade, large chopping/mixing blade, dough blade, stem adaptor, reversible grating disc, 7 position slicing disc, blade/disc storage case, spiralzing kit, dicing kit with storage case, dicing kit cleaning tool, spatula

  • Bestmid-range blender

  • Why we love it- Three programmes and a pulse
  • Easy to use

  • LED dial

  • Take note- Not the most versatile

I liked the flexibility of this Gastroback blender. Sure, all it does is blend, but I am here for the best blenders, so I can’t complain. There’s an LED dial where you can ramp up or down the blending power by hand, then you just hit start/stop and blend away, hands-free. Or you can select from the three programme buttons: ice crushing, smoothies or interval.

The ice crushing did the job – I ended up with ice fit for a daiquiri. The smoothie option turned out a silky-smooth drink in a matter of seconds. Just know that the lid on the Gastroback is one of those you can take off and the blender will still work, so blitz with caution. However, it does have a refill opening, so you can add ingredients as you go along.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:1,000W
  • Functions:Blend, crush ice and pulse
  • Capacity:1.75l
  • Speed settings:12
  • Weight:4.1kg
  • Dimensions:23cm x 18cm x 43cm
  • Dishwasher-safe jug:Yes

  • Attachments:Jug

  • Bestcordless handheld blender

  • Why we love it- Flexible to use
  • Attractive
  • Useful attachments

  • Powerful

  • Take note- On the heavy side

I’ve met a lot of stick blenders in my time, and this one is by far the best. It’s cordless, so it’s easy to use over a hot hob when blending a pan of soup, without worrying you’re going to melt the power cable. It comes with a charge stand, so you can leave it charging until you need to grab it – and, because of all the genuinely useful attachments, you’ll find yourself reaching for it often.

It has a whisk attachment for making smooth, silky sauces and fluffy-as-you-like pancake batter. The masher attachment is genius, too. This attachment is also made completely of plastic, so you don’t have to worry about scratching your pan.

The downside is it is on the heavy side. However, as it’s so powerful, it should make pretty short work of whatever you’re whipping up.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:Unspecified
  • Functions:Blend, mash, whisk, froth milk, purée hot liquid
  • Capacity:N/A
  • Speed settings:Five
  • Weight:2.06kg
  • Dimensions:10.5cm x 22.1cm x 28cm
  • Dishwasher-safe jug:N/A

  • Attachments:Charge stand, whisk, blade, masher

  • Bestblender for good looks

  • Why we love it- Looks great
  • Powerful 1200W motor
  • Three programmes

  • Easy to clean

  • Take note- Expensive

This KitchenAid blender looks so good on a kitchen work surface but, looks aside, it’s also very capable. It’s been designed to take on nuts, seeds and any fruit or veg you want to throw at it. Our smoothies came out, well, smooth, and the blender didn’t seem to break a sweat. KitchenAid has installed an intelligent motor in this model, so it senses what’s in the jug, to make sure it’s whizzing at just the right speed.

There are three settings – crushed ice, icy drinks and smoothies and (praise be) a self-cleaning function. Is there anything worse than washing up a blender? We think not. Anyway, the jug and lid are also dishwasher safe, so that’s an extra tick from us.

Key specifications

  • Wattage:1,200W
  • Functions:Blend and crush ice
  • Capacity:1.4l
  • Speed settings:Five
  • Weight:7.48kg
  • Dimensions:40.1cm x 22.6cm x 43.2cm
  • Dishwasher-safe jug:Yes
  • Attachments:Jug