Russell Hobbs 12620 Smoothie Maker

In March I reviewed my Breville Daisy juicer and smoothie maker in a review entitled An awkward cow. However sods law, a few weeks later the awkward cow decided to die on me! I have now updated the review! I loved being able to make my own smoothies so decided I needed to buy another machine. I had purchased my Breville machine from Tesco and they were happy to refund my money! I then spotted a Russell Hobbs smoothie maker at the reduced price of £22.50. Although Daisy had also been a juicer I decided I could live within this function! What you get for your money. ************************** The Russell Hobbs 12620 simply smoothie to give it ...  Read the complete review

We have had this smoothie maker since Christmas and use it several times a week. It has a smart silver base with black buttons so looks good on the work top. The jug holds 1.8litres, although I've never filled it this full. It has three buttons, off, whizz and super whizz, so couldn't be simplier really as well as an ice button on the opposite side. The tap doesn't stick out too far so doesn't intrude on the worktop space, although it does make it harder to store in a cupboard! The jug locks into place by lining up the black and silver arrowhead and it won't work unless they are alined properly. There are two parts to the lid; a black one that must be clicked ...  Read the complete review

One day a few weeks ago the other half came home with a certain brand of smoothie drink for us to try. I was really impressed by the taste but when he told me that it cost £3 for one cartoon I became a little distressed! As his birthday was coming up I decided that it would be more economical to invest in a smoothie maker. After a lot of agonising I plumped for the Kenwood 12620 Simply Smoothie. It was one of the top rated smoothie makers on Amazon. WHAT ARE SMOOTHIES: I'm sure that you will all know this, but smoothies are basically fruit, blended until (yes you guessed it!) smooth! Smoothie makers also make juices and thickies (with yoghurt etc in ...  Read the complete review

We purchased this 'smoothie maker' around a month ago and we've had a mixed experience... The asthetics of the machine are great, looks nice on the kitchen worktop and is fairly compact. The 3 buttons make this a really simple thing to use and had an extra blitz button for ice. Unfortunatley for us, these points are the only good ones. We found assembling the smoothie maker, fairly easy, as we had bought t from Amazon (I think someone had returned it because it was mostly built) but trying to get the bits off to clean them was a nightmare. We have used the smoothie maker for a few things, with varying success. Fair or not for a smoothie ...  Read the complete review