I am in love with this machine!
It’s got curves reminiscent of a 1950’s classic car. Its deep metallic red colour is so alluring that I want to get out the wax and start buffing it while Frank Sinatra croons in the background. The knobs and switches remind me of a vintage radio, as if, at any moment, it may break into song.
Speaking of music – did you watch the video above?
I teamed up with a sound technician, and together, we worked on this little video project. We are really rather pleased with the results and we had a lot of fun making it. Who says you can’t play with your food?! All the sounds for this video were recorded from the Optimum 9400 and manipulated to make the music. We hope you enjoy it!
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I am delighted to announce that Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary is one of a small group of UK food blogs selected to be Froothie Ambassadors. This means that we each get sent one of these fantastic machines to play around with (and keep!), sharing our experiences (and recipes) with our readers and, if you should be tempted to buy one for yourself through the links on our websites we get a small commission from each sale.
So, what makes this blender so special?
The Froothie Optimum 9400 is a multi-purpose, high-performance blender suitable for both home and commercial use. It is a heavy-duty, professional-quality blender which can be used to purée, chop and blend fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and grains, make juices and smoothies, crush ice, freeze ice cream, blend and heat soups (through friction heat) and even make omelettes. It’s powerful enough to blend paving stones into dust! Fancy throwing some spinach or kale into your green smoothie? Not a problem – it’s blitzed in seconds!
Several high-powered blenders are on the market. Compare the features of one of the brand leaders, the Vitamix Pro 500, with the Optimum 9400:
Fresh juice and smoothies are bursting with live enzymes and nutrients, which are readily absorbed into the body. Traditional juicers separate the juice from the pulp, leaving you with lovely, fresh juice, but it doesn’t leave you feeling satisfied for long, and then you have the whole time-consuming faff of emptying the pulp container, disassembling the machine, cleaning it, drying it and storing it. My old juicer is huge, and it gets stored on a shelf in the backroom – despite my best intentions, it is rarely used.
Blending whole fruit and vegetable juices and smoothies in a high-powered blender like the Optimum 9400 leaves you with all the fibre (you’ll feel fuller for longer), as well as the vibrant juice, and it only takes seconds to clean! Partially fill the 2-litre jug with hot water from the tap, a squirt of washing up liquid and switch the machine on high for 60 seconds, empty and rinse! It doesn’t take up as much space on the countertop either, meaning you’ll be more likely to leave it there and actually use it.
The Optimum 9400 comes in red, white or black and includes an instruction manual, an 82-page inspirational raw foods recipe book, a mesh bag for making nut milk, a sturdy tamper (so you don’t have to stick a wooden spoon down the blender jug to get things moving!), a silicone spatula for scraping up bits stuck under the six-blade assembly and a two-litre BPA-free plastic jug suitable for both wet and dry ingredients.
Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary was sent a complimentary Froothie Optimum 9400 blender. All opinions expressed are our own.
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You’ve got quite an interesting recipe here. I’d like to try making my all-time favorite home-made creamy pesto sauce with the Froothie Optimum 9400 too.
It sounds like a really good blender and the style of it is really nice but that is way to expensive for me!
This looks like such a handy tool to keep in the kitchen. I would use it to make fresh fruit smoothies and soups.
Hi, I watched the video with the stones and was amazed, just wondered if anyone has tried to blend pigs or lambs liver as it’s quite tough and burns out normal blenders quite quickly. By looking at th video I’m pretty hopeful that it does
I am in love with the green smoothies! I have a blender at home but it is an old one and cannot make nice smoothies so I usually buy smoothies from the coffee shop. It also is very hard to be cleaned. I definitely need to buy a new blender and this one here looks amazing! This is going to be my next birthday gift!
I need a new blender I think I’ll try the Optimum. I don’t use a blender often enough between the food processor and immersion blender to spend the money for the Optimum; BUT my BF has one and it’s really amazing. And she uses it every morning for breakfast and when her kids were still eating babyfood.
Thank you so much for this review! I am going to buy a new blender next week and this post helped me a lot! Thanks! Brondesbury Carpet Cleaners Ltd.
This sounds excellent. I’ve been yearning for a decent blender. Saving up (slowly) and reading up on this, the vitamix, and the enpee. So many jobs that would be done better in a good blender – not least green smoothies without little chewy bits of kale – not really a smooooooooothie.
That video is just IMMENSE! I had to make my husband pause what he was watching so he could experience it too!
Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested this week x
So glad you like it! We had a lot of fun with this and we hope to do more in the future 🙂
I love my Froothie blender so much too but can I just say that your video is simply amazing. Hope to see more of them!
Thanks Laura 🙂 We hope to make more videos now that we have all the kit. Just waiting for inspiration to kick in!
Fantastic machine and as for the video – tit’s amazing. Love it!
It is a fantastic machine – I’m in awe of what it can do – I’ve just blitzed prunes, flax seeds, whole fruits and soya milk into a perfectly smooth smoothie for breakfast – no bits!! So glad you like the video 🙂
sounds like this is the stuff that dreams are made of ! great review and terrific video – loving the look of the Optimum 9400 but does it have the ability to slice?
Thanks Janet 🙂 We are rather pleased about how well the video turned out and I am loving this blender so much! It doesn’t slice, no, not like a food processor would, but it does chop. I’m going to put it to the test tonight for dinner and will report back!
I’m the opposite of Kellie – haven’t really read about the juicer but the video is TOTES AMAZE. Love it.
Hee hee, so glad you enjoyed it Gary 🙂
I haven’t yet watched the video (I might get too excited just before my bedtime!) but just the lead up to it with the review is enough to make sure that I watch it first thing tomorrow. The Froothie is indeed a fabulous machine. I do love the shot of the mike up close to the machine – really just like Frank Sinatra!
Thanks Kellie – I hope you got a chance to watch the video, I’m sure you’ll be impressed! 🙂
Love the machine – it is fantastic isn’t it?! Can I be cheeky and leave my recipe for raw coconut fudge made in my Optimum 9400? http://www.cakeyboi.com/2014/07/raw-coconut-fudge.html
It really is fantastic – and be cheeky as much as you want! 🙂
I loved the post in such your husband gave an insight into his job. This video is epic, very cool indeed!
Thanks Kavey 🙂 Ideally he’d like to give up his day job and do this sort of thing full time.
Wow, that video is brilliant! I had a chuckle to myself as I mis-read that your husband was a magician not a musician, so when I watched it I thought he’d be doing some tricks! However it looks like magic is not required, these do look like great blenders, everyone seems to be demo-ing them so it’s really interesting to see what you all make! You win on the magic video front though 😉
Thanks! We’re rather quite chuffed with how well it turned out. The things one can do in a kitchen! 😀 My husband is a bit of a magician too, haha! I’m loving my new blender and I’ve been experimenting loads (after I was allowed to start using it for food preparation!). Watch this space!
I love the idea of making smoothies for breakfast each morning and it’s something I’d like to do more of – it’s just so time consuming! Looks like a fab blender though. 🙂
It’s not time consuming with this blender – pop everything in, blitz in seconds and cleans quickly too!
This is AWESOME!!! I have smoothies every morning but this machine is way better. How did you find it when it was fully packed with things like carrots?
Thanks Christian 🙂 I haven’t tried fully packing it yet, but I’ll let you know when I do!