Breville Boss to Go Plus BPB620 Questions & Answers

Agreed, same problem and I only used a few times.

Using leather gloves or a towel put jar in a bench vice and twist blade base with both hands. Breville now sell a re-designed blade base that is easy to install and remove from the jar, I purchased one from Breville parts in Australia and now at last I can use my Boss To Go without gloves and a bench vice :) :) :)

If you look around the inside of the top outer rim of the blade assembly you will see a 2 small black safety switches, if you push the base onto an upside down jar on a bench you will see 2 plastic tabs pop out, when you screw the jar onto the base they stay out, when you line up the arrow on the motor assembly with the arrow on the blade assembly plus jar and turn clockwise 2 locking tabs will hold the jar blade assembly onto the motor assembly and the 2 sprung plastic tabs will ride up 2 ramps on the motor assembly and push down on 2 sprung switches at the end of each ramp, switching on the motor assembly. When you turn the blade assembly plus jar anticlockwise the motor switches off. The original blade assembly thread diameter was just too wide to easily screw on the jars so it was possible to feel the jar was screwed on when the 2 plastic tabs were not right down so the motor did not switch on.

Hi Emma, by stuck I assume you mean you are unable to turn it to the left (on) or right (off) position. The same happened to mine where I couldn't turn it on. This was only after a few months so your 2 years is a lot better. I suggest you go to Breville's support website (https://www.breville.com/au/en/support/breville-support.html) and raise an inquiry directly with them as I'm not sure that they monitor this site. I did this and they sent me a new blade assembly part which did fix the problem but it still requires a bit of brute force to turn it on/off. My wife, who has arthritis weakened hands, has difficulty using the machine at times. Hope this helps. Cheers

Thanks Brian. Was over a year ago now, cup stuck to blade assembly. Sorted w hot water to change suction.

I'd really like to know the answer to this question too!!

Using leather gloves or a towel put jar in a bench vice and twist blade assembly with both hands. Breville now sell a re-designed blade assembly that is easy to install and remove from the jar, I purchased one from Breville parts in Australia and now at last I can use my Boss To Go without gloves and a bench vice :) :) :)

Depends on the quantity. I regularly use the tall tumblers for making garlic and ginger pastes but atleast in a quantity of 6-8 tbsp minimum. And using a bit of liquid like oil or water to facilitate smooth grinding. But I once used the small steel grinder to make a paste of onion and chilli (because it was very less quantity - about 3 tbsp) and it did not grind it very well. Its designed for dry stuff only not wet.

Thank you Chaitali for answering my query. I'll start being creative as soon as the weekend comes around, cheers

The little metal pot is a dry grinder pot. I use it to grind dry things like nuts and seeds. I am sure it will grind coffee nicely too, although i have not personally done it since i have a dedicated coffee grinder. The nuts and seeds get ground nicely. Although you should be careful with grinding dry things in this pot. If you grind in a continuous manner the ingredients become sticky with oil coming out of them. Same can happen to coffee. You have to do it in short pulses.

Thank you for your helpful comment. I’m house sitting and didn’t have the user manual - needed to make sure! I have found the metal cup and it grinds coffee very well. Thanks again.

Did you manage to get it unstuck.. if so how??

Thanks

Yes to Beetroot and celery. I have not yet tried other veggies or pineapple. I believe the key to blending hard veggies is adding adequate water or other liquid.

Yes, for all veggies and it does it perfectly. I used to grind my seeds before I put them into my previous blender, but now I do not need to. I hate lumps and I have never had any in a smoothie which I prepared in the Breville.

I just cut up a pear into 8ths and it works extremely well. Pear had skin, was cored and raw. I now have some Pear puree to find a home for :) Took about 20 seconds and a little shake to get a larger chunk to go into blades. Probably could have waited for it to go down on it's own, but I'm impatient like that :)

Thankyou Nickyloo

Hi Brunswick, Yes it does.....I normally throw in 1/2 frozen banana and a 1/4 frozen mango cheek with some strawberries with my protein powder and water. It initially makes a noise when slicing through the frozen fruit, but it blends them extremely well.....definitely no lumpy frozen fruit :)...just a nicely blended, cold smoothie.

I've read through the instruction booklet and recipie book provided...and my answer would be no. The Boss to Go Plus is specifically designed to make and produce smoothies and similar beverages...I don't believe it is designed to be an all purpose food processor like a Kitchen Wizz.

While you can use the grinding attachment to process and mill dry ingredients such as almonds, sunflower seeds to make LSA... it is not recommened to put wet ingredients into the grinder attachment. I would think hard root spices like ginger would damage the blades.

As for making breadcrumbs, I think a food processor with a cyclonic action would produce better results.

And for making pastes for cooking such as a curry paste...a blender or dedicated food processor would be better.

Stop me If I start to waffle on....

mmmm...waffles....

Hi Lulu - here is a link to the recipe book for the Boss to Go Plus to help you establish what's possible. external link 

Thanks

The Breville team

Thank you Michael W. Very helpful. Youv'e got me wanting waffles now!

Hi I haven't used the grinder at all sorry Thought it was for nuts mainly didn't really bother as it's an extra Maybe find out price of a separate grinder so can work out whether worth it I have had to return parts 4 times now

So not sure whether would recommend at all

The problem is not that there is a vaccum but that the plastic locking rim has broken and will not allow the cup to come free. At least that's what it sounds to me like - I had an identical problem...in the end I had to put the blade assembly in a vice and use a hammer and gently tap the sides of the cup where it attaches to loosen the lock rim. Once I finally got it free, the plastic rim fell to pieces!

Hope yours is in warranty. We took our Go Plus back to the retailer and I bought a nutri ninja instead with a threaded cup to blade attachment. Much better!

Hi Mysti - please contact customer service for assistance - 1300 139 798. Thanks, the Breville team

Thank you, I thought afterwards that it my have been the rim of the blade attachment breaking again. I took it back to Harvey Norman and they gave me a new cup and blade attachment

Yes, I hear you, it's a law suit waiting to happen. I haven't thrown out my faulty equipment yet as I am unsure of the impact on my families health.

Hi Adam - please contact customer on 1300 139 798 to discuss further and request a replacement blade assembly kit. Thanks, the Breville team

Hi Kylie - please call customer for best advice - 1300139798. Thanks, the Breville team