Nutri Ninja Auto-iQ BL6

Owned it for a couple of years, still available. Has never given me any problems. Easy to clean and the rubber seals don't come off. Very powerful blending. Has many functions, making it a food processor but I mainly use it for smoothies. Easy to use, very powerful. Loses one star because I wish the mixing jugs were glass, feels flimsy, fragile. In saying that though it has never broken or cracked. Show details

My first Nutri Ninja broke within a year and I received a full replacement since warranty is 2 years. The replacement just started putting out a burning smell like the motor is burning. I reported it to Ninja head office but I was told that original purchase is out of warranty, they can't do anything about it. Show details

Really good but – I have had my ninja for several months and it is as powerful as it markets them to be. I use the cups most (almost daily) and they are amazing. Makes my smoothies in 90seconds. However, after every use you have to take out the rubber seal (which is really difficult) to wash. I used the blunt side of a butter knife to remove it but after about a… Read more

month the seal had torn and was not useful any more. Very disappointing that it didn't come with a spare. Also, not easy to find a replacement online

Product is good, but my personal unit didn't last longer than 2.5 years under minuscule usage – I previously had the Nutri Ninja Mega Kitchen System, which I reviewed here: https://www.productreview.com.au/reviews/82b01c70-653b-3cdb-aa82-fe6b19cd628b Unfortunately, late last year the motor in my unit burned out after about 7 years of constant use. What I realized though is I used the juicing capabilities more than anything, so I set out to… Read more

find a similar juicing system. Ninja was on the list along with Nutri Bullet and a few others. Having loved my previous Ninja, my bias fell towards this NINJA BLENDER DUO WITH AUTO-IQ - BL642 system as it seemed perfect for what I needed now: 1) a good size pitcher for juicing up a few liters at a time; 2) multiple various size drinking cups to drink stuff on the go.

The cups come in 3 sizes, and the openings are massive compared to my previous version. It's welcomed! I can easily fit bigger chunks of fruits/veggies. Not to mention the screw on drinking caps are significantly easier to drink from. As an added bonus, the lid as the snap-down mouth piece so when you're not actually drinking from it, you can be sure that if the cup falls over your contents won't leak out all over the place.

The main pitcher itself also seems more solid than the previous incarnation. The blades are essentially the same, and do a great job at pulverizing everything with the exception of kale - it just can't seem to get it down to something fine.

The base unit has nice features. All the buttons are lit with a blue LED depending on whether you have the pitcher or drinking cup in, as not all features are available for all accessories.

At first, I just used the "low | medium | high" button settings. Then one day I got brave and said let's try the "blend" option. BINGO! I love it more now. I put my cup in, hit the blend button, and can walk away as the blender executes its 40-second program to perfectly blend everything for me in the cup.

There are a few downsides to this product as well. First, the noise level. I would have thought after 6-8 years they would have been able to find a quieter motor. Apparently not. So expect noise when you run it. Second, the suction cups on the base unit don't have the strongest of suction, so sometimes when I start it up, the unit slides a bit due to the force of the motor spinning. Not massive amounts, but enough to be noticeable at times. Eg, you might have it sitting on your counter-top facing in a 5 o'clock position. Then you start it up, and it turns to face a 4 o'clock position.

EDIT Updated May 18, 2024: The motor on this unit has slowly started dying, and smells like it's burning. It doesn't appear to have even lasted more than 2.5 years as of the time of this writing. All I use it for is smoothies and the occasional blending for soups. Under such minuscule load, I wouldn't recommend this product for the long haul as it should be able to last well beyond 2 years.

Good for a while, but not long enough – We've had a couple of different ninja models now. They're great at first and really crush the ice pretty well, although I find the other model that only takes a cup to be a lot better. I made quite a few things with this particular model. Unfortunately, the longevity of all my ninjas (we had a two for one deal both times so 4 all up), is subpar.… Read more

The different containers were useful, but this one just stops working. And then we might try it after a while and it works again out of the blue! The engine overheats easily and we don't run it for ages as you're only supposed to use it for around 15-20 second bursts at a time. Now we're looking for a more reliable brand to do the same job, but it looks like a common issue with these type of ice crushing blenders.

Not happy Jan! – I’m on my second blender. The first worked great for the first year then started playing up. It would not blend. When I put the jug on top the light lit up but could not connect to start blending. It was out of warranty so I ditched and reluctantly bought another one. Same thing has happened AGAIN!! Not happy Jan!!! Show details

Pretty good for mixing pastry dough... until it broke – -- 13/01/2023 --- Dough bowl broken again and exactly the same way as last time. The same thing happened- plastic screw bosses began to stress crack, then after a few months the bottom assembly fell off. I personally think that the dough bowl is *not* dishwasher safe despite the manual saying it can go in the top rack. This time I hand washed the… Read more

bowl for a bit and it did not develop cracks at all, so the stress cracking is definitely related to the dishwasher cycle time at high temperature. I have no probs with the other smoothie cups or the smaller blender blades, they are great and survive the dishwasher, but this product is not a good food processor combined with a blender. Buy the cheaper version of this product for smoothies and save up for a separate food processor.

--- 9/02/2022--- Sent back via flybuys rewards. It took about 2 weeks for a response - basically send it back and we'll replace it, so I have the new one now. It took so long because I forgot to reply to the email and tell them I'd sent it - this is needed to trigger postage of the replacement unit. The replacement took a couple weeks to arrive by the time they responded to the email and it gets through the Christmas postage delays. If I had my time again, I'd have gotten store gift vouchers instead of redeeming points to get the product, I have a feeling that getting a warranty replacement would have been much quicker.

---23/11/2021---- The bowl has broken. The black plastic drive subassembly has sheared off the 4 clear posts from the bowl molding and full disassembled from the dough bowl, rendering this bowl useless. I got this as a Flybuys points redemption in April 2021, so this product is just on 6 months old. Stay tuned.

--- original review---- Purchased about 6mths ago as a rewards points redemption, as a replacement for an older version of the same. The old one failed because eventually the cracks in the plastic jugs caused leaks and I couldn't get a spare.

I mostly used this for baking and only make smoothies occasionally. I find the different sized smoothie cups can also be just the right size for some pie/slice fillings, anything that ends up similar to smoothie in texture, especially if I am having a bigger baking session and have a bottleneck on things I need to mix with my hand mixer. Using the cups for slice fillings generates less dirty dishes and takes up hardly any space in a dishwasher load.

I like the dough bowl more on this model than the previous one, and the idea of a dough blade, but I find that with really stiff doughs the dough "blade" is ok, otherwise for cutting butter into flour for pastry shells the actual blade is way better. I would never have tried using the wide bowl for cookie dough unless I'd seen this advertised on the packaging. Maybe my chocolate chip cookie dough is thicker than whatever their test kitchen used to test the product or perhaps my recipe quantities are overloading the bowl... I feel that the bowl will fail faster if I keep using it like I have for cookie dough. I have already started to see evidence of cracking near the places where the black base is screwed into the polycarbonate bowl (approx 2-3mm cracks). This isn't fatal right now but those cracks will propagate and I'll have to remember to buy a spare bowl to stash before this model gets discontinued.

Its also had a few trips through the dishwasher as per the manufacturer's instructions. If there was one thing I'd like to improve on this product it would be to add drainage holes so that when the bowl is placed upside down in the dishwasher, it allows rinse water to freely drain out of the plastic pockets in the base. I've been finding rinse sediments accumulating in some difficult to reach places around the corners, given the bowl is clear plastic the sediments are nasty to look at.

Great blender, didn't last – I was sceptical when I bought this but knew I had a if-you-don't-like-it-you-can-return-it guarantee. It worked great, so powerful it could easily blend cooked rice (for crackers) or chickpeas (for hummus). Its design usually ensured that there weren't unmixed ingredients left on the top, bottom or sides of the blender. At about 2 years of… Read more

ownership, the blender bowl seized up and wouldn't turn. The manufacturer was very unhelpful as it was out of warranty and wouldn't even recognise the Australian Consumer Law Guarantee, they couldn't replace the bowl as they didn't make them anymore. They were very slow to respond to me (like months) and the best they could do was offer to sell me another blender for $200.

I was lucky and I took up the return guarantee from the shop I bought it from. I won't knowingly buy from this supplier again.

This is my second Ninja – I purchased this product from the Good guys, at a good price. The product itself has performed as expected. The motor is powerful and deals with most requirements really well. My most recent purchase was subject to warranty claim because the spout on the blender lid broke. When I rang Mann and Noble (Ninja agent) how to proceed with claim their… Read more

representative suggested I could wait till April this year for part or seek help through Good Guys - not helpful really.

This is the second problem I’ve had with lids to the Ninja. I had to replace the blender lid for my first machine, which was out of warranty. That’s ok, but my experience with Mann and Noble, was poor in two ways, poor communication and long wait times to receive part.

So, if all goes well with machine it is a great asset to any household and I’ve supported this with purchasing two machines, but dealing with warrantee claims and purchasing spare parts is problematic.

It was good... till it went up in smoke! – Bought this blender just over a year ago and probably used it once a fortnight at most. A few weeks ago I noticed it was getting hot and making a screaming noise. Used it 2 more times till it melted on the inside and filled my kitchen with smoke! What a piece of junk! I won’t be buying one of these again Show details

Versatile kitchen appliance – This has been a great blender for years. After reading terrible reviews of almost every blender I tried to purchase, I got a Ninja. The auto iq shuts the blender off to protect the motor burning out (which is the problem with other blenders, as far as I can tell). Powerful blender and hasn’t missed a beat! Love it Show details