Independent Food Experts & Nutritionist Reviews
Optimum 9200A: Our Most Powerful Pro Blender
Kate Magic:
“I actually think the Optimum 9200A Next Gen is the best blender I have ever used. It makes light work of everything, it’s super quick and super easy to use. I thought the Optimum 9400 was good, but this takes it to another level! I recommend Froothie to all my clients, over all the other high-speed blenders on the marketplace.”
Globally renowned raw food expert Kate Magic has over two decades of experience of raw eating and is the Creative Director of the Raw Living and Kate’s magic Bubble website. The author of four raw lifestyle books, Kate tours internationally giving talks and workshops on raw foods which showcase her unique blend of fun, down-to-earth practicality and spiritual wisdom. She is also mother to three teenage boys whom she is raising on a raw vegan diet.
Slinky Studio:
““The flagship ability of the OPTIMUM 9200A (2nd GEN) blender is in makingsmoothies that achieve a high standard of consistency at speed… It also pulls off a palatable price tag in comparison to offerings from Blendtec and Vitamix at £429...
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Charlotte – Clean Eats Charlotte Website:
“I have had this blender for a few weeks now and I am absolutely loving it. I have spent a lot of money over the past few years trying to find a blender that was multi-functional and was able to do everything that I needed in order to be creative in the kitchen. I have already successfully made delicious banana ice creams, nut milks and soups with this blender and I can honestly say when I first switched it on I was blown away by its power! It made me jump initially! It really can shred up anything and make it into a fine liquid..."
Food blogger and recipe developer who is keen to inspire a healthy, happy lifestyle with a desire to make food as yummy and as close to nature as possible. Her blog is called Clean Eats Charlotte, which is listed as one of the top UK blogs on taste.co.uk. Her recipes are packed full of clean wholefoods and superfoods.
Choclette Cacao – ‘Tinandthyme Website:
“It has automatic blending options, which means you don’t have to hover over your morning smoothie when there are so many other things to be done. It can be set to low, medium or high speed and includes a pulse function……….. I’ve put it through its paces a few times and conducted a number of tests, all of which it passed with flying colours. When I made a raw chocolate and goji berry smoothie, it was impossible to detect even a tiny bit of goji berry. Our kale blended to a fine green juice and a couple of other ingredients I wasn’t sure about had similarly successful results. I will be posting some of the things I’ve made in due course…"
Food loving vegetarian blogger with a sweet tooth but eating a lot of healthy stuff too. Experimenting with unusual foodstuffs and creating recipes are two of my food passions. I specialise in recipes that have some sort of chocolate element, be they savoury, raw, vegan, vegetarian, healthy or just plain indulgent. I’m also passionate about my home county of Cornwall and try to use as much local produce as possible. Chocolate Log Blog was one of the top five food blogs in Cornwall Today (Jan 2014) and currently ranks as #9 in the UK according to e-buzzing Gastronomy.
Lorna Hall – ‘Naturally Bee Website:
"Anyway, I am pleased to announce that with the Optimum 9200 , pesto-related catastrophes and grainy-tasting smoothies are a thing of the past! …….So far in my optimum 9200 I have made Smoothies (my favourite of which is pineapple & passionfruit, which I will share below!), Humus, Hot soup (from raw ingredients), plus, it can also make other dips and spreads (including nut-butters), desserts and dressings. And it can grind grains to make flour. But this blender can do both dry and wet ingredients in the same container, rather than you having to faff about with separate ones…."
Naturally Bee is a blog created by Lorna Hall (BMedSci (Hons) MNurs RN) which focuses on nature as the key to physical and mental wellbeing.
Meghan from naturallymeghan.com :
“The Optimum 9200A Next Gen is a high-speed blender which creates delicious fruit smoothies with ease, but it doesn’t stop there; I’ve made green smoothies and banana ice cream in it, and this blender has managed it all perfectly. My previous blender didn’t cope with frozen ingredients and tougher greens very well, so I’d usually end up with annoying lumps of frozen fruit or unpleasant bits of kale in my smoothies; the Optimum 9200A, however, has no difficulty with those things at all so I end up with ultra smooth drinks every time. That’s not all it does though – it also has the ability to grind nuts and grains for flour, crush ice and make nut butters, hot soups, spreads and dips! Before discovering this blender I’d been toying with the idea of buying a Vitamix for a few months (well, a year actually!) but the Optimum 9200 actually rivals the Vitamix Pro 500 in terms of performance…"
Smoothie-loving vegan foodie with a passion for creating delicious and nutritious plant-based recipes. When I’m not experimenting in the kitchen I enjoy practising yoga and pilates, upcycling vintage furniture and posting pictures of my breakfast on my Instagram account (@naturallymeghan)!
Natasha Lipman aka “Nutritiously Natasha” :
"One of the reasons I love my blender so much is because it’s so simple to clean. I have very little energy, and while I do think making sure I eat well is important, if I don’t have the energy to make something and then clean up, I’m just not going to do it. Here, all I need to do is throw my ingredients into the large 2l jug, blend, pour and enjoy. To clean, all I do is fill halfway with warm water, add a squirt of Ecover washing up liquid and blend on high for about a minute and then rinse. I’d highly recommend the Froothie Optimum 9200A blender for anyone who’s looking to get some serious blending action going on in the kitchen – it’s such a versatile piece of equipment and performs so many functions, that it is definitely invaluable to me…"
Natasha Lipman is interested on how food can improve health. She blogs at Nutritiously Natasha and also writes for the Huffington Post and has featured on various BBC programs. She is currently training to be an Integrative Health Coach at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
Kip Dorrell aka “The Messy Vegetarian Cook” :
“I switched to using a high performance blender about five years ago, and while it can seem expensive to lay out so much dosh I believe it’s a worthwhile investment if you use a blender frequently, if you want to make day to day kitchen tasks easier (the smoothest hummus you’ll ever eat, easy veggie chopping, fast smoothies), and if you’re keen on making better tasting variations of products you would otherwise buy (nut butters and non dairy milks are a cinch).
The bar was high for me since it’s not my first time owning a high performance blender, but my first impressions of the Optimum 9200A are great. It does everything my other blender does and it’s so quiet. Gone are the days of questioning if it’s appropriate to make a smoothie or soup at 2am (I live in a block of flats) when I wake up starving and don’t want to wait until real people hours to eat….”
Freelance graphic designer, food and recipe writer, and self confessed messy cook. In addition to contributing to various publications, Kip is the blogger behind Messy Vegetarian Cook, where she showcases her plant based recipes and writes about vegan travel and food finds around the world.
Emmanuelle Moss:
“I am thrilled to share with you the new Power-house Optimum 9200A Next Generation blender, what a find it is! It ticks all the boxes of durability, power, and efficiency with a sleek design, a must have for all those wanting to bring raw into their kitchen. The best part is that the 9200 has an extra-added bonus of being half the price of leading blender brands! Explore the fun in creating healthy, delicious, vibrant foods from smoothies, nut milk, cocktails, soups, ice cream, nut butter and cheesecake, the list is endless! What a difference a high performance blender makes to your life.”
Emmanuelle Moss:
“I am thrilled to share with you the new Power-house Optimum 9200A Next Generation blender, what a find it is! It ticks all the boxes of durability, power, and efficiency with a sleek design, a must have for all those wanting to bring raw into their kitchen. The best part is that the 9200 has an extra-added bonus of being half the price of leading blender brands! Explore the fun in creating healthy, delicious, vibrant foods from smoothies, nut milk, cocktails, soups, ice cream, nut butter and cheesecake, the list is endless! What a difference a high performance blender makes to your life.”
Board certified nutritionist since 2003, a raw food chef with her own Raw Food Brand : Ready Raw and a Wellness Coach. She discovered her calling in life to be of service in empowering others to restore their body’s wellbeing by encouraging their ‘intestinal garden’ to flourish through eating pure, living plant food medicine.
Gregg Chapman aka “Raw Food Didge Dude”:
“I am amazed by the power of the new optimum 9200A Next Generation, what a beast – Without any shadow of doubt this is an amazing blender – highly recommended. I have tried so many different recipes and they are all brilliant !!!! I will be publishing new ones on my website, so please check them out at :http://www.rawfooddidgedude.com.“
I am a qualified Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner. I also train Students and Teachers in Schools, Universities and Colleges the art of meditation and stress management. I also see clients for private didgeridoo sound therapy sessions, Neuro linguistic programming and energy psychology.
My Raw food Journey started when in 2013 we purchased the optimum 9400 blender. We were just about to invest in a Vitamix machine but then discovered the Australian owned Optimum distributed by Froothie. Well of course being an Aussie and an Ambassador for all things Australian, we had to invest in the Optimum, from there Raw Food Didge Dude was born and Raw Food and Healthy eating became vital to support my physical body to function to enable me to do my work.
Poppy Velosa from ‘Bunny Kitchen’:
“My new Froothie 9200 is the sixth blender I have owned in less than 2 years. I’m not kidding………This thing is a game changer. I use it so much each day and even plan my meals around what I can use the blender for! It is not just a smoothie machine – this incredibly durable and powerful machine can do so much. I use it to chop vegetables, make nut milks and creams, make date paste, grind flours, mix cake batter, even to knead bread dough and of course the most deliciously creamy smoothies in seconds. And no gradual placing ingredients, just dump it all in, press one of the really simple to use pre-programmed speed buttons (20, 35 & 45 seconds) or speed settings (high, medium, low & pulse) and voila, creamy smoothie ready to pour whilst you do other things. It’s truly a pleasure. There is no need to pre-soak nuts or seeds for blending and the specially designed blade means everything will be blended and nut butters can be whipped up in the same jar without need for a special attachment. The speed creates so much friction heat that you can actually cook ingredients in it without a special heating element! How cool is that? Simply add fresh ingredients like ripe tomatoes and seasonings and blend for a few minutes to have hot tomato soup ready! And as a bonus, it even cleans itself! Simply add hot water and a drop of dish soap and use on the 20 second function then rinse!”
Writer of Bunny Kitchen, a vegan blog ranked in the top 50 UK blogs by the Foodies100 index and has been featured in vegan cookbooks. Poppy is a passionate animal activist and student veterinary nurse with a special interest in natural remedies and works as a part time wildlife care supervisor in a wildlife rehabilitation hospital. Poppy has been vegetarian since she was six years old and believes that vegan food should be simple and delicious and always nourishing and this way it becomes more accessible to everyone. Poppy enjoys developing new recipes, practicing food photography and baking.
Sarah Jackson:
“To say I’m in love with The Optimum 9200A Next Generation blender doesn’t award it sufficient status. Allow me to explain … Previous to its incarnation at Fermented Foody HQ, I owned another high-speed blender from a different brand. One that I broke. Ta Da! (I’m fairly clumsy. Shhh. Don’t tell Froothie!) Replacement due, I was lost without my kitchen ‘go to’ and decided a ‘backup’ blender for was needed for the future. This new gadget quickly became my Number 1 Kitchen baby. So in love are we, she follows me around the house, sings to me, makes me cups of herbal tea, weeps when I leave her alone, greets me at the door with homemade ice cream (made by her own sweet blades) and generally does the job of being my IBKFF. (Indispensable Best Kitchen Friend Forever.) Okay. I lied. She doesn’t make ice cream on her own. Or any of the other stuff I just made up. She does perform magic though. She’s so clever, efficient, speedy and beautiful. (‘Scuse me. I need to go have an emotional sniffle)…”
Food writer committed to creating both fermented and also ‘gluten, cow’s dairy and refined sugar free’ recipes. Sarah’s kitchen adventure began when she closed her events business to share the good news about the benefits of fermented food and drink. This extended to taking eating habits back to basics, making everything from scratch with great ingredients and doing it in the simplest and speediest ways possible. Ridiculously yummy sugar free kefir ice cream, pink sauerkraut, raw fermented fruit sauce, scrumptious flatbreads, oil free hummus and salad dressings are just the beginning ..Currently writing a new diet book with a leading naturopath, Sarah keeps busy filling the pages of her blog with fresh weekly content, including her ‘tongue-in-cheek’ fitness updates. Her enthusiasm for food and health – alongside a whacky sense of fun – makes for a blog with a difference!