The BlendJet 2 is the default portable blender. It has been advertised harder than anything else in this category for years, and for a lot of people it is the only one they can name. That makes it the thing worth measuring against, so we measured against it.

There is also a second reason people end up on a page like this. In December 2023 the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of roughly 4.8 million BlendJet 2 units for fire and laceration hazards, after 329 reports of blades breaking during use and 17 reports of overheating or fire.

Here is the part most owners still do not know. BlendJet Inc. has gone out of business. On May 13, 2025 the CPSC updated the recall notice to say the remedy is no longer available, and the official guidance is now simply to discard the product — do not donate it, do not resell it. The serial lookup tool and the free replacement base are gone with the company.

If you cut up your seal and mailed in a photo and never heard back, that is why. There is no one left to send it.

This checker compares what you type against the serial range published by the CPSC. Nothing is sent anywhere. Two honest caveats: not every unit inside that range was recalled, and the official tool that told you which was which went offline with the company. So if yours falls in the range, the CPSC's current instruction is to discard it, and there is no longer a manufacturer to appeal to.

That is the whole reason this page exists. If you need to replace one, you may as well know how the replacement performs first.

How We Ran It

We used a non-recalled BlendJet 2 and set it next to a BLENDi Pro+, which sells for $59.99 — close enough to the same money that price is not doing any of the work in this comparison. Both units were charged to full. Both got the same frozen fruit from the same bag, filled to the same line, and both ran for sixty seconds, back to back, on the same counter. Then we did it again with frozen greens.

No editing, no second attempts, no shaking one and not the other. The two photos below are what came out of the cups.

Round One: Frozen Fruit

This is the test that decides whether a portable blender is useful or decorative. Soft ingredients tell you nothing, because anything with a motor handles those. Frozen fruit is what people actually put in a smoothie, and it is where a blade and a motor either hold up or stall.

The Pro+ pulled the frozen fruit through and finished smooth inside the sixty seconds. The BlendJet stalled on it. When we poured them out, one cup was a smoothie and the other still had unblended chunks sitting in it.

Result BLENDi Pro+

Round Two: Frozen Greens

One result on one ingredient is not a finding, and leafy loads behave differently from fruit — greens wrap the blade instead of bouncing off it. So we ran the whole thing again with frozen greens, same sixty seconds, same fill line.

Same outcome. The Pro+ finished smooth. The BlendJet came out with pieces still in it.

Result BLENDi Pro+

What Is Actually Inside The Pro+

After a recall about breaking blades, "what is this made of" stops being a marketing question. The Pro+ runs a 120W base and six stainless steel blades, charges over USB-C, and the cup and blade assembly are dishwasher safe. That is the whole spec sheet, and it is the reason the two photos above came out the way they did.

What You Get If Something Goes Wrong

A one-year limited warranty against manufacturer defects. If a unit bought on our site turns out to be defective, there is a 60-day money-back guarantee and we will send a replacement inside that window. Support is email, answered by a small team, and if we get that wrong it is on us.

Who Is Writing This

BLENDi started in a dorm room at Springfield College in 2016. It is now carried in Target, Best Buy, Urban Outfitters and Dillard's, across more than a thousand doors, and the founder was named SBA Massachusetts Young Entrepreneur of the Year. We mention the retail footprint for one reason: a brand that national buyers have put on shelves has something real to lose by publishing a test it faked.

What The Pro+ Is Not Good At

It holds 17 ounces, which is one drink. It will not do a family batch, it will not replace a countertop machine for soups or nut butters, and on a very thick blend you will still stop it, shake it and run it again. It is a single-serve blender that lives in a bag. If you want one appliance that does everything in your kitchen, this is not it, and we would rather say so here than have you find out on day two.

Side By Side

Every line in this table is either a published BLENDi spec or a fact from the CPSC recall notice. Nothing here is our opinion.

Dashes are specifications we could not verify from a primary source now that the manufacturer's site is no longer maintained. We would rather leave a cell empty than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind.

What Buyers Say

The Pro+ has 1,114 reviews on our store, 86% of them five star. These are four of them, pulled as written. The one-star reviews are on the product page too and we have not hidden them.

The Verdict

Same money, same sixty seconds, same fruit. One cup came out smooth and one did not, twice, on two different loads. That is the entire argument and the photos are the whole of the evidence.

If you are here because your BlendJet was recalled, there is no replacement base coming and the CPSC's advice is to discard it. That leaves you buying something. We would like it to be ours, and everything above is our argument for why.

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