| | |  | Water Ionizers - IonWays | Home » » » Tribest Personal Blender PB-100 Blender | | | | | | | Description: | | As versatile as it is portable, the Tribest Personal Blender delivers an impressive 200 watts of ice-crushing, smoothie-making power wherever you plug it in. Tribest Personal Blender is compact and smartly designed with high impact polycarbonate plastic containers for blending, grinding or serving. The package conveniently includes one commuter lid to take your drinks with you on the go and one regular lid for easy storage. Capable of 2 function modes: One-touch pulse mode or press down for continuous blending/grinding operation...... In less than a minute, you could enjoy any of your favorite, nutirtious and delicious recipes anywhere. Comes complete with an Operations Manual for easy use/easy clean and 40 easy to follow recipes for delicious soups, sauces, salsas, dips, porridges, pesto, pates, puddings and baby foods! .... The PB-100 Blending Package Includes: >>> Personal Blender Motor Base >>> one Blending Blade Assembly >>> two 16 oz Blending Containers >>> one commuter sipping lid >>> one regular lid | | | Features: | |
• Lightweight, portable, compact blender comes with four polycarbonate plastic containers!
• Great for making single servings of smoothies, protein drinks, and more
• Includes one commuter lid to take your drinks with you
• Powerful 200 watt motor crushes ice, blends & frozen fruit, in a snap
• Manufacturers Limited 1 Year Warranty
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 13.4 inches | | Product Width:
| 15.76 inches | | Product Height:
| 21.67 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 13.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 58 reviews |
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107 of 108 found the following review helpful:
 Don't ignore the fine printJun 28, 2006
By Mark Taylor
"markdtaylor"
This blender looks pretty nice, it is small, and it requires less cleaning than traditional blenders. It is also higher quality than other one cup blenders. That aside... the instructions say that you cannot put the cups into the dishwasher so you must wash by hand. The cups also have measurement marks on the side, but they are very hard to read. One cup was washed by mistake and the plastic became fuzzy.
The blender will chop full sized iced cubes, but not well, it leaves big chunks. If you crush the ice first with your fridge dispenser or with another machine, then this blender does a much better job. Tribest does sell an ice crusher attachment but not with the package I bought.
With thicker shakes content can get stuck up at the bottom of the cup. Do not shake the blender to move the stuck content down towards the blades while the machine is running, this will make the motor smell like burning rubber. Take the cup off, shake it, then put it back on the motor. Also place ice, hard stuff toward the top, close to the blades, and protein powder right at the top, the first thing to touch the blades. These tidbits are not in the instructions but are necessary to avoid excessive shaking and scraping protein powder off the side of the cup later.
The instructions also say not to run the unit for more than 60 seconds at a time with 45 seconds in between. This is probably because there is only a 200 watt motor in the thing. The problem is that 60 seconds is not enough time to blend most smoothies that have ice.
Don't get me wrong, I have used this blender everyday for ten weeks and it is still much better than a larger blender, easier to clean, less noisy, and smaller.
Oh, and the biggest benefit. Since the container is small, 16 oz there is not a lot of air that gets incorporated into the drink. In a normal sized blender the contents expand when making one drink and all that air can make you feel bloated. With this blender there is less air that can be whipped up into your single serving smoothie.
63 of 64 found the following review helpful:
 Don't believe anything bad about this product!Jul 04, 2006
By JJ
This is the best, most beloved item in my kitchen!!!
I only wish I had bought the grinder and all the different cups (which I am going to now add on).
I read some of the other reviews---and at first I was also disappointed with this blender. Now that I have learned how to use it, I LOVE IT!!!
DO NOT put Protein powder into it first, it will get stuck in the bottom of the cup which you invert onto the blades (When you invert it, the bottom becomes the top). If you put liquid in first and then the powder there's no problem. You have to learn how to use it. You will want to put the frozen fruit in last if you are making something really thick.
I read the reviews here before I bought mine and a woman said hers was junk but I went ahead and read the rest of the reviews and decided to buy it. If mine breaks in a year, it will have been well worth the price. I use it every day and sometimes three times a day. On a hot day when I want something slushy and cold, I'll put in orange juice with some strawberries and ice---in a flash you have a refreshing drink. It's fabulous.
I could use my Cuisinart, but this blender is so easy and quiet by comparison. There are no buttons to push, you just fill the cup with your juice (I often add protein powder) and something frozen (Ice or frozen fruit) and screw on the lid (which have blades in it) and put it on the blending base and twist. You can either twist and pusle it, or twist and leave it to blend on its own. Then you take the lid off, rinse, and that's it.
I love hummus and I will never make it in the blender because you have to dig it out and most of it gets left behind. With this gadget, you fill the cup, blend it, then screw off the blade lid, screw on the refrigerator lid, and that's it. Nothing to scrape, just put it in the refrigerator. (Oh yes, you do have to rinse off the blade lid, that's the whole clean-up).
If you like frozen drinks or sauces you blend, this is a great gadget!!! I live in two places and I am getting another one for the other place, but I'm buying the complete set this time.
66 of 71 found the following review helpful:
This is a great blender!Feb 29, 2004
By B. Choi
I like drinking a smoothie during lunch at the office, but don't want to cart around a icebox full of ingredients, or a giant blender... The Tribest Personal Blender is perfect because I could leave the motor base at work, and can bring the perfect amount of ingredients for my own smoothie in the cup! All I have to do, is put it on the base and let it blend! I get fresh smoothies every day at work! And I don't have to worry about making a mess, having too many or too little ingredients, or lugging around a bulky blender!
39 of 40 found the following review helpful:
 Just Not DurableFeb 11, 2009
By Girevik
All of the 5-Star reviews are spot on regarding the convenience and effectiveness of the Tribest Blender. It is a great product except for the fact that it simply isn't nearly durable enough to warrant the investment. When my first unit broke in less than 3 months I was happy to assume that either I or one of my kids had done something wrong and immediately ordered another. Now that that unit has also broken in less than three months I'm convinced its just a poorly constructed product. In both instances the plastic disk on the bass unit that spins the blender simply broke. I remember enough of my high school physics to understand torque but these units were never challenged to do more than blend a half cup of frozen berries with juice and protein powder. And probably not more than a half dozen times a week.
I've become a huge fan of the single serve blender and replaced the last one with the competitive blender with hopes that I will get more than 3 months life out of the product. If you buy the Tribest, DON"T THROW AWAY THE WARRANTY!
27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Very NiceDec 26, 2005
By D. Maruca
"_david"
I bought this blender after having burned out the clutch on my Kitchen Aid from daily use for about a year. Now that I've used this baby for a while, I don't think I'll ever go back to large blenders again.
The blend quality in this machine is flawless. I've used it to make frozen drinks, smoothies, and to blend my eggs to make scrambled eggs. This blender does not leave any left over hunks of ice or fruit to clog your straw up. Ice is blended to a very fine consistency. Much finer than I was used to with my old blender.
Powders and oils are not a problem. If you have some powder that seems to have clumped into a corner while you were putting the ingredients in, just shake it up a little bit like a carton of milk before you blend it.
Flaxseed oil gets completely mixed up in the mixture during blending. My old blender would waste about half of the oil when I hit the on button by slinging it all over the jar and coating the entire blending jar with it. This machine has not left any oil on the sides of the container. Probably because the mixture takes up the entire container.
Speaking of the mixture taking up the entire container -- this is a very good thing. I had bought the 24oz container since my smoothies always seemed to fill up that much space after blending. It turns out that most of that volume was air. All of my ingredients fit inside the 16oz container, and since the container is closed air tight while it is blending, it prevents the mixture from pulling in excess air. Now I don't have smoothie burps :)
The 8oz containers are perfect for blending eggs. You can blend everything with the eggs, and it comes out looking like the pre-blended varieties you can buy in cartons at the store. The eggs cook out nice and fluffy just like I bought them at a restaurant.
One last thing I want to mention is that I thought the containers looked ugly and too long while looking at them on this site. However, they look very nice on the counter. The plastic on the containers is nice and thick, and seems to resist anything sticking to them. I can just tell that the construction is solid from the look and feel.
I highly recommend this blender.
Update (Oct 2007)
The blender is still going strong. I use it 1-2 times a day. The only problem I've had is the o-ring in the blade attachment broke in half. Literally, I only have half of an o-ring. You can't buy a replacement for just the o-ring. It's not much of a problem, though. I found that it will not leak as long as you rinse it off if you have to open it before you're done blending. Happy blending.
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