While some kitchen gadgets fall under the “want” and not necessarily the “need” category (I’m looking at you, air fryers), some are simply de rigueur for certain folks — like a good, solid, powerful ...

Our recommendations include the Vitamix 5200 Professional-Grade Blender and Blendtec Designer Series. For creamy smoothies, you need a powerhouse blender. You’ll want one that keeps the pace ...

The Blendtec Classic 575 Blender has a professional look and feel, but in our testing, the smoothies were a bit too thick and more fibrous than we’d like. It’s also pretty loud and while the ...

Whether you're whipping up smoothies, juices ... The priciest item on our list, the Blendtec Tom Dickson Extreme is a professional blender of 2,400 watts that includes features like auto shutoff ...