does this blender break down kale?
1032006
Yes, but I haven't tried it just with kale. I put kale in my smoothies, so there are other ingredients with it.
1032007
It breaks it down into tiny pieces similar to confetti. When I add a banana is smooths the texture. Adding a few berries changes the color from green.
1390437
Yes, I have done kale, carrot smoothies and they were great! You just have to put it on the highest blend option and leave it for a solid minute :) Also, make sure you break up the ice a bit before blending to save the motor. You do that by using the "stir" button a few times before blending.
66703
Honestly I did not check. I love this blender. I use it 2x a day. My blender has frozen fruit and ice. I love it.
1738102
This blender has handled everything I've thrown at it beautifully! Big ice cubes no problem. Frozen whole strawberries, carrots and apples, no prob. We regularly add spinach and other greens to our smoothies but haven't tried kale however if you strip it from the stalk it would be fine. We use it to make salad dressings and its perfect for that. Baby food would be a breeze in this. I highly recommend this blender, so convenient for travel too!
2270297
It doesn't completely liquefy spinach, but it chops it small enough to be nearly undetectable in smoothies, leaving pieces that are about a millimeter square. I haven't tried kale in it, but I'm sure it could handle it in a similar way.
1215271
I threw mine out because it started leaking and sprung for a Vitamix (reburbished--5 year warranty). This blender blended fine while it worked but it does not puree hard vegetables like you describe. Vitamix is the the one you want to smoothies, using whole apples, etc. Whiz kid!
2269604
All I have tried so far, like kale, is parsley and collard greens. It has a bit of a rough time with them, but, it does the task. I break up the greens with pieces of cucumber, which pushes all the greens through. Otherwise, I LOVE this juicer.
1254669
Probably not. It is not the intended use.The blender is for soft fruits and veggies.
1929455
It's a powerful blender, but it broke before I was able to make anything other than smoothies. I own the Tribest Greenstar Elite juicer & it makes excellent nut butter.
1117491
Supposed to but broke before I could try it for anything but smoothies. This appears to be a very common experience. Don't waste your money! I got this to replace mine when it broke and its fantastic! Ninja Kitchen System Pulse Blender - Model BL204
254367
I have had my Blendtec Designer Series for a little under a year now. It completely liquifies whole veggies (including kale, spinach, chard, etc.) and fruits (apples, bananas, oranges, frozen berries) to a smoothie-like consistency. Sometimes, when blending frozen fruits on preset settings, I see a few chunks. A few pulses of the manual blend setting usually takes care of that.
1392341
Spinach yes. I'm not so sure about kale but hey it doesn't hurt to try. I would suggest chopping it first before throwing it in the blender. I wouldn't see why not though, it has great power.
716918
I wish I had gotten this in place of my other blender, but yes, it makes smoothies. Make sure the container you use is the tall slender one and move the wand slowly up and down in the blender. It should look like baby food. Kale will need to be torn into small pieces without stems. Good luck!
1008999
It won't juice, per se. But it will blend it like a smoothie. I always make a kale smoothie with mine and it's perfect.
363124
Yes it does.I found this blender to be of poor quality and I returned it. I do not recommend it.
1975900
No. The blades spin too slowly, it purees, I guess you can approach something like a badly blended smoothie if you run it for a long long time, risking burning the cheap motor. For fruits and smoothies its all about rpm, and this is a chopping device, not a blending device. And don't even think about throwing ice into this, food processors only handle what you can cut with a knife.
921576
No. It's a juicer, not a blender. It's amazing but it's not a multi-purpose machine.