Ninja BL610 Blender | $45 | Amazon
The Ninja Professional BL610 blender is slightly less powerful than the 660, which readers voted their favorite, and it doesn’t include the single-serve blending cups, but at just $45 (a match for the best price since the holidays), it’s a fantastic blender for the price.
Its 1000W base is plenty powerful for crushing ice, fruits, and basically anything else you throw at it, and four automatic programs let you put your smoothie and salsa prep on autopilot.