The Ninja Slushi modified my complete summer time final 12 months. It was the primary dwelling slushie machine to make bar-quality frozen drinks accessible to the American kitchen, again patio, and pool celebration. And so final 12 months turned the summer time of daiquiris. (It was additionally the summer time I received invited to youngsters’s birthday events, so I might make the nonalcoholic form of slushie.)
Both means, the Slushi gives one thing that feels more and more uncommon in these instances: carefree grownup enjoyable. Enjoyable is much more carefree when it is low cost, and this $200 deal on the Ninja Slushi is the most affordable that this machine has ever been—round 40 % off final 12 months’s retail worth.
That is really, kinda, the worth I all the time hoped the Slushi could be. Small goals generally come true, I assume.
{Photograph}: Matthew Korfhage
{Photograph}: Matthew Korfhage
However in some methods, I am not shocked the worth has come down. Ninja has since come out with two newer, snazzier, and albeit higher machines. The Ninja Slushi XL ($350) that arrived this spring gives a much bigger capability—96 ounces, in comparison with 64 ounces for the OG slushi—and freezes sooner and colder. The flashier Ninja Slushi Twist ($400) additionally has a extra highly effective compressor that allows you to freeze a drink in actually 10 minutes, and it is cut up into two vessels that allow you to all the time have one drink prepared and one other mixing.
I will be writing about the advantages of every of those quickly. They’re, really, enhancements on the unique and permit for much more drinks than the unique Slushi. However neither is on sale. And the unique was already an excellent machine. Amid a heap of keen knockoffs, the Slushi remained my favourite dwelling slushie machine till these two newer Ninjas arrived.
The Slushi will nonetheless make blended margaritas significantly better and fewer watery than your blender, to not point out an honest Dole Whip or Orange Julius knockoff. A full 64-ounce container will nonetheless solely take 20 minutes or so to freeze, as long as you retain your liquor within the freezer like a civilized individual. And lord, this worth is nice.
The truth is, this Ninja Slushi deal is so good it nearly leads me to imagine a next-gen Slushi may be within the works. You in all probability needn’t watch for it except you are determined to make extra-high-ABV slushies or thicker milkshakes. (Milkshakes are the weak hyperlink on this mannequin.)
