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hi guys Megan Willerton for CNET here with the review of the Hamilton Beach smoothie smart blender this $40.00 blender is cute and it's on the smaller side so it won't take up a lot of space on your counter I really like the presets that it has it has a smoothie button and ice and pulse button and it's really really easy to read and use one thing I really like about this little blender is that the pitcher is made of glass that way it feels really sturdy and the other ones even the four or five hundred dollar ones are made out of plastic overall it did really well in the performance tests especially for the more simple things we tested it did really well blending the smoothies and the other soft foods we tested but it had a little trouble with the harder items like the nut butter it did a really great job making almond flour in fact better than many of the more expensive models but it didn't make it all the way to almond butter but for forty dollars it really excels at the basics it makes a great smoothie and you really can't go wrong it's really great for small jobs but if you want to make more complex foods or blend something like peanut butter you might want to get the Breville hemisphere control blender or the ninja Ultima blender both of those are two hundred dollars so you really need to be committed to that almond butter but this is a great great product for forty dollars the bottom line is that it's cheap its durable and it's easy to use when you're blending those basic foods thanks for watching i'm megan Willerton for cnet.com