If you’re looking for a solid, well-designed blender from one of America’s favorite brands for under $100, the Instant Pot Ace 60 is worth your time. If you want a blender just for cooking soup, you’d be better off investing in a nice dutch oven and an immersion (stick) blender instead. While the Ace can get soup much hotter than the Pro 750, it can’t improve the flavor and texture the way that roasting and quick-blending can. Ultimately, I wouldn’t use either blender without the help of an oven to prepare butternut squash soup again. By boiling the vegetables, the Ace zapped much of their flavor-and it took just as long to accomplish as roasting the vegetables in the oven and transferring them to a regular blender would have. Unfortunately, the soup tasted thin and almost flavorless, again lacking the depth that comes from roasting or cooking with dry heat source. The Ace’s heating element clearly did its job, cooking the soup while it blended without the assistance of preheated ingredients. When the program ended, our thermometer in the soup read 211 degrees fahrenheit, basically still boiling.
While it ran, I could see the liquid in the container actually boiling and cooking the vegetables inside before blending everything into a smooth soup. With all the ingredients added to the blending container, the “Hot Soup” program on the Ace ran for a full 44 minutes.
Unlike the Vitamix, the Instant Pot Ace actually has a built-in heating element capable of cooking vegetables and other ingredients for soup. Neither of the blenders’ hot soup functions impressed me throughout testing. The Ace even comes with a bag designed for straining the almond milk, and its sturdy base prevents it from wobbling across the counter as it blends. In testing, I used the “Smoothie” and “Nut Milk” presets on the Ace, and while these programs took longer to achieve their final products than the manual controls on the Vitamix, the end results were just as smooth, tasty, and even. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Instant Pot Blender could whip up both a berry smoothie and jug of almond milk just as well as our Vitamix. Smoothies are always the first line of questioning-if a blender can’t make a good smoothie, what’s the point?īut nut milk is more tricky prepare, requiring razor-sharp blades and a high-powered motor to pulverize soaked nuts into a fine meal that can then be separated from the liquid with a fine mesh bag or colander. While they might seem like similar tasks, blending smoothies and blending nut milk ask different things of your blender.
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