Juicers and blenders

Some recipes will need two 30-second cycles to fully blend, but the Flip handles ice with ease, and is super-simple to use.

With a 16-cup capacity and plenty of blades to dice, slice, julienne, peel and more, the Breville Paradice 16 is a pro in the kitchen.

A useful little food chopper, but you could spend a little more and get a lot more features.

The KitchenAid 7 cup / 1.7L Food Processor made quick work of chopping and shredding hard ingredients, but the results weren't exactly Instagram-worthy.

The Nutribullet Pro+ 1200 adds a more powerful motor and useful pulse function to the classic blender design.

The Smeg Professional Blender is perfect for smoothies and frozen treats, but less impressive for more complex foods.

While it won’t be tackling any heftier tasks any time soon, the Ninja Blast is a perfectly powerful portable that’s great for single-serve smoothies on-the-go

Breville's All in One Stick Mixer is a food processor, whisker, masher and blender in one compact device – it's almost too good to be true.