Beast Mighty 850 Stainless Review: The Blender That Makes Your Life Easier
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There are two kinds of people who buy a blender, in my opinion. There are the people who want to make a smoothie every morning, and there are the people who apparently believe they need to recreate the kitchen scene from The Bear every time they want to make a margarita. For everyone else, Beast Health’s Mighty 850 Stainless makes a pretty solid case for simplifying the whole process.
Beast Health was founded by Colin Sapire, the guy behind NutriBullet, with the goal of making healthier eating easier through thoughtfully designed appliances and products. The company’s approach is pretty simple: make something that looks good enough to leave on the counter, performs well enough that you actually want to use it, and doesn’t turn making a smoothie into a science experiment.
The Beast Mighty 850 Stainless is essentially the stripped-down, grown-up version of a traditional countertop blender. It has an 850-watt motor, stainless-steel blade and a compact footprint, and the stainless version comes with three different vessels, including a 700mL stainless-steel vessel designed to keep blends cold. More importantly, the vessel you blend in can also become the vessel you drink or store your concoction in.
And that’s really the feather in the cap of the Beast. It doesn’t try to reinvent blending. It just removes a bunch of the hassle that has accumulated around it over the years.
Beast Mighty 850 Stainless Convenience: Blend. Drink. Go. 10/10.
The first thing you’ll notice about the Beast Mighty is how seriously uncomplicated it is. It’s basically the blender equivalent of an old-school notepad compared to an iPad…a simple, straightforward, no-nonsense tool to get a single job done. And at that, it nails it.
Doesn’t get much simpler than a single button to use
There isn’t a giant control panel staring back at you. There aren’t seventeen speed settings you’ll never use. There isn’t a digital display asking you to select “Smoothie,” “Frozen Beverage,” “Soup,” “Purée,” or “Life Choices.” There is a single button. Press it for a pulse, or activate the timed blending cycle and let the Beast do its thing. The Mighty has two basic operating modes, pulse and blend, which is pretty much all you need for the vast majority of jobs. Load your ingredients, put on the blade, stick the vessel on the base, and blend. That’s it.
And here’s where the design really makes sense. You don’t blend something into a giant container and then have to pour it into another giant container because apparently everyone LOVES doing dishes. The Beast’s vessels pull double duty. Blend your smoothie, swap the blade for the drinking lid, throw in a straw if that’s your thing, and you’re ready to go. It’s a super nice workflow that is uber-convenient.
For a morning protein shake after the gym, it’s almost comically convenient. You don’t need to drag out a full-size blender, make a giant smoothie that you then have to transfer into a glass, and subsequently wonder why you own a blender the size of a small tent.
The Mighty takes up very little counter space, too. Beast lists the footprint at just 4.13 by 4.13 inches, and the compact design makes it much easier to stash in a cabinet or leave sitting on the counter without making your kitchen look like you’re preparing to cater a wedding.
Beast Mighty 850 Stainless Base
It’s also a great fit for anyone who travels, lives in a smaller space, has limited kitchen storage, or simply doesn’t want a giant appliance taking up real estate.
This is a blender designed around the assumption that you have other things to do. If that’s you, you’ll really appreciate that.
That said, if you’re more into having multiple speeds, blend modes, options, tend to make larger quantities of things, use it for creating large meals, or to serve a large group, this isn’t the blender for you.
Beast Mighty 850 Stainless Capability: Smaller Doesn’t Mean Wimpy. 8/10
Here’s where the Mighty earns its name. It’s not a Vitamix. Let’s just get that out of the way. If your primary goal is to pulverize a frozen watermelon, several pounds of ice, a bag of almonds and the hopes and dreams of your enemies simultaneously, go buy a Vitamix. Those things are absolute tanks.
But for normal human activities, the Beast Mighty 850 is surprisingly capable. Smoothies? Absolutely. Protein shakes? Obviously. Frozen fruit? Yep. Ice cubes? No problem. Dressings, dips, sauces, desserts and cocktails? Also yes. Beast specifically designed the Mighty for all of those jobs, and the 850-watt motor and ribbed vessels do a very good job of keeping ingredients moving through the blade.
I’ve found that the Beast handles the ingredients that most people throw into a blender extremely well. Frozen berries, bananas, protein powder, greens, ice, and similar ingredients aren’t a problem, provided you give everything enough liquid to move around properly. Beast itself recommends adding liquid first and not overfilling the vessel, which is pretty standard blender wisdom. Don’t do what I did the first time I used it (see video below) and ignore Beast’s ingredient loading instructions and end up with a clump of powder and frozen berries stuck to the bottom of the blending vessel. Can you say “bull in a china shop?” 🙄
The ribbed vessels are a particularly clever part of the design. They create additional turbulence, which helps pull ingredients back toward the blades rather than letting them sit there spinning around the outside like they’re waiting for the DJ to play their song. The result is a smooth blend.
Large Blending Vessel
Is it as powerful or capable as a high-end full-size Vitamix? No. But I’d argue that difference matters far less than you’d think unless you’re regularly making enormous batches or asking your blender to perform feats normally reserved for construction equipment. For probably 90 percent of what most people use a blender for, the Beast is more than capable.
It can also handle smaller food-prep jobs. Think grinding coffee, mincing garlic, pulsing ingredients, making dips, sauces, and dressings. It’s not replacing a dedicated food processor for Thanksgiving dinner, but for the little jobs that would otherwise have you dragging another appliance out of the cabinet, it’s surprisingly useful.
Beast Mighty 850 Stainless Small Blending Vessel with Base Attachment
The Beast Mighty 850 Stainless Vessel Situation
This is another area where Beast deserves credit. The Mighty ecosystem is extensive.
The Stainless model I tested comes with:
- 700mL stainless-steel vessel
- 785mL Tritan vessel
- 415mL Tritan vessel
- Storage lids
- Drinking lid
- Straw cap
- Two straws
- Carry cap
- Cleaning brush
Carry handle lid
That’s a pretty solid package right out of the box. And there are additional vessels and accessories available if you want to expand the system.
This is where the Beast can simultaneously be one of its own biggest strengths and weaknesses. Because once you start buying accessories, there are a lot of accessories. Different vessels. Different lids. Straws. Carry caps. Cleaning brushes. Stainless versus Tritan. Larger versus smaller. It’s fantastic when you’re using them. It’s slightly less fantastic when you open a cabinet six months later and discover that you apparently own seven lids, three of which you can’t identify and one that may belong to a blender you no longer own.
Unfortunately, I’m not the most organized person on the planet, so I’d struggle with keeping all the various pieces-parts sorted. Keep that in mind as you may need to concoct a storage solution for the entire ‘system’.
The Beast Mighty 850 Stainless Cleanup & Maintenance: Finally, Someone Gets It. 10/10
This may actually be my favorite part. Cleaning a blender sucks. More specifically, cleaning a traditional full-size blender sucks.
You finish making your smoothie, look down into the bottom of that cavernous container and see the blades lurking eight inches below the opening. Then you realize you have to somehow get your hand down there with a sponge without severing a finger or developing a rotator cuff injury.
Why is this still a thing?
The Beast largely eliminates that nonsense. Because the vessels are relatively compact and the blade assembly is easy to deal with, cleaning is much more straightforward. Rinse the vessel, rinse the blade, give it a little attention with the included cleaning brush if necessary, and you’re basically done.
The vessels, lids, caps, and accessories are also top-rack dishwasher safe, although Beast recommends washing the blade with warm soapy water and a brush after each use. The motor base, naturally, should not go anywhere near the dishwasher unless you suddenly decide you don’t need a blender anymore. For most smoothies, I’ve found this to be pretty close to a rinse-and-go situation. And that’s important to me, as not creating more work for myself is a real focus.
The Bottom Line on the Beast Mighty 850 Stainless
The Beast Mighty 850 Stainless isn’t trying to beat a Vitamix at being a Vitamix. It’s doing something different. It’s taking most of the capability people need from a countertop blender and packaging it into a smaller, simpler, more convenient system. The 850-watt motor has plenty of muscle for smoothies, frozen fruit, ice, shakes, dips, sauces, dressings, cocktails, and a bunch of smaller food-prep jobs. The multiple vessels make the system flexible, and the ability to blend and then drink or store directly from that vessel is genuinely convenient.
The biggest compliment I can give it is that I don’t think about using it.
You don’t have to assemble the Space Shuttle every time you want a smoothie. You don’t have to dedicate half your counter to a machine. You don’t have to transfer your drink to another container. And you don’t have to spend ten minutes cleaning a blender that looks like it was designed by a Marvel villain.
There are more powerful blenders. There are cheaper blenders. There are probably blenders that will make a smoothie while simultaneously filing your taxes. But the Beast hits a really sweet spot between performance, convenience, design, and versatility.
Beast Mighty 850 Stainless: 9.5/10
My only real complaints are that the price is higher than some basic personal blenders and the accessory ecosystem can get a little out of hand. But those are relatively minor complaints considering how useful the system is.
Which Beast Blender Is Right for You?
Beast currently has a pretty broad lineup. The Mini 600 starts at $99, with the Mini 600 Stainless at $119. The Mighty 850 is $124, the Mighty 850 Plus is $149, and the Mighty 850 Stainless reviewed here is $159. If you need more capacity and power, the full-size Mega 1200 (reviewed here) is $184, the Mega 1200 Plus is $219, and the Mega 1200 Stainless is $229. There’s also the cordless Beast GO at $114. Whew!
The Mighty 850 Stainless is currently offered in Mist, Terra, Sand, Cloud White, Carbon Black and Mocha, giving you more color choice than the traditional “appliance white or appliance black, take it or leave it” approach. If you’re into kitchen decor, this may push the Beast over the top for you.
And if you want to see exactly what the Mighty 850 Stainless comes with, current color choices, pricing and all the accessories, you can check out the Beast Mighty 850 Stainless product page. Also available from amazon.com and locally at Target stores.
At the end of the day, the Beast Mighty 850 Stainless is one of those products that gets the important stuff right. It’s compact, powerful enough for almost everything you’re likely to throw at it, easy to use, easy to clean and genuinely convenient.
It doesn’t need to be the biggest, baddest blender in the kitchen. It just needs to make your smoothie without making you hate your life afterward. And on that front, Beast is a pretty big win.
