The Ninja Slushi modified my complete summer season final 12 months. It was the primary residence slushie machine to make bar-quality frozen drinks accessible to the American kitchen, again patio, and pool celebration. And so final 12 months grew to become the summer season of daiquiris. (It was additionally the summer season I acquired invited to youngsters’s birthday events, so I might make the nonalcoholic form of slushie.)
Both method, the Slushi gives one thing that feels more and more uncommon in these occasions: 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 p.c off final 12 months’s retail worth.
That is truly, kinda, the value I all the time hoped the Slushi could be. Small desires typically come true, I suppose.
However in some methods, I am not shocked the value has come down. Ninja has since come out with two newer, snazzier, and admittedly 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 knock-offs, the Slushi remained my favourite residence 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 a good 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 particular person. And lord, this worth is sweet.
In reality, this Ninja Slushi deal is so good it virtually leads me to consider a next-gen Slushi is likely to be within the works. You most likely needn’t look ahead to it until you are determined to make extra-high-ABV slushies, or thicker milkshakes. (Milkshakes are the weak hyperlink on this mannequin.)

