I tested this reverse-spinning Tribest blender and it’s almost unbelievably powerful (but there’s a price-shaped catch)

The Tribest Backspin Blender has all the makings of one of the best blenders due to its powerful 900W motor, backspin technology, and vacuum capabilities. It makes light work of frozen fruit and has a huge 63.4 Quart capacity for batch blending.

But unfortunately, I think it’s just too big to claim the title of best blender. But why? Surely the bigger the better, so you can blend more? But the jug’s size just meant that ingredients kept getting caught on the sides, and the lack of a pour spout made things quite messy. I would expect a premium-priced product to pour more easily.

You can find out more about the blender to decide whether it’s the one for you by reading this full Tribest Backspin Blender review.

Tribest Backspin Blender review: Specs

Tribest Backspin Blender review: Price & availability

The Tribest Backspin Blender is available for $599 at Amazon U.S. However, it has always been listed for sale at Amazon for $499. This makes it look like you’re getting a good deal when reduced from $599, but in actuality, $499 is the listed price on the official Tribest site.

You won’t find another blender directly like the Tribest Backspin from the likes of Ninja or Vitamix. The Backspin jug is unique, meaning that if you want the effect of a contra-rotating jug to avoid needing to tamper down ingredients, you have to get the Tribest.

That said, the methods used by other blenders often perform just as well. The Beast Mighty 850 Plus, for example, has ridges to direct the flow of ingredients, which work super well, but this blender is a lot smaller and costs a fraction of the price at $149. The Beast is a portable blender, too, so it's much better for dealing with smaller quantities, which the Tribest struggles with.

If you want a large blender, then you can look at the Ninja Detect Power Pro with BlendSense for $179, which holds 72 ounces but also comes with a 24-ounce single-serve cup for smaller blends. This is an incredibly strong blender capable of making nut butter in under five minutes. Why spend more?

Tribest Backspin Blender review: Design

The Tribest Backspin Blender has one of the most interesting designs of any blender I’ve used. It’s a pretty large machine, with its measurements coming in at 14.5 x 12.3 x 8.3 inches. But it’s not that heavy, as it only weighs 14.2 pounds, so I found it very easy to lift and move around my countertops. The larger size of the blend jug also means it can hold 60 ounces.

Having a design that automatically directs the ingredients makes blending far less time-consuming and is actually a step ahead of our top pick for best blender, the Vitamix Ascent X2 ($549), which requires you to manually push down thicker ingredients that get caught on the blender walls.

The Tribest Backspin Contra-Rotating Impact Blender tries to ensure everything gets blended by the rotating inner wall — it rotates in the opposite direction to the blades to create more impacts between the blades and ingredients. This was very effective as the blending process was very quick… if you fill the jug. However, the blend jug is very large, and if you don’t have enough ingredients to fill it, this method isn’t very effective at all.

Annoyingly, the top of the blender has two lids, which help to create the vacuum seal. But if you need to add in ingredients, this gets frustrating as you have to unseal and then re-vacuum the blender. This is done by hitting the vacuum button on the top of the blender before selecting the blend option. Tribest says this removes the air from the blender to reduce oxidation of the ingredients, which retains more nutrients, but I didn’t notice any difference.

The blade is made from stainless steel and has fins that catch as many of the ingredients as possible. This is the same type of blade that you will find in most blenders, including the Nutribullet Pro 900W ($84). The blade in the Tribest is magnetic and so easily attaches and detaches to the base for easy cleaning. When I was putting the blender together, the blade was easy to attach and detach.

Decanting mixtures from the blender is very difficult. Since there is a space between the walls of the jug and blender, when pouring out your blends, any excess falls between the spaces. While it can be cleaned, it’s pretty inconvenient, and the design would benefit from a pour spout to make cleanup easier.

Controls

The controls of the Tribest Backspin Blender are very easy to use. If you want to use the vacuum function, then you need to make sure you hit the vacuum button first before selecting the blend preset. The vacuum takes about a minute to activate, but after that, you’re good to go.

The blender has five blending presets: Auto, Auto low, Auto high, Vacuum and Pulse. It’s great to have this variation and the control that comes with a pulse setting for a refined blend. There are also 12 variable blend speeds, and the LED ring light illuminates to depict these levels.

Tribest Backspin Blender review: Blending performance

I was generally impressed with the blend performance of the Tribest Backspin — when blending a full batch. As I mentioned earlier, the jug needs to be pretty full to reap the full benefits of the backspin feature. When the jug wasn’t filled, a lot of the mixture stuck to the sides. Even so, the 900W motor is very powerful, so on larger blends it could easily process any ingredients that came into the blades’ path.

Smoothie

Firstly, I decided to make a classic smoothie. In the summer, I use my blender to make a smoothie most days, so I want something efficient. I added a mixture of frozen fruit, including mango, strawberry, and banana, to the blender and then topped it up with orange juice.

The blender made light work of this and wasn’t hindered by the solid frozen fruit when using the auto blend preset; it only took a minute to blend completely. However, the lack of a pour spout made it hard to decant the smoothie into a glass and made a mess, as I covered above.

Sorbet

Next, I whipped up a quick sorbet. To do this, I simply added frozen mango and a splash of plant-based milk to the blender. After blending on the auto-high blend preset with the vacuum, the result was mostly smooth, although some larger chunks of mango remained. This was disappointing, as my usual Beast Mighty 850 Plus blender has no issues making sorbet. I don’t think the vacuum setting made any difference to the taste of the end result.

Hummus

Finally, I whipped up a quick hummus, but the blender had a hard time with this. I added a can of chickpeas, garlic cloves, lemon juice, and olive oil to the blender and put it on the auto low blend setting. The result was a pretty chunky dip.

It’s also hard to make dips like this, as typically with hummus, you’d slowly add in olive oil to get the correct consistency, but since the blender has two lids, this process was cumbersome.

Tribest Backspin Blender review: Storage & maintenance

The Tribest Backspin Blender needs to be cleaned after every use to ensure everything works smoothly. It’s also pretty easy to clean once you dismantle the components.

The components must be washed by hand — the blender is not dishwasher safe. You can also use the pulse function on the blender to clean the inner container, but I preferred to wash by hand.

This isn’t the kind of machine you’d need to leave out on your countertop, because it’s pretty big. So if you’re not blending on a regular basis, you’d be better off with something that’s easier to store, like the Beast Mighty 850 Plus.

Tribest Backspin Blender review: Verdict

The Tribest Backspin Blender may be on the expensive side, but it comes with backspin technology that you can’t get anywhere else. The powerful 900W motor means that everything is blended quickly.

Backspin is great for creating more contact between the blades and ingredients to get a finer blend, but in reality, a lot of ingredients just get caught on the side of the jug. The lack of a pour spout meant that when I wanted to decant smoothies and dips, it was a little messy.

I like the concept of this blender, but it would be more useful on a smaller scale, so ingredients don’t get caught up on the sides. As hard as it might try, the Tribest Backspin is no serious competition to the Vitamix Ascent X2.