Description
What the Breville Super Q Is and Who It Suits
The Breville BBL920BSS Super Q is a high performance countertop blender that Breville describes as commercial grade and designed for the home kitchen. It sits at the top of Breville’s blender range and competes with the established high end machines rather than with mainstream countertop blenders.
The specification is substantial: an 1800 watt motor, 12 speed settings, 5 one touch programs, a 68 ounce jug, a 24 ounce personal blending cup, and a stated blade tip speed of 186 miles per hour under load. The listing records a footprint of 8.15 inches deep by 10.47 inches wide by 17.95 inches high, a weight of 15.48 pounds, digital controls, a stainless steel blade and BPA free construction. The record shows 405 customer ratings averaging 4.5 stars at the time this data was captured.
This is for a household that blends seriously and often: nut butters, nut and bean milks, hot soups, frozen desserts, milled flour and ground spices, alongside the everyday smoothie. Anyone who only makes one drink at a time will get the same result for far less counter space from a Ninja Fit personal blender.
Power and Control
The 1800 Watt Motor
Breville states 1800 watts and adds a parenthetical claim that this is the highest possible rating. That parenthetical is marketing rather than a technical statement, and it should be read as referring to what a standard household circuit can support rather than as a category record. What 1800 watts genuinely buys is the ability to keep the blades turning through thick mixtures without stalling, which is where lower powered blenders fail.
The 186 mile per hour blade tip speed figure is stated under load, which is the honest way to quote it. Blade speed matters for particle size, which is what determines whether a smoothie is smooth or grainy.
Programs and Speeds
Five one touch programs cover two smoothie settings, pulse and ice crush, frozen desserts, and soup. The soup program is the one worth highlighting: friction from sustained high speed blending heats the contents, and a program that runs long enough to take a cold mixture to serving temperature turns the blender into a soup maker. That is a real function, not a badge.
Twelve speed settings sit alongside the programs for manual control, which matters for tasks like milling flour or grinding spices where you want to control particle size yourself.
Container Recognition
Breville describes an intelligent base that automatically recognizes whether the 68 ounce jug or the personal blending cup is fitted, and optimizes performance accordingly. That is more than a convenience: program timings appropriate to a 68 ounce jug would over process a 24 ounce cup, and recognizing the container removes the need to remember which is which.
Noise, Cleaning and Accessories
Noise suppression technology is one of Breville’s headline claims here, with a cooling system that reduces operating noise. High powered blenders are genuinely loud, and it is one of the main reasons people avoid using them early in the morning. No decibel figure is published in this listing, so the claim is directional rather than measurable, but the fact that Breville engineered for it at all distinguishes this from most high performance blenders.
The auto clean function runs a one touch program with water or detergent to clean the jug and blades. The Assist Lid uses a ring pull design intended to seal firmly during operation while still lifting off easily, which addresses a real annoyance on high powered blenders where lids can be genuinely difficult to remove.
Included accessories are a recipe book, a tamper and a spatula, with the 68 ounce jug in extra durable copolyester. The machine is also compatible with the separately sold Vac Q vacuum pump, which removes air from the jug before blending.
Highlights
- 1800 watt motor with a stated 186 mile per hour blade tip speed under load.
- 12 speed settings plus 5 one touch programs.
- 68 ounce copolyester jug and a 24 ounce personal blending cup both included.
- Automatic container recognition that adjusts performance to the fitted vessel.
- A soup program that heats through blending friction.
- Noise suppression technology with a cooling system.
- One touch auto clean function.
- Assist Lid with a ring pull for a firm seal that still lifts off easily.
- Tamper, spatula and recipe book included.
- 10 year limited product warranty, which is exceptional for a countertop appliance.
Things To Consider
- The voltage field reads “1.2E+2 Volts.” That is a spreadsheet exponent artifact for 120 volts, which the warranty bullet states correctly.
- 1800 watts is close to a full household circuit. At 120 volts that is roughly 15 amps. Avoid sharing the circuit with other high draw appliances while blending.
- 17.95 inches tall. This will not fit under standard upper cabinets assembled, so plan on a permanent open position or lifting a 15 pound machine in and out.
- The Included Components field says “Juice Container,” which appears nowhere else in the listing and does not match the accessory list in the bullets. Treat it as a data error.
- The catalog dates contradict each other. Manufacture Year reads 2023 while Date First Available reads May 20, 2019. Both cannot describe the same record.
- The Vac Q vacuum pump is sold separately, despite being one of the marketed capabilities.
- No noise figure is published, so the noise suppression claim cannot be compared against competitors.
- High performance blenders are large and heavy by necessity. The motor and the drive assembly are what make them work, and they cannot be made compact.
Who Should Buy It and Who Should Skip It
Buy the Super Q if you want high performance blending and care about noise. That combination is genuinely rare, and the 10 year warranty says something meaningful about how Breville expects the machine to hold up. Container recognition, the auto clean cycle and the well designed lid are the sort of details that separate a considered product from a specification sheet.
Skip it if you blend occasionally, if counter height is limited, or if you want a simpler machine, where the Blendtec Connoisseur 825 and the commercial Waring CB15 take different approaches. Anyone whose real need is chopping and slicing rather than blending should read the Cuisinart FP-11GMP1 food processor review instead, and the countertop blender category lists the rest.
