The best mixer grinder on Amazon.in

The reasoning

The other fully specified 750 W three-jar machine, the Havells Prisma, looks much the same on paper: a wet jar, a dry jar, a chutney jar, three speeds and a pulse. Where the Philips differs is that its warranty terms are written into its Amazon.in listing: 2 years on the product and, in a bullet, 5 years on the motor. No other 750 W listing on the shortlist states a 5-year motor term. The Prestige Iris and Astra and both Butterfly listings give the motor 2 years, and the GrowSmart HydroGrind gives 4 years without saying whether that covers the motor.

The listing gives every jar size: a 1.5 L wet jar, a 1 L multipurpose jar and a 0.3 L chutney jar, all stainless steel. It says the 1 L dry jar's lid locks on without a separate rubber gasket, while the wet and chutney jars do have one. It also says the motor can run for 25 minutes continuously, though that figure carries an asterisk the listing doesn't explain, and elsewhere it asks you to let the motor cool between uses. It weighs 3 kg, by the listing.

The Havells Prisma (GHFMGGHK075) came closest. It also draws 750 W, has three speeds with pulse, and has 1.5 L and 1 L jars with a bigger 400 ml chutney jar. Havells's own page gives it 2 years on the product and 5 years on the motor, both marked with an asterisk. We went with the Philips because a 5-year motor term appears on the Amazon.in listing itself, though only in a bullet, while the Havells listing mentions only a 2-year product warranty; Havells's own page states the motor term more fully than its listing does, so if you buy the Havells, keep the invoice and hold Havells to its page. If a larger chutney jar matters to you, the Havells is a fair alternative. The USHA Rapidmix also lists 2 years on the product and 5 on the motor, but it draws 500 W and its listing doesn't give the jar sizes.

The reasoning

This adds a 1.5 L juicer jar to the usual three: a 1.5 L wet jar, a 1 L dry jar and a 300 ml chutney jar. The listing describes a 3-speed rotary control with a pulse mode and an overload protector that cuts power when the motor overheats. It gives 2 years of warranty on the product and the motor, and says it is ISI certified.

Prestige's own page for it, under the same number (42510: the listing's part number, the page's SKU), repeats the four jar sizes, the 750 W figure and the 2 years on product and motor in its description. In a separate section headed Warranty Instructions, though, the same page reads "1 Year Warranty". The page's care notes say not to run it for more than 5 minutes continuously and to leave a 2-minute gap before running it again.

Two others came close. Bosch's TrueMixx Pro (MGM8642BIN) has the same four-jar layout, with a 1.5 L plastic blender jar and fruit filter and a 400 ml chutney jar, and Bosch's page confirms the jars, but its listing gives 2 years on the product and says nothing about the motor, and the Bosch page we read gives no warranty term. Butterfly's Jet Elite has three steel jars (0.4 L, 0.75 L and 1.5 L), a 1.5 L juicer jar and a fifth, grind-and-store jar, and lists 2 years on the product and 2 on the motor, but we have no brand page for Butterfly, while the Iris's own page has a wrinkle of its own: one section of it says 1 year. Prestige's own Astra lists the same jars plus a Mix-O-Keep storage jar and the same warranty, weighing 6 kg 500 g against the Iris's 5 kg 500 g; we didn't check the Astra against Prestige's page.

The reasoning

This one works differently. It uses a BLDC motor and draws 550 W. The title says it grinds like a 1000 W machine, which is Atomberg's claim; wattage tells you power drawn, not how well a machine grinds, so we compared it on what it does.

It is the only listing on the shortlist with a coarse mode (Bosch's two listings instead offer a blunt pounding blade for dry ingredients, a blade rather than a speed setting), which Atomberg's page says runs at 5000 RPM for a texture like a sil-batta. The page lists four jars: 1.5 L liquidising, 1 L multipurpose, 500 ml chutney and spice, and a 500 ml chopper jar, which it says the base detects and runs at 2000 RPM. It runs only when the jar is properly placed (a beep and blue LED confirm it), shows a red LED for overload and overheating, and, by the listing, doesn't restart by itself after a power cut. Atomberg says its lid locks allow hands-free operation; Bosch's two listings also say their lid-locks allow hands-free operation.

Atomberg's page writes it as "2+1* Year Warranty", asterisk included: 2 years as standard and a third year if you register the purchase on Atomberg's website, and its FAQ says the 3 years covers the product as well as the motor. Once registered, that is one more year on the product than the Philips and two fewer on the motor; without registering, it is level on the product and three years short on the motor. It is also heavier, at 6 kg on the listing against the Philips's 3 kg.