Germany
Two appliances, and both are about controlling the result rather than reaching it
Braun appears in two families on this site: countertop blenders and table grills.
Texture as a setting. The PowerBlend 9 pairs six automatic programs with three textures — fine, medium, coarse. The machine is told what is being made and how far to take it. It is the only control of its kind among the blenders here, and it addresses the thing blenders get wrong when left to run.
Two temperature zones on one grill. The MultiGrill 9 runs its two plate halves at different temperatures at the same time. Nothing else in that family does it, and it turns one appliance into two.
Geometry as an argument. Braun’s blender jar is triangular, stated to leave none of the dead corners a round jar spins around. That is a claim about shape rather than a measurement, and it addresses a problem every blender has.
Waffle plates on a grill. The MultiGrill takes grill, flat and waffle plates, all removable and dishwasher-safe — making it the only appliance here that covers a second family outright.
The same two blanks, twice. Neither product publishes a noise figure. The blender publishes no rpm and the grill no plate area, where rivals publish both. At Braun’s prices, those are the omissions worth naming.
Both models reviewed here are European. On Amazon.com, the PowerBlend 9 JB9040 and the MultiGrill 9 CG9167 are listed at 240 volts and show as currently unavailable — they would not run on a 120 V US outlet without a step-up transformer. They sit at the end of their shelves for that reason. For US alternatives, see the countertop blenders page, the electric table grills page, and the US brands on the brands page.
265 °C (509 °F) sear · 2 zones · waffle plates
MultiGrill 9: three cooking positions, two independent temperature zones, a food probe, a sear function Braun states reaches 265 °C (509 °F) in minutes, and heating elements built into the plates. All plates are non-stick, removable and dishwasher-safe — and the set includes grill, flat and waffle plates.
Best for: A household that grills often, cooks two things at once, and would rather not own a waffle iron too.
1,600 W · 18 programs · 10 speeds
PowerBlend 9: 1,600 W, a triangular 2-liter Tritan jar Braun states leaves no dead corners, eighteen programs, ten manual speeds and a pulse. iTexture Control pairs six automatic programs with three textures — fine, medium or coarse — and the PrecisionEdge blades are forged in Solingen.
Best for: Someone who wants a specific texture, repeatably, and will use more than two settings.
