The latest style shaker is perfect just the way it is, it mixes the product well and i never get clumps.
The shaker is clearly a huge improvement on the old buchsteiner one, it has a lot more space above the screen allowing the product to move through it better and blend properly, you can clearly see it was designed to address a number of problems, and it has done so very well.
People are talking about being at the gym and using the shaker one handed. I presume your not drinking Huel while working out? So the complaints about the lid relate to using it as a water bottle, which its not designed to be. Surely save the Huel shaker for the Huel, and get one that suits your needs as a water bottle for the gym, such as a sports cap you can open with your teeth, or a traditional shaker with flip top.
I love the design aesthetically and drinking out of it, much more than the original shaker. Donât mind the cap being separate at all (better than getting the huel-drip or pokey eye of the old shaker cap) and I like the lil carry loop!
However, I dislike how narrow the opening is (along with the powder-catching grooves in the newer scoops). Itâs difficult to measure out without making a mess. I resorted to cutting a v60 coffee paper as a means to funnel the scoops in without too much spillage (OCD ahoy?!).
Also I do miss the more specific measure lines and being able to see the contents a bit more clearly.
For those reasons I often find myself just using the original shaker (and scoops), for practical-sake.
I like the narrowness of the shaker, just wide enough to accept the contents of the scoop, but no more. Itâs a part of the aesthetic, just wide enough to fill, just tall enough to shake. No excessâŚ
Sure it means the user has to take a little care when filling, but no harm in that. I reckon.
I like the thumb-grip grooves in the scoop too. Powder can get in there if the scooping is a bit clumsy but itâs easily shaken out.
Odd. I thought the opposite actually. I have been doing Huel for a long time now and the shaker now with the loose screw top is miles better than the old shaker. With the old shaker I had to store my powder at work and mix it at lunch time. With the shaker I have now I can mix at home in the morning and just put it in the fridge when I get to work. I also love that at weekend if I want I can mix some Huel and throw it in my pack when I go walking or cycling and no worries about it leaking.
Itâs the Fairlife. I drink it as well. Only milk we use. But everytime I use it with Huel I have clumps. I havenât used the huel shaker yet, I use Blender Bottles but I only use half milk, half water. Couldnât imagine how bad it would mix with 100% Fairlife whole milk.
Having had both types of shaker, both fail to give perfect results without a hell of a lot of manual shaking. In fact even then, results are inconsistent. I tried a power blender and the effort to clean the damn things and put away afterwards really put me off and defeated the object of saving time and effort to prepare a Huel meal.
Finally, I deployed a plain plastic bowl and simple hand whisk. Dump the fuel and liquid in the bowl, hand whisk till lumps gone and THEN into the shaker bottle. Got two bottles? Same bowl, add more goop and away you go.
Where the âshakerâ bottle rather than any other bottle comes in to itâs own, is the fact that solids and liquids can, and do, separate, so a gentle shake before gulping helps it along. Clean up, one bowl, one hand whisk and no nasty sharp blades like on the blender.
However, if anyone out there does know of a magic shaker that needs little effort to mix, is effective and easy to clean etc etc etc, happy to try one, but the old mixing bowl works for me 100%.
I canât really understand all the faff of this. I live in a hard water area so perhaps the big rocks of limescale help bash up the lumps, but I stick liquid in either shaker, add the Huel powder, stick the âice guardâ in, stick on the lid, shake it for about 15 seconds and itâs done.
In the very early days of Huel I did sometimes get clumps and small lumps (which I actually liked) but I donât get that now, it mixes much better.
I like the uncertainty and the variation. The better I shake, the better the shake.
Part of the pleasure of making up a Huel shake is the measuring and shaking, the water temperature, the standby time and so on. Itâs subject to some variation and human input/fallibility/expertise.
Who wants invariable perfection and 100% reliable consistency? RTD is ideal for that, but I prefer the ability to fine-tune, and occasionally to have a couple of delicious lumps to chew on.
I just shook up two bottles last night as I could be bothered with the blender. The Huel was a bit more bitty than blended and it was still good.
I used 1/2 almond milk 1/2 water, 4-5 ice cubes and two scoops of WE berry. used both the old and new shakers and they both came out fine.
I think people expect / assume / demand that Huel powder has the texture of a smoothie. Maybe this assumption has been reinforced by RTD, but that is never how the powder was originally from the start or how it is now, and people trying to get the powder to have the texture of the RTD are chasing a rainbow to some degree, and defeating one of Huelâs original purposes which was to save time.
I have never had a problem with Huel shakers, apart from the odd lump or two (which I didnât mind at all) when I first started Huel, and absolutely love my new loyalty black shaker. My new favourite. Thanks Huel!
I love the shaker design it feels luxurious! Itâs also a lot better for hiking then the old shaker since this is a screw on cap which is much more secure. However, when hiking I actually did lose a cap, probably got caught on some branches. I cut off the flap on another cap and use that for hiking, so shouldnât happen again.