Ninja SLUSHi Twist Brings Dual-Zone Frozen Drink Tech to Australia

The original Ninja SLUSHi became one of those appliances that suddenly seemed to be everywhere, fuelled by viral videos of frozen cocktails, soft drinks and just about anything else people could pour into it. Now Ninja is following that momentum with the Ninja SLUSHi Twist, a bigger dual-vessel version that can keep two different frozen drinks running at the same time.

Coming to Australia for summer, the new Ninja SLUSHi Twist Frozen Drink Maker (FS701BRANZ) takes the idea behind Ninja’s popular SLUSHi and essentially doubles down on it. There are now two independent 2.1-litre vessels, separate freezing systems and the ability to dispense each drink individually or combine the two into one suitably excessive frozen creation.

The more interesting part, though, is what is happening behind the taps. Instead of simply throwing ice and liquid into a blender, Ninja is using compressor-based cooling, automatic ingredient detection and temperature control to turn drinks into slush without adding ice at all.

The Ninja SLUSHi Twist Is More Than a Two-Tap Slushie Machine

The headline feature is fairly obvious: there are two frozen drink chambers.

Each side can run a different recipe, meaning you could have a frozen margarita going in one vessel and a non-alcoholic slushie in the other. You can dispense them separately, or use Ninja’s Twist system to combine both flavours into the same drink.

Beyond looking considerably more impressive on a kitchen bench, the dual-vessel design gives the Twist a clear practical advantage over the original Ninja SLUSHi. The standard Australian SLUSHi FS301 uses a single 2.6-litre vessel, while the Twist has two 2.1-litre vessels for 4.2 litres of total vessel capacity. The actual maximum liquid fill is 1.4 litres per vessel, or 2.8 litres combined.

Ninja says that’s enough for more than 10 servings, depending on serving size. Australian retailer specifications list around ten 260ml servings from a full batch.

That makes considerably more sense for parties than making one enormous batch and hoping everyone happens to want exactly the same drink.

Dual SlushAssist Automatically Controls the Freeze

The more TechDrivePlay part of this machine is Ninja’s Dual SlushAssist Technology.

Rather than requiring the user to work out exactly how cold each mixture needs to be, Ninja says the system detects the ingredients in each vessel and automatically adjusts the temperature to produce the correct frozen consistency.

That’s important because freezing a soft drink isn’t quite the same as freezing juice, a milk-based drink or a cocktail containing alcohol. Sugar and alcohol both affect freezing temperatures, which is why turning random liquids into a consistently smooth slush is slightly more complicated than simply making everything very cold.

The Twist can also notify the user if the mixture needs more water or sugar.

There are 14 temperature control settings for adjusting the final texture, so you’re not completely handing control over to the machine either. Want something fairly loose and drinkable? Fine. Want to test the structural limits of a paper straw? Also possible.

According to Ninja, the new system also slushes drinks faster than the original Ninja SLUSHi, although exactly how much faster will be something worth testing when we get our hands on one.

No Ice Is Still the Clever Part

One of the best ideas carried over from the original SLUSHi is that the machine doesn’t need ice.

The Twist uses Ninja’s WhisperChill compressor to freeze the liquid inside the machine while augers continuously move the mixture. It’s closer in concept to the commercial frozen-drink machines sitting behind a bar than it is to a conventional blender.

That means you’re not loading it with cubes before every batch, and your drink isn’t gradually becoming a glass of vaguely flavoured water as the ice melts.

It also opens the door to considerably more than supermarket-style slushies. Ninja says the machine can handle frozen cocktails, frappes, milkshakes and other frozen drinks, including higher-alcohol recipes.

The two sides operate independently, so the obvious use case is having an alcoholic option running alongside something everyone can drink. Or two cocktails. We aren’t here to supervise.

It’s Bigger and More Powerful Than the Original SLUSHi

The extra freezing hardware inevitably means this is a fairly substantial countertop appliance.

Australian retailer specifications list the Ninja SLUSHi Twist at 30.3cm wide, 44.4cm deep and 41.3cm high, with a weight of 15.66kg and maximum power of 500W.

For context, Ninja’s current single-vessel SLUSHi FS301 is listed at 11kg with a 200W rating and a 2.6-litre vessel.

So this isn’t really an appliance you’ll want to drag out of the back of a cupboard every second Saturday. If you buy one, there’s a decent chance the SLUSHi Twist is claiming a permanent section of kitchen bench, bar or games room.

The trade-off is considerably more capacity and flexibility.

There’s also a built-in rinse cycle, which runs water through the vessels after use. Anyone who has cleaned dried milkshake or sugary cocktail mix from kitchen equipment will immediately understand why this might be one of the machine’s more important features.

How Does the Ninja SLUSHi Twist Compare With the Original SLUSHi?

The Twist isn’t simply a larger version of the existing machine.

The original Ninja SLUSHi Professional FS301 has a single 2.6-litre vessel and five preset functions for Slush, Frozen Cocktail, Frappe, Milkshake and Frozen Juice. SharkNinja Australia currently lists it at A$499.99.

The Twist changes the formula by adding two independent vessels, Dual SlushAssist ingredient sensing, 14 temperature controls and the ability to mix two frozen drinks together as they’re dispensed.

There’s also Ninja’s newer SLUSHi Max sitting elsewhere in the Australian range with a 4.4-litre capacity and Smart SlushAssist technology, so the Twist isn’t simply about maximum capacity. Its reason for existing is having two genuinely separate frozen drinks running simultaneously.

That distinction is probably what will decide whether the Twist makes sense. If you simply want a frozen Coke occasionally, the standard model already exists. If you’re regularly entertaining people with annoyingly different drink preferences, the dual setup becomes much easier to justify.

Ninja SLUSHi Twist Australian Price and Release Date

The Ninja SLUSHi Twist Frozen Drink Maker FS701BRANZ launches in Australia from 25 September 2026, with Ninja confirming availability through SharkNinja Australia and participating retailers.

Interestingly, the supplied Australian announcement doesn’t specify an official RRP. At the time of writing, Harvey Norman has the Mocha-coloured FS701BRANZ listed at A$699, which gives us a pretty strong indication of where it will sit in the range.

For comparison, SharkNinja Australia currently lists the regular SLUSHi at A$499.99, while the larger SLUSHi Max is also listed at A$499.99 on sale from an A$599.99 regular price.

A$699 is a lot of money to spend on making liquids dangerously easy to consume, but there is at least some genuinely interesting appliance technology underneath the novelty.

The real question is whether Dual SlushAssist works as effortlessly as Ninja claims, and whether having two flavours running at the same time turns out to be genuinely useful or simply the most elaborate way possible to make a frozen margarita. We’d quite happily investigate either outcome.