Breville Juice Fountain & 850-Watt Juice Extractor
$99.99
$149.95
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Top positive review
360 people found this helpful
Be Prepared For The Power!
By Anna V. Carroll on Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2022
NOTE: 03/09/2022 I have learned some things since getting this wonderful juicer I would like to pass on to you, if you are considering getting one for yourself. In order to preserve the motor, DO NOT PUT WHOLE FRUITS IN MACHINE. I am now chopping fruits and vegetables up into smaller pieces which is making my machine purr instead of growl. Be careful with Beets, especially. Chop them into small chunks. Too fibrous. I find it relaxing chopping everything up. I was skeptical in the first place about putting whole apples, oranges, etc into the hopper. It is just too much for the motor to absorb day after day. Just wanted you to know about MY personal experience. I am giving this juicer 5 Stars even though the cleaning brush was not included in the box. Amazon cannot send you one. I asked. I had a Breville juicer years ago but this one is far and away more powerful. Just be prepared to cover the slot with the stamper immediately after dropping in the fruits and veggies because it will fling the items into the air if the stamper isn't in place. After I got the hang of it everything was great. Yes, it's easy to clean, but you have to disassemble the entire juicer and clean all the parts. I made my first Breville Beverage as I call it, today. Clementines, carrots, green apples, ginger and one stalk of celery. What joy! I savored every drop and can't wait to do it again tomorrow for lunch. Today it is 3 below zero in NYC and my apartment is freezing even though the heat is on full tilt. A week ago it was 60 degrees in December! So I took my time making my drink in the warm kitchen and if there is one thing my body can't get enough of with the killer viruses it's fresh juice! My body is probably applauding me right now but I can't hear it because my teeth are chattering too loudly due to the freezing cold. Aside from not getting the cleaning brush (I am using a tooth brush) everything was in the box ready to go. I was worried the voltage hookup in my apt. might not be able to handle the power but it held out. You worry about this in old apartments in NYC. Blown fuses are not fun. So far so good. Fresh fruit is not cheap these days so I will keep the varieties of fruit at a minimum for the time being. Some neighborhood stores are cheaper than others so I do take that into consideration. what is more important in the time of Covid? Spending a few dollars for fruit and juicing them or getting Covid again. I have had it twice in two years. Not fun. And, at pushing 80, I have to be super careful. The perfect product at the perfect time. I love what it did for me today and look forward to many more glasses of health in months to come. A wonderful purchase. Breville is a very reliable company. All my Breville products work like a charm. So glad I bought it. UPDATE: 01-27-2022 The addition of this juicer to my every day life has been a life saver on many levels. I am saving a lot of money I would normally spend at the grocery store buying fruits and vegetables instead of chicken breasts and pork chops. There was a wonderful juice shop in Greenwich Village in the early 2000s that charged $10 for a small bottle of fresh juice. I made a special subway trip to the store twice a month. Due to rent increases the store closed. I kept one of the bottles in my freezer for some reason and so thankful I did. The Sweet & Dandy bottle contained: Beets, Oranges, Ginger, Apple, Pineapple, Celery, I now replicate that very same flavor every morning with my Breville juicer. Fabulous taste and incredibly good for me as well. I wish I had bought this juicer before the pandemic. It might have made me stronger and able to fight off colds, flues and Covid. Buy one today!
Top critical review
21 people found this helpful
Juicer Review after 2 weeks of use
By J-I Connelly on Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2013
I've been using this juicer for about 2 weeks now, and it works well. I read a lot of reviews of this juicer compared to the other available juicers before purchasing this one. I paid $150 on amazon for this juicer. I'm new to juicing and didn't want to purchase a more expensive one until I got a feel for prep, cleaning, and juicing. This is a good start model. I juice every morning. The prep time is about 10-15 mins (once I decide on the "flavor" I want). Cleanup is rinsing the juicer-out and removing the pulp bag (liner I use) from the pulp bin. Likes: - There are suction-cups on the bottom of the unit to keep it stable on the counter. - It's easy to insert a produce-bag into the pulp-bin to reduce cleanup. - I like the juice jug that comes with the juicer. - Nothing to compare this "juice" to other juice since it's my first juicer, but the juice is good and smooth. Rarely any chunks (unless you use shredded carrots to juice, for example). - The electrical plug is easy to plugin/out of wall. - The juice jug, filter basket, filter bowl surround are dishwasher safe. - Personally, I feel like I wake up easier in the morning and feel more energetic throughout the day. - I drink the juice first in the morning, and then have breakfast (either a smoothie or a bagel). Juice isn't enough for me. Mason jars also help with storing the juice if you want to drink one later in the day. Cons: - This unit is loud. The low setting is loud and the high setting is really loud. The high setting is comparable to a blending Vitamix or maybe even louder. - Takes up the counter-top. - Cleaning the filter basket is annoying. It's nice that the unit comes with a brush to clean the basket, but if you juice ginger for instance, it's tough to remove all the ginger fibers. - The reviews/documentation of this juicer says that you can juice leaf greens. It's true you can, however you need A LOT of leafy greens to get juice out of them...this is why I rated this "It's Okay." Juicing parsley, kale, and spinach is tough, even on the low setting. The parsley seems like it just goes straight through the filter basket into the pulp bin. I've tried to re-feed it into the feeder tube but that doesn't do much. It helps to add the leafy greens with other fruits/veggies but if you add it with carrots, you're on the high setting and therefore the filter basket turns faster. - The food pusher and juice cover are not dishwasher safe. Other people have commented on either this juicer or others about the prep time of cutting the veggies/fruits. I don't really care about that...I will cut them up anyways. (I cut up apples, carrots, celery, tomatoes, and cucumbers). You can fit a whole apple into the feeding tube but I don't want to "drink" the apple seeds, so I cut them up. The instruction manual comes with some juicing recipes but I recommend getting a Juice book. There are so many online. One that's in the booklet is Oranges, Beets, and Carrots. It was good...as long as you are okay with beets (beets taste like dirt) but they are good for you! :) Veggie Notes - Celery is a strong flavor and dominates the taste of the juice (I wouldn't include the recommended amount in the recipes). Ginger is also strong, don't use a lot of it. If you juice beets, you need to scrub then clean...this is time consuming. I hope that helps. Happy juicing!
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