Breville Juice Fountain & 850-Watt Juice Extractor

This juicer is powerful! I’ve been using it almost every day and it makes fresh juice in seconds. Apples, carrots, beets no problem. I love the wide mouth chute because I don’t have to cut everything up first. Cleanup? Super easy. Most parts go in the dishwasher, and it even comes with a cleaning brush. I was surprised at how quick the whole process is. It is a little loud (what juicer isn’t?) and doesn’t give the best yield with leafy greens, but for everyday fruit and veggie juice this is perfect. Definitely recommend if you want fast, fresh juice without the hassle!

EDIT 11/13/2013: I just wanted to note that we've been using this juicer literally every day for the last eight months and it has worked flawlessly! We still love it... We've had a great experience with it and use it on a daily basis. If you have a baby or toddler, this is a fabulous way to introduce a unique fruit and vegetable flavor base to your child's tongue. If they learn this flavor early in life, it'll become part of their flavor palette for life. Many babies learn only different sweet flavors from processed food. Fresh fruit juice is very sweet, but vegetables are not typically sweet and have a particular flavor not all like. Our toddler LOVES the juices we make. We found combining apples, oranges, pears, celery, carrots, with half a lemon makes a frothy, milkshake-like juice that's both delicious and nutritious. Give it a try and experiment. Best of all, have fun with it! The following is my original review from last March 2013. I have nothing to correct or add to it, other than the above. Read on... --------------------------------------------- I had the most amazing juice I've ever tasted in my life the other day. I love pineapple and have always enjoyed pineapple juice. It's my favorite of all fruit juices. After buying the Breville Juice Fountain Plus juicer, I picked up a whole pineapple and my wife juiced it up. WOW... I couldn't believe what I tasted. I've never tasted anything like it and it's very different than store-bought pineapple juice. It's so milky and creamy and rich and perfectly balanced. We've been making juice with the Breville for a few weeks now, but this absolutely knocked me out and made me a huge fan of the Breville juicer. I've read just about every review on Amazon about this product and our experience with this juicer is close to what others have said. I've found what we differ on is our experience with cleaning, leaking issues, and motor malfunctions. We found cleaning to be very simple. There are only six or eight parts that need cleaning, and if you clean them immediately after juicing, cleanup takes about three to five minutes. It's important not to let the material dry on any component, especially the filter assembly. After juicing, the material on the filter washes off easily with the aid of the supplied brush. Use warm water and soap to scrub the material out of the fine filter mesh. If you let the material dry on the mesh filter, it will be much more difficult to clean. The order of operations should be 1) juice, 2) clean, and 3) enjoy! The filter assembly is part of the blade assembly as one entire unit. This is different than some other juicers that have these parts separate. This makes juicing and cleaning easier. The other parts are simply plastic and wash off quickly and easily with warm water and soap. We find the process of juicing to be fun! Our toddler loves to run in the room and watch the juicer consume material and regurgitate fresh, delicious juice into the serving carafe. The Breville Juice Fountain Plus has two speeds: low and high. Low is used for softer material, like oranges and kiwi. High is used for harder material, like apples, carrots, and pears. Not all fruits and vegetables need to be cut into smaller pieces in order to be properly juiced. Many items can be tossed in whole, as long as they fit into the 3" diameter hopper throat. Oranges, carrots, celery, cucumbers, and many other fruits and vegetables work great with little or no preparation. Just drop them in, push them down, and watch the juice begin to flow. We've noticed, on occasion, material gets stuck in the hopper and does not juice. During those times, we stop the unit, take the top off, and reinsert the material in a different position. We've found most of the time this happens when the skin becomes an obstacle to the blades or we try to juice by inserting the material before starting the juicer. Always start the juicer first and then insert the material. This is where using the juicer takes a little getting used to. We've learned how to insert each type of fruit and vegetable. For instance, kale is best juiced between other items. We may put some apples in and then add a wadded-up amount of kale in, followed by a number of carrots inserted lengthwise to push the kale down. You'll learn how to juice each item in the Breville and the instances where material gets stuck will happen less often. Most juice is dispensed into the carafe with some amount of foam. The Breville carafe comes with a foam skimmer built into the top of the carafe assembly that helps stop foam from being poured into glasses. This is a very nice feature. If you like the foam, you can take the top off the carafe and pour the juice directly into a glass, foam and all. Unlike some other reviewers, we haven't noticed any problems with leaking, overflowing, clogging, or motor malfunction. It has worked flawlessly and extracts a nice quantity of juice. Material dispenses into the waste dispenser consistently dry with only a small amount of moisture. One tip regarding the waste: if you're into gardening, save all the waste material for the compost. Just be careful of the seeds. Make sure it's fully composted, otherwise you might end up with surprise fruits and vegetables growing in your garden. :-) The Breville Juice Fountain Plus is an excellent juicer with a powerful enough motor to negotiate a large variety of fruits and vegetables. Whether you're juicing soft fruits, hard vegetables, or leafy greens, this juicer will perform well and produce numerous gallons of fresh, nutritious juice for your entire family.

I love my juicer. It is very powerful and does the job. Great for healthy juices.

First, let me say that I am brand new to juicing. I have terrible IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) that has kept me from eating most vegetables for almost 2 years. I've been very very sick with IBS for the last 6 weeks and unable to work. (I've had the condition most of my life but never this bad. The last two years have been the worst.) Anyway, My daughter recommended the documentary Fat, Sick and Almost Dead and this was the juicer that Joe Cross used on his 60 day juice fast. He had an autoimmune disease just like I do. He had this exact juicer in the back of his car, attached to a battery, and he went all over the US offering juice to people in many different states while he, himself, lost something like 75lbs and felt like a new man. He got off all his medications he got so healthy. I figured I would see if I could tolerate vegetables this way with the pulp and fiber removed so they would be easier for my beleaguered digestive system to absorb. I didn't know if I'd be able to deal with all the work involved with juicing since a side effect of IBS is also chronic fatigue. This juicer looked super easy to use on the documentary so I figured I would give it a shot. I studied before purchasing and knew that masticating juicers were more efficient at extracting juice. However, knowing myself and my fatigue issues, this juicer appealed to me because of the minimal prep work such as chopping and dicing of the vegetables that you need to do before juicing. I decided to try this first since the price was $139.00 compared to close to $500.00 for a masticating juicer. I'm thrilled I made this choice. Here's what I've found: 1. Very little prep work needed for the veggies. Peel the citrus fruits but leave them whole. The chute is large and can accommodate an average size orange or medium apple. 2. Takes a little experience before getting the best results. The first time I tried it, I, too, had stuff fly out of the chute and onto the wall. I also had the whole assembly leak at the base. It took a couple of tries to make sure I had the whole assembly properly seated due to my own user error. It was actually a very simple assembly but I just needed a couple of tries. Now, I have juiced my brains out and had no splatter or leakage. 3. Yes, the pulp is a little soggy. I put the pulp back through to get the additional juice out of it and it was still soggy so I gave up that effort. It didn't really matter all that much to me. I have not seen any large chunks of veggies in the pulp basket. 4. I took the advice of other reviewers and put a hard fruit or veggie in first, then packed in my kale and spinach then put another hard fruit on top. My best results were when I put the hard fruit on the bottom, packed the greens in mixed with a juicy fruit like a little pineapple, orange, tomato or lemon, then put a hard carrot or celery on top. I got the most juice with the least pulp using that technique. I started on a high speed and then lowered the speed when it came time for the greens and soft fruit, then back to high for the carrot, apple or celery. Excellent results that way and drier pulp but still not super dry like some people report. 5. I added avocado and spices and my juices are very delicious and creamy. 6. Clean up was a breeze. I did not bother to wash in the dishwasher as there are only 7 pieces to wash off. There's the pulp container, the beaker and top, the basket and metal grinder, the top and the pusher. If you put a bag in the pulp container it stays clean and no need to wash it off. It takes less than 3 minutes to wash the whole thing. 7. If you are wondering about time commitment which was a big issue for me, I purchased all my veggies and fruits on Friday night. The cost for the week was $120.00. (2 people juicing) Fruit & veggie prep took about 1/2 hour. Peeled oranges and lemons and washed greens. Chopped long celery, carrots & cucumbers in half but did not peel them. I put each veggie or fruit in it's own Tupperware or Ziplock bag so that I would have an assembly line set up the following morning for juicing. Original machine prep took 5 minutes to wash the 7 removable items and reassemble. Very simple assembly. (thought I didn't have it exactly lined up right the very first time..LOL) Now it takes less than a minute to reassemble since I know what I am doing. So, once you have the fruit and veggies ready, you can prepare enough juice for 2 people for 3 days in about 1/2 to 45 minutes. I find that to be pretty efficient from a time standpoint. Certainly a lot less time than fixing dinner every night. 8. I also did not find this unit to be loud at all. It's darned quiet compared to my Vitamix blender!!! 9. Oh!! And I also mix wheat grass in with my greens when I juice. I don't know how much of the wheat grass just gets tossed in with the pulp but I'm putting it in the mix and hoping for the best!!! Physically, I am so excited!!! I felt better 2 days after beginning my juice fast. Now I have more energy than I have had in years and have not had one bit of trouble with my IBS. I hope to entirely heal my digestive tract in the next 60 days through juicing and giving my intestines a rest from having to digest solid foods. I don't know if down the road I will want to get a more expensive masticating juicer just to get a little bit of extra juice from my fruits and veggies. This unit seems to get plenty of juice out of $120.00 worth of veggies. It's enough for 2 people for an entire week. I can't compare it to a masticating juicer because I haven't tried one but I can say I love this one. The only reason I gave it the 4 stars is because of the pulp not being as dry as some people said it would be. This is really more of a 5 star product for a person like me who doesn't care about stuff like that but I figured to give a realistic review, this was the only drawback that I could tell for other more serious juicers.

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!

I used this juicer for the first time and it worked great! It was super easy to assemble right out of the box, which I really appreciated. I also love that it has two speed settings—perfect for switching between soft fruits and tougher veggies. The juice came out fresh and delicious. I’m not going to risk putting it in the dishwasher, but cleanup wasn’t too bad—just a bit of vegetable residue that took a little extra scrubbing. It does take up a decent amount of space, so make sure you have room to store it. Overall, I’m really happy with my purchase and excited to try even more fruit and veggie combinations. A great addition to my kitchen!

Es una marca muy buena, es un producto que dura demasiado vale la pena invertir cada centavo de dólar.

My family has owned an ACME juicer for some 40 years that we have used a LOT. After literally decades of hard use, this very solid machine has showed no signs of even slowing down and to this day, does a very good job producing excellent juices. In fact, it is such a good machine that the juicer market still offers this exact model, albeit under a different name, and parts are easily available as well. But when I watched the “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead” movie, I knew exactly what I was going to do to get my weight problem under control. Following the guidelines in the movie, I quickly found myself outstripping the capabilities of my old trusty ACME simply because “rebooting” involves a heck of a lot of juice every day! The ACME does not separate the pulp. Rather, the basket gets filled pretty quickly and this requires taking the machine apart to clean if/when I want to keep on juicing. Anytime I have pushed my luck on the cleaning, pulp would pile up on one side of the basket. The ACME would spin off balance and start doing a dance across the counter tops. WOW, what an adventure that was the first couple of times! LOL. But there are many offerings in the juicer market and, beyond my old ACME, I didn’t know one juicer from another. So I went back and watched the documentary again to see what Joe Cook was using and then, of course, I found that very juicer here on Amazon. I have now used this new juicer several times every day since it arrived and I love it! I have learned a lot about juicers and had my old ACME as a benchmark with which to make comparisons. The first thing that I learned is that there is no such thing as the perfect juicing machine and just the nature of juicing places high demands on any juicer, regardless of design. This machine claims to separate the pulp from the juice – put the juice in one container and the pulp in another. If you really think about how a machine is supposed to handle this task, you’ll realize that this is really asking a lot. Thus, there was a learning curve and I found that to be rather frustrating at first. I had to learn to assemble and disassemble the machine correctly. If I got it wrong, either pulp or juice or BOTH, would get flung all over the kitchen, all over the front of my shirt and who knows where else. This at first made me really angry at the machine but then I slowed down and decided I should learn just how it’s supposed to go together. I figured it out and had no more problems. Unlike my dancing ACME, this unit’s basket doesn’t get thrown out of balance because the pulp gets expelled as the machine works… up to a point. Any machine is going to have a limit on how much it can digest before cleaning is required. With this machine, the top is clear plastic and I can see the pulp building up. But there is also a warning light that turns on when the machine needs to tell me that it’s had enough. That is a very cool feature. The Breville holds a lot more pulp and will go a lot longer before it needs to be cleaned. Then, when it is time to clean, it cleans up far faster and easier than my old ACME. The pitcher has a slot on the side that is designed to dovetail into the discharge spout on the side of the juicer. While it holds far more juice than my ACME, it is still rather easy to overfill the pitcher and have juice spill all over the cabinet. Ok, so this simply meant that I needed to practice and get to know the machine. I would suggest that, until any operator of any juicer gets to know his/her machine, a supply of towels and cleaning supplies should be kept close at hand. The intake chute is much wider than my ACME’s and this really cuts down on the amount of chopping and cutting I have to do to prepare fruits and veggies for juicing. But, like other aspects of juicing, there is still a limit. I often find that I have to still cut up large apples, for example. On one occasion, I dropped a piece of an apple only to have it bounce back up and out of the machine and fly across the kitchen. LOL, once again this is a great adventure! Ok, having said all of this, it’s still just an absolutely superb machine and really offers a lot for the money. And BTW, I have lost 60 pounds and am showing no signs of slowing down. Only a 125 pounds to go.

I’m a somewhat experienced juicer. First, I received the Breville Fountain Plus Centrifugal Juicer yesterday. It was packaged well and unboxing was easy. I had previously tried two masticating juicers, a Bear and a Canoly. The Bear juicer’s motor failed after 3 minutes of use. The Canoly had multiple issues which ultimately resulted in me returning it. The Canoly, a masticating juicer, had the vegetable pusher break on first use with plastic pieces getting in the juicer body. Taking it apart to clean was awful: parts would not come apart and juice got all over my clothes. I tried lubricating the juicer body parts with vegetable oil but nothing worked. I felt that the juicer was cheaply made: The lid would pop out and probably would have broken over time IMHO. It was noisy. I made 2 batches of V8 juice and a batch of orange juice. I was satisfied with the juice volume and quality. Enter the Breville: So far, I like it. It is easy to assemble and take apart. It is easy to clean. One caveat is that it is easy to overfill the juice container and I spilled some juice. Oops! I made V8 juice, 4 tomatoes, 6 carrots, 4 celery sticks, 10 Brussel sprouts, 3 kale leaves, 1 cup spinach leaves, and 1 beet. This resulted in 1.5 quarts of juice. The masticating juicer made about 1.75 quarts but like I said, I lost some juice due to overfilling the juice container. Other reviews have noted that the Breville makes less juice than masticating juicer machines. So juice volume is most likely a bit less. I feel that the Breville’s build quality is much better. All plastic parts are made well and are substantial. After juicing, cleanup was a breeze. Easy to take apart. Cleaning the filter body was simple using the enclosed brush tool. I did not notice any issues with carrot, beet, or celery as some other reviewers commented on. I will update this review if problems arise. UPDATE 5/31/26: Today I made more V8 juice and also a berry blend juice. I juiced 5 tomatoes first. I observed that the resulting tomato juice was thin and watery. The tomato juice from the Canoly masticating juicer was redder and thicker. I then juiced the rest of the vegetables and this resulted in 1.75 quarts of V8 juice. Then I made the berry juice, consisting of 3 apples. 4 oranges, 1 cup frozen strawberries, 2 cups frozen mixed berries, and 1 cup fresh blackberries. The frozen stuff was defrosted before juicing. Yield was 1.25 quarts. I was disappointed with the tomato juice because of it being watery. As for the berry juice, there were some large pieces of blackberries in the pulp container. I ran it through the juicer a second time which was a messy process. So I’m not so thrilled about juicing. I’ve taken 2 stars off the Breville and may consider returning it.

This juicer is amazing - I use it at least twice a week and make several 4oz juices. There are a lot of pieces to clean each time and I dont typically put any of it in the dishwasher. Only downside is that it doesn't peel your fruits or veggies so you have to do that first.