Breville JE95XL Two-Speed Juice Fountain Plus
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Breville JE95XL Two-Speed Juice Fountain Plus
Customer Review: Very nice.
Summary: 4 Stars
I'd never heard of Breville but this is a nice appliance. Be careful when you align the lid with the pulp receptacle, if it's not aligned correctly you'll be hit by a thin but stinging stream of ejected pulp.
Overall it works QUITE well. The motor slowly ramping up is a nice feature. The industrial design is impressive. It's easy to clean. The taste of fresh juice is arresting, I can't believe I haven't tasted anything like it before, it's really great! I'm excited about being able to easily add vegetables I wouldn't otherwise prepare to my diet. I made some tomato-celery-carrot-spinach juice last night and it tasted fantastic! And it was filling!
The manual and cookbook that come with the juicer contains plenty of recipes -- you won't need a separate cookbook.
The price was excellent, but it was made in China. I'd be willing to pay more for a product manufactured in the USA. Good product, buy it, you'll be pleased.
Aug 06: I'm sorry to report that the motor in my juicer died all at once, too. I'm looking into getting it repaired.
Customer Review: Fast but pulp not THAT dry, and Amazon carries older variation
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought this for my mom. After using it several times a day for 2 weeks straight, she found that the pulp ie. even with apples at both high and low speed) tended to remain fairly moist. The JE95XL we got from Amazon came in a white/blue box. We thought that maybe we were just unlucky and got a lemon, so we checked out a local store (to remain unnamed) - lo and behold the JE95XL came in a white-grey box there. The cleaning-brush was even a different colour (dark grey in the retail store box vs. light grey in the Amazon box). After trying the second JE95XL (from the retail store), we are convinced the pulp is drier, although STILL not as dry as we had expected given all the glowing reviews above (pulping 7 apples would still yield pulp that we could squeeze out 5 tablespoons of juice with our own fingers). That being said, despite the fact that our old Braun juicer put out much drier pulp, the Breville was definitely faster and saved us a lot of time - enough of an advantage that we will keep the JE95XL for now. The Amazon one unfortunately is going back.Customer Review: Great and very fast juicer.
Summary: 5 Stars
I did some research prior to making this purchase....this juicer seemed to be the best bang for the buck...As with most products there were positive and negative comments online but I thought it was a good buy....I am not disappointed....It is very fast and pumping out juice...the large shoot makes it possible to put larger pieces of fruit so there is not as much cutting involved....the foam separator is good but I usually don't use it because I put my juice in a thermos to take to work and the foam goes away after awhile....
At first my wife didn't like the juicer, preferring out old Champion but she has begun to use it and seems to like it just fine.
Clean up is quick and fairly easy.
The one drawback to it is that it doesn't handle leafy veggies such as spinach very well....for that you need a different juicer...We have three juicers in the house so it is not a major issue for us....it works well for most of the juices we drink.....and we drink quite a bit of juice....
Overall...I recommend this juicer....
Customer Review: There be juicin' here!
Summary: 5 Stars
I and my son are new to juicing. We love this juicer and are juicing regularly since clean up is so easy. We love the features -- froth separator (can be removed if you love froth), the 2-speed motor that revs up to full power gradually, the wide feed chute, the powerful motor, and the ease with which the unit breaks down and assembles. This juicer was designed from the ground up by Breville to be a large chute juicer, so the motor is of more than adequate power and is located in the most efficient and optimal placement within the unit. SOme juicers (LaLane) that originally were designed with motors that would only handle small feeding chutes were subsequently retrofitted with large chutes without increasing the motor's power and modifying other design elements to maximize the large feeding tube/chute. I probably would not have started to search for another juicer besides the LaLane but I was really put off by its stingy 90 day warranty. After much research I went with this juicer and am extremely pleased. Highly recommended.Customer Review: Easy to use, easy to clean
Summary: 4 Stars
I used to have a Juiceman Jr. and used it until it broke. With the Juiceman I had to cut up all my veggies before putting them into the hopper. I decided upon the Breville after reading all the juicer reviews. I wanted something that was easy to use and easy to clean. This unit is all that! It powers through anything I put in it and can take whole tomatoes and large carrots etc. I have found that I need to use the low setting only for vegetables. I haven't juiced fruit yet. This unit will spit out some finer veggies (parsley, small tomatoes, ginger root etc.) before it extracts the juice. This is why I took off a star. If you sandwich the smaller veggies between things like carrots and cucumbers, it will slow the blade down enough to take the juice from the finer veggies. Otherwise for the money, this is a fantastic juicer and because clean-up is easy, you'll want to use it frequently. This unit is pretty tall compared to the Juiceman, so it is good to have a tall cupboard to store it in.