Waring JEX328 Health Juice Extractor
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Waring JEX328 Health Juice Extractor
Customer Review: Waring Pro Juice Extractor
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently purchased the Waring Pro several months ago along with the "juiceman's book of Juicing" and "Everything that You need to know about Juicing" from amazon.com (not the juicer - this was purchased elsewhere)
I have been relatively pleased with it's performance, product asthetics, and what it delivers. First, I like the design with the stainless steel housing and cup. It won't stain and looks classy. More important, however, is what it delivers and that is great juicing with less produce expense then other juicers, some costing much more.
I have no problem with the noise, as another reviewer wrote, it isn't on that long. It is easy to clean with the strainer basket being the hardest. A sturdy nylon or bottle brush works best here. I use less produce then that recommended in "Jay the Juiceman's book of complete Juiceing". So i guess it is more efficient. There is no pulp in drinks and it can juice whole carrorts and quarter apples. For juicing parsely or other greens take a cue from the juiceman book "roll it and use a carrot to push through with the plunger. You will get your green juice.
Prior to this I used and still use a vitamix for using total juice (pulp included) and i still love it, but it has limitations when it comes to veggies. I prefer the waring pro for this.
I have looked at more expensive and powerful juicers. Someday, maybe I will go this way, but as for now, I don't see the advantage of a pulp ejector. I juice two times per day.
Overall, this is a good juicer that you will not have to return after a weeks use.
Don
Customer Review: Great Juicer with some minor limitations.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is probably the 4th juicer I have owned and the most powerful. My last juicer was the LeQuip Model 221 juicer ($200 list). The Waring is better. It is well made, and has a very cool design, easy to take apart and assemble. The stainless steel adds to its quality. Very powerful motor makes juicing easy and fast. Drawbacks: Having a self-contained pulp collector instead of a pulp ejection chute is definitely a drawback, but I have found I can make about a quart of juice (celery, carrot and beet combination) before having to empty it. The motor is also a little louder than I am used to. The pulp collector is also a little difficult to clean, requiring me to become creative in doing so. Instead of scooping out the pulp by hand, I have to use a flexible spatula and/or just bang it against the side of the garbage can, and then rinse it.
The LeQuip has an external pulp collector, and longer warranty, but the Waring is better. The Waring juices faster and is more stable, easier to take apart, clean and reassemble. The LeQuip is reminiscent of a "Rube Goldberg" design and "walks" across my counter-top when in use, and overall, was a real production to use and clean.
Overall, the Waring is a great deal - I paid about $49 (including shipping on Ebay) for a refurbished unit and so far I am happy with my purchase. I have seen others who have paid the same or less for a new unit.
For making fresh juice daily for one or two people, this is a great juicer. Would be the best first juicer for someone as well.
Customer Review: Excellent product
Summary: 5 Stars
I have just tried this juicer in comparison with the L'Equip mini. Both produced very good juice amazingly economically and conveniently. Each machine had different qualities though. The stainless steel bodied Waring is very neat and sits very well on the worktop. It is easy to imagine just popping an orange into the hopper each morning, flicking the switch and producing a full glass of really tasty orange juice in about 30 seconds not to mention a huge variety of other fruit and veg to juice- I tried apple, pear, beetroot, ginger, carrots, fennel, papaya and all worked well. Yet to try greens and sprouts (I didn't have any). It also cleaned easily in a few seconds - only the grater/strainer causing any difficulty at all but a quick once over with a washingup brush and a rinse under the tap did it. It's comparable to washing a cafetiere. The only drawback in comparison to the L'Equip was a smaller grater/strainer and slightly wetter pulp (less juice per item?) but this was marginal and although the Waring looks bigger at first glance, it is neater and more 'together'. When I received the L'Equip I was disappointed that the body was plastic and not metal but it does also produce very good juice and is even (slightly) easier to clean. Although I haven't used these juicers for any length of time I would be happy with either and will have to choose one of them very shortly but I am certainly looking forward to some very lovely juice that I can't get any other wayCustomer Review: Great for price
Summary: 4 Stars
I got this juicer for 35$ after shipping from Rudy's Deals. I have used it for a week and am very happy with it. It extracts juice very well from hard foods, like carrots and apples. Small, soft foods like strawberries leave the pulp a little wet. And leafy greens like spinach and parsley work well if balled up tightly.
If you take care in preparing the juice you will love this machine, but if you're only in it for minimal effort but perfect juice, you should just save up and get an expensive machine. The manual has all the info you need about how to cut up certain foods, and what order to put them in the shoot.
For softer fruits, like mangoes, peaches, and nectarines I suggest keeping them in the fridge and juicing them before they get to the tenderness that you're used to. It still tastes great and juices better if it's not so mushy. You can put strawberries in the freezer just long enough to get a little hard, but not frozen and they won't make such a mess.
As for the pulp build up, I can always make at least 16oz before it's needs to be emptied (the cup holds 32). Definitely get a hard kitchen brush to clean the filter! Also, there is a small bit of froth on the top of the juice, and it's thick, but not pulpy. You can't do citrus fruits, but those are easy to juice by hand anyway.
My favorite combination so far is 3 carrots, 1 red apple, 1 bunch of spinach, and 3 strawberries.
Enjoy!
Customer Review: Highly recoommend!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my first juice extractor, so I imagine there are some features I don't know I should be missing, but this extractor does exverything I know to expect, and it does them very well. My concerns when buying my first extractor included how hard it would be to clean, what types of fruit I could juice, and how effective the extraction process would be. The noise potential was a factor also.
What I found with this extractor is the following:
1. It's very easy to clean. Truly something I would not mind doing daily, which is much more often than I will probably use it.
2. The juice extraction is extrememly efficient. The orange pulp was practically bone dry. Now I'm searching for a use for the pulp. Maybe muffins?
3. The noise level is lower be far than my Keurig coffee maker generates just pumping water from the reservoir.
4. The footprint of the extractor is not much more than my Keurig and in fact now sits along side it on my kitchen counter.
5. As for the types of fruit and vegetables that will work well, I started with soft, ripe oranges to really give it a test. It passed with flying colors. I can't imagine it will have issues with anything else.
Now if I could just find some good juice recipes! I'm going to try celery, carrots, spinach, and apple next.
I would highly recommend this to a friend.