Customer Reviews

Black & Decker JE1500 Fruit-and-Vegetable Juicer

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

It's a fair juicer and you can use it for everyday job but there are some cons:
When we juiced the first carrots, most parts of the juicer got the orange color and wasn't gone after washing.
It adds some pulp to the juice (which is not necessarily bad).
The motor rotates so fast that there's not enough time for juicing resulting in some unjuiced left-over.
Overall, if you don't want to spend a lot of money on a decent juicer, this one is good for the price.

For the money it works, fine but:

1) It leaves alot of chunks behind, pieces of fruit & veggies are not fully processed.
2)The pulp is pretty wet, it doesn't get alot of the juice out, with wet pulp it gathers up in the lid and blocks the remaining pulp from going in to the trash recepticle.
3. Cutting Blade and strainer are hard to clean.

We use this daily and working great so far. Except cleaning effort, I would say this is a good juicer for the price tag it carries.

It's inexpensive, it works effectively, and I have no complaints. Other reviewers who are upset about having to clean the juicer would be disappointed with any juicer. Especially if you're going to juice carrots, it's going to be hard to clean your juicer. My tip--use a bottle brush to scrub with dish detergent and warm water.

So far I have tried to make apple and orange juice.

I was surprised that the machine did not come with many instructions or any kind of recipe book. I think this is the first kitchen appliance I have ever bought that didn't.

It has a lot of parts and it was difficult at first to figure out how to put it together. The juicer gets very messy, not just inside but out, when you use it.

Seems like a lot of work to make a little juice. You have to cut up the food into very small pieces because the spout at the top is not very large. It would be helpful if it was more like a food processor, where you can dump in a whole bunch at once. The machine is very powerful but makes a burning smell and is loud. It's difficult to put the food in while the machine is going because it can pop back out at you.

So far the juice I have made was not very tasty and it was very pulpy. It may be that I did not pick the best kind of fruit, though.

I'm not sure if any of this is typical of juicers or not because I've never had one before. I got it as a gift. I am looking forward to trying more and different kinds of juices.

Once you figure it out, it does snap together and apart pretty easily. The mesh is hard to clean, but the rest is easy.

Juices well but extremely messy. Five minutes of juicing = twenty minutes of cleaning. Juice leaks all over the place and the mesh is extremely hard to clean. I put mine in the donation pile after three uses.

This is the first juice extractor I've owned, and while I'm enjoying it and it does produce good juice, there are a few setbacks that will keep me on the lookout for another.

The first thing that I don't like is that the fresh ingredients "feed" is way too small unless you're happy with cutting things into small pieces (I'm not).

The second is that the strainer is not easy to clean. I've tried several different ways and still not have been able to do it fully and thoroughly.

Oddly enough, it didn't come with any recipes. One or two simple ones to get you started would be extremely helpful. I had to get my information from a friends who's had one for a while (not the same juicer).

It does have a lot of parts, but you get used to them and as long as you rinse off the pieces right after you use them, they're not much trouble.

All in all, I can put up with the faults of this machine for fresh, healthy juice in return.

This does the job.

BAD
But not easy to clean up the juice extractor mesh. In the bin where the waste is collected one can find items that are not fully juiced out.

It's easy to assemble but It's very very messy, it leaks from everywhere and you have to cut the fruits in small pieces to be able to fit them through the little hole.

I got this juicer for Christmas. I really enjoyed having it. It was easy to assemble, use, and clean. Unfortunately one day the cutter/strainer component burst at the seam with a loud BANG, sending the juicer vibrating around the counter and scraping off strings of plastic from the inside of the machine. I called Black & Decker (they provide a phone number and website, but you cannot order replacement parts online) and tho the machine was less than SIX months old, they no longer carry replacement parts for it. Nor could I replace the whole machine because I did not have the original receipt.

So basically, it's a good juicer, but keep your receipt.