Customer Reviews

Jack Lalanne PJP Power Juicer Pro Stainless-Steel Electric Juicer

5 star:		(35)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

I have been juicing for years with a few different cheap brand names. They were ok but very difficult to clean and very loud. I like to make my juice early in the morning before I go to the gym and it would sometimes wake up my neighbors if I did it too early. Many times I had to juice after the gym because it was so loud. The first thing that I noticed with the Power Juicer Pro is that it is super quite. Secondly it is pretty easy to clean. Thirdly, the machine is just beautiful. And lastly, the juice is much finer and cleaner than juice made from much cheaper machines. If you are serious into juicing and you do it everyday this is the machine to get. If you juice once in awhile you might want to get the cheaper Jack Lalanne plastic models. But beware that the plastic juicers are harder to clean and often get stained by the carrots. I hope that this review will be helpful to some. Happy juicing!!!

I have seen multiple bad reviews on this product, and they are all on the same issue. The unit bogs down. Now, I have used the 4 gallon commercial juicers (sunkist brand, champion brand and warring brand) and this product. IF maintained and used as it was directed it will produce a better quality juice than the machines I used for my work. The main thing is what you add to the unit. If you use a sweet potatoes and hard gummy pulpy items you will have to watch the filter and feed it slowly and pay attention. You cannot expect the product to run well if you jam items into it and crush it in. When the pulp starts having more juice in it, turn the unit off, remove filter clean it and replace. Simple! I love it. I precut just for an easier juicing and it does help. Please dont let people who cant read the manual dissuade you from a great juicer. Remember maint. is the key to this product!

Before I start my review, I thought I'd point out how the reviews here for the product are either great or horrible. Nothing in the middle, which is very strange. I almost wonder if some folks are mistakely thinking of another product.

I've been using this product almost daily for about 2 or 3 months now, and it has always done a great job. It's designed well for easy assembly and disassembly, and cleaning.

The only reason this product might not work well is if the owners don't take care of it. There's nothing difficult about using and maintaining this product, but neglect might easily ruin it.

The only concern area might be the blade, which on mine is almost at the point of wanting to replace. I'm not sure yet how easy it might be to get a replacement, and/or how much it might cost.

This juicer stopped working after 2 weeks - the power switch broke. Check the manufacturer's website - they want you to ship the unit back at your expense, AND include a check for $30 for their return shipping! Outrageous - You are out another $60 or so just to ship it back for repair. I definitely would not buy any product from these people again.

First let me say that this is my first juicer so I have nothing to compare it to. I bought it on a whim, and then went to Amazon to check the reviews for it. I was very concerned, because of all the negative reviews. I would have taken it back before trying it, but I had already bought a bunch of fruit so I decided to give it a try to see for myself.

It was easy to set up out of the box and my first juicing experience was great! When I first turned it on it didn't start. I looked at the troubleshooting guide that it came with and realized that I didn't have the safety bar all the way up. I fixed this and it started up right away. I was surprised at how quiet it was. I put in pineapple, carrots, strawberries, apples, celery and oranges. It seemed to juice everything with ease. It did clog one time, but it was an easy fix. I was pleased at how delicious the juice taseted!

Clean up was also super easy. For those that say that the spout is too low to fit a glass under I agree. I just put the juicer near the end of the counter and kept the spout up while juicing. Once I was done I lowered the spout and filled up my glass.

Overall it worked great and I am happy with it after my initial use. I plan to use it once a day. If I encounter the problems that are in other reviews I will update my review.

I gave it 4 stars instead of five, because it did clog once.

The juicer is great! It's so easy to use and easy to disassemble for cleaning. It juices very fast; from the time that I put a fruit or vegetable in the top juice is instantly pouring from the spout. It's surprisingly quiet and the cleanup is easy. I put a plastic bag in the pulp collecting tray, so I just empty the bag and rinse the rest of the parts when I'm done.

I can't find any flaws with this model. I love it and my kids enjoy using it too.

This juicer is one of the worst juicers I've ever used. Don't be fooled by the claims made during the infomercial. This juicer barely has the ability to shred the produce fed into it, much less efficiently extract the any juice from the pulp. Worst of all, it is actually dangerous to use. It all comes down to poor design.

The primary flaw with this juicer is that the feed tube directs its contents into the center of the shredding blade where it spins the slowest. To make matters worse, the teeth at the center of the shredding blade are arranged in the same circular path. This tooth arrangement fails to generate any shredding action between the blades, and only grinds circular groves in the produce. Thus, the produce tends feed very slowly, or actually stalls in the grind tube. This slowed feeding action also seems to cause the centrifuge basket to slow down, and clog up. I'm not exactly sure why this happens, but I suspect it may have something to do with the produce binding between the bottom edge of the feed tube and the center of the shredding blade. Obviously, once the centrifuge basket gets clogged, less juice is extracted, the pulp is wetter, and more juice ends up in the pulp receptacle.

The second flaw is that the pulp is only discharged into the pulp receptacle from one side of the shredding /centrifuge chamber. This tends to cause the pulp to linger in the centrifuge basket, and compounds the clogging problem. Once the centrifuge basket gets clogged, the pulp begins to stick to the inside of the shredding /centrifuge chamber, and eventually seems to make its way into the juice catch basin.

The third flaw is that juice catch basin is flat on the bottom, and does not drain well. Pulp particles in the juice tend to settle on the bottom the juice catch basin, and eventually may stop the juice from draining. When this occurs, juice will flow over the inside lip of the juice catch basin, and stream down the motor housing. Wait; it gets worse! Since the motor's cooling vents are on the sides of the motor housing directly below the juice catch basin, juice escaping from the juice catch basin tends to flow into the motor housing through the cooling vents creating an electrical hazard.

Not flaws, but worth mentioning:
When the juice catch basin is installed, and the shredding blade spun onto the drive shaft before the centrifuge basket is installed, it will be very difficult to uninstall the shredding blade because there is no way to stop the drive shaft from rotating.

Since the feed tube is located in close proximity to the drain spout & juice cup, small produce items sometimes fall into the juice cup during the juicing process.

A little about the company, Powerjuicer.com:

If purchasing directly from Powerjuicer.com, they will try to convince you to buy the accessories. Take my word for it; the accessories are not worth the money! Furthermore, the accessories package may be charged as a separate purchase. Therefore, if one of the purchases are placed on backorder, it may not arrive until the money back guarantee on the other one expires. Either way, you may be stuck with one of the purchases, if you decide to send the other one back.

Buyer Beware!



UPDATE: 7 July 2011

Well, my opinion of this product is even worse than previously stated.

Due to the flaws stated in my previous review, I have only used this Jack Lalane juicer when I needed to juice some produce quickly, and my primary juicer was busy juicing something else. In my honest estimation I have used this juicer less than 20 times. Well, yesterday I wanted to quickly make some carrot/apple/ginger juice, and the juicer died 3/4 of the way through. It had no previous signs of pending failure. It just died. At first, I thought it might be the thermal switch, even though it did not feel hot. I waited about thirty minutes, but the juicer was still dead. So I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt; I cleaned it and let it cool over night. Well it's still dead.

Honestly this is THE WORST juicer I have ever owned. What a piece of JUNK! Please do yourself a favor, and buy ANY OTHER juicer, because this one is a COMPLETE waste of time and money.

I saw the Ad on TV for this Juicer and decided to buy one. I looked on Ebay and found one at half price and listed as new. Bid on it and won. The day it arrived I had some aplles and blue berries and carrots ... What a tasty drink I made and was pleased .Til I started to do the cleaning ..I found the pulp sticks in the discharge chute . This was OK but when I lifted the recepical off the base and saw all the pulp on the edge and dripping down the side I decided this is not right.. being the innervator that I am. I thought there should be a seal there . I purchased an seven and three quarter "O RING" and now the base is sealed from the recepical and no more leaks of juice and pulp.. The MANF needs to add a seal to that area.. and then the machine I think would be better
Other then that I'm happy with the Jack LaLanne juicer

I used to work in a bakery where we had a commercial juicer so I might be on the biased side in evaluating this juicer. But here it goes, the first thing I don't like is that is seems to get unbalanced very easily. I usually have a 16 oz juice in the evening and by the time I get half way through the cup, the juicer vibrates and gets relatively loud. Second item I dont like is the spout that catches the juice is pretty low, so you have to use a short cup, tall cups won't fit under the spout. Third item I don't like is that pulp comes out of the back sporadically. The bin that catches the pulp does not attach to the base of the juicer so the pulp can escape through the spaces. So what I DO like is that it is fast! and clean-up is pretty fast too. I like also that I can juice things like garlic and ginger, but just make sure to feed a carrot or apple through after doing drier type of items to get all the flavoring out of the juicer and in your cup! I also like the warranty.

I bought it and within 1 year the screw peg broke,making it unusable. Thought it was the lady that works at home not using it properly. So bought another one use it just myself, in within 1 year the same thing is happening.. Don't recommend it as you'll have to buy a new one every year.