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Enjoy all your favorite fresh juices with ease with an all-in-one automatic juice extractor and citrus juicer combined. With 1.1 HP (800 watts) of power and high/low speed control, you'll enjoy maximum juice extraction on all your produce from berries to rind-on pineapple. The citrus juicer attachment features 2 juicing cones for small and large citrus fruits. An integrated pulp container takes up less space on your counters, while a custom juice pitcher makes measuring or serving easy. The 3-inch wide mouth feed chute lets you juice more with less precutting, while the snap-up juice spout helps keep drips and spills off your counters. All this, plus dishwasher-safe parts for easy cleaning and built-in cord storage.
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
More Pulp than Juice,
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This review is from: Juiceman JM480S 1.1-HP 2-Speed All-in-One Automatic Juice Extractor and Citrus Juicer with Integrated Pulp Container (Kitchen)
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The Juiceman appears to be a great value at first. This appliance looks and feels sturdy and comes with two types of juicer. One is the classic "spinning cone" that you press a half a citrus against. It's essentially a motorized version of the glass juicer that we have just about all used at one time or another. The other juicer function is the "juice extractor" which is the configuration pictured in the Amazon website photo. This is the way we spent our testing time, in this configuration, and we were frankly kind of disappointed. The Juiceman produced juice, but it produced a LOT more pulp. I found I could get about as much juice by hand squeezing the pulp at the end of an extraction than the extraction itself. Seemed odd. We followed all the instructions, and our observation is that the recipe yields in the instruction book are optimistic at best. In general, it seemed to take us about twice as many apples to make a cup of juice as suggested in the book. It seemed to take about three times as many carrots. In talking with friends who had more experience with this kind of unit, we found that they had a couple of recommendations: 1. Make sure you have only the freshest, juiciest fruits and vegetables and that you soak carrots and celery in water before use; 2. The several times more expensive juicers exist because they work better. Upon checking some web sources, we found that most of the folks who are really happy with their juicers, whatever the brand, seem to gravitate towards the $300-500 kind. Wow! This Juiceman is $79. So, a way to look at it is, how much extra fruit and vegetable can you buy for the added couple hundred dollars? Probably enough that you'll get tired of juicing before you make up the difference. A poor way to look at it, I'm sure, but here is why I say this.
The Juiceman is not fun to clean. Juicing carrots seemed to leave a glaze on the surface of the extractor cup, which is a spinning steel and plastic bowl inside the machine. It has sharp spurs on the bottom of the cup to grind off bits of fruit and vegetable which are then centrifuged against the fine screened sides which allow the juice to fly out into the collection area of the unit when in operation. We went through half a Costco bag of carrots, four apples, a bunch of spinach, four large celery stalks, etc. This required emptying the pulp bin about four times. We got well under a pint of juice altogether. In fact, the four of us were using shot glasses to share the output. When we finished and I went to do final cleaning, it was very hard to remove the filmy glaze on the bottom of the extractor cup. I soaked it overnight in water. The next day, it was still had to scrub off. I used a toothbrush for the task. They supply a cleaning brush in the kit, which is essentially a stiff toothbrush, too. The other parts didn't have the filmy glaze, but there are a lot of parts to clean. The next hardest cleaning task is the plastic labyrinth that leads the juice out of the spout on the front of the unit. You absolutely need a brush or other implement to reach into these spaces to clean unless you have skinny fingers. Whatever you do, don't let this plastic thing sit after use - you need to clean it immediately. The rest of the pieces are more or less like cleaning a food processor. I suppose the bottom line here is that I now appreciate why commercial fruit and vegetable juices are not cheap, especially the "organic" health food types. If you must have this kind of appliance, do a lot of checking beforehand and buy enough juicer that you'll be happy with it. This one is not enough unless you have other uses for all the pulp and have enough time to be inefficient about producing juice.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not perfect,
By Stephen J. Carlson (Overland Park, Kansas United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Juiceman JM480S 1.1-HP 2-Speed All-in-One Automatic Juice Extractor and Citrus Juicer with Integrated Pulp Container (Kitchen)
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I was excited to try out this Juiceman Juice Extractor, as I had never owned a juicer before. Overall, it's a pretty nice product.
Pros: + Easy to assemble and take apart. It was fairly intuitive for me to put this together without needing instructions. + Simple to clean. I don't have a dishwasher, but the product says that it's dishwasher safe. I was also happy to find that there is a toothbrush-like cleaning tool included, to help clean the filter piece. + Simple to close the juice spout. This is a small, but useful feature, for when you are switching out the juice collection container + Two speeds. The fruits I used worked fine on the slower speed, but it's nice to know that there's a more powerful setting available. + Comes with a citrus attachment. This is great for making orange juice, lemonade, and other citrus drinks. + Recipes included in booklet. There were only a few, but it's a nice place to start. Cons: + Juicing is not perfect. When I put apples through the machine, there were a few bigger pieces (around the size of a nickel) that the machine missed. I didn't think this was that big of a deal, though, since overall the juicer performed pretty well. Overall, this is a pretty good product. I would recommend this to others.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to Setup, Use and Clean,
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This review is from: Juiceman JM480S 1.1-HP 2-Speed All-in-One Automatic Juice Extractor and Citrus Juicer with Integrated Pulp Container (Kitchen)
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The day I received my juicer I put all the pieces except the base into the dishwasher to more or less sanitize everything. I happened to have a bag of summer apples so when it was done washing I put it back together in no time, got out the apples, turned it on and started juicing. The apples were about medium size and fit whole into the chute. When I had gone through all of the apples I had a full pitcher of juice which was tasty and clean of any pulp. I removed all of the pieces, emptied the pulp into our composting bin and simply rinsed everything off except the base which didn't need any cleaning at all. It was that quick and easy. I did use the included brush to clean the filter but that took very little effort as well.
This juicer works so well I find it easy to make a quick, fresh drink when I want one. I don't think there is really any need to plan ahead. It comes with an instruction booklet with great tips. It can be used to either grind everything up or you can switch attachments to extract the juice from fruit like oranges or grapefruit and not have to remove the skin. The only thing I think is missing is a top for the pitcher in case there is any left over you could just put the pitcher in the refrigerator. This is a great juicer - easy to use and no mess. Soon apple harvest will be starting so I can go get some fresh apples to use with my new juicer!
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