Our Juicer Recommendation? What to Look for in a Juicer? [AXFIT APPROVED]
2013 is all about the JUICE so it was no surprise that after our recent posts on Juicing we received many emails asking which Juicer we would recommend to someone getting their feet wet in the world of Juicing. After adding Juicing to my weekly routine, I would definitely recommend it.
We have done a good amount of research ourselves and asked a number of people we knew who were already Juicing what they would recommend. After looking into all the factors and weighing out the different options we chose the “Breville Juice Fountain Professional”
THE AXFIT APPROVED JUICER: Breville Juice Fountain Professional
“The Breville is the best bang for your buck and ranks well on all of the below criteria”
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Breville JE98XL Juice Fountain Plus 850-Watt Juice Extractor
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A JUICER?
- Ease of operation and clean up – If juicing is a hassle you won’t do it. Or you won’t do it as often as you should or would like. You need a juicer that is easy to use and easy to clean, so that when the mood to make juice hits you, you don’t think, no I don’t want to go through all that work for just one glass of juice. No worries, the Breville is easy to clean.
- Juice Quality – A good juicer makes juice of a high quality. A high quality juice has a high nutrient and enzyme content.
- Will it last? – Quality juicers have quality warranties. A 30 or 90 day warranty is not a good warranty. A one or two year warranty is good, while a five or ten year warranty is excellent. Many of the juicers under $100.00 have cheap brush motors that are not horsepowered and can not handle seeds, rinds, stems or cores. You have to slice every piece of produce into tiny pieces so the motor does not burn out. Most purchasers of these inexpensive department store machines ignore the directions and use their juicer like Jay the Juiceman on TV uses his. Doing so will burn out such a juicer in less than a month and there are cases where such machines have burned out in as little as three weeks. This leads us back to #1. If preparing the produce is a big hassle because your juicer can’t accommodate it, you won’t do it as often as you should. A $69.95 juicer is not a bargain if it only lasts 3 to 9 months.
- Yield, or ounces of juice per pound of produce – This is what really separates the bargain basement juicers from the quality machines. A good juicer can get extract much more juice per pound of produce than a cheap one. You may save $100.00 by buying a cheap juicer now, but every time you make juice you are throwing money away in lost juice. How much money? A lot! A good juicer gets 17% to 25% more juice than the bargain basement models. It’s easy to waste 25 cents worth of juice or more a day with a cheap machine. So in one short year your $100.00 savings goes down the drain – literally!
- Power -You need a machine with a horsepower motor of 1/4 horsepower or higher.
