How expensive is your juicer?

[TP]

I have the Breville Juice Fountain Elite 800JEXL with the 1000watt motor.. I got it for $250 from Amazon. (They had a $50 coupon at the time).. It was recommended by a very experienced juice fasting person and it's a great juicer, though I have been less into juicing lately now that I got a vitamix.. You could get it here for $299 http://www.freedomyou.com/juicer/Breville_Juicer.htm

[Curleedst]

My husband bought me a Waring Pro juicer last Christmas and it leaves way too much JUICE in the pulp for my taste so that tells me it has me wasting veggies and fruit. The pulp is too wet when I discard it. NOT GOOD! It is also too loud for my taste. Sounds like an airplane.

I had a Juiceman Junior for $60 and the pulp was ALWAYS dry. I burned it out after 2 years and then the mesh thing got harder and harder to clean. I am looking for another good highly recommended YET affordable juicer that doesn't leave so much juice in the pulp!

Any recommendations?

[~rawfoodie]

WOW so much great information!

[prana]

I have a Norwalk juicer - they are strong, extraordinarily easy to clean and do not wear out!

[lissomllama]

I got my Jack Lalanne's juicer for $71.00 on ebay and I LOVE it. It's great. I used it for the first time yesterday and I've been full of juice since!

[amanda]

I have the Green Life juicer.. I think it was about $300-$400. It's pretty amazing!! I haven't even taken advantage of all that it can do yet. I LOVE making frozen 'ice cream' with it!! Berries, bananas, pineapple, anything frozen! It's so delicious:)

[amanda]

I have the Green Life juicer.. I think it was about $300-$400. It's pretty amazing!! I haven't even taken advantage of all that it can do yet. I LOVE making frozen 'ice cream' with it!! Berries, bananas, pineapple, anything frozen! It's so delicious:)
Overall, it's a great juicer!

[EastCoastie]

When I was juicing (before raw) I had the Breville. It worked great for the standard stuff (apples, carrots, oranges), although you did have to do some prep work if your item to juice was too big to fit through the shoot. Plus my husband joked it sounded like an airplane getting ready to take off! ;)

Last year as we were transitioning to a more alkaline based diet, we bought the Champion because we were told it did wheatgrass. Although it is a workhorse and does lots of stuff, it does not do wheatgrass. We took the Champion to our office for juicing at lunchtime and after extensive research decided to get the Samson Ultra Green Power juicer.

I love the Samson. I find it very easy to assemble (and putting things together is not my forte unless it's computer related or cooking) and it makes great juice very quickly almost by itself, including WG. It also makes really good sorbet and frozen banana icecream (both have been winners with our non-raw friends). I would definitely buy another one.

EC

[Green Life]

Green Life??Ahhh, that sound's so familiar, LOL. I was wondering why someone emailed me and asked me if I owned the company?? I didn't know there was a Company called "Green Life"! Now, I guess I do. And to think I had an original name.

Green Life

[Daddeln]

For the ones who owns a championjuicer could you please tell me, is it as bad as eticaljuicers-page says it is? Because I bought one last week and is waiting for it to ship over the seas and I was really looking forward to it but after I read about how worthless it is according to the eticaljuicers-page I really have my worries. I don't believe I can return it and I really doesnt have that much money so that I can buy another one aswell. Please tell me.

[EastCoastie]

D,

I think the Champion is a good machine although it is a bit time consuming to use and does not do WG. Everyone I know that has one loves it (none of them are WGer's.)

Personally, based on my experience I don't think you have anything to worry about. Again, if we were not big into WG we probably would not have gotten another juicer.

Hope that helps!

EC

[Daddeln]

Thanks EastCoastie! Thats very comforting to hear.
I know I've been these things before but im such a nervous drip in these things. I have bought so maybe mediocer things because of lack of knowledge lately and really don't wanna do it another time.

[tvillemom]

I borrowed a friend's Champion for about 2 months when I first went RAW...and loved it! It was easy to use (I didn't have a manual...she just quickly went over how to use it) and I thought it worked great. I juiced with it and used the blank blade for making homemade icecream, and pates! Very easy, and not too hard to clean!
Wendi

[hameyjane]

We have a Waring JEX 300 something or other. It was a wedding gift sev yrs back. Works great--we love it.

[WingedSpirit]

My first juicer was the old Juiceman Jr. (metal basket) from 15 yrs ago. We used it a lot when I was a kid then it just collected dust until about 4 months ago when I broke it overloading on Juicing. Motor just died. Got another cheap one, was terrible! (mom trying to console me) Then she found one at Costco that is just great for what I need. Lots of power, lots of juicing and I can ram Beets and Kale down it's shute equally. It's a Waring Pro juicer and it's alot like a bigger badder version of the old juiceman. The pulp is really wet still but since my dog loves to eat that it's not a problem. I'm looking at a champion because I'm not as in to wheat grass but I do love the thought of making all those recipes where they use that juicer...