Cuisinart Juice Extractor CJE1000
You get all what you paid for and a little bit more
I just finished a Food Blog just last weekend about Juicing and Blending. I have to rewrite what I have discovered since that blog. I talked about the juicers I have bought and how I liked or disliked. I have a centrifugal juicer. All the juicers that I bought reticently was a common market Centrifugal juicer. My very first juicer I had almost 20 years ago was a Juiceman Jr. and I really enjoyed that juicer. I got it as a gift and it was only $10.00, but I had to clear space in my old apartment. So I gave it to Goodwill. Whoever bought it in LA probably paid more than what the gift was at that time. Anyway the next juicer I bought was called Bella. It is from a company in Canada. This company sells a centrifugal and a slow juicer. I heard equally good and bad from reviews about this juicer. I bought it from Target for $60.00. I gave it a try once, and packed it back in the box and took it back to Target. When you juice you want to see juice, not drips of juice. I juiced 1 apple and received less than a tablespoon of juice. It only had one or two speeds. So I know I could not have juiced wrong. For hard fruits or vegetables you want more power so I know I had max power. Then I tried to juice celery. Now celery is nothing but water. I did receive more liquid but was not impressed. By the time I got finished juicing 4 carrots, 3 celery stalks, 4 apples. I had 2/3 cups of juice and ¼ cup of foam. I was so disappointed.
I went immediately to the net and searched again for a juicer I could buy immediately and not have to ordered. I noticed Hamilton Beach Big Mouth. Walmart had two version the Big Mouth and the Big Mouth Pro. The Pro was $10.00 more. I thought you would get an upgraded juicer. Walmart had a lot of The Basic Big Mouth and 2 beat up box Big Mouth Pro. I wanted the black so it would not show stains and it seems more powerful. Oh I did mention the Pro was the Black model so I bought that. Guess what they Basic Big Mouth and Pro models are the same even though the Basic model was colored white and the boxed were much neater, it advertised 800 rpms and the Pro was advertised 1000 watts. So I thought I was getting a faster model. AD ALERT! IT IS THE SAME. The only difference of the two was that the Pro came with a small cup for the juice and a brush. Well the juicer was not bad. I paid $49.99 for this juicer and it did advertise that you do get more juice than some of the expensive models. But one thing I did not like was the forth. On the reviews of this machine was pretty fair. It did have a lot of good remarks. You did get more juice for your buck but the motor did run very load, and a lot of people stated they could not juice in the morning since it sounded like a 747. And juice did get a good amount of froth. I did not see a hug problem. I was not trying to spend a lot of money so I was satisfied, until I had to return a coffee pot back to Sears and I came across a juicer that I wanted but Could not find. This juicer had almost the same bells and whistles like a juicer called the Breville fountain but was almost ½ the price less. This juicer had 5 speed, and used 1000 watt power like the Hamilton Beach but was more quiet and had a froth controller. What? Wait a minute, a froth controller. That sold me. So you know what happened, I whizzed home looked hopeless for my Walmart receipt for my likeable Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Pro until I found it and went back to Walmart returned the Hamilton Beach BMP and went to Sears with a $25.00 off coupon for any small appliance of $150.00. I bought my juicer. The brand and model was a Cuisinart Juicer Extractor CJE1000.
The reason I did not get a Breville is the all the hype I have read on reviews and looked on You Tube exhausted me. I mean people only bought the juicer because of a documentary on Netflix called "Fat, Sick And Nearly Dead". From what I read a young man was very sick and over weight and was taking a lot of medication and he decided to change the way he ate. He started juicing to stay alive and became healthy and lost weight and stopped taking his medication. So after that documentary the juicing craze began. Well I did not know anything about man's story until after I bought the Hamilton Beach BMP. So I do not fall into that category of why I wanted only a Breville. It may be a great juicer but some folks in the WWW world stated the price jacked up after the documentary went virile. Also I viewed both pro and cons on both juicers. Depending if you ate getting the 5 speed Breville the price is about $200 or more, and it has about the same features as the Cuisinart CJE1000 but I think it is a 800 or 900 watt. The Breville juicer that has only two speeds but is about the same price as the Cuisinart CJE1000. People stated on some of the views that the Cuisinart CJE1000 had wet pulp. I did not experience that. unless you have a juice food like beets, watermelon, or berries the pulp was dry to my touch. You will never get a stone dry pulp from any Centrifugal juicer. The Hamilton Beach had wet pulp. I even juiced the pulp and juiced a couple of tablespoon of left over pulp when I had that juicer. I had the Cuisinart CJE1000 for almost 4 days and see not problems. Even the froth is less than the Hamilton Beach.
My last Beef with people bad mouthing good juicer
This is what I have to say about all of the juicers and not just the ones I returned to the store. If you want the ultimate juicer than you should have no problem shelling out the ultimate dollars. But why fuss if you are not or can not afford the best model. You have to research, shop and may have to return and shop again to get a good juicer that is right for you. All juicer are a pain to clean. Some juicers are loud as heck, some juicers will not have a brush or have the power you crave, But if trying to compare for example a citrus juicer to a cheap Centrifugal juicer you can not do it. The function of that two is different and you will not have the same result. I am fugal I want more money for the bang. I tried the cheap juicer which worked better than a mid price juice. It did make more juice but was load and made a lot more froth, I settled for a mid -high juicer from a well known company that had similar gadgets as a Breville but was not over priced or over advertised. It may not be the best but it surely not the worst. I have been surprised and over joyed from the times I have used it. So the Cuisinart I will say I give it a 10. I believe some folks may either over exaggerate or they juice to fast and uses the wrong setting. In a centrifugal it is almost not worth will juicing green leafy vegetables. but I have done it by using a low speed of 2 and freezing my fresh greens for 20-30 minutes before juicing. A representative from Bella gave me that tip. So all in all I am sticking with the Cuisinart CJE1000.
This is what I have to say about all of the juicers and not just the ones I returned to the store. If you want the ultimate juicer than you should have no problem shelling out the ultimate dollars. But why fuss if you are not or can not afford the best model. You have to research, shop and may have to return and shop again to get a good juicer that is right for you. All juicer are a pain to clean. Some juicers are loud as heck, some juicers will not have a brush or have the power you crave, But if trying to compare for example a citrus juicer to a cheap Centrifugal juicer you can not do it. The function of that two is different and you will not have the same result. I am fugal I want more money for the bang. I tried the cheap juicer which worked better than a mid price juice. It did make more juice but was load and made a lot more froth, I settled for a mid -high juicer from a well known company that had similar gadgets as a Breville but was not over priced or over advertised. It may not be the best but it surely not the worst. I have been surprised and over joyed from the times I have used it. So the Cuisinart I will say I give it a 10. I believe some folks may either over exaggerate or they juice to fast and uses the wrong setting. In a centrifugal it is almost not worth will juicing green leafy vegetables. but I have done it by using a low speed of 2 and freezing my fresh greens for 20-30 minutes before juicing. A representative from Bella gave me that tip. So all in all I am sticking with the Cuisinart CJE1000.