Breville BJE510XL Ikon 900-Watt Variable-Speed Juice Extractor Review
Product Features
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Product Description
Breville Ikon Multi-Speed Juice Fountain is 900 watts. It has a 5 speed high speed motor that features a built-in electronic smart chip that increases power to the cutting disc under heavy loads. As a result, the filter extracts more juice and can make an 8 ounce glass in just 5 seconds. The 3" feed tube allows for the easy and efficient processing of whole fruits and vegetables, without pre-cutting, slicing or peeling. It is uniquely positioned directly over the center of the cutting disc for better balance and consistent results. The 5 speed settings make the Ikon Juice Fountain the most versatile juice extractor available. The lower speeds are for softer fruits and leafy green vegetables. The higher speeds maximize extraction from dense foods such as apples and carrots.
Real User Review
We owned a refurbished Waring JEX328 juicer for about two years and my wife used it to make juice for our children and me almost every day. It held up fairly well and we paid almost nothing for it at the time (around 30 bucks, I think), but it finally cratered a couple of weeks ago. We debated for a while whether or not to replace it with Breville BJE510XL or the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Pro. We finally decided on this one because it had so many five star ratings and because Breville BJE510XL is an appliance we use so often, thus we thought Breville BJE510XL made sense to get the best one we could find, even with its steeper price. While I can't compare Breville BJE510XL to the Hamilton Beach model, I can compare Breville BJE510XL
to the Waring model, and Breville BJE510XL beats the Waring model hands down.
As soon as you unpack the Breville you know you have a top quality piece of equipment. It does an outstanding job at juice extraction (the pulp is dryer than what the Waring produced, and the Waring actually did pretty well) and the clean-up is far easier. When cleaning the Waring, you had pulp caked up within the Breville BJE510XL and Breville BJE510XL was a pain to clean it out, partially becaused Breville BJE510XL
had a higher moisture content but also simply because of all of the nooks and crannies in this catchment section of the juicer. Although this section detached, Breville BJE510XL was still difficult to clean nonetheless . The Breville puts the pulp in a separate container off to the side, and as others have mentioned, if you line Breville BJE510XL with a plastic bag there is nothing to it. The only "pain" is cleaing the filter device, which is going to be difficult with any juicer you buy. The brush they provide does make this a little easier, however.
Now for the biggest difference: the noise produced when the machine is turned on. With the Waring, you had to pause the television, stop talking, cover your ears, and hope the neighbors didn't phone the cops on you for disturbing the peace. The Breville BJE510XL is FAR quieter. Don't get me wrong, Breville BJE510XL is not "whisper quiet" or anything like that, but Breville BJE510XL probably makes one third of the noise the Waring did.
Is it worth the higher price as compared to the Waring or Hamilton Beach? Hard to say. Like I mentioned, we got the Waring for practically nothing and Breville BJE510XL was a good introductory machine for us for juicing, but SO LOUD!
I can't really find any flaws with the Breville BJE510XL at all (we have run Breville BJE510XL for about a week now). Considering, however, that Breville BJE510XL costs almost three times what you can get the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Pro for (I would chose this one over the Waring purely from my experience with it and from reading the reviews for the Hamilton), whether or not you want to go with this "ultra juicer" version boils down to sheer personal preference. How often you will run Breville BJE510XL and what variety of recipies you might want to put through it should probably be your driving factors, along side the price difference, of course. The main differences I found with the Breville BJE510XL as compared to the Hamilton were a slightly higher wattage (900 versus 800) and the variable speeds instead of only one, single speed. From our perspective, though, we have had no regrets in spending the extra cash for Breville BJE510XL.
EDIT 08/05/08: Just thought I would mention that since this review we bought the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Pro as a gift for my wife's mother, so we had a chance to directly compare it to the Breville BJE510XL. It did a good job, but it was louder and not nearly as solidly built as the Breville BJE510XL. After this comparision, we are even more satisfied with our decision to spend a bit extra and get this model. The varible speed on the Breville BJE510XL is something you will definitely miss should you go back to a model that does not have this feature. Hope this helps!
By MW (Miramar, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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