Kenwood JE550 Electronic Juicer Kenwood ( 30 January, 2003 ) Kitchen Our Price : £ 19.97 Prices subject to change. usually dispatched within 24 hours.

Good value for money for occasional use

I have owned one of these for about 6 months and found it performed well for the price (the 2-speed options in particular). Unfortunately it doesnt really cope well with anything really tough such as some of the skins which my juice book says you should leave on. This was frustrating as you had to either throw away the best part of some fruit or take it apart each time it stalled (as instructed in the manual). I didnt have the patience to do this and after 6 months of near-daily use the motor burnt out whilst attempting to juice unpeeled organic pineapple. I am shopping for a more expensive juicer now as Im sure you do get what you pay for and I now know I will want to use it every day.

Good "single person" juicer

Compact, easy to use, easy to clean, relatively small capacity but fine for one. Seemed pretty efficient at extracting juice from carrots and pears. In my experience, juicers always work better with harder fruits, not ripe mushy ones. This model is no exception. Motor laboured at setting "1" but no problems at setting "2". I have used a much larger capacity friends juicer, but the amount of work to clean it meant it lay expensively unused most of the time. I hope to use the Kenwood at least a couple of times per week.

Best with Carrots

Generally, its a good juicer. Its good value for money. But its not the best juicer Ive used.. The filter is VERY fine so you dont have the option to have any bits in the juice. Good and bad - good for carrot juice but with soft fruits I find most of the fruit is wasted, it goes straight to the by product tray Fortunately, I bought it primarily for carrot juice. Its easy to clean.. well everything except for the filter.