Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Happy New Year and here's my 6 month Review

It's been 6 months since I owned this A*Juicer, another 6 months before its warranty expired. One of the readers seek for an overall experience I had with this juicer, so, now I should sum up the good and the not so good about it.

Disclaimer: This review is solely based on the one and only piece of A*Juicer slow juicer that I owned for 6 months. It doesn't mean that all of the products would be like what I had. So, in a nutshell, this is just a humble review from my side. ("It" below refers to the A*Juicer in my house)

The Good

  • It is quiet, I can juice in the morning when my kids are still sleeping
  • It yields more juice than centrifugal juicer that my dad uses
  • It is so easy to clean (but not true when you are only juicing 1-2 oranges, I would still use the manual way)
The Not so Good
  •  It moves sometimes when juicing hard items (eg. grapes with seed)
  • It didn't juice as well as centrifugal juicer when it comes to soft fruits like strawberry or kiwi. In my humble opinion, a blender probably works better for soft fruits just that the blended juice had to be consumed immediately
  • It leaks whenever I flush the juicer in between juicing of different fruits... ARGHHH*

The Neutral, or rather, No Idea
  • Slow juicer is well-known for the ability to keep juice fresh with its natural enzyme. It is shown on official videos that the juice doesn't get separated after setting aside for some time. Well, this is NOT TRUE for my case. I saw my carrot/ celery/ orange juice got separated into pulp and water layers after some time kept in the fridge. I'm not sure why but this is happening to my juice...
  • The version that I own is 179 (with auto lock), not sure if its the lock that is not secured or for whatever reason, it's annoying to see the juicer rocks during juicing and worse, the leakage after flushing.
Overall
  • My husband complained that the "real apple juice" bought from supermarket was too sweet, what juiced by ourselves tasted better
  • My girl refused to drink "real orange juice" bought from  supermarket but she drank the REAL one that we juiced by oursleves
  • My parents who uses centrifugal juicer often bring celery, carrots and oranges for me to juice because they have withdrawal syndrome whenever they think about cleaning their
  • It will be a perfect slow juicer that is quiet, easy to clean and easy to use, only if it doesn't rock during juicing or leak during flushing
  • The price of this juicer is expensive (let me finish) when it is compared to a blender or centrifugal juicer. However, this brand is selling it at a more reasonable and affordable price when compared to masticating (slow pressed) juicers from other countries


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