T Fal Ze5813us Balanced Living 550 Watt Juice Extractor With Stainless Steel Filter And Dishwasher Safe Juicer Parts White - I Pick This One

T-fal ZE5813US Balanced Living 550-Watt Juice Extractor with Stainless Steel Filter and Dishwasher Safe Juicer Parts, White - I Pick This One

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Reviews of T Fal Ze5813us Balanced Living 550 Watt Juice Extractor With Stainless Steel Filter And Dishwasher Safe Juicer Parts White

Great affordable juicer
Rating by : Mike Wallace,

I am an avid juicer and I have been using a Breville Juice Fountain Elite for the past 3 years. This juicer actually has many of the features of the Juice Fountain Elite and works just about as well.

The T-fal Balanced Living juice extractor is easy to assemble and take apart. The plastic parts are dishwasher safe and the stainless steel filter comes with a cleaning brush. If you do put the plastic parts in the dishwasher I would suggest turning off the heat dry, just in case; and hand washing the filter basket with the cleaning brush. The feed tube is extra wide and can fit whole pears and apples, although I would suggest coring the apples because the seeds can contain trace elements of cyanide.

I made apple ginger juice this morning and it turned out perfect. I use the lower speed for most items because slower juicing seems to yield a bit more juice, so I usually let the items feed through the tube instead of forcing them with the pusher. Because my Breville is about 3 years old and has had heavy use, the nice new sharp filter basket of the T-fal juicer actually was faster.

With most juicers getting the juice basket out of the juicer for cleaning can be a bit of an effort. I noticed that the cleaning brush has a flat handle that looks like it is designed to pop out the juice filter basket, after use. The only problem was that the juice filter basket was lodged in pretty good, and I didn't want to bend the handle. I used a screwdriver and easily popped the filter basket out of the juicer.

I also put this juicer through the paces with a spicy green vegetable juice; with kale, cilantro, carrot, celery, cucumber, parsnip, apple, lemon, lime, ginger, garlic, and onion. It handled everything fine even the hard kale stems. The juice wasn't pulpy and the yield was over 32 ounces. I did try pulling the spout upwards to remove the filter basket, but popping it up with a large screwdriver seemed to be what worked best for me.

This juicer is noisy, but not any louder than any other centrifugal juicer. The juice pitcher is a bit of an ingenious design, with the defrother built into the pitcher, and the lid permanently attached. You can tell that the folks who designed this juicer tried to take the features of the best juicers available, and even tried to improve them a bit.

Juicing is a great way to get vitamins and enzymes straight to your system and save your body the effort of digestion. This is an affordable juicer with great features and a great juicer for people who are new to juicing or for juicing regulars who need a replacement juicer. I was impressed with the design and the price.

Easy setup, quick to clean, sturdier parts than other juicer I have used, large capacity
Rating by : D. Brennan,

Note - see update at the bottom of the review

Pros:
-Large capacity. Enough for a family or a full day's juicing needs.
-Powerful motor makes short work of beets, stems, etc
-VERY sturdy mesh disc - much stronger and stiffer than what I have seen in other models
-Quick clean-up. No special tools required and design makes emptying shredded vegetable matter clean and quick

Cons:
-Pitcher seems to drip more than our other juicer
-Instructions suck - I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how to remove the wire disc. It was annoying at the time, though I am past it now.

We have been using a Breville BJE200XL Compact Juice Fountain 700-Watt Juice Extractor. It's great but I found it too small sometimes for the amount of juice we want to make for long bike rides or when we have company. It also struggles sometimes with beets and other tough vegetables. Its design also make it a little messy to clean up.

We have been using the T-fal ZE813US for 3 days now and I am mostly happy with it and will be giving our Breville away. My one moment of annoyance occurred when washing it the first time. I was unable to pull the wire spinner disc off. I was looking for a lever, special tools, etc but could find nothing. It turns out that you have to lift the adjustable spout a little to lift the green plastic collector off, which then allows you to remove the disc. You will find NOTHING about this in the instructions. Dumb.

Once I figured that out my experience with this juicer has been great. It makes short work of even the toughest vegetables I have tried. Strangely this 500-watt juicer makes its way through vegetables even better than the 750-watt Breville. Perhaps it is the VERY sturdy metal juicer disc. It is very stiff and thicker than what came with the Breville. In fact, the Breville, though more expensive, seems to me made with lower quality components.

The large pitcher and fiber collection bin makes it possible to juice large quantities. Cleanup is quick and easy. I was especially happy to see how easy it was to clean the metal disc. In a side-by-side test, it produced the same amount of juice as our Breville, with no difference in taste.

I would highly recommend this product. It's powerful, less expensive than many competitors, and built sturdily.

Update: August 3, 2013
A few months back I was given the chance to try out the Kuvings NS-850 Silent Upright Masticating Juicer, Silver. Follow that product link to read my review. In short, the T-Fal is still a great machine, especially for the price. If however you are willing to invest more money on a juicer, and more time preparing your fruit and vegetables for juicing, the return is better tasting juice from a masticating juicer.

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