DeLonghi DJE950 Die-cast Juice Extractor

I bought one used, hoping for a better juicer, smaller price. This is the 3rd juicer I've owned, and I've learn not to stump grind, but dice your produce, and that especially works well with this juicer. I like the long wide shoot to fill as I dice, then get my small chilled pitcher and start juicing once everything is ready. Most of the time it feeds through on it's own, sometimes I shift and push it with a mini spatula, leaves have to be pushed, as well as the last few remnants at the finally. A shot of water clears everything fairly well. I mostly stick to simple celery, baby carrots, pear and ginger root, but have tried bok choy, cabbage, cranberries, apples strawberries and blue berries. I have juiced 3 times a day for almost 9 weeks, and there is a learning curve. From the bok choy leaves, I wouldn't recommend this as a leaf juicer, it does work to fold them up and then if it slows just add a shot of water as necessary, but if your trying to just muscle them through it doesn't preform well grinding leaves up. The cabbage I tried both ways, and the cut cabbage went right through with little effort, the separated leafs were more of a chore. Dicing celery gets rid of most of the problems with strings, but sometimes a little water chaser will clear the blades too. Sometimes I wished it would grind better, but other times stuff just runs right through and I am very happy with the performance. Usually that shot of water gets things moving along, I have rarely stopped and taken it apart except with leaves. I have a 2-speed and a small juicer, but it's the DeLonghi that delivers more juice and less foam, usually 3 or 4 cups each time. I think it's the slower speed induction motor, but even compared to the 2 speed on low, Delonghi exceeds it. I was a prep cook so dicing is second nature, just get the chef's knife so you have some weight behind it. Clean up is easy as any, I actually prefer the inner plastic liner referred to as a filter, just use a small lined basket for compost scraps. I use a dish brush for the spinner basket, that goes fast and cleans easy, but I have had to pick those little strawberry nodules from the blades. If you buy one used, make sure they don't send it assembled, as the bowl of mine came cracked, probably from the stress of being attached to the heavy base. I also have a small glass bowl I set it on, so it's off the counter and the suction cups stay dry.

Does not take citrus!! Can you believe a juicer not doing oranges? Crazy. Wish I had the box and I would return the juicer.

Five star rating because I really can't find any contrary points on this item. It does what it was designed to do. Arrived well packaged and is fairly easy to assemble. Owner's manual is simple and straight forward, NOT an encyclopedia size reading assignment. About fifteen minutes of orientation and you are up and running. Shockingly quiet. So quiet that it makes the juicing process more pleasant than I thought it would be. We've used it for: APPLES - yes you have to cut some of the larger apples (But don't cut them into too small chunks it actually takes longer if you do that.) It advertises one quart of juice in five minutes. Well, actually I suppose if the apples were "over" ripe maybe. But we were able to make one gallon in about thirty minutes. What you get is a very watery looking applesauce, which means you do get quite a bit of fiber. However, if you prefer, set it in the fridge for over night and the solids will settle and you end up with beautiful clear juice. (A tip on Apple juice - use more than one variety for better flavor.) We previously used a one hundred year old cider press for years and I have to tell you, this is way easier and handles a five gallon bucket of apples easily without over heating, but you do have to clean it about every five to ten minutes. . and the pulp remaining in the machine is dry as can be. TOMATOES - does a beautiful and quick job. A quart of tomato juice in five minutes is a true statement and tomatoes do not leave a stain. We use the finished product for sauce. ( Another tip - use fully ripe tomatoes or the finished product will be slightly light in color (dark pink) rather than a full bodied tomato-y red color .) Clean up is less than five minutes. Have not tried any other fruits or vegetables . . . But I can see pineapple going through beautifully though. . We were already a huge fan of DeLonghi products. We have a coffeemaker we love as well as a reliable oil filled portable heater. They offer a few quality built products that are well thought out prior to being offered to the public. This Juicer is no different in that respect. . .

I have had this juicer for a few years now. 3 months ago I returned to daily juicing. At first, I liked this way better than my Breville Ikon 510 from 8 years ago. why? Pros: 1. Since it does not eject the pulp, it can extract much better than most conventional centrifugal juicers. 2. It has a handy pulp removal wheel that makes clean-ups much easier. 3. It was a big improvement over the Omega 1000/9000 designs of years ago, as it was much less likely to wobble so badly that the teeth and plastic get ruined (Like the Omegas would). 4. You could, with practice, even use the paper filters that go with the Omega 1000/9000 to filter out the pulp, although the trapped pulp actually filters out the subsequent pulp -- much better than the loads of micro-fine pulp in the Breville juice (As I do juice fasts, pulp-free juice is said by some to be critical to success). BUT... Cons: 1. The teeth are almost non-existent. Very shallow and dull. Perhaps they saw this as necessary to avoid the above issues that Omega has with their similar designs. This means that the teeth can get "Jammed up" with softer, low water content veggie material, making juicing impossible, and necessitating opening and rinsing out of the teeth bowl 2. It barely, if much at all, can juice leafy greens. Try as I might (Placing a cucumber slice, then the greens, then another cucumber slice before restarting the juicer; "wrapping" the greens in celery stalks on each side, etc) I always find unjuiced spinach, parsley, dino kale, etc in the pulp. Sprouts will go through the "Gap" between the chute and teeth (all centrifugal juicers have this needed gap AFAIK) completely unjuiced, unless you "trap" them with other veg material. All centrifugal juicers are said to have trouble with leafy greens, and the superior extraction and very low pulp (unless it gets overloaded...then it's pulp-infested) from this juicer are attractive, but the masticating juicers extract leafy greens the best. Conclusion: If you have some patience (you will have to disassemble and clean, or remove solid unjuiced pieces of skin from time-to-time) but not enough to "mess" with the vertical or old 2-gear masticating slow juicers, this can be OK. If you resign yourself to poor leafy greens extraction, which you can somewhat compensate for by tricks and just using more greens, then ok. One final thing. DeLonghi stopped making this juicer! They still are/were making spare parts, but the design is dead. An improvement instead would've been nice.

Works well and is made reasonably well. Very small capacity but extracts A LOT of juice. It does become unbalanced easily but is easily corrected. If it continues to run in an unbalanced state however, it will cut a grove in the side of the spinning apparatus and create a burned plastic odor. It will also then require a bit of filing to remedy this situation. Good unit for the price though and is just what we needed for making schnaps.

The DeLonghi juices quickly, and lets you juice whole fruits and veggies without having to cut them up first. Also, clean up is pretty fast because most of the pulp goes into the basket. The only problem for me is that it does not juice greens as well as a masticating juicer--the yield is not as good. Other than that it is great!

The product works great if all you want is a glass and a half of juice. The "waste" area isn't very big and fills up with little juice produced. Sent it back and unfortunately cost me shipping. Lesson learned with amazon on this one.

We aren't juice fanatics but we do enjoy fresh squeezed orange juice and think orange-carrot juice is a real treat. So imagine our surprise when we set this up on Christmas morning, fed some carrots into it, then some oranges ... only to see the machine start complaining, clogging up and refusing to perform. We went to the manual and were stunned to read, way down on the last line of a section, that the machine is "not for citrus fruits"!!!!! Maybe this is common knowledge in the juice world, but in our ignorance we expected a $200 "juice extractor" to be able to handle oranges, which I suspect (although I haven't researched this) are pretty near the top of the list of fruits that get turned into juice. We tried for two weeks to call the Delonghi US customer service line that is helpfully provided in the manual but kept getting the "we're experiencing unusually high call volume" message. They say you can leave a message and they will get back to you, but guess their system was overloaded because it wouldn't take ours. Bottom line: the machine looks great and feels substantial, but it's going back to Amazon and we'll order a Breville, which (gasp!) actually juices oranges!