This powerful juicer makes healthy beverages fast and nicely fills most of its generous-sized pitchers with juice and only a little of the undesirable froth some juicers produce. This juicer is strong enough to take on even hard produce, such as beets, with no trouble and is easy to clean.
Breville produces some of the best juicers you can buy, including the Breville Juice Fountain Compact BJE200XL. This and the Juice Fountain Plus are easy to set up and produce a lot of juice quickly.
A contracted writer for TTR, Angie has been reviewing vacuum cleaners, countertop appliances and other home goods for more than eight years. Her spare time often goes to planning improvements for her quirky 103-year-old home or hiking in the gorgeous Utah mountains. In her past role, she was a newspaper journalist and she has a bachelor's degree in Technical Writing.
Breville Juice Fountain Plus: Performance
The Breville Juice Fountain Plus comes with a froth separator, filter basket, and cleaning brush. Its 3-inch feeder chute can handle most fruits and vegetables without the need to chop them.
The most important characteristic of any juicing machine is how well it performs, and the Breville shines in this area. Our testing with green produce went smoothly; not every juicing machine can take on leafy greens and do a good job. Once we strained the mixture, it created very little froth or pulp, and the resulting juice was translucent and ready to drink.
A far tougher test for juicers is whether a machine can withstand harder and more fibrous produce like beets, carrots, and apples. The Breville zoomed through two whole beets with no trouble; we only needed to cut the two apples in half instead of many small pieces like some juicers require, and whole carrots got pulverized, all in short order. There was little prep time, no splatter or escaping messiness, and we got our juice quickly.
Our testing showed that if produce can fit past the fins that jut out at the bottom of the tube where you insert produce, this juicer can handle it. We also found that this created only a small amount of pulp from the fruits and veggies we tested, which means we got most of the juice out of our produce.
Setting up the Breville Juice Fountain Plus took only 30 seconds. It includes seven parts, and the bowl and grater snap in and out of the device much easier than other machines.
Cleaning took a bit of time. Specifically, the Breville Juice Fountain took five minutes to hand wash. Five of the juicer parts are dishwasher safe, so you can rinse them initially and then wash them in the dishwasher. Unfortunately, the juice cover and food pusher must always be washed by hand.
You also get a small cleaning brush, which is quite helpful for dislodging tiny bits of fruits or vegetables from the mesh filter grate. Without a brush, these can be surprisingly stubborn to clear away.
This is a powerful machine, which is great, but it is accompanied by a bit of noise. We measured it at 93db, which makes it one of the noisiest juicing machines we tested. It's covered by a one-year warranty, which isn't the best of the juicers we tested. The Cuisinart Juice Extractor is covered by a three-year warranty, which is the best we found.
Should you buy the Breville Juice Fountain Plus?
The Breville comes with a tall pitcher, 1,000 ml (33.8 ounces), which holds a lot of juice. The pitcher features an opening for the juicer nozzle to fit into, so you won’t have to contend with drips on your kitchen counter. It also includes a froth separator, so you don’t have to strain the juice before drinking it.
The Breville Juice Fountain Plus is a well-designed, strong machine that can handle dense vegetables. It is a good choice for overall versatility and usability.
