Very high juice extraction but low capacity
Works very well getting juice out of citrus. I don't think the product pictures do a good job of illustrating the fact that this thing is basically a screw jack that pushes the reamer up against the top lid to both ream out the pulp but more importantly press it with a decent amount of force. I was able to get pretty much all of the available juice out of both oranges and limes with just a single cycle. It is important that you make sure both the container and lid are properly locked in past the detente as there doesn't seem to be any safety which checks that, but it pushes hard enough that you get some movement between the pieces, although it seems plenty strong enough in my use despite being all made of plastic. I also had doubts about it being rechargeable battery powered, but again the mechanism that it operates with alleviates issues there as each cycle only takes a few cycles. It works quite fast and doesn't make much noise. It really is portable if you have a reason to juice where there's no power easily available. The battery is about 9.5Wh (7.4V nominal with 1.3Ah) and it uses 45W to run, so should dozens of runs before it needs a recharge. Note that the fact it relies on squeezing the citrus halves against the lid means that it won't work well on pieces that aren't full hemispheres, so you do need to strictly keep under the container's 4 inch diameter for fruit size as you can't really juice slices or quarters. The size of the juice reservoir is also a bit low. The fact that it's a screw jack means the axle must move vertically through the bottom hole in the container, so while it has a gasket it isn't very watertight. Exceeding the max level of liquid will have it start trying to leak out between the container and the base. The max liquid level is only 3/4 of a cup, so if you're trying to make full glasses of juice, you'll be draining this pretty much 1-2 times per fruit if it's on the larger side like an orange or grapefruit. Again, you must stay under 3/4 of a cup, so you'll be emptying it usually under 1/2 a cup of liquid as you need to leave space for the next load of juice. The juice it makes is pulp free. The slots in the basket on the bottom of the reamer are pretty narrow and didn't allow any pulp through when I used it. I wish they had included different versions of this part with bigger holes available for those of us who like some pulp. As is you kind of need to re-add pulp from the basket yourself if you want to get some pulp in the juice this makes. Read more
























