L Equip XL Wide Mouth Mini Juicer, Model 215
From L'Equip
The L'Equip XL Mini Juicer is an extra wide mouth pulp ejection juicer that will accomodate whole apples and offers optimum performance on all fruits and vegetables. This juicer has a two speed motor and a 6 year warranty.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #22067 in Health and Beauty
- Brand: L'Equip
- Model: 215
Good juicer for a good price
This is a good juicer for the price. It does as well as advertised. The only cons are: if you are juicing a lot of fruit/veggies you need to clean out the pulp fairly frequently, you don't want your juicer to sit too long after using it (it is easiest to clean as soon as you are done juicing). I use a toothbrush to clean the blade/basket. The pros: Good quality, strong motor, makes great juice, and fits nicely into cabinets or onto the counter itself (good size). Overall I would highly recommend this juicer.
Not a bad machine
Just after I ordered Jack LaLane's Express juicer, I came upon the L'Equip. After reading the specs on the L'Equip, I hoped for the best with Jack LaLane's Express. : /
I've had several juicers over the years and the Express was actually a pretty nice machine. However it only worked for about a month. Customer Service was hard to run down but finally I was able to return it. Did I say I had to pay an extra $15 for only a 3 year warranty? That says a lot about the lack of confidence they had in their own product.
The L'Equip comes with a 6 year warranty - for free.
It's also slightly louder than the Express but not terribly so, but the motor is much stronger than the Express and has a higher RPM.
The design is very much like the Juiceman Jr. except it has a wide feeder chute. However "wide feeder chute" is a misnomer because there's a wedge within the chute. Well obviously this defeats the purpose of having a wide chute to begin with since there's a wedge inside, but apparently the purpose of the wedge it to keep the produce from spinning around inside the chute.
The high rpm occasionally results in produce being rapidly and violently being bounced back out of the chute but you adjust to that after a bit.
The wedge inside the L'Equip is pretty much the only thing I dislike about this machine though. I enjoyed the wide chute on the Express and it made juicing quite fast, but you have to take an extra step of cutting to accommodate the wedge inside the L'Equip.
It cleans well but you should remember to lift the bowl and pour out the little bit of extra juice that's left over when you're finished juicing.
I like mine and use it regularly but all machines take some time to adjust to and overall in my opinion, this machine beats the Juiceman Jr and the Express.
Very pleased
I did quite a bit of homework before selecting this juicer -- and I am glad I ended up with this one. It was the best balance of ease of use, reputation for reliability, and price.
It is easy to use and has juiced everything I've thrown at it very well. It cleans in about 1 minute.
