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| Kenwood | SB100 JUNIOR | This is my first smoothie maker and im very happy with it, powerful blades seem to get through all fruits with minimum of fuss, once the fruit is pushed down with the enclosed plunger. Very easy to clean as breaks into easily washable bits.
Only slight problem is the noise but guess thats a trade off for the power.
Tap works very well, cant see what previous reviewers refer to as there seems no problems maybe time will tell, but leave the machine running whilt pouring the drink out our else as the thinker liquid settles down the bottom youll be waiting ages.
Absolutely fantastic, and a great way to get loads of fruit added into the diet. |  | Amazon Reviewer | 24/08/2006 01:01:01 | |  |
| | MAGIMIX | FP14112 | This machine is virtually the only juicer not to be sourced in China these days. As a result, there is abundant plastic and a proven motor on this Burgundy made machine. Apparently after many years it has benefited from a minor redesign - which took away an existing feature (the on-off spout), so that this singular advance in product development leaves the machine dripping although less likely to require replacement parts. This might justify the increased warranty (12 years on the motor and 3 on the rest of the machine). This centrifuagal juicer works differently from virtually all of its peers (rather like an accessory juicer on food processors). Most juicers hurl pith and skin over the top of a sloping filter into a basket. The Magimix keeps everything within its vertical overhanging walls. The positive result: less to clean and clearer thinner juice. The negative result is that although juice is longer lasting and doesnt seperate into layers of sewer-like sludge, the juice is less tasty and the machine becomes unstable if you try to juice too much at a time. The sieve/grater is heavy and well made, although it really should have been redesigned to come apart for cleaning - as it is difficult to remove detritus from the overhanging assembly. The motor is reasonably quiet although not nearly as quiet as other induction rivals although it appears to have much torque and doesnt slow under load. Unfortunately, the filter/sieve assembly is not dynamically balanced - resulting in unecessary noise and uneveness even when empty. The feeder is primitively narrow and pathetically constricted for a machine at this price level, making it necessary to cut fruit etc into small segments. The absence of a feeder hod is utterly unforgivable in a machine at this price level. The citrus press performs well, although having to turn the motor on and off for each half of even the smallest fruit is just a pain. Higher and narrowing citrus press walls or a fruit grabber would allow continuous processing. So there you are. Chose this model for thin and relatively clear juicing and gain clarity and longevity at the cost of taste and layered oxygenated sludge. There is no perfect centrifugal juicer at the moment. This one produces results which do not require separation or straining and perhaps last longer in the fridge. Yet, sadly, there is something missing! Im not experienced with masticating juicers, which I gather are slower to use. Perhaps they might combine taste and texture better than the flawed centifuges currently on offer. With the Magimix we win some and lose some - but all centrifugal juicers these days fail to produce acceptable results. The Le Duo at least is almost on its own in design terms, is relatively easy to clean, well guaranteed, and produces relatively clear juice which is a little too thin for enhanced taste and texture and you dont have to stir or chew your way through it. |  | Amazon Reviewer | 09/08/2005 01:01:01 | | |
| | Kenwood | SB100 JUNIOR | Ive used this smoothie maker literally every day since Christmas, and its finally broken down. Its got progressively noisier over the last 2 months, to the point when I loathe using it. Cleaning has been very difficult, and the tap gets blocked very easily. A shame, because when it was new, I was impressed! |  | Amazon Reviewer | 28/09/2008 01:01:01 | | |
| | MAGIMIX | FP14112 | I bought one of these some time ago from other supplier and after a few weeks got rid of it as I found it so inconvenient to use and especially difficult to clean. For citrus pressing the speed of the motor was too fast and tended to spin the citrus shell out of ones damp hand. A simple, cheap citrus press does a better job. The juice extractor did well in getting out the juice, but the basket for the pulp filled up very quickly and was difficult to clean. Extractors (like Kenwood) that spew the juice out of one channel and the pulp out of another are much better if one wants to have more than a glass of juice and are easier to clean as they dismantle into accessible parts. | | Amazon Reviewer | 16/05/2008 01:01:01 | | |
| | Kenwood | SB100 JUNIOR | Our machine quickly developed a leak around the seal at the base of the jug which gradually got worse. You can buy 3 replacement seal from Kenwood for £4 PLUS £4.75 POSTAGE. Presumably the seals would go in a second class envelope!!!
Eventually, our appliance also leaked from the seal around the spindle and had to be consigned to the bin. |  | Amazon Reviewer | 02/04/2008 01:01:01 | | |
| | Statutory | Kenwood Smoothie 2 Go | Kenwood is a brand normally associated with quality. Unfortunately this time, it does not live up to its reputation. The blade connector is manufactured in plastic and twice I have had to return it as the connecting hooks,also made in plastic have snapped off under the strain. A design fault that can easily be rectified- until then I wont be able to provide a positive review |  | GMT | 19/06/2011 | | |
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