Kenwood AT641 Vita Pro-Active Continuous Juice Extractor & KAH647PL Accessories Food Processors

We use this nearly every day and love the juice it produces. There have been some negative reviews about noise, slowing the motor, cleaning, clogging, assembly; these have been a problem.It’s noisy - tearing fruit to get at the juice is noisy and is common to all juicers.Motor dragging - on tougher fruit it will do that - cut the fruit into small pieces and don’t force it down the feeder tube.Cleaning - this is no more difficult than any juicer. Do it straight away, run it under the tap, the basket will require a scrub with the brush provided. Dry straight away to prevent water marks (esp. in hard water areas).Clogging - it hasn’t clogged when I have used it.Assembly - after the first time it gets easier.The only niggle I have is that the juice continues to dribble out of the spout after removal of the jug. A stopper here would have been useful. I have raked to using a piece of kitchen towel.

I bought this deciding the trust the number of 5* reviews rather than the negative ones but I can only assume those people have never used a juicer before as this one was a nightmare. This juicer wants to be a centrifugal juicer but after it has grated up the produce it just spins it straight into the pulp collection so it misses half the juice and the pulp comes out soaking wet. It struggles to juice pretty much everything, anything hard like apples or beetroot have to be chopped up small otherwise you can smell your motor struggling (I love my Kenwood so would be pretty annoyed if this juicer broke it), and with softer fruit like lemons and cucumber you get about half the yield you should as it passes so fast into the pulp collector (this is quite particularly frustrating if you are doing a serious juice detox and are starving!). Things like apples and carrots were constantly getting stuck in the feed tube so you have to stop juicing, take the thing apart (whilst trying not to get juice and pulp everywhere) and try and dislodge them before starting again. As for juicing things like leafy greens, forget it, it just mushes it up and get hardly any juice out. I resorted to scraping the pulp out and putting it back through the juicer again and even trying to squeeze it out in a sieve to get the remaining juice out. If a juice recipe asked for lemon juice I just did it by hand so not to miss half of it. It is also a nightmare to clean and has loads of sections that need to be taken apart and individually scrubbed (again if you're trying a juice diet and doing this several times a day it gets very tedious). Lastly it is incredibly noisy even when you follow the instructions not to go above level two on your Kenwood, it vibrates so much it sprays juice out of the gap between the jug and lid (not fun when you've got beetroot juice splatting everywhere) and it is impossible to hold a conversation until it is turned off. I can only thing whoever designed this does not actually use a juicer themselves as there are so many fundamental flaws in it. Thankfully Amazon's return policy is brilliant so I am returning this to do more careful research on what to buy instead.

It performs well, and is fairly easy to clean. Haven't tried any other centrifugal machines, but I think this is standard.There is some juice retention in the pulp of oranges, bit don't think any other similar device would perform better.I am all about could combo machines, I love my Kenwood chef, so the attachment is a great addition. I think price wise is not too far from what you get elsewhere

The juice itself is great. The attachment however is fiddly to assemble and does not fit onto the K Titanium very well, so I hardly use it. Today it has just taken me nearly an hour to detach the juicer from the main machine! I shall not use it again and would definitely not buy again. (I should add that I usually love Kenwood - but not this!)

The Kenwood page states that this juicer is compatible with the kenwood mixers of KM series. Up to a point!I found out the hard way that the juicer needs to be completely assembled before it will fit on the mixer outlet. This allows the inner lip of the juicer to recess. Photos are self-explanatory.The kenwood page just states reverse the assembly procedure to disassemble, not quite.

The juicer looks great fitted to my Kenwood Chef. It works fine and juices everything whole! All juicers are a pain to clean but I just run this under the tap straight after use and it's done. They send you a little brush which makes cleaning the Fine mesh really easily. If you get a piece of apple or something stuck the machine vibrates quite a lot and I've taken a star away because of the noise (like aircraft taking off) but I have had other juicers that have been equally noisy. Would recommend to friends.

Was going to buy a free standing juicer but decided to buy the attachment for my Kenwood, it gets every last ounce of juice out of fruit and veg. I use a lot of oranges at Christmas time making pastry and only need the rind, juiced the oranges and got lots of bags of fresh juice in the freezer.

A good product that I have mainly used to make orange and apple juice so we can have freshly made juice in the mornings. I have also used it to make apple cider. The only inconvenience I had was cleaning, disassembling and assembling the product through my laziness-this is why I have given it 4 stars and not 5.