Bought a $400 masticating juicer, and I never use it :(

gostumpy

I bought it for my birthday this year, and that was in April... I've used it maybe 3 times.

I can never seem to use it in the morning for two reasons, it's loud, and it will wake up our son if he's not already up (usually I have to tiptoe in the morning), and secondly, it takes a decent amount of time to clean, about 10 solid minutes.

After work it's dinner time, which I guess would be almost the only time I can use it....

Any help on motivating me to use the dang thing? It seems like such a huge waste of money, I thought I would use it but I should have just stuck with the $50 regular juicer

I REALLY want a Magic Bullet though to make smoothies... worried the same thing will happen though

MelodyandBarbells

Haha, yeah, noise is the main reason I haven't bothered to update my 10+ year old cheapo blender. If I'm gonna spend money, I'd want a quiet one

Since you already have yours, maybe try using it during the more noisy times of the day. For my blender, I usually try to rinse immediately after using it, even though I won't have a chance or interest in doing the full cleaning until later - makes it easier. Finally some components may be easier to clean than others, and you could focus on those first / right after use

What kinds of recipes do you make with it?

Edit: oh wow I actually just remembered, I did once buy a fancy pants juicer. Sold it on eBay for about 70% of purchase price to a very happy buyer

ShesFromFlorida

I'll take it!

thom2369

Your juice should last 12-14 hours if you put it in a airtight glass jar I think. Perhaps you could make your morning juices in the evening. Just give them a shake before drinking.

OyGeeBiv

As soon as you're done using it, put in some water and turn it on again. Then dump the water and add clean water till you have time to really clean it. Depending on what you used it for, the rinse might be enough of a cleaning.

MelaniaTrump

Use the mixer in the garage?

jgnatca

Put it out at your next garage sale. You've had enough time to know if you love it or not. Mastication brings this to mind:



Or this:

ClubSilencio

You should've bought a Vitamix instead of the juicer. Smoothies take like 30 seconds to blend.

Smoothies are better than juices IMO. You're getting whole foods in liquid form. You can blend your leafy greens and consume them instead of juicing them and throwing out the roughage.

I'm sure you could sell your juicer for top dollar in the condition that it's in on eBay or Craigslist.

Bbeliever215

I second reselling the juicer and purchasing a vitamix. You.can get a refurbished one for the same cost with warranty and there areany things you can do with it besides smoothies. It's a great investment.

firedragon064

Ninja is better. I bought one that has personal blender, food processor, big blender. I can make smoothie, grind meat, dough mix for cookies, bread. It's the only application you need in the kitchen. I do have a juicer for wheatgrass. I

ninerbuff

There's always Craigslist.

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dakotababy

Kitchen appliances are like gym memberships

fishshark

dakotababy wrote: »

Kitchen appliances are like gym memberships

i hope this means that u have to make your self use them... I have a juicer, nutri bullet rx, kitchen aid mixer, crock pot, pressure cooker, deep fryer, panini press, ice cream maker and even a sous vide machine and use all of them weekly haha.

Orphia

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Proter12

Breville Juicer is the best masticating juicer
juice Quality
On hard fruits or vegetables-juice is best, it has high juice yield, great tasting juice. But for softer fruits need to incorporate it with some other produce or adjust its speed.

beemerphile1

Yard sale it to another well meaning but unsuspecting buyer.

My teeth do a fine job of masticating my food and no electric is needed.

MelodyandBarbells

beemerphile1 wrote: »

Yard sale it to another well meaning but unsuspecting buyer.

My teeth do a fine job of masticating my food and no electric is needed.

you make it sound like a scam :laugh:

Christine_72

Get a ninja blender. They're not too loud, relatively cheap and takes seconds to wash. I got mine in March and have used it practically every day since. Plus it blends everything, it doesn't get rid of the pulp like juicers do!

kshama2001

dakotababy wrote: »

Kitchen appliances are like gym memberships

I went through my kitchen last year and gave five boxes of stuff to a very happy charity I found on freecycle.org. The only appliance I have left that I don't use regularly is my blender, which I also got on freecycle. I use my food processor instead - it's easier to clean.

kshama2001

thom2369 wrote: »

Your juice should last 12-14 hours if you put it in a airtight glass jar I think. Perhaps you could make your morning juices in the evening. Just give them a shake before drinking.

Ya, if you DO want to keep it, this ^ is my recommendation.

However, if juicing just isn't for you, now would be a great time of year to sell it on Craigslist. And then you will have room for your smoothie maker. Lots of people here are Ninja fans. I'm happy with my Cuisinart food processor.

I left behind a $400 Bosch bread mixer in a move. I realized as much as I love bread making and homemade bread, it was too much of a good thing for me.

Christine_72

Double post..

Lounmoun

gostumpy wrote: »

I bought it for my birthday this year, and that was in April... I've used it maybe 3 times.

I can never seem to use it in the morning for two reasons, it's loud, and it will wake up our son if he's not already up (usually I have to tiptoe in the morning), and secondly, it takes a decent amount of time to clean, about 10 solid minutes.

After work it's dinner time, which I guess would be almost the only time I can use it....

Any help on motivating me to use the dang thing? It seems like such a huge waste of money, I thought I would use it but I should have just stuck with the $50 regular juicer

I REALLY want a Magic Bullet though to make smoothies... worried the same thing will happen though

The same thing probably will happen because any appliance like that will make noise, etc.
Do you like smoothies/juice or just think you should drink it? Because you can just eat all the foods whole that you would put in the juicer or magic bullet without making loud noise or having an expensive device to clean up. You don't have to drink your food.

myheartsabattleground

I LOVE my nutri ninja.

gostumpy

I took it out to take photos, and my wife said "but you LOVE your juicer!"...

And she was right... I do love it... made juice that day and enjoyed it thoroughly!

Just gotta effin use the damn thing I guess.

MelodyandBarbells

gostumpy wrote: »

I took it out to take photos, and my wife said "but you LOVE your juicer!"...

And she was right... I do love it... made juice that day and enjoyed it thoroughly!

Just gotta effin use the damn thing I guess.

It seems you just don't love it often enough. The wife is probably right, but I'd say take the dang pictures and use them later if you have to...

kshama2001

gostumpy wrote: »

I took it out to take photos, and my wife said "but you LOVE your juicer!"...

And she was right... I do love it... made juice that day and enjoyed it thoroughly!

Just gotta effin use the damn thing I guess.

Well, what about committing to use it on the weekends (or whatever your non-work days are)?

robs_ready

I read the thread title wrong, my bad.

gostumpy

LOL! ^^^

After thinking about it some more, the reason I want to do it is because I know how good it makes me feel, and I knew growing up when my mom juiced it was really healthy...

I think I need to LEARN to juice and then it'll be much more habit forming, currently I just bought a juicer and expected it to just juice, heh. I need to learn when, what to keep in the fridge, etc.

We have a bunch of veggies left over from Christmas dinner so I'm going to go make a cucumber/carrot/celery juice right now!

Talking about it helps, every time I log onto MFP I remember this thread and it makes me want to juice. Hallelujah.



(In hindsigh though I really should have bought a Vitamix and a $75 juicer)

MelodyandBarbells

All the more reason to see if you can sell the thing - maybe indeed fund the vitamix and cheapo juicer like another poster suggested!

I'm thinking of getting a ninja just so I have a smaller blender container since I cook for just myself. I'm worried about not using it much though, so instead I blend things basically at the bottom of a 12+ year old full size blender

angelexperiment

Well if you do ever want to sell it I'd definitely be interested! And a ninja is just as loud as my jack lalanne juicer (centrifuge) one day I want to get a vitamix

catt952

did it come with a warranty? maybe you could take it back to the store if you still have the receipts