Kenwood AT641 Vita Pro-Active Continuous Juice Extractor

This is an absolutely brilliant juicer. It fits on the high speed outlet of the Kenwood Chef so you have the benefit of all the Kenwood Chef's power. The wide chute easily takes whole fruit and veg which is great, it makes it really quick to produce juice.The amount of juice this can take from fruit and veg is astonishing. The pulp has virtually none of the juice left in it, all is collected in the juice jug. It also collects the pulp and the juice in contained receptacles that don't make a mess at all.Easy to take apart, it is therefore simple to clean. The only slightly tricky part to clean is the actual cutting blade disc, and there is a special brush provided that cleans that a treat.To summarise, this is a powerful, effective, clean, simple to use and easy to clean juicer. I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you own a Kenwood Chef (and if you don't, you should buy one immediately) this is quite simply a brilliant juicer.

I had this attachment for Mothers Day, my husband having taken notice of my heavy hints that my old juicer, albeit from the ark, just didn't work very well. I am enormously impressed with it. Very solid construction that slots together really easily even for a technophobe like myself. Very large feeding tube means prep is minimal, always a bonus. The waste collector is large as is the juice jug, over 2 pints!! It produces very little frothy scum which I hated and the waste is fairly dry. If you wish to put the waste back through for a second run you just detach the collector instead of having to dismantle the whole thing. Some reviews I've read say that it is noisy and unstable, I found it to be the contrary, surprisingly quiet if you stick to the instruction speed of no more than 2. As for dismantling and cleaning, it took no more than two minutes using the handy brush that was included in the box. I would say this is definitely one attachment worth having.

Its a little smaller than my previous juicer which broke doing apples the third time I used it but much easier to assemble and site onto the Kenwood Major. I actually used it within 2 hours of receiving it and in less than 3 hours had easily processed 72lbs of mixed apples from our garden for the wine brewing bucket! Tomorrow it will be doing the same quantity again to make cider so it will soon pay for itself processing the spare fruit and vegetables we grow for brewing after we have frozen,jammed or chutenied from our crops first.It has had a few design changes to the previous Kenwood Juicer I had and they are all great improvements. It now has a collecting bin for the sludge and a covered jug for the juice which fit securely onto the juicer thus saving the mess from slipping bowls and dripping/spilling juice from liquid containers with the previous model. With that model I did not have enough hands to steady two containers, operate the power dial and feed the fruit/vegetables into the tube at the same time. With this new model that is now no problem - wish they would add a collecting container to their slicer/shredder as they have with this juicer. Another vast improvement is the way the processing basket fits. Previously it was screwed using an appendage to the plunger for the food tube and extreamly difficult to undo to remove whereas this model clips into and out of place on sprung ball-bearings much more easily.My only gripe and reason I have not given it a full ***** review is that I personally found it too difficult to disassemble the side clips when stripping the machine down for cleaning and it was not that easy to site these when building up for use. An able bodied person should have no difficulty but I have arthritis and would like people with manual dexterity difficulties to be aware of this. Luckily my husband came to my rescue and soon had the retaining clips for the lid undone for me so I could soon strip the rest of the machine down for cleaning.

I have only had this juicer for a day but already love it. It was easy to assemble and not half as noisy as I expected after reading the reviews. The cleaning after use is quickly done then finished off in the dishwasher. The fact that it is an attachment for a piece of equipment I already have means there is no extra space needed on the work counter.The only downside is that the feed tube is quite high when fixed on the Chef which makes it more difficult to press down the fruit and veg.The service from Wow was brilliant with the juicer arriving within 24 hours rather than the 5 to 8 days as suggested.I would recommend this juicer to anyone who already has a Kenwood Chef.