written by AirScrew on 09/10/2006
Good Points
Good juice.
Bad Points
Assembly.
Disassembly.
CLEANING!!!
General Comments
We have had the Philips HR1861 Pro Juicer for around 9 months. My wife used it daily for some weeks. It has not been used for months now, and I consider we are food-health conscious people. I tried to use it myself a few times in this last week, to take advantage of the quantity of apples in the garden. I am far from impressed. The assembly is fussy and illogical. The cutter refuses to be disabled by hand, and needs 2 screwdrivers (or spoon handles) to lever it out. Cleaning is a nightmare. It takes a full 10 minutes to disassemble, empty and then wash and rinse every piece.
The design team should be shot, or even better, be made to clean one every day for a month. And I say this as an engineer who does know something about functional design.
Wannabe12's Response to AirScrew's Review
Written on: 09/04/2008
If you just put one finger under the spout and one on the back of the juice collector section and then pull up the whole part comes up easily along with the filter inside it, soooo easy no need for spoons or screwdrivers.
Mammyg's Response to AirScrew's Review
Written on: 28/01/2013
I cannot help but notice that it was his wife that used it for a few weeks, and then the juicer was not used for months. If they are that health concious it would be used every day as is mine . By the way I live on my own. As an engineer did he actually read the instruction book, also another point you never start a sentence with and !!
Norelle5's reply to Mammyg's Comment
Written on: 14/10/2013
Mammyg - sssshhhh ! You have added nothing worthy of note.
Overall it sounds a better juicer than the Matstone which I was interested in buying.