How To Buy The Best Juicers Today
Buying a juicer can feel confusing. There are slow juicers, centrifugal juicers, twin-gear machines, citrus presses, and dozens of models and brands within each category.
This juicer buyer’s guide explains how to choose the right juicer based on
- what you plan to juice,
- how often you’ll use it, and
- how much time you want to spend preparing and cleaning.
If you already know the type of juicer you want, explore our detailed guides:
This juicer buyer’s guide walks you step by step through the process of choosing the right juicer.
(Last updated on March 12th, 2026)
Quick Juicer Buying Guide
If you’re not sure where to start, this quick overview helps.
| If you want… | Choose… |
|---|---|
| Fast juicing with minimal prep | Centrifugal juicer |
| Maximum juice yield & nutrition | Slow juicer (masticating juicer) |
| Best results for wheatgrass | Twin-gear juicer |
| Simple orange & lemon juice | Citrus juicer |
Explore Our Detailed Juicer Guides
If you want deeper comparisons before choosing a juicer, these guides break down the best options in each category:
- Best Slow Juicers – maximum yield and ideal for leafy greens
- Best Centrifugal Juicers – fastest juicing with minimal preparation
- Best Wheatgrass Juicers – machines designed for fibrous greens
- Best Vegetable Juicers – best models for carrots, celery and leafy greens
- Best Citrus Juicers – simple solutions for fresh orange and lemon juice
Each guide compares the top-performing juicer models and explains which buyers they suit best.
Choose a Juicer Based on What You Plan to Juice
Different juicers perform better with different types of produce.
If you already know what you plan to juice most often, this quick guide can help narrow down the right machine.
Leafy greens (spinach, kale)
→ A slow masticating juicer usually extracts the most juice from greens.
Celery and fibrous vegetables
→ Horizontal slow juicers are often best because their auger design handles fibrous stalks effectively.
Carrots, apples and hard vegetables
→ Centrifugal juicers process hard produce quickly and efficiently.
Wheatgrass
→ Twin-gear juicers apply the strongest compression and usually deliver the best yield.
Citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, grapefruit)
→ A dedicated citrus juicer is usually faster and easier to clean than a general-purpose juicer.
Juicer Buyer’s Guide : Getting Started
As you think about buying a juicer, you’ll look at features, performance and other characteristics.
You’ll then make an informed choice on which type of juicer, and which specific juicer brand and model best suits your juicing needs.
Your assessment will evaluate:
- ease of use,
- cleaning up,
- juicing efficiency,
- juice yield,
- time for food preparation,
- price and
- quality of juice
For instance, some buyers want a fast and efficient juicer, while others are looking for slow juicers that produce healthier juice.
Others may just want a juicer that is easy to use.
Our juicer buyer’s guide helps all types of buyers. It will guide you to an informed and correct decision.
How To Buy A Juicer?
This juicer buyer’s guide is divided into 3 sections:
Juicer Testing: How We Evaluate Juicers
When comparing juicers, practical factors matter more than marketing claims.
We look at:
- Juice yield – how much juice is extracted from the same amount of produce
- Performance with leafy greens and fibrous produce
- Ease of cleaning and assembly
- Build quality and warranty length
- Long-term owner feedback
We don’t test dozens of machines in artificial lab conditions. Rather, we consider real-world usability and long-term reliability, because this matters most to home juicers.
The Juicer Buyers Guide will take you through the steps to evaluate a new juicer before you buy. It offers you a checklist so you won’t miss anything important.
How To Choose A Juicer
You could waste a lot of time exploring all the features and variations that make a juicer unique or special. But there are 5 key factors when choosing a juicer.
1️⃣ What you plan to juice
2️⃣ Prep time and feed chute size
3️⃣ Juice yield and quality
4️⃣ Cleaning and maintenance
5️⃣ Price and durability
Pre-juicing Prep Time
Everyone is in a hurry!
So look carefully at how long it will take to prep fruits and vegetables for juicing.
This depends upon:
- Feed chute size
- Type of juicer
- Kind of produce you’re juicing
Feed Chute Size
Size of your juicer’s feed chute determines food prep. A wide chute can take smaller whole fruits while you must chop or slice them smaller to fit into narrower chutes.
Juicer Type
Centrifugal juicers typically have larger feed chutes (3 inches) than masticating slow juicers (1.5-2.5 inches).
A horizontal juicer has a vertical chute. Only smaller produce size will fit into it. A vertical juicer can take larger chunks.
Kind of Produce
Radish and carrots can usually go directly into a juicer’s feeding chute without any cutting.
Celery has long, fibrous stalks that twist around augers or gears of a slow juicer unless you first chop it into tiny bits. With a centrifugal juicer, celery is quickly shredded by the fast rotating disk.
To save time on food prep, centrifugal juicers are a better choice. The horizontal masticating juicers and twin gear juicers require more time and effort for preparation.
Juice Quality
Juice from slow juicers tastes better than from centrifugal juicers.
The reason is the nature of juicing.
Centrifugal juicers entrap air along with the juice as they operate at high speeds. So juice is frothier and tastes slightly bitter (as seeds and pith are also crushed).
These don’t happen in a slow juicer. So juice quality and taste is better. Juice is homogenous without layering, and usually can be stored for longer.
Cleaning and Maintenance
Check how long it takes to clean a juicer by hand after juicing. You can tell which ones are high-maintenance.
Not all juicers have parts that are dishwasher-safe. It’s difficult to clean strainers and the filtering mesh. If not done right, it can clog over time.
Ease of cleaning also depends on:
- a strainer/filter basket (some juicers come with a brush designed for this purpose)
- more parts that need cleaning – one interesting model we reviewed had 48 corners to inspect and clean!
- complexity (difficult, hard-to-reach nooks)
- size, material and quality. Sturdy parts clean more easily
The filter basket of centrifugal juicers are harder to clean than the strainers of slow juicers. Twin gear juicers, though efficient at juicing, are usually hardest to clean and take the longest time.
Average time to clean juicers:
- 3.8 minutes for centrifugal juicers
- 4.5 minutes for horizontal masticating juicers
- 5.5 minutes for vertical masticating juicers and
- 9 minutes for twin-gear slow juicer
Price & Durability
The last key factor in buying a juicer is to consider:
- Quality of build
- Durability of materials used in manufacture
Solidly built slow juicers have good quality parts with long warranties of 10 years or more, are easy to use and deliver exceptional performance. They are also priced higher.
More affordable centrifugal juicers are light weight, lower priced and come with shorter warranties of 1-2 years.
The big question: Is the price worth paying for a juicer of your choice?
In real terms, a juicer that breaks down often or needs replacement of parts may cost you more.
Also, you may spend more on a cheap but inefficient juicer. If it extracts 10% less juice from produce, you’ll see how a costlier juicer actually saves you more money!
It depends upon what produce you intend to juice.
That’s because even among expensive juicers, only some perform exceptionally well with specific kinds of produce e.g. wheatgrass or celery.
So pick your juicer based on what you plan to juice.
Along with a quick glance at some other things like
- Juicer design (and any flaws in it)
- Brand reputation
- Consumer opinions and juicer reviews
- Customer support and after sales service
- Warranty period
… this settles your choice.
Our Recommended Best Juicers
For readers who want quick picks, here are the top-rated juicer machines in each of the different categories.:
- Best overall slow juicer → Omega NC900
- Best centrifugal juicer → Breville BJE530BSS
- Best wheatgrass juicer → Tribest Greenstar Elite
- Best budget juicer → Breville Compact Juicer
Types of Juicers
Juicer Buyers Guide : Let’s Learn About Juicers
Before buying a new juicer, it helps to understand the different types of juicers and how they work.
Juicers are categorised mainly as fast juicers and slow juicers.
Fast Juicers
- Centrifugal Juicers
Slow Juicers
- Horizontal Masticating Juicers
- Vertical Masticating Juicers
- Twin Gear Juicers
- Hydraulic Press Juicers
- Manual juicers
Juicer Buyers Guide:
Centrifugal Juicers
In a centrifugal juicer, produce (fruit/vegetable/greens) is fed through a tube called the feeding chute which opens at the top.
Food drops through the chute to enter the juicing chamber, with a rapidly rotating disc (at 5000-15000 RPM) called the filter basket.
Inside it, a flat rotating disc with sharp edges rapidly chops, slices, and shreds food that falls through the feeding chute. Juice is extracted.
The filter bowl collects this juice. Through a hole – the juicer outlet – it flows out into a glass or pitcher.
Dry residue or pulp is flung upwards by the rapidly rotating disk and is forced into a separate bowl called the pulp container.
Pros:
- Very fast juicing
- High yield
- Less preparation time
- Some centrifugal juicers take even whole fruits.
- Easy to assemble.
- Affordable (prices in the range $75-$100)
- Lighter in weight
- Easy to store.
Cons:
- Only one function – that is juicing.
- Bad at juicing greens.
- Cannot juice wheatgrass.
- Mesh filter is difficult to clean.
- Less sturdy and durable
- Shorter warranties
- Noisy
Juicer Buyers Guide:
Slow Juicers (or Masticating Juicers)
As the name suggests, slow juicers are more deliberate in juice extraction.
There are two broad categories – horizontal slow juicers and vertical slow juicers.
Food produce drops down a vertical feeding chute (aided with a food pusher).
Inside a cylindrical juicing drum, a slowly rotating auger (speeds of under 100 RPM) crushes and grinds it, then presses pulp against a strainer to extract juice.
A container beneath the drum collects the juice after filtering it.
Dry pulp comes out through a nozzle or cap attached to the drum.
Pros:
- Juices leafy greens and wheatgrass effectively
- Better quality juice, less frothing with more nutrients
- Easy to assemble.
- Very quiet in operation.
- Sturdy, durable, high quality parts.
- Have long warranties of 10 years.
- Versatile and can be used for other purposes such as making nut butters, baby food and pasta.
- More expensive (in $150 to $300 range),
- Vertical models are more compact.
Cons:
- Food prep takes longer.
- Takes more time to juice.
- Vertical models are taller, may not fit in under kitchen cabinets
Juicer Buyers Guide:
Twin Gear Juicers
In a twin gear juicer, a vertical feed chute introduces produce between two rotating gears which crush and grind the food instead of an auger.
The liquid juice passes through a strainer and a hole at the bottom of drum collects it in a container.
Pros:
- Efficient at juicing all produce including greens and wheatgrass
- Very versatile
- Sturdy and durable, built with high quality parts
- Comes with a long warranty
- Quiet operation
Cons:
- Assembly is complex
- Prep time is long
- Juicing takes a longer time.
- Cleaning up is quite difficult.
- Heavy, difficult to move around.
- More expensive.
Frequently Asked Questions: Juicer Buying Guide
What type of juicer is best for beginners?
Centrifugal juicers are usually the easiest to use because they are fast, affordable, and require minimal preparation.
Are slow juicers better than centrifugal juicers?
Slow juicers usually produce higher juice yield and handle leafy greens better, but they require more preparation and cleaning time.
What should I look for when buying a juicer?
Focus on the type of produce you plan to juice, how often you will use the machine, ease of cleaning, durability, and price.
What’s Next?
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