Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It's pretty, it's quiet, it appears to be well-designed, but if you want juice, especially carrot juice, don't simply avoid this product, run for the hills if you see it coming! Unlike it's less expensive sibling, The Juice Fountain, which zips through carrots like a champ, this machine comes to a complete stop rather than juice whole carrots. To juice them, I have to cut them up in 2 inch pieces and even then it does a crappy job of juicing--the pulp container fills with chunks of carrots among the overly moist pulp. Though the Ikon juicer keeps running while juicing quartered apples, significant pressure is required to get the cutting blades to grate them and it leaves large chunks of apples in the pulp container. The speeds used are at recommended settings, though did experiment with other settings, all with the same awful results each time used, including first time out of the box. The multiple speed settings are basically an unnecessary novelty, by the way. A call to Breville Customer Service was, well, fruitless. They told me chunks of apples in the pulp are normal for this unit and it was normal for the motor to slow down when juicing carrots. Slow down? How about stop? They had no answer and offered no resolution, other than a sorry and maybe you should warm up your carrots first or buy a more expensive machine. Went on to tell me that I needed a better model to juice carrots! Huh? A $200 juicer (their 2nd from the top of the line) can't juice carrots, leaves overly moist pulp and large chunks of fruit and vegetables... while it was excellent at extracting my money, it isn't worth a damn extracting juice. And the because the motor turns at such high rmps, it infuses a tremendous amount of air into the little juice it extracts, the juice is quickly oxidized, depleting the nutrients (the whole reason for juicing in the first place). To summarize: If you want a gleaming piece of statuary that'll look good on your kitchen counter, by all means, buy this machine. But if functionality is important to you, if you want a machine that actually effectively extracts juice without creating additional labor and doesn't waste expensive produce, or if you want a company that will stand behind its products rather than tell you "not working at all is working properly", look elsewhere... even the Jack LaLane juicer does a better job. This unit will be off to a garage sale asap, though it would be better destined to a landfill. If zero or negative stars were an option, this machine would have gotten it.