Lexen

Excellent manual juicer – I have had this juicer for over 5 years and love it! I initially brought it to juice wheatgrass but after not being able to purchase wheatgrass… Read more

easily or have the motivation and patience (maybe one day) to grow my own I let this device sit in my cupboard for a few years.

I did a Marie Kondo spring clean approximately 12 months ago and this juicer has found a new lease of life! I recently got on the celery juicing bandwagon and it’s been used consistently.

This juicer is ran manually it has a turning handle so you need to give it a bit of muscle. It’s great at juicing leafy greens, soft fruits such as citrus, kiwi, grapes and celery to name a few.

It’s eco friendly, easy to assemble and disassemble, it’s s cold press juicer which is better for retaining nutrients, great for travel, very portable and easy to clean.

As Marie Kondo would say this definitely ‘sparks my joy’. I love it!!

Cheap & Nasty – This Lexen hand juicer utilises a tried and trusted cold pressing mechanism, but is let down by being nearly all plastic of varying quality. Plastic… Read more

components are simply not mechanically strong enough to deal with the stresses applied when processing dense vegetables such as carrots or beets—even when they're diced to a small size. Softer fruits such as apples produce very little juice, as they lack sufficient fibre in order to be compressed adequately. And forget watermelon, cantaloupe or bananas.

The entire juicer body, handle, and mount flex disconcertingly when the handle is turned. The splined drive shaft, where the handle fits on to, is also plastic and distorts under load. Far too much residual pulp is diverted to the collection cup, and frequently blocks the filter screen which then annoyingly needs cleaning. Additionally, one can't rely on the suction cup base—even on a smooth laminate bench top. It's imperative that the included clamp is used, otherwise you can count on a kitchen floor covered in sticky juice!

I acknowledge that at $88 the performance and construction of the Lexen juicer won't match electric units costing ten times as much, but the device should at least work similarly to its advertised claims—but it doesn't. It's a very light weight unit, both in form and function, but as a family-type juicer intended for daily use it fails dismally.

Overall, this Lexen juicer was a very disappointing purchase, and there's NO way I could recommend it to any potential purchaser looking for a well constructed and purpose-designed manual juicer. Mine was dumped at the rubbish tip yesterday. Good riddance.