Breville the 3X Bluicer Pro BJB815BSS

Good enough for what I need – Update April 2025: After initially getting this for the juicing function for hard apples & carrots, I find I’m using the blender more - as often as daily - to blend personal smoothies incorporating 1/2-one medium apple or a small carrot. Why? Because the blender jug is super easy to clean. A quick rinse out with hot water and a drop of dish soap is often enough. Or use the Auto-clean function for a deeper clean every couple of days - be very careful not to use too much dish soap.

With the powerful blender, I get nice smooth smoothies that retain all the valuable gut-friendly fibre that the juicer filters out. To my go-to base of either peeled apple slices OR chopped unpeeled small carrot, I usually add raw nuts (e.g. 2 macadamias or 4 almonds), a teaspoon or 2 of sunflower & pepita seeds, a tablespoon of oats, and some soft fruit (blueberries, grapes, strawberries etc), cover the lot with a liquid (soy milk, coconut water, milk etc), secure the blender lid and hit the Smoothie program. ***WARNING: secure blender lid over the top AND spout…or you’ll be very, very sorry.

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I’d been mulling over getting juicer - masticating or centrifugal? - for a long time, researched and watched a fair amount of videos. The bluicer ticks my top 4 “must haves” - a big feeding tube for as little prep as possible, powerful motor, easy to wash, cold & fast juice. The bluicer delivered. The blender is a bonus. It is, however, on the pricey side.

I wanted a juicer mainly for carrots and apples, and the bluicer juices this combination pretty fast, but I found I needed to exert a fair bit of pressure on the carrots with the tamper. The blender doubles as a juicer jug which isn’t great when you don’t want to “bluice”. I’m on the lookout for a regular jug that fits neatly under the spout but haven’t found one yet. For the moment, I’m using the provided silicon spout and a bullet blender container for single serves of juice.

As other users have commented, the pulp is not as dry as when using a slow / masticating juicer. The resulting juice is also very foamy, but a quick stir solves this. The bluicer leaves fairly dry pulp with hard fruit/veg like apples and carrots, and rather damp pulp with softer fruit. But it’s good enough for me, a casual juicer.

Cleaning is fairly easy - a little dish soap with the included brush under a hot tap for the mesh, and a rinse and soft sponge if needed for the other bits. Line the pulp collector with a biodegradable bag to collect the waste pulp for easy disposal in the council green bin. I hear other folk use this in their garden compost or re-use to make dog biscuits!

I haven’t used the family-sized blender yet, so can’t comment.