Kenwood AT641 Vita Pro-Active Continuous Juice Extractor

This is an absolutely brilliant juicer. It fits on the high speed outlet of the Kenwood Chef so you have the benefit of all the Kenwood Chef's power. The wide chute easily takes whole fruit and veg which is great, it makes it really quick to produce juice. The amount of juice this can take from fruit and veg is astonishing. The pulp has virtually none of the juice left in it, all is collected in the juice jug. It also collects the pulp and the juice in contained receptacles that don't make a mess at all. Easy to take apart, it is therefore simple to clean. The only slightly tricky part to clean is the actual cutting blade disc, and there is a special brush provided that cleans that a treat. To summarise, this is a powerful, effective, clean, simple to use and easy to clean juicer. I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you own a Kenwood Chef (and if you don't, you should buy one immediately) this is quite simply a brilliant juicer.

I had this attachment for Mothers Day, my husband having taken notice of my heavy hints that my old juicer, albeit from the ark, just didn't work very well. I am enormously impressed with it. Very solid construction that slots together really easily even for a technophobe like myself. Very large feeding tube means prep is minimal, always a bonus. The waste collector is large as is the juice jug, over 2 pints!! It produces very little frothy scum which I hated and the waste is fairly dry. If you wish to put the waste back through for a second run you just detach the collector instead of having to dismantle the whole thing. Some reviews I've read say that it is noisy and unstable, I found it to be the contrary, surprisingly quiet if you stick to the instruction speed of no more than 2. As for dismantling and cleaning, it took no more than two minutes using the handy brush that was included in the box. I would say this is definitely one attachment worth having.

Bought this juicer having had an ineffectual free standing one for years. After doing lots of research I decided it was best to get an attachment for my Kenwood, rather than buying yet another piece of kit to stand on the work top. This attachment juices really well, leaving behind very dry pulp and is very easy to use. I particularly like that you can juice a whole apple with no need for cutting. We are a large family, so the big capacity is also a bonus for us. I have deducted one star however due to the fact that it is rather a pain to take apart and clean. It has lots of parts which dismantle and I seem to get the pulp everywhere when doing this. I'm sure this will improve with time and practice, but it is a bit of a nuisance.

We use this nearly every day and love the juice it produces. There have been some negative reviews about noise, slowing the motor, cleaning, clogging, assembly; these have been a problem. It’s noisy - tearing fruit to get at the juice is noisy and is common to all juicers. Motor dragging - on tougher fruit it will do that - cut the fruit into small pieces and don’t force it down the feeder tube. Cleaning - this is no more difficult than any juicer. Do it straight away, run it under the tap, the basket will require a scrub with the brush provided. Dry straight away to prevent water marks (esp. in hard water areas). Clogging - it hasn’t clogged when I have used it. Assembly - after the first time it gets easier. The only niggle I have is that the juice continues to dribble out of the spout after removal of the jug. A stopper here would have been useful. I have raked to using a piece of kitchen towel.

I bought this deciding the trust the number of 5* reviews rather than the negative ones but I can only assume those people have never used a juicer before as this one was a nightmare. This juicer wants to be a centrifugal juicer but after it has grated up the produce it just spins it straight into the pulp collection so it misses half the juice and the pulp comes out soaking wet. It struggles to juice pretty much everything, anything hard like apples or beetroot have to be chopped up small otherwise you can smell your motor struggling (I love my Kenwood so would be pretty annoyed if this juicer broke it), and with softer fruit like lemons and cucumber you get about half the yield you should as it passes so fast into the pulp collector (this is quite particularly frustrating if you are doing a serious juice detox and are starving!). Things like apples and carrots were constantly getting stuck in the feed tube so you have to stop juicing, take the thing apart (whilst trying not to get juice and pulp everywhere) and try and dislodge them before starting again. As for juicing things like leafy greens, forget it, it just mushes it up and get hardly any juice out. I resorted to scraping the pulp out and putting it back through the juicer again and even trying to squeeze it out in a sieve to get the remaining juice out. If a juice recipe asked for lemon juice I just did it by hand so not to miss half of it. It is also a nightmare to clean and has loads of sections that need to be taken apart and individually scrubbed (again if you're trying a juice diet and doing this several times a day it gets very tedious). Lastly it is incredibly noisy even when you follow the instructions not to go above level two on your Kenwood, it vibrates so much it sprays juice out of the gap between the jug and lid (not fun when you've got beetroot juice splatting everywhere) and it is impossible to hold a conversation until it is turned off. I can only thing whoever designed this does not actually use a juicer themselves as there are so many fundamental flaws in it. Thankfully Amazon's return policy is brilliant so I am returning this to do more careful research on what to buy instead.

The juice itself is great. The attachment however is fiddly to assemble and does not fit onto the K Titanium very well, so I hardly use it. Today it has just taken me nearly an hour to detach the juicer from the main machine! I shall not use it again and would definitely not buy again. (I should add that I usually love Kenwood - but not this!)

Excellente idée cet accessoire qui fonctionne parfaitement sur notre robot de 15 ans déjà.

Nice quality works well but loud

Simple and effective Recommended

Lo que más me ha gustado ha sido la facilidad en sacar el jugo gracias a su potencia: puedes meter manzanas enteras (lavadas) y naranjas (mejor pelar eso si, para no amargar por la piel) y sale sin hacer presión. Con zanahorias enteras hay que empujar suavemente pero es sencillo. Todos los materiales son robustos y de calidad. Desaconseja el fabricante meterlos en lavavajillas aunque para mi no ha sido engorroso lavarlos. Lo que menos me gusta de estos aparatos de Cooking chef es que son voluminosos: si no tienes mucho espacio en la cocina es mejor buscar otro tipo de dispositivos(Incluso el bol de 6 litros de Cooking chef es muy grande para mi gusto, podrían haberlo desarrollado con 4,5-5 litros y ya sería util). Otra desventaja es que si el día de mañana se me rompe el aparato principal también me quedaré sin licuadora, por eso es mejor pensárselo dos veces antes de comprar.

Ich habe mir wegen der vielen schlechten Rezensionen sehr lange überlegt, ob ich das Teil kaufen soll oder nicht. Dann ist mir aufgefallen, dass gut die Hälfte der schlechten Rezensionen (1,2 oder 3 Sterne) von nicht verifizierten Käufen stammen. Ich will niemandem etwas unterschieben, aber für mich war das der Auslöser, es doch zu wagen. Und ich bereue es nicht. Wir haben den Entsafter ca. 2mal pro Woche im Einsatz, um Frühstückssaft zu machen. Karotte, Ananas, Apfel, rote Beete usw., es funktioniert tadellos. Der Entsafter ist leicht zusammen zu setzen und für die Reinigung auseinander zu nehmen. Einzig das Herausnehmen des Siebes ist manchmal etwas kniffelig (v.a. wenn die Fingernägel kurz sind). Die Reinigung des Siebes mit dem mitgelieferten Bürstchen geht schnell, allerdings verliert mein Bürstchen schon die ersten Borsten :-(. Das Gerät ist etwas laut, aber man entsaftet ja nicht stundenlang. Der Trester ist noch leicht feucht, auf 1 Liter Karottensaft konnte ich von Hand noch ca. 1 EL rauspressen (auf den kommt's für mich dann auch nicht mehr drauf an). Danke für den Tipp in einer Rezension, den Trester für 'Puffer' zu verwenden. Das hat bei uns ganz kreative Versuche ausgelöst ;-) mit mehr und weniger Erfolg (Mischungen mit Ananas sind definitiv nicht zu empfehlen, da zu faserig, Apfel und Karotte ist sehr lecker). Die Grösse des Tresterbehälters ist für mich passend zur Grösse des Saftbehälter (1L) ausgelegt. Für unseren 2-Personenhaushalt perfekt. Wenn ich regelmässig mehr als 1L Saft produzieren müsste, würde ich vermutlich nochmals eine kleine Marktstudie machen. Daneben gespritzt hat es bei mir noch nie. Optimieren könnte Kenwood das Teil noch in 2 Punkten: 1) das Herausnehmen des Siebes ist ohne lange Nägel etwas kniffelig 2) für den Saftauslass beim Becher sollte es eine kleine Kappe geben (siehe Foto für die Stelle, welche ich meine). Wenn ich den Saftbehälter entferne und dann den Entsafter von der Küchenmaschine abmontiere, um ihn zu zerlegen und zu reinigen, tropft oft noch Saft raus. Zum Glück ist bei mir der Weg von der Küchenmaschine zum Ausguss nicht weit und so ist es nicht schlimm. Meistens wickle ich einfach ein Stück Alupapier drum. Trotz diesen 2 Kritikpunkten insgesamt ein tolles Teil und ich bin wirklich froh, dass ich es gekauft habe. Die Säfte sind schnell gemacht, schmecken wunderbar und das Reinigen geht auch gut, wenn man es sofort macht.