I love mine too!

I looked at juicers available in my local Linens & Things, taking all of them apart to see which looked sturdy, trying to see what might be hard to clean, how the different chopping blades looked (much to the staff members chagrin, I bet). I picked up this one for $99.99. They have a chrome model on the Breville web site for $149.99.

I've had so much fun with this. Since it is so easy to clean I use it a lot. I can't say I'd use one as often if it were a pain to clean. This one takes me about 5 minutes to completely disassemble, dump pulp into my compost collecting box, and clean.

This is my first juicer so I don't really have anything to compare to, but I saw that most complaints in reviews here (or on other web sites) regarding juicers in general were "hard to clean" or "wet pulp" I can say that this one doesn't seem to have either problem. The pulp I've gotten is about the consistency of Play Dough.

Carrots and apples juice best. I cut apples in half if they're too big. To make things easy there's a little plastic guide in the 3 inch chute to restrict how big something can be. Once I throw the apple down the chute, the 2 positioning blades stabilize the fruit and then I tap it down with the plunger (can't think of right word for that thing) instead of pushing down with one forceful push. It seems to juice better with the delicate touch.

I've done fine with oranges, mangoes were iffy because the one I used was really ripe and it made more of a pudding than a juice, and cherry tomatoes want to bounce back out and splatter(maybe I should stick with larger, whole tomatoes). I've also juiced beets (they do well), celery, cucumbers, ginger, loads of carrots, parsley, plums and peaches(pitted of course), cranberries, and grapes.

The only problem I've had is once things get whittled down to be fairly small, they tend to fly over the cutting/ centrifuge basket. I like to add ginger in 1/4 inch slices and sometimes that doesn't juice at all and just flips over into the pulp catch area. I'll pluck it out (after the blades stop moving) and give it another try sometimes or add it while an apple or carrot is juicing too. I've found pieces of beet about the size of a silver dollar but just occasionally. It might've been the tougher area near the top.

I wish there were two speeds too, for smaller or juicer items. Even the manual mentions juicing something on a lower speed but there isn't a lower speed - just off and on.

Footprint-wise, it's about the size of a coffee maker, about half of the size of the others that I looked at (such as Waring products, etc). The pulp cup is integrated into the top so there isn't a separate waste catching cup.

The juice pitcher is 27 oz. according to the info on Linens N Things web site (stated as 1 liter on the Breville web site). The motor is 700 watts. Most others that I looked at in this price range were 400 watts.

I'm totally addicted now. I don't know what to do if I don't get something juiced each night. Last night was carrot - celery - tomato - cucumber - parsley and after it was juiced I added a little celery salt and Texas Pete hot sauce. I've never had anything from V8 that was close to being as good as that was.

So, in general, I am extremely happy with mine and hope to get one for my mother-in-law and brother-in-law who don't eat veggies or fruit unless you hold a gun to their heads. I think this will help to convert them.