DeLonghi DJE950 Die-cast Juice Extractor

I bought one used, hoping for a better juicer, smaller price. This is the 3rd juicer I've owned, and I've learn not to stump grind, but dice your produce, and that especially works well with this juicer. I like the long wide shoot to fill as I dice, then get my small chilled pitcher and start juicing once everything is ready. Most of the time it feeds through on it's own, sometimes I shift and push it with a mini spatula, leaves have to be pushed, as well as the last few remnants at the finally. A shot of water clears everything fairly well. I mostly stick to simple celery, baby carrots, pear and ginger root, but have tried bok choy, cabbage, cranberries, apples strawberries and blue berries. I have juiced 3 times a day for almost 9 weeks, and there is a learning curve.From the bok choy leaves, I wouldn't recommend this as a leaf juicer, it does work to fold them up and then if it slows just add a shot of water as necessary, but if your trying to just muscle them through it doesn't preform well grinding leaves up. The cabbage I tried both ways, and the cut cabbage went right through with little effort, the separated leafs were more of a chore. Dicing celery gets rid of most of the problems with strings, but sometimes a little water chaser will clear the blades too. Sometimes I wished it would grind better, but other times stuff just runs right through and I am very happy with the performance. Usually that shot of water gets things moving along, I have rarely stopped and taken it apart except with leaves. I have a 2-speed and a small juicer, but it's the DeLonghi that delivers more juice and less foam, usually 3 or 4 cups each time. I think it's the slower speed induction motor, but even compared to the 2 speed on low, Delonghi exceeds it.I was a prep cook so dicing is second nature, just get the chef's knife so you have some weight behind it. Clean up is easy as any, I actually prefer the inner plastic liner referred to as a filter, just use a small lined basket for compost scraps. I use a dish brush for the spinner basket, that goes fast and cleans easy, but I have had to pick those little strawberry nodules from the blades. If you buy one used, make sure they don't send it assembled, as the bowl of mine came cracked, probably from the stress of being attached to the heavy base. I also have a small glass bowl I set it on, so it's off the counter and the suction cups stay dry.

The plastic lid was broken inside. A big chunk about 2 inches long and one inch high has broken of the edge of the lid. It looks like it was snapped off when it was being rotated and removed. It appears to have been broken before it was packaged since the packaging was intact and very sturdy. The break is easy to miss because of the clear plastic.

I have had this juicer for a few years now. 3 months ago I returned to daily juicing. At first, I liked this way better than my Breville Ikon 510 from 8 years ago. why?Pros:1. Since it does not eject the pulp, it can extract much better than most conventional centrifugal juicers.2. It has a handy pulp removal wheel that makes clean-ups much easier.3. It was a big improvement over the Omega 1000/9000 designs of years ago, as it was much less likely to wobble so badly that the teeth and plastic get ruined (Like the Omegas would).4. You could, with practice, even use the paper filters that go with the Omega 1000/9000 to filter out the pulp, although the trapped pulp actually filters out the subsequent pulp -- much better than the loads of micro-fine pulp in the Breville juice (As I do juice fasts, pulp-free juice is said by some to be critical to success). BUT...Cons:1. The teeth are almost non-existent. Very shallow and dull. Perhaps they saw this as necessary to avoid the above issues that Omega has with their similar designs. This means that the teeth can get "Jammed up" with softer, low water content veggie material, making juicing impossible, and necessitating opening and rinsing out of the teeth bowl2. It barely, if much at all, can juice leafy greens. Try as I might (Placing a cucumber slice, then the greens, then another cucumber slice before restarting the juicer; "wrapping" the greens in celery stalks on each side, etc) I always find unjuiced spinach, parsley, dino kale, etc in the pulp. Sprouts will go through the "Gap" between the chute and teeth (all centrifugal juicers have this needed gap AFAIK) completely unjuiced, unless you "trap" them with other veg material. All centrifugal juicers are said to have trouble with leafy greens, and the superior extraction and very low pulp (unless it gets overloaded...then it's pulp-infested) from this juicer are attractive, but the masticating juicers extract leafy greens the best.Conclusion: If you have some patience (you will have to disassemble and clean, or remove solid unjuiced pieces of skin from time-to-time) but not enough to "mess" with the vertical or old 2-gear masticating slow juicers, this can be OK. If you resign yourself to poor leafy greens extraction, which you can somewhat compensate for by tricks and just using more greens, then ok.One final thing. DeLonghi stopped making this juicer! They still are/were making spare parts, but the design is dead. An improvement instead would've been nice.