The manufacturer of the Breville BJE200XL Compact Juice Fountain is an Australian company founded in 1932 in Melbourne by William O’Brien and Charles Henry “Harry”Norville who combined their last names together and came up with the brand “Breville.” Breville created the original sandwich toaster which became a booming success. Shortlyafter, they began to manufacture small appliances.

​Breville launched the first food processor in Australia, the Kitchen Wizz, as well as other firsts including the first juice extractor that can juice a whole fruit. Breville has more than 100 active patents today and the company has received over 40 international design awards. The latest in its innovative product design line is the Breville BJE200XL with the same fast speed of its bigger counterparts in a slightly smaller size.

As expected with most centrifugal juicers, the quality of the juice extracted by the Breville BJE200XL is smooth and fine. This is because of the 14000 RPM speed of the BJE200XL, a feat for a juicer that is smaller than most juicers in its class. Moreover, at the rate at which it extracts the juice of even whole fruits and vegetables like apples and carrots, respectively, the BJE200XL operates only on 700 watts.

Most people have the notion that essential nutrients are lost from the vegetables and fruits that are extracted by a centrifugal juicer like the BJE200XL. This stems from the fact that centrifugal juicers operate on speed and speed obviously creates friction in the blade or blades which result in heat production. The heat is not the cause of faster spoilage of the extracted juice but the amount of time it is exposed to air.

​Thus the Quality of the juice made by this juicer is very very good.

​The time it takes to juice using the BJE200XL will depend on what kind of fruits and vegetables you want to use. Any centrifugal juicer, including the BJE200XL, will not be suitable for extracting soft fruits like bananas and avocados or vegetables with thick and abundant leafage such as spinach or kale. The BJE200XL is a speed whiz in extracting fruits and vegetables with hard textures and that’s that.

At 14000 RPM, suffice it to say that you can have your juice in a matter of two minutes or less with the BJE200XL. Moreover, the 700-watt power of the BJE200XL’s motor enables it to efficiently and completely extract the vegetables and fruits you feed into it including the stems, stalks, and peels. This juicer can, literally, extract all the life out of anything you put in it.

The BJE200XL does a fantastic job of extracting the juice of celery, apples, carrots,beets, cauliflower, cucumbers, pumpkins, pears, asparagus, broccoli, and other fruits and vegetables that are hard in texture and bulky in size. The BJE200XL, however,performs less satisfactory with leafy vegetables, as mentioned previously, such as spinach and kale, and softer fruits, also mentioned previously.

Centrifugal juicers are able to extract 20% more juice from hard vegetables and  masticating juicers but will yield 20% less from leafy greens. The BJE200XL is true to its centrifugal nature when it comes to this aspect. The BJE200XL makes up for it because of its streamlined design that adds beauty to any kitchen’s décor; your countertop table couldn’t look any better than with the BJE200XL on it.

As mentioned, a prominent feature of most, if not all, centrifugal juicers is its powerful motor for quick and thorough juice extraction. It will seem technically impossible for an appliance with a high speed motor not to emit some kind of noise.

The BJE200XL does make noise, no doubt about it, but not any more than the kind of sound that a powerful juicer makes while in operation, meaning it won’t wake up the dead.

The sterling reputation of Breville as a respectable manufacturer of small appliances has undoubtedly made the BJE200XL a product you can rely on. Best known for top quality coffee makers, bread toasters, and other small appliances, each of the Breville juicer models cater to a particular market segment to provide a definitive set of juicing features at a specific price bracket.

Customer reviews are all praises for the easy way that the BJE200XL operates. Even those who are just beginning to juice will find the instruction manual’s easy to follow steps in juicing. Ease of use is often an issue with other juicers because of the many parts that need to be assembled before a user can operate one. The BJE200XL,however, is easy to assemble, use, disassemble, and clean afterwards.

​Additionally, the BJE200XL has a filter equipped with a micro mesh screen that efficiently separates the extracted liquid from the pulp meaning, no leftover lumps or sand-like residue after extraction. The parts of are easy to clean as well. Because of its stainless steel material, staining is nearly impossible but if it does happen, cleaning the parts will still be easy with the included customized cleaning brush.

The price of the Breville BJE200XL is what makes it stand out above the rest of other centrifugal juicers. And even with its affordable price, Breville did not scrimp on the features that it created for the BJE200XL, which is more than what can be said of other juicers in its class.