Cuisinart CCJ-500P1 Pulp Control Juicer Best Overall
- Warranty
- 3 years limited
- Juice Cup
- 12 oz
- Fruit Range
- Key limes to grapefruit
- Pulp Control
- 3 settings
Three pulp settings is the reason this Cuisinart is the juicer we tell most people to buy. The reamer slips between low, medium, and high, so a household that disagrees about texture can settle it before the first glass — clear juice for one person, something with body for another. It sounds like a small thing until you have drunk a winter of accidentally strained lemonade.
The cone is genuinely universal. Key limes sit on the small end, grapefruit fit over the top, and the reamer reverses on its own so the fruit gets worked from both directions instead of one. We are fondest of the final-spin burst, a last quick rotation that throws the juice still sitting in the pulp out into the cup instead of leaving it in the strainer for the rinse.
Cleanup is the easy kind: the cone, strainer, and 12-ounce cup lift out as one stack and go on the top rack. The warranty runs three years, the longest coverage here, which matters in a category where the motor is the usual casualty. And at a little over six inches wide it earns a permanent spot beside the coffee maker rather than a shelf in the cupboard.
What We Like
- Three pulp settings that actually change the glass
- Cone fits key limes through grapefruit
- Three-year limited warranty, longest in this set
Worth Noting
- Louder than the premium presses here
- 12-ounce cup fills fast when you batch
We recommend this Cuisinart to nearly every kitchen: the pulp dial, the lime-to-grapefruit cone, and a three-year warranty make it the least risky buy on the page.
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