Philips Viva Collection Masticating juicer HR1887/81 XL Tube, 70 mm Quick Clean

It’s a very good product for people who are serious about having fruit juice. I already tried few hand juicers before buying this product (since this one has a good cost) but in the end felt like cost is worth it. It takes 60 sec to extract juice from 3 oranges and it gives you one glass of fresh juice. Very efficient and pulp is also easy segregated and dry. I also tried anaar (pomegranate) juice, it also has seamless and amazingly fast extraction and pulp of anaar is also dry, I was impressed after seeing it work so effectively with anaar as well.

Out of the box product….we are very happy with this….

 Compact, powerful, stylish and working great.

Was delivered today afternoon, only had pomegranate in home so tried with it and the result was great.

Pulp totally dry, juice totally sweet and original.

Will update later after use with beetroot.

I just used my juicer for the first time and really enjoyed the result. 2 small cucumbers, 2 beetroots and two carrots yielded two glass full of very nice and sweet tasting vegetable juice.

However, I did cut the vegetables into smaller chunks before putting them in the juicer AND I double pressed the pulp by carefully feeding them back into the tube with a spoon twice. I did this because initially the pulp indeed is quite wet and i didn’t want so much juice to go to waste. The juicer is very quiet as compared to regular heavy duty juicers.

I still have a lot of pulp and I read online this is normal for slow juicers. Now I came up with the idea to just use my beetroot-carrot pulp by making a dry beetroot sabzi out of it by frying it up with some onion and mirchi. I’m sure if you had cucumber pulp only one could easily make raita out of it. So I decided to not see the surplus of pulp as waste but as by product for making more dishes on the side. It’s a win for me.

Anyway, back to the juicer. The cleaning process was super easy. It’s very simple to take apart and just rinse clean under water. I also like how it doesn’t take up much space in my tiny kitchen.

I think a lot of negative experiences with this juicer are due to the fact that people are expecting this to work just as efficiently as a conventional juicer, which of course it doesn’t. I think brands have to do a better job explaining what the differences and advantages of this type of juicer are as compared to a regular juicer. Especially at that price point they need to explain the product better to make it possible for people to make an informed choice.

For me personally, I enjoy the small size, the ease of cleaning and the low noise level. Also the juice that came from it was perfectly smooth and delicious. So far I’m very happy with my purchase. I might update this review after some months of use.