In testing to find the best juicer for 2025, we keyed in on each model’s overall functionality and intuitiveness, how easy the juicer is to clean (you’ll want to clean them after every use) and most importantly, how much juice you get from a given pile of fresh produce. The best juicer should also have a big enough feed tube for even large chunks of fruits, roots and vegetables. Even if you’re only planning to juice citrus fruit for cocktails or launch into a trendy celery juice cleanse, there are a lot of excellent juicer options out there to help you along. Testing juicers means lots of juicing. We gathered up heaps of apples and oranges and bunches of kale to see how these juicers handled produce of varying texture and density.
I tested the juicers with oranges, apples and kale.
Apples
To test the juicer’s high-speed function, we cored and quartered three red apples. (We used organic Gala apples in this round of testing.) Next, we weighed the apples, the empty juice receptacle and the empty juicer on a large kitchen scale. Then, we juiced the apples on the juicer’s high setting or, if there were multiple speeds, the manual’s recommended apple speed.
Fresh orange juice can be extra-frothy.
For orange juicing, we set the juicer to its low speed, a good setting for soft fruit like oranges. Once the juicer was finished, we weighed everything again and took notes.
Kale
Juicer testing wouldn’t be complete without a leafy green element. It’s worth noting here that most centrifugal juicers won’t do as well as a cold-press juicer (aka a slow-masticating juicer) for extracting juice from greens. Still, it is possible and some centrifugal juicers are up to the task.
