How does this juicer handle kale? Any tips? Thank you!
1421877
Leafy greens are juiced, but the quantity of juice is small. I like to bunch the kale so that the bunch meets the shredding blade. Otherwise, the kale parts break away without getting juiced.
1421878
I find it best to start with a harder veggie like celery than push the kale in. Follow with another stalk of celery to clear all the juice. If you don't want to celery juice, use a separate container for it. I find a mason jar works well to catch the juice.
1421879
Cut off the stems. I have best success when I juice a stalk of celery first. Then stuff in the keel. Follow by a stalk of celery. It works fine.
2235070
If you are using the low setting for less dense items, then you sometimes have to juice things like kale and spinach and collards twice. I sometimes mix the loss greens with more dense things or wrap them to be more efficient. i.e(Wrap the kale around apple peices or beets)
853039
It's better then other juicers not a 100% but it gives you juice ...... The kale well it's okay but could be better....
2204984
To be honest, and I LOVE my Breville, if you are looking to extract all the juice in greens, you would be better with a "green juicer", which presses the greens to extract the juice. The centrifugal force juicers really don't work well with wheat grass and greens. OR you can juice your fruits and veggies, and place the greens in a Vitamix and then add them with the pulp!!
1008999
It won't juice, per se. But it will blend it like a smoothie. I always make a kale smoothie with mine and it's perfect.
769983
A juicer extracts the fibrous material and leaves only the liquid parts of fruits and vegetables- this blender would chop the kale up very finely but I don't think you would be left with a liquid. Hope this helps!
312238
This juicer has done really well w/ greens, like kale and spinach. As for efficiency, I can't compare the quantity of juice produced to another juicer, since this is my first one. But I am happy with it.
1324154
I think this is mainly a greens and wheat grass juicer. I've used it for mostly wheat grass that I've grown. It works grat for that. I've also used it to juice kale, spinach and other greens. Love it for that. I juice carrots, apples,beets,etc. In a masticating juicer.
262944
It juices greens just fine, this is where it excels. It works much better than centrifugal juicers where your greens will get caught up in the blade instead of getting juiced. So far I've tried wheatgrass, spinach, beet, celery, and carrot greens and all did great. Only a cold press juicer can do a decent job with greens.
1113820
Yes, it does. To be honest, I'd never even heard of kale until I started juicing. But from everything I've read now, it juices as expected. I get about a tablespoon of juice per large kale leaf. When I do juice kale, I juice two large leafs. Again, from what I've read, that's plenty in a juice recipe.
1800931
It is not very good with leafy stuff. Celery also leaves a lot of fiber stuck on the blade and eventually starts to heat the juice (not a good thing). That being said I am very satisfied with the product. Been using it twice a day ever since I bought it. Easy to clean and very effective in juice making. Also used it for almond butter. Excellent results. That's my 2 cents.
312246
The Breville Juice fountain processes kale more easily than my Hurom juicer. There's not clogging or sticking due to the long tough fibers in the plant. That isn't to say that some (or even much) of the kale juice winds up in the pulp. That can happen -- but 1 few tricks have improved the amount of juice I can get out of the kale though. 1. I put the kale into the chute alongside a firm fruit or vegetable like apple or carrot and process on the high/fast setting designed for harder fruits and veggies. 2. I juice the kale when it's very fresh and firm. If it starts to get a bit limp, there's not much hope of getting lots of juice from it anymore. Parsley, cilantro, spinach -- all of it does well in the Breville if mixed in with hard fruit and juiced on the highest setting.
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I just used Swiss Chard today. You have to roll up the leafy greens and "sandwich" them between something like apples or cut the apple in half - top & bottom - put the green leafies between the halves....caution DO NOT force through the greens... let the juicer do its job. Otherwise, the motor will seize and you'll have to open it up and back out everything in the chute and start over with what's left. Oh, and there is NO PULP in the juice...all that goes into the pulp collector (As an extra: put a clean bag [biodegradables are available for this purpose] in the pulp collector and save the veggie pulp for soups & savory dishes and the fruit pulp for baked goods!) I just used Swiss Chard today. You have to roll up the leafy greens and "sandwich" them between something like apples or cut the apple in half - top & bottom - put the green leafies between the halves....caution DO NOT force through the greens... let the juicer do its job. Otherwise, the motor will seize and you'll have to open it up and back out everything in the chute and start over with what's left. Oh, and there is NO PULP in the juice...all that goes into the pulp collector (As an extra: put a clean bag [biodegradables are available for this purpose] in the pulp collector and... » Read More I just used Swiss Chard today. You have to roll up the leafy greens and "sandwich" them between something like apples or cut the apple in half - top & bottom - put the green leafies between the halves....caution DO NOT force through the greens... let the juicer do its job. Otherwise, the motor will seize and you'll have to open it up and back out everything in the chute and start over with what's left. Oh, and there is NO PULP in the juice...all that goes into the pulp collector (As an extra: put a clean bag [biodegradables are available for this purpose] in the pulp collector and save the veggie pulp for soups & savory dishes and the fruit pulp for baked goods!) « Show Less
2014754
I had no trouble making my Mean Green juices with kale using the T-Fal, but you need to use fresh whole kale, not the cut up bagged kind. I was also worried about it having enough power for raw beets but it makes a great beet juice, which is one of my favorites.
1120968
For manual Juicers, Yes. I make Kale / Apple all the time. Almost every day.
661962
Yes I've juiced kale many times. I've learned to wash it (the night before) and let it dry before using as sometimes if the leaves are wet it doesn't juice as well.
196829
This juicer works great on wheat grass. It produces very dry pulp. We find wheat grass is just too strong for us to drink. We juice kale at the end of juicing a Tablespoon of flax seed, a knuckle of ginger root, followed by apples, celery, beets tops and roots, and carrots. We separate the bitter and very dry kale pulp from all the rest of the fiber to compost. The apple and other fiber we add pomegranate juice to, along with Ceylon (real) cinnamon,a pinch of cloves and some chopped nuts. We mush this into a dough then roll into balls to make raw vegetable "cookies" which are awesome and supply the fiber which gut microbes need to create satisfaction for us in fullness. We drink and eat these raw vegitable cookies each morning and love it ,really love it. Sometime we put a fresh raspberry on top of each one, really better than tollhouse, we follow with about half cup of cooked little red bead with garlic, red onion, and a fewcooked mushrooms since the health benefits of these cooked plantfoods are tremendous for satiation, fighting cancer and longevity. A good site to visit for latest research is NutricianFacts.org(not dot com) Mr Greger at NutricianFacts provides all the lastest research in hundreds of 5 minute videos. We are attempting to grow baby broccoli greens to juice since the research shows they are at least 20 time higher in nutrients than bigger broccoli leaves for juicing,why eat only the flower and waste the leaves. Dr Joel Furhman,of Eat To Live, has also been very helpful in our quest for optimum wellbeing. The best to your health Rachel