The 3 Best Juicers of 2026
For our latest round of juicer testing, I focused primarily on a new category that’s quickly becoming the norm: batch juicers.
The batch juicers I tested have large hoppers and an auto-feed function, which chops ingredients in the hopper and pulls them into the auger (the slow-turning screw that crushes the produce). So you can load mostly whole ingredients into the juicer and walk away, rather than having to pre-chop and feed them into a chute one by one. The juicing process itself is a couple of minutes slower, but a batch juicer will slash labor and time overall.
Batch juicers also cut out user error, which was common with chute-style juicers, according to John Kohler of DiscountJuicers.com. With chute-style juicers, if ingredients aren’t chopped to the correct size, or you’re inserting them too quickly, the machine is likely to clog and jam, and the resulting juice may be pulpier.
Throughout our research and testing, I focused on a few key criteria:
Easy to clean: Perhaps the most dreaded part of the juicing process is the cleanup. Nearly all juicers have parts that need to be hand-washed, and pulp can be tricky to remove from strainers, pulp chutes, and crevices. I assessed each juicer’s ease of cleaning as well as the cleaning tools included.
Footprint: Juicers are usually a supplemental kitchen appliance, as opposed to an essential one, and they tend to be big. For each juicer, I considered its size and countertop footprint, weighing that against its capacity and efficiency.
Warranty: Juicers are fairly pricey appliances. So it’s important to have peace of mind about a juicer’s value over time. I looked for machines with long warranties, and those that offered coverage on both parts and motors.
Ease of assembly: Juicers have many pieces that must be put together before you use them. The auger sits inside a screen, which is nestled in a rotating wiper; all of this resides in the chamber set (the main body of the juicer). The chamber set is then placed atop a motor base, which powers the juicer.
If any of these parts don’t fit together well, the machine won’t run. I noted the assembly process for each juicer, marking down those that required undue force or needed to be done in a particular order.
In 2025, I tested three batch juicers against our previous picks, paying special attention to each machine’s ease of use and cleaning process. My testing followed the same plan as previous tests, and this allowed me to cross-reference the resulting data with that of juicers we tested before.
Green-juice test: I first made juice with 8 ounces each of curly kale and green grapes. This test showed us how each machine handled both soft fruit and tough greens.
Fibrous greens are hard to break down, and a high-quality juicer will squeeze more juice from leaves than lesser models will. Soft fruit (like seedless grapes) is a challenge for juicers for the opposite reason; it lacks the fiber that helps a juicer pull the fruit completely through the chamber, and this can gum up the works.
I tasted the juice and noted its sweetness level; sweetness signals a higher ratio of grape juice, which tells us the juicer didn’t do as good a job of juicing the greens.
Roots-juice test: I repeated our tests with hard fruits and vegetables, using 8 ounces each of carrots and apples, 4 ounces of celery, and 1 ounce of ginger. This helped me determine how well the machines could pulverize hard roots and fibrous fruits. Better juicers yielded smooth, earthy juices that didn’t feel gritty on the tongue.
Juice and pulp yield: To see how efficient each model was at extraction, I measured yields by weight. I also weighed how much pulp was left over, and I squeezed it to feel how much liquid remained. A great juicer will leave behind pulp that’s a little damp yet not wet — a sign that it’s wrung the last drops from the produce.
Foam: I measured how thick the cap of foam was on each juice, since too much foam is unpleasant. For juicers that included a strainer, I noted the yield by the weight of the juice, both with and without foam.
Temperature: I measured the temperature of each juice to see whether any of the machines significantly warmed up the produce, but we didn’t observe any major differences.