BLACK+DECKER JE2200B Review

The BLACK+DECKER JE2200B is the cheapest juicer on this site, and the reason to buy one is to find out whether you are a person who juices. That sounds like a backhanded compliment and it is not meant as one. The most expensive mistake in this category is not buying a bad machine -- it is spending $300 on a good one and discovering in week three that you do not want to stand at a sink every morning. BLACK+DECKER states 400 W, a 300 ml pitcher, every removable part dishwasher safe and a 2 Year Limited Warranty, on a body that fits in a cupboard. For the specific job of answering that question, it is well designed. For a daily habit that has already stuck, it is not the machine, and we would rather say so in the first paragraph.

What BLACK+DECKER states

• A 400 W motor, with stainless steel blades and a high-quality strainer.
• Extract fresh, pulp-free juice in just seconds! The intuitive on/off switch provides the best performance for all kinds of fruit and vegetables -- which is also how we know there is one speed, not two.
• A 300 ml pitcher that captures the juice, and a 28-oz. container that collects pulp for use in muffins, desserts, and more.
• Every removable part is safe to clean in the dishwasher, further simplifying the juice-making process.
• The durable stainless steel cutter quickly works through fruits and vegetables, and it's easy to clean and reuse.
• The fruit and vegetable pusher guides fresh produce towards the cutters for maximum juice extraction.
• The vertically-oriented juice extractor saves space on the countertop.
• The motor operates only when the snap-on lid is latched safely into place, and the rubberized feet keep the juicer in its place during operation.
• 9 in high, 9 in long, 13 in wide, 5.6 lb, corded.
• 2 Year Limited Warranty.

What is not on that list matters as much on a machine this cheap. BLACK+DECKER publishes no RPM, no juice yield figure, no pulp-dryness figure, no cleanup time and no decibel figure. That is normal across this whole category rather than a BLACK+DECKER failing -- see how we pick -- but on a centrifugal machine the missing RPM is a genuine inconvenience, because RPM is the number that tells you how aggressively the basket spins and therefore how much foam and oxidation to expect.

400 watts, and what that actually means

Four hundred watts is the lowest figure of any centrifugal machine in this registry. Hamilton Beach states 800 W for the Big Mouth, Breville states 850 W for the JE98XL and 1200 W for the Juice Fountain Cold XL. On a spinning-basket machine wattage is not a marketing number in the way it is on an auger: the basket has to maintain speed while a blade shreds produce against it, and when a hard carrot or a beet goes in, the load spikes. More power means the basket holds its speed through that spike.

At 400 W it does not hold it as well. The practical consequence is not that the machine fails -- it is that hard produce takes longer, needs more pressure on the pusher, and gives up wetter pulp than a stronger machine would. Soft and medium produce is a different story: apples, oranges, cucumber, tomatoes and soft pears are entirely within its range. How many watts a juicer should have explains why you can only compare wattage within one mechanism, never across two, and juicer RPM explained covers the number BLACK+DECKER does not publish.

The 300 ml pitcher is the real constraint

Three hundred milliliters is a little over ten fluid ounces. That is about one glass of juice, and it is the single specification on this machine most likely to annoy you daily. Breville's Juice Fountain Cold XL states 70 fl oz of capacity by comparison. The JE2200B is not a batch machine and was never designed as one: you juice, you pour, you juice again.

For one person making one glass that is a non-issue. For two people at breakfast it is two stops and two pours. For a juice cleanse or a family batch it is the wrong machine entirely -- best juicers for families and best juicers for juice cleanses cover what capacity actually looks like when you need it. The 28 oz pulp container is generously sized against the pitcher, which tells you something true about centrifugal juicing: there is more pulp than juice, and BLACK+DECKER is right to suggest doing something with it. What to do with juicer pulp has the honest list.

Cleanup: dishwasher safe, and what that leaves you

This is where the machine earns its keep, and the published claim is unusually clean: every removable part is safe to clean in the dishwasher. Not some parts, not the hand-wash-the-screen hedge that most brands use. On a budget machine that is the single most valuable sentence on the spec sheet, because the strainer basket is the part that ends juicing habits.

The honest qualifier is that a dishwasher does not fully clear a centrifugal mesh basket of dried pulp, on this machine or on any other. The fibers wedge into the mesh from the inside, and a dishwasher jet hits the outside. The routine that works is a rinse and a brush immediately after juicing, with the dishwasher as a weekly deep clean rather than the daily method. How to clean a juicer and the centrifugal cleanup guide describe that properly, and cleaning a juicer after every use answers the question everybody actually has, which is whether you can skip it. BLACK+DECKER publishes no cleanup time in minutes, and neither does anybody else in this category.

A 2-year warranty on the cheapest machine here

BLACK+DECKER states a 2 Year Limited Warranty. Set that against Breville, which states 1 year on the JE98XL and on the Juice Fountain Cold XL -- machines in a much higher price band. Hamilton Beach states 3 years on the Big Mouth. So within the budget centrifugal segment, the warranty ladder runs in almost the opposite direction to the price ladder, which is worth knowing before you assume cheap means unsupported.

Two years is not a decade, and the premium augers state 10 to 15 -- see how long does a juicer last for every term on this site side by side. But a warranty is a company's own statement about expected life, and two years on a sub-$100 machine is a more confident statement than one year on a $200 one.

Who this is for

Somebody who has never owned a juicer and is not sure they want to. This is the central case and it is a real one. Spend as little as possible, juice for a month, and find out whether the washing up is a dealbreaker before you spend properly. Is a juicer worth it and juicing on a budget are written for exactly that reader.

Somebody juicing apples, oranges and carrots occasionally. Within soft and medium produce, at one glass at a time, the machine does the job it claims to do.

Somebody with no counter space and no intention of giving any up. At 5.6 lb and 9 in high it genuinely goes back in a cupboard, which is more than can be said for most of the machines on this site. What size juicer do I need and best compact juicers cover the small-kitchen case.

Who should skip it

• Anybody whose plan is celery, kale or green juice. A basket spinning fast rides along long fibers instead of rupturing them. No wattage fixes that -- it is the mechanism. Cold press vs centrifugal is the page to read instead, and best juicers for celery names the machines that do work.
• Anybody juicing for more than one person. A 300 ml pitcher means a stop and a pour per glass. Best juicers for two people covers the capacity question.
• Anybody juicing hard beets and carrots daily. 400 W is the least power of any centrifugal machine here. Best juicers for hard vegetables is the honest shortlist.
• Anybody who already knows the habit has stuck. Once juicing is a daily routine, the arguments for spending more -- warranty length, pulp control, a bigger jug -- all start applying at once. Best juicers under $200 is the next rung, and best cold press juicers under $300 is where a 15-year warranty comes into range.
• Anybody who cares about foam and oxidation. Centrifugal machines aerate juice, and this one publishes no RPM so you cannot even estimate how much. Juicer foam and oxidation explains what that does and does not matter for.
• Anybody wanting citrus specifically. A press or a reamer does oranges and lemons better and cheaper. Best citrus juicers, and the sibling BLACK+DECKER CJ625 is the same brand's answer to that job.

How it compares with the other budget machines

The nearest alternative on this site is the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth, which states 800 W, a 3 in Big Mouth feed chute that takes a medium apple whole, five named dishwasher-safe parts and a 3-year limited warranty. On published specs it beats the JE2200B on power, chute width and warranty, and it is a bigger object that does not go back in a cupboard. If you want the better budget juicer, that is the one. If you want the smaller, cheaper one that stores away, this is.

The other honest alternative is not a centrifugal machine at all: the AMZCHEF ZM1501 puts masticating mechanics inside the same price band, at a published 90 RPM with a reverse function. It is slower, it needs more prep chopping, and it will handle greens that a spinning basket will not. Best budget centrifugal juicers and best juicers under $100 rank the whole band.

Where it appears on this site

This machine is a pick on best juicers under $100, best budget centrifugal juicers and juicing on a budget. For the produce it suits, see best juicers for apples, best juicers for oranges and best juicers for tomatoes.

The picks in full

1. Best way to test the habit before spending

BLACK+DECKER JE2200B

BLACK+DECKER JE2200B · Under $100 · Our score 5.5/10

BLACK+DECKER states a 400 W motor driving stainless steel blades and a high-quality strainer, a 300 ml pitcher for the juice and a 28 oz container that collects pulp for use in muffins, desserts, and more. It is 9 in high, 9 in long and 13 in wide at 5.6 lb, which is small enough to put away in a cupboard, and BLACK+DECKER states that every removable part is safe to clean in the dishwasher and that the motor operates only when the snap-on lid is latched safely into place. The warranty is 2 Year Limited -- double what Breville states on machines several times the price. Honest cons: 400 W is the least power of any centrifugal machine we cover, so hard carrots and beets are slow going; the 300 ml pitcher is about one glass, which means emptying constantly; there is a single on/off switch and no published RPM, so it cannot be compared on speed to anything; BLACK+DECKER publishes no yield figure, no pulp figure and no noise figure; and celery and leafy greens are the wrong job for a spinning basket at any price, let alone this one.

Yield

Not availableNot sourced

Pulp

Not availableNot sourced

Cleanup time

BLACK+DECKER states every removable part is safe to clean in the dishwasherManufacturer claim: BLACK+DECKER · checked 2026-10-26

Speed

BLACK+DECKER states a 400 W motor and a single on/off switch; no RPM publishedManufacturer claim: BLACK+DECKER · checked 2026-10-26

What works

• Cheapest route to a glass of fresh juice
• Dishwasher-safe parts
• Small enough to store in a cupboard

What does not

• 400 W struggles with hard carrots and beets
• 10 oz pitcher means emptying constantly
• No yield, pulp or cleanup data published

Skip this if: You juice daily, or you juice hard produce. 400 W and a 10 oz pitcher are a trial setup, not a habit setup.

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• Yield4/10
• Pulp4/10
• Cleanup7/10
• Value8/10
• Quiet4/10

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