Breville Juice Fountain Plus JE98XL Review

For apples, carrots, beets and peeled citrus the JE98XL is a genuinely good purchase and a glass takes minutes rather than twelve. Two speeds, a 3 in chute and 850 W cover that produce properly. For celery and leafy greens it is the wrong mechanism at any price, and no setting fixes that.

What Breville states

• 850 W.
• Dual speed: 6,500 RPM low and 12,000 RPM high.
• A patented extra-wide 3 in feed tube.
• A 33½ fl oz juice carafe with a froth separator, and an 84½ fl oz pulp container.
• 13¼ x 16½ x 18¼ in, 10 lb.
• Stainless steel, BPA-free plastic and POM polymer construction.
• A 1-year warranty.

What the two speeds are for

Not a gimmick. The low setting at 6,500 RPM is for soft produce -- ripe pears, tomatoes, melon, grapes -- where 12,000 RPM would mostly aerate what is already liquid and produce froth. The high setting is for hard produce: apples, carrots, beets.

Most people leave it on high and never discover the difference, which is a shame. If you juice soft fruit at all, the low setting is the single most useful control on the machine. See juicers for tomatoes and juicers for watermelon.

The 3 inch chute is the real feature

3 in is the threshold at which a whole apple goes in whole. That removes the board, the knife, the chopping and two items from the sink -- and over a daily habit it is the biggest practical time difference between this machine and a cold press one.

Breville's own Cold XL goes wider at 3.5 in, and Hamilton Beach matches 3 in for well under $100. But 3 in is already enough, and the extra half inch is a refinement rather than a transformation. Best large chute juicers covers the measurements.

The froth separator is an admission

Breville includes a froth separator in the carafe, and it is worth noticing what that implies: a basket spinning at up to 12,000 RPM is also moving air, which gets whipped into the juice. Foam is inherent to the mechanism rather than a fault, and Breville is engineering around its own physics.

It works -- the separator holds the foam back as you pour. And foam collapses by itself within a couple of minutes anyway. Juicer foam and oxidation covers the mechanics.

The warranty is the weak point

1 year. Hamilton Beach states 3 years on a machine at a fraction of the price. Mueller states 2. BLACK+DECKER states 2. Breville's own Cold XL, at considerably more money, also states 1.

That is a genuinely odd pattern in this category -- the premium centrifugal brand offering the shortest cover -- and it is the clearest argument for buying Hamilton Beach instead if warranty length is what you weight.

Who this is for

Somebody whose list is apples, carrots, beets, cucumber and peeled citrus, who wants a glass in a couple of minutes, and who does not want to chop. On that produce the mechanism costs you very little and the speed is a real benefit.

Who should skip it

Anybody buying for celery or leafy greens. A spinning basket cuts across long fiber rather than crushing along it, so most of a celery stalk's liquid ends up in the pulp bin. This is the most expensive mistake a first-time buyer makes, and the price looks like a low-risk experiment, which is what makes it so common. See masticating vs centrifugal.

Also skip it if noise matters -- up to 12,000 RPM is loud and Breville publishes no decibel figure -- or if you want a long warranty.

Where it appears on this site

The JE98XL is our top pick on best centrifugal juicers and our fast pick on best juicers, under $200, juicers for carrots, apples, beets, tomatoes, watermelon and cucumber. Head-to-head: Breville JE98XL vs Ninja NeverClog.

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Breville Juice Fountain Plus JE98XL

Breville JE98XL · $100–200 · Our score 6.3/10

Breville states an 850 W dual-speed motor at 6,500 and 12,000 RPM, a 3 in feed tube that takes a whole apple, a 33½ fl oz carafe with a froth separator, an 84½ fl oz pulp container, and 13¼ x 16½ x 18¼ in at 10 lb. The warranty is 1 year, which is short. And it is the wrong mechanism for celery and leafy greens, which we would rather say than sell you the wrong machine.

Yield

Not availableNot sourced

Pulp

Breville states the carafe includes a froth separatorManufacturer claim: Breville · checked 2026-10-02

Cleanup time

Not available - no published cleanup time in minutesNot sourced

Speed

Breville states dual speed: 6,500 RPM low and 12,000 RPM high, 850 WManufacturer claim: Breville · checked 2026-10-02

What works

• 3 in chute takes whole apples, so there is no chopping
• Two speeds, so soft fruit is not pulverized
• Fast enough that a glass takes a couple of minutes end to end

What does not

• Poor at celery and leafy greens by mechanism, not by tuning
• Foam and faster oxidation are inherent to high-speed spinning
• 1-year warranty

Skip this if: Celery or leafy greens are the reason you are buying. A spinning basket rides long fibers instead of crushing them.

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• Yield6/10
• Pulp5/10
• Cleanup7/10
• Value8/10
• Quiet4/10

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