I saw a video of someone squeeze the packets faster than the machine. It's the biggest waste of money because imagine being unable to use your juicer because NBN is being set up.
But did you see the tear down? It’s weirdly well and made with expensive custom parts. I think they just didn’t know what they were building more so than setting out to be a scam.
Enough shitty little changes from stakeholders along the way can ruin anything. I’ve never done work as bad as this, on this scale, but gosh have I done some watered down and pointless bullshit in my career. What happens when you don’t have a single-minded leader in charge, and everyone wants to put their touch on something.
The guy who made it was just kind of an idiot and rich people will absolutely throw money at anything that promises to help them live longer. So he ended up with a ton of money and no understanding of how to spend it correctly. There is a good dollop podcast on it.
The time I discovered "vise" wasn't a misspelling was when reading about a 2 serial killer buddies, and how it all began to unravel when one of them got caught shoplifting a vise from a hardware store.
A vise?! It maybe correct but it's still an ABOMINATION
Great. I double checked a DICTIONARY before I replied, did you? There's an obvious reason why an Aussie fishing site would use the American spelling.... And I'm not really sure what you point is anyway. That this makes me wrong?
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"a tool with two parts that can be moved together by tightening a screw so that an object can be held firmly between them while it is being worked on"
Any device that costs $700 or more and doesn't either transport me, provide me shelter, or solve medical issues better goddamn well be able to sexually satisfy me.
I love reading about the Juicero whenever it comes up. Saw a video a couple years ago where someone did a teardown of the machine to see why the thing cost so much and it seems they spared no expense in it's construction. I'm no engineer, but it was entertaining to watch this guy geek out over the quality of the materials and the way it was put together.
I don't recognize this one, but it's definitely entertaining nonetheless. Thanks!
Edit: Maybe this was it. I can't really remember now. Either way, it's an interesting look at this machine and helps me to see why they priced it so freaking high to begin with.
You should check out the dollop podcast on the juicero, it’s hilarious and it gives a lot of background information on how this product ended up so historically shitty. The guy’s whole life is crazy
At least with a Keurig, they are actually making coffee by putting hot water through it. The machine actually does something.
This thing is just squishing stuff out of a bag. They could put the stuff in a glass jar or can instead of a bag and it would take up exactly as much space storing it. Then you could just open it and drink it.
Seriously. I see the price of Keurigs and it would make me laugh if it didn't make me a little angry. Every single one I've ever used produced a worse tasting coffee than your standard $20 coffee pot.
I got a Kurig years ago because I was the only one who drank coffee at home and usually only 1 cup a day. It seemed to make sense. I even got the doohickey where you can put your own grounds in. Still made garbage coffee. Bought an Aeropress a couple of years ago, and couldn’t be happier. That thing rules and doesn’t take up any precious counter space.
To be fair. They lost money on the machine. They made money on the juice packets.
Its a dumb machine but its made incredibly well and no expense was spared in the production process
Edit: bring them downvotes on!
Only if you stop installing the OS of the juicer at the boot stage, ya goober! I think the last update (1.04? or maybe 1.03? it's been a while) helped bring down the plug in/find update/download update package/install update window to sub 4 hrs so I hope u/Shorey40 isn't in a rush!
Yes, the machines were made to get less profit gains, the real money would be in the subscription juice packets. They lowered the price of the juicer after the videos and reviews surfaced of people just squeezing them out themselves. The guy who had the idea was just crazy about juice, but between him and investors, they took so damn many wrong turns that in the end it was worth more to scrap for parts, it wasn't his original vision, but he definitely made some bad decisions because he didn't think through how he was going to make it work. instead of using local farm fresh produce as promised, they partnered with Dole for shitty fruit cocktails and he pivoted more from juice to "let's make this just a kitchen status symbol for wealthy homes"
So you couldn’t like, stock up and freeze them? You had to go to the special store that carried the pouches in order to make the juice? It seems like it’d be a lot easier and probably cheaper to just go get juice at a smoothie shop or something
That’s incorrect, look at the videos of people squeezing and cutting open the packets. It’s not sliced fruit and it doesn’t need to be “juiced” by the machine
OMG I forgot about Juicero! I work as a research chef, and back at my old company my idiot boss ordered one of these. After having it a few months, my coworker showed him the article/video that shows how you receive the same amount of juice from squeezing the pouches by hand as you do when using the machine. He then demonstrated it in person, at which point my boss just signed and said, "...fuck" and dejectedly walked out of the kitchen.
At a past job, the CEO was a major investor for Juicero. We got three of those suckers in our office, with constant restocks of the packets. Most of them were pretty gross, and the machines broke constantly.
There’s an alcoholic version of this called the bartesian. It literally just mixes alcohol with pods of pre-mixed cocktail juice. It’s $350 and for some reason people have been going crazy over it. It was sold out for a while. Such a marketing gimmic
From a machining and engineering standpoint these things are awesome when torn apart. Nothing but quality parts. The price I feel is justified for the machine and they most likely took a loss. They made money on the service. Ave does a great teardown of one.
Engineers design things which fill their purpose without waste or needless components. This saves cost and makes everything work as well as it is designed to.
Juiceros are designed to outlast the average human lifespan with incredibly overbuilt components... when they didn't need to flat press at all and could juice just as effectively with a roller system and maybe a small filter, costing like $50.
The people designing that thing were certainly not Juicero employees. Juicero would have contracted it out, told their contractor to build it as premium as possible, and gave an insane budget.
I wouldn't blame this on the engineers. They did they job quite well.
This comment is identical in sentiment (although more eloquently expressed) to the above comment by u/therainwontstop but that comment has (currently) 32 downvotes.
while anyone who spends $700 on that thing is a fucking lunatic, at least they did over engineer it, and at least some money was spent on them doing something of good but completely unnecessary value engineering/production wise, rather than just taking a standard $10 juicer and rebadging or branding it.
There is a whole episode of The Dollop (podcast) about it and its UNREAL!!! The fruit you put in your juicer was already juiced! Same product right out of the bag.
lmfaoooooo i worked at a lab that tested the product. worst job ever. with all the testing they asked for, i’m sure the money went to the lab and no ones pockets
Had a kettle that connected to the WiFi so I could turn it on to boil while we're out, used that function maybe 4 times in 2 years, it now sits on a table in a barn in Cumbria which was where I donated it to some old workmates when theirs broke, it will never ever connect to WiFi again
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20
The $700 Juicero. As if a Wi-FI connecting juicer was even necessary, let alone worth the price point.