Cuisinart Citrus Juicer - What a joke!

The official specs:

This elegant brushed stainless steel citrus juicer makes squeezing fresh juice quick, clean, and easy. An auto-reversing reamer squeezes more juice from the smallest lime or the largest grapefruit, and a unique Fast-Spin feature extracts more juice from pulp.

Features:

* Snap-Up spout prevents dripping
* Unlimited juicing capacity
* Easy-clean dishwasher-safe parts
* Convenient cord storage
* Limited 3-year warranty (from manufacturer)
* Dimensions:6.10" x 6.10" x 10.87"

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I bought this juicer because I have become a fanatic of fresh lemonade. I thought, well Cuisinart was a great name so I would buy this juicer. To be honest, I was satisfied for about a week of using this.

If I had to give this one "PRO", it would be that you can stop the flow of juice by pushing the spout up. That is no biggy.

The CONS:

1. WAY too much torque. You slice a lemon in half, and push it down on the juicer. It starts moving in the clockwise direction, and then out of nowhere it jerks and goes counter-clockwise causing juice to spill, sometimes it tips over, and it will just spin around on the counter top. If they designed this thing with a better footing, it might help... a little.

2. The juicer is too light for the amount of power it has. I feel that if it were heavy duty, it would not spin around and jerk on the counter top.

3. You have to clean out the pulp after every lemon. This wouldn't normally be too much of a problem but for some reason I have a hard time cleaning every bit of pulp out. I don't know if it is a design problem, or something common.

4. It is too shallow. If you juice a lemon, the juice goes flying all over everything.

5. The spout is too short. I had a hard time finding a container I could get the juice to go into. It basically has to butt up against the juicer, and if your bowls and that have rims it could be difficult. My pyrex measuring cup barely did the job.

6. The hole in the bottom tray allows too much juice to accidentally escape into the base. I often have to clean off the base.

I decided to review this because last night (after a year of ownership) I am trashing it. I have had it. After a whole bag of lemons was juiced, I was finishing up the last one, and while I was juicing, the whole thing spun around my counter top winding around the cord, and knocked over my whole container of lemon juice (2 cups worth). It literally happened in 2 seconds. Citrus is expensive, and that is a mistake I don't want to have happen again.