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AvE also did a teardown. It's 40 minutes long, and evidently I watched the whole thing according to YouTube. https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ https://youtu.be/_Cp-B
by theGimp 9y ago
AvE also did a teardown. It's 40 minutes long, and evidently I watched the whole thing according to YouTube. https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ
- Overtonwindow 9y agoWow that was painful to watch considering how much was invested in that company, and how much the machine costs. Wow. Thank you for posting this link.
- theGimp 9y agoHah. Yeah, it's quite the spectacle. I've gotten used to AvE's unboxing by now and in fact look forward to it, but I remember it being jarring the first few times.
- jandrese 9y agoHe also did a DRM bypass, by which I mean he hooked a power supply up to the motor and ran it manually. It really is the most ridiculous product. Even if it were engineered properly to a reasonable price point the entire product is unnecessary and wasteful. The difference between selling bags of juice vs. bags of mostly juiced pulp that you have to finish yourself is definitely not worth $800 or whatever they were trying to charge. On top of that they added DRM, some goddamn subscription thing, required internet connectivity, and every other annoyance you can get in a modern product.
- deegles 9y agoI mean, if pressed juice actually lived up to its health claims I might consider Juicero more seriously.
- _jtrig 9y agoEating whole fruit is unbelievably more healthy, cheaper, and simple than the convoluted process this product serves. The time spent setting up this machine, throwing away the bags, electricity used, resources used, etc VS peeling an orange seems comical and sad.
- jandrese 9y agoTo be fair, the founder was much more into stuff like kale juice and beet juice than orange juice. Stuff that isn't particularly nutritious when eaten raw and unprocessed.
- ghostly_s 9y agoYou think the nutritional content of kale or beets increases when you juice them? Source?
- logfromblammo 9y agoThe effort to eat a bushel of kale dwarfs the effort to drink 1.5 juiced bushels of kale.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoPerhaps, though steamed or fried it'd probably fit on a single plate... and then you'd get the fiber, too.
- jandrese 9y agoSupposedly cooking kale will destroy most of its nutritional value.
- jandrese 9y agoYes, because you're crushing up the cells and releasing the stuff our puny human guts can digest. Raw kale is mostly undigestible by humans unless you're willing to sit and chew on every leaf for a few minutes like a cow. Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding the sources on this. All of this breathless superfood wankery is really polluting the search results. http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/digestion-kale-11913.html http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/digestion-kale-11913.html http://gi-north.com/kale-good-for-you-and-your-digestive-tract/ http://gi-north.com/kale-good-for-you-and-your-digestive-tra...
- hkmurakami 9y agoover/under on the number of features pushed by a board member?
- xienze 9y agoOf particular note in that video is that there's more to the cost than the press. The build quality of the machine is way above and beyond what's necessary. I mean, that's a good thing, but you have to stop before your consumer-grade juicer costs $400 (was it really $700? Dang).
- hkmurakami 9y agoTo be fair, people have hurled similar criticisms at Many Apple Products over the years (and more prominently, NEXT), and we do complain about poor build quality of its competitors.
- gh02t 9y ago> I mean, that's a good thing Like AvE says, it's really not. Elegant engineering is exactly meeting your design requirements (assuming your design requirements are good). It's far far easier to overengineer everything. It's also wasteful, since all that extra capacity won't be utilized.
- ktta 9y ago>Elegant engineering is exactly meeting your design requirements Sure, if you selling juicers to businesses. Juicero is selling a lifestyle, not a product. Nice design is then a part of engineering. Fruit juicers have existed since I can remember. The real selling point here is the juice packs. The nice machine is so that people don't realize what they're doing, which is basically buying pulped juice then letting the machine pour it into a glass for them.
- monochromatic 9y agoSuch a good video. I've been an AvE fan for a long time, but I used this one to turn a couple of friends on to him.
- mring33621 9y agoThank you -- watching it now. Best quote so far: "...the local black bear...hasn't had it so good since my daughter was in diapers" (after he sliced open the juice-pulp bag).
- overcast 9y agoI just can't stand this guys mannerisms, and constantly goofing of words. Every single word, is some kooky variant. I respect that he's clearly an intelligent guy, and knows what he's talking about. It's just like listening to your annoying uncle, trying to constantly make a stupid joke.
- nate_meurer 9y agoHis Canadian dialect contributes a lot of this, dontya know? Skookum choocher's a thing up there.
- overcast 9y agoI understand that, I work with Canadians in every one of their provinces daily. They definitely do not talk as backwoods as this guy. His shtick is just to be obnoxious, and it's distracting from the otherwise great tear downs he does.
- nate_meurer 9y agoI'm quite the opposite; the shtick is addictive, and actually seems to help me retain the info. I remember points he makes and moments in his videos better because of the off-the-wall comments. I even end up talking a bit the same way after I binge on his videos.
- speg 9y agoMy wife gave me a strange look when I told her something was "good enough for the girls I go out with".
- theGimp 9y agoDifferent strokes for different folks, I suppose. The biggest reason I watch AvE is for his hilarious delivery. You and I can disagree of course. I'm not finding issue with your opinion -- just offering mine. I should also mention I'm Canadian and pretty much nobody talks the way AvE does. His accent and vocabulary are purposely exaggerated.