Good for juicing your sourdough starter.
347037
I bought this for bagels but we kept putting it off.  We did use it as a supplement for the sourdough rye starter.  It worked really well to get that going when it was flagging.
2316074
Very easy to use for someone like me being introduced to juicing. No complaints. I'm really happy with this product!
2443085
Lasted a couple of years. Decent product for the price. Great to get you started juicing before you plop down $200+ on a better juicer.
4581822
A great start to juicing especially for beginners. It really helped me sort out equipment and how to get started along with some good beginning recipes. Highly recommended if you are new to juicing.
1083498
Good deal.  These thinks are great starters when you want to avoid the "lighter fluid taste".
3518214
Only handicaps are small batches and have to cut vegetables into 3/4 in strips, but neither are critical. It is better to juice just before drinking anyway. It is small enough to just keep on the counter. It works well, getting a lot of juice and leaving almost fluffy pulp, which is perfect for baking healthy high fiber fruit and vegetable breads and cakes, using only small amounts of whole grain oat and sorghum flour. Easy to use, and just rinse to clean. It is a little work to save all the useful pulp. Only 4 days of use so far, so I will comment further next month. This will be a big help in improving the healthfulness of my diet. I still use my blender for making green smoothies (spinach, kale, chard, and fruits) but I can now add carrot and beet juice to the blends. I look forward to lowered cholesterol and blood sugar counts.

Update after 5 days: I just broke the retaining top tab on one side. I just put too much pressure on the tab when removing the innards, and snapped off one pin. I think this could happen too easily and either the plastic pins should be re-enforced or the tab allowed to drop down further, out of the way. Temporarily using tape.
1515718
I used to make sourdough but I used red star yeast. after a few months it died om me and it never got that great sour dough flavor. Thanks to this book I tried a sourdough starter not red star. My sourdough has been turning out like it is suppoded to.
2834100
Good starter, but yogurt is not as thick as when I use Bulgarian Probiotic starter. But it holds to it's name, it is not a tart yougurt starter and does indeed come out sweet. Not sugary sweet, but I only added a trivial amount of sweetener to the yogurt produced by this culture to the fruit I put into  it
342183
juicing with this is pretty easy and it gets a lot of juice out of my oranges only downside is it's loud.
220057
I chuck this mixer into my cordless drill and froth up some homebrewed beer before pitching the yeast.  Its a cheap and easy way to oxygenate the wort so the yeast can survive.  Just remember to sanitize it.
369094
When you need yeast (not often for me), this is a good choice.
2436965
This juicer does quite nicely for my husband and myself. I have tried juicing different things with it but of course, wheatgrass and certain greens is what it does best.  Everything else goes in our Vitamix for morning-routine quickness.  For 45 dollars, you can't go wrong.  One day I noticed less juice, but the wheatgrass was not as mature...  I also find that if I am doing other greens that it works best to do the wheatgrass first.  Enjoy!
1472068
This works very well with sourdough bread, as it needs a little air within the space for the gases to expell.  Since we have been eating sourdough since purchasing this, I'm not sure how it does with other breads.
3389992
There are really only a few questions that need to be answered for this product: (1) is it easy to get going and maintain, (2) did it work, and (3) does it taste good.  Overall, I am very pleased with this sourdough starter.  Before I give a more detailed review, I will give a quick summary addressing the main points:

(1) It was easy to activate and is easy to maintain

(2) Works just fine, with the caveat that I'm still trying to get a good rise  out of it.  This is not a biggie because I am using flours and grains that normally result in a fairly dense bread.  The starter can get quite active and bubbly, so I think I'll be able to do better. I will update this review if needed (I will be making some experiments with stone ground whole wheat soon).  Edited 9/20/12: it really does seem to be me--I tried using regular bakers yeast as the leavening (using the starter just for savor) and actually lost ground.

(3) It is yummy--I've gotten really good tastes from mixing oat bran and rye into the base barley feed I give it.  Edited 9/17/12: I got this starter during a Summer warm spell--under those conditions, which seem to have favored the production of lactic acid, it had a very fruity smell and taste, now that things are cooling down, it's developed a more vinegary taste and aroma.  I've also experimented with adding some chickpea flour (besan) into the feedings and that resulted in an interesting tang too.

I have had a fair amount of experience with sourdough starters, including making them from scratch, but recently when I decided I wanted to do some baking with rye and barley, didn't have any on hand, and definitely didn't want to go the DIY route, so I was happy to see that it was so easy to find online sources--though it should be noted that this particular starter is not advertised to be suitable for grains other than wheat.  Breadtopia sends a package that contains enough dried starter crumbs to make three attempts to get a starter going (or to keep around as a backup if you lose one through neglect or it goes bad).  There are also instructions included--I was relieved to see that unlike some other starters I've used, this one did not have a complex activation process or feeding cycle.  In this case, I chose to see if I could activate the starter using the same barley flour I was going to use for baking and it worked just fine, with a few deviations from the script Breadtopia provided-- I added at least twice the water, possibly this was necessary due to the fact I was using a different kind of flour and grain, but I think Breadtopia's bakers prefer a spongier texture for their starter, while I made adjustments to reflect my experience that starters do best with a slurrylike consistency.  The main difference was that the timing was accelerated--in my kitchen and with the Sustagrain barley flour as a food, everything happened in about half the time stipulated in the instructions.  This could well have been due to the fact that my kitchen was fairly warm, ranging from the low 70s to low 80s.  You can tell that it's activated because it bubbles almost to the point of simmering, but it does take some time or a few more feeding cycles to get a good sour flavor.  Also, regarding taste, I preferred the flavor when I added some rye or oat bran into the feed.
4619822
If you are thinking about starting to juice, buy this juicer! The BJE200XL 700-watt is the perfect introductory juicer for someone wanting to start juicing without spending a ton of money.

The product arrived in a neat package and was hooked up and running in less than 5 minutes. There's really not a whole lot to figure out. It just works.

The pitcher holds a liter or so of juice, which is perfect for two people to make a healthy serving of juice.

Some larger round fruits need to be cut in half before they go in the juicer. I prefer to peel oranges and slice apples. (Hello, $2 corer) Everything else goes in just fine.

The 700hp motor easily handles 3-5 sticks of celery, 2-3 carrots, and oranges on end without slowing down.

In 3 weeks of juicing, my wife and I both lost 15 pounds. We love this juicer.
14546
Perfect for mixing my sourdough starter. Easy to clean. This is a product I thought I didn't need, but after watching a couple of videos decided to give it a try, it has become one of the most used mixing items in my kitchen.  Also great for mixing no kneed breads, very glad I have it.
4490266
We have city water, hard water. I have been interested in making things like Sourdough starter, Kombucha, and also Kefir.  I had concern about the chlorine, and other contamenents hurting these.  Well, upon just tasting the water, I could feel a grainy texture in it.  I thought this was due to just starting off, but it's been over a week of constant use, and no change.  I also used this in my sourdough starter, and this is the first time the starter  had issues.  It is suppose to bubble so the yeast is very active and ready, and it would not bubble using the filtered water.  I am wondering if this filter is taking more of the nutrients I do need as well. We will probably just get a whole house filter that also leave the nutrients.