Kuvings B1700 Review: Masticating Juicing Without the Precutting Chore

Precutting produce is the chore nobody warns you about before you buy a masticating juicer. You picture dropping in a whole apple and watching juice pour out — then you actually own one and spend five minutes with a cutting board before you even turn it on. The Kuvings B1700 is built specifically to answer that complaint.

Where it sits

Kuvings has spent years building masticating juicers aimed at exactly this pain point — wide feed chutes on slow-auger machines, which used to be something of a contradiction in the category. The B1700 sits in the $280-320 range, priced almost identically to the Omega NC900 and Hurom H200, and it's competing on convenience rather than on the lowest price or the most attachments.

Who it's for

Buy this if you've used or researched masticating juicers before and the narrow-chute precutting is the thing that's kept you from pulling the trigger. The 3-inch chute is a real, practical difference-maker for anyone juicing whole fruit regularly — you're cutting produce in half instead of into eighths, which adds up over a week of daily juicing.

Skip it if counter space is tight; this is one of the larger juicers in its category, and the wide-chute housing adds real bulk compared to the Hurom H200's slim vertical tower. It's also not the pick if you specifically want the Omega NC900's mincing and pasta attachments — the B1700 is juice-focused, full stop.

Borderline case: if you juice mostly soft produce (berries, citrus) where precutting was never much of an issue anyway, the convenience advantage here matters less, and you might be better served picking based on counter space or specific yield needs on greens instead.

Build and materials

The B1700's housing is a hard plastic shell over a metal gear-reduction drive, standard construction for the category, but the wide-chute assembly is the visibly different part — a noticeably larger feed tube than the Omega NC900 or Hurom H200, engineered to still funnel whole produce down into a narrower auger channel without jamming. That funnel geometry is the actual engineering challenge Kuvings solved here; a wide opening that just dumps whole apples straight onto a standard auger would jam constantly, so there's a tapering transition doing real work.

The smart cap

This is the other standout feature. A rotating cap at the juice outlet lets you switch between a fully strained pour, a pulp-included thicker pour, and a closed position to pause mid-session without juice dripping everywhere — genuinely useful if you're juicing in batches or want to control pulp content without swapping strainers. It's a small mechanical addition, but it's the kind of detail that shows up in daily convenience far more than in a spec sheet.

Core performance

Yield across produce types

The B1700 doesn't lean as hard into one specialty as the Hurom H200 (greens) or the Omega NC900 (dual-stage pressing), but it holds up competitively across both hard produce and leafy greens — a generalist's performance rather than a specialist's. For someone juicing a rotating mix of produce rather than committing to mostly greens or mostly hard fruit, that consistency is arguably more useful than a narrower peak advantage.

Chute-to-auger transition

Because the auger channel itself isn't as wide as the feed chute, produce still gets some internal breakdown before hitting the main pressing section — this is what keeps yield close to narrower-chute competitors despite the bigger opening. It's not a free lunch mechanically, but Kuvings' engineering here means you're not paying a meaningful yield penalty for the convenience.

RPM and torque

At roughly 60 RPM, the B1700 sits between the Omega NC900's 80 RPM and the Hurom H200's 43 RPM — a middle-ground speed that still qualifies as genuinely slow juicing with low oxidation, just not at either extreme.

Daily use and ergonomics

This is where the B1700 earns its keep. Loading whole small apples, quartered larger produce, and full carrots without extensive chopping cuts real time out of a daily juicing routine — the kind of friction reduction that determines whether you actually keep using a juicer six months in or let it migrate to the back of a cabinet. The smart cap adds a small but genuine convenience layer on top of that.

Cleanup and maintenance

The strainer's fine mesh still needs the same deliberate attention as any masticating juicer's screen — a dedicated brush and prompt rinsing before pulp dries. The smart cap is one more part to disassemble and clean, though it's simple in design and not a meaningful addition to total cleanup time, which lands around 6-8 minutes for a full wash. Long term, the smart cap's rotating mechanism is worth checking periodically for wear, since it's a moving part under repeated daily use that simpler juicers don't have.

How it compares

Omega NC900 — similar price, but the Omega's narrower chute demands real precutting in exchange for its attachment versatility and longer warranty. If convenience day-to-day matters more than extra capabilities, the B1700 wins; if you want a juicer that also minces and extrudes pasta, the NC900 does.

Hurom H200 — a smaller footprint and a specific edge on leafy-green yield and juice clarity, at the cost of a narrow 1.6-inch chute that requires far more precutting than the B1700's 3-inch opening. Pick the Hurom if greens and counter space are priorities; pick the Kuvings if daily convenience is.

Breville Juice Fountain Cold (centrifugal) — juices dramatically faster with minimal prep, but at real costs in noise, oxidation, and green-produce yield that no centrifugal juicer avoids. The B1700 is the better choice if you want masticating-level juice quality without masticating-level prep time; the Breville wins on raw speed.

Value

At around $299-320, the B1700 doesn't undercut its direct masticating rivals on price — you're paying the same tier of money for a different trade-off (convenience over versatility or a specialty yield edge), not a bargain. Whether that's a good value depends entirely on how much the narrow-chute chore has bothered you in the past; for someone who's tried and abandoned a narrow-chute juicer before, it's an easy justification.

Known issues

The most common complaint is simply size — the B1700 takes up more counter and cabinet space than most competitors, which matters in smaller kitchens. A smaller number of owners report the smart cap needing occasional cleaning attention to keep it rotating smoothly, since dried juice residue can make it stick if it isn't rinsed promptly after use.

Verdict

If the reason you've hesitated on a masticating juicer is the precutting hassle, the Kuvings B1700 addresses that directly without giving up much on yield or noise. It costs the same as its closest rivals and takes up more space, so this is a convenience purchase more than a bargain — but for daily use, that convenience is worth a lot.