Best Juicer? *first post*

[JCB44]

I have a champion it was a little pricey about 350.00 but it works for me. I saw a Jacl la lane at Sam's It looked cheaply built and hard to clean. I used to have an omega, it made great juice but kind of hard to clean.

[aijia]

Does anyone have a Breville? We're thinking about getting a Breville juice fountain. My step-dad wants to make sure that it will juice wheatgrass. Does anyone know? I can't seem to find very good information about the Breville and wheatgrass specifically. Thanks!

[michigan roman]

Does anyone have a Breville? We're thinking about getting a Breville juice fountain. My step-dad wants to make sure that it will juice wheatgrass. Does anyone know? I can't seem to find very good information about the Breville and wheatgrass specifically. Thanks!

though ive heard alot of people really like the breville , its a centrifugal type juicer that is said to not do very good with wheat grass .

i myself cut wheat grass up into one inch bits into a blender half full of water then blend and strain to make a wheat juice water , same things as wheat grass juice just a bit diluted .

[Colorawdo girl]

I have the OMEGA 1000 model.I got it off craigslist(for affordable until you get what you want maybe)...it is amazing.I love it.I have had alot of juicers and this one is great.50 dollars I paid. It is centrifuge.Throws the pulp against the sides(which has a paper liner to make clean up a breeze) and the juice to the outside trough and down the spout.I take the dry pulp,add some juice back into it and make crackers!!!!!
My son got the Norwalk and it is touted as great. I watched him make juice...eeeek....it DOES throw stuff out the top all over the place(powerful) plus its two steps.You have to put all in a bag and then put inon a presser.

And I make green juice in my blender.Put all in,add some water,blend,strain into nut milk bag...voila!

[JHNJOHN]

The Acme and Omega, non pulp ejecting, juice the same way. They look
similar and appear to share some components. Only problem I found was
with the Omega, which sometimes allows juice to leak down on the impeller
spraying it all over the place. Could be a result of feeding produce too fast,
but the Acme has never done this and have been using the same one for
21 years. Both are fine juicers and will last for years. I have enough parts
to keep the Acme running to pass it on to my grandchildren and beyond.
I believe the fact you are juicing, regardless of which juicer, is the brass
ring here.

[ambidestrian]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Angel juicer. I justified spending $1,000 on the angel juicer as follows:

1. It is more efficient than any other twin gear juicer I've seen reviewed, in terms of the mass of juice to mass of pulp ratio
2. It has a 10 year warranty
3. Over those 10 years, the increased efficiency will likely save much more than $1,000 in organic produce costs
4. It has all stainless steel construction - zero plastic leachates
5. The heavy helical gears provide the most crushing / triturating power and extract the most nutrients (verified by chemical analyses Vs. centrifugal and other twin gear juicers)
6. It isn't as expensive as the Norwalk

So far, I think it is the greatest thing I have ever owned. I use it 3x/day and have noticed great improvements in my fitness. In two weeks, I have made such an improvement in my fitness it is almost surreal.

The way I look at it, if I'm going to put $5 worth of produce into a juicer for a glass of green juice, I want to get $5 worth of juice out, not $3.50 worth of juice and $1.50 worth of juice in the pulp.

At that rate (which is realistic), and 3 juices per day, I will save $1000 in under a year due to the increased efficiency (I spend a lot of money on produce, though) (At 1 juice/day, the $1,000 savings would be realized in under 2 years)

[MysticTree]

The way I look at it, if I'm going to put $5 worth of produce into a juicer for a glass of green juice, I want to get $5 worth of juice out, not $3.50 worth of juice and $1.50 worth of juice in the pulp.

At that rate (which is realistic), and 3 juices per day, I will save $1000 in under a year due to the increased efficiency (I spend a lot of money on produce, though)

I have no idea about this juicer but you can't put $5 of produce in and get $5 of juice out. There HAS to be pulp as well as juice.

If you are basing your $ saving on the above, flawed sum then it is going to take you longer to save that $1000. You also don't say which model of "inferior" juicer you are comparing with as part of your calculation.

A $1000 juicer would need to be good but if you want to sell it to its maximum then you really need accurate data

[ambidestrian]

Well, I'm not trying to sell it, just explain my criteria for buying it.

I have not run the experiments myself, but the experiments I have seen published show that the angel juicer extracts significantly more juice than other twin gear juicers - The pulp that comes out is totally dry. You can press on it with a paper towel and the paper towel won't get wet. Put in dark green kale, get out pale green dry pulp.

There is also the consideration of intracellular contents and that's where the twin gear juicers are the most excellent - they can crush the cell walls rather than extracting the fluids form the intracellular spaces in the plants, creating a different type of juice with much more nutrients.

Also, I attribute no value to the cellulose in the plants. It is standing between me and the plants' cytoplasm. Thus the economic pseudo-calculations.

If you're interested in seeing side-by side comparisons with centrifugal juicers, the hurom slow juicer, omega vert, etc., there are videos on youtube. The differences are in the tens of percents.

Edit: Maybe we could organize a comparison - juicing e.g. 500g of carrots, weighing the pulp, drying the pulp, and weighing again to determine the % water in the pulp produced by different types of juicers. I'd participate if such a thread were organized.

[MysticTree]

If you're interested in seeing side-by side comparisons with centrifugal juicers, the hurom slow juicer, omega vert, etc., there are videos on youtube. The differences are in the tens of percents.

Also, I attribute no value to the cellulose in the plants. It is standing between me and the plants' cytoplasm. Thus the economic pseudo-calculations.

There is value in cellulose. It is necessary for healthy gut function providing dietary fibre to this end.

I am happy that you like the Angel Juicer but even if I thought it the best gadget on the planet I couldn't afford nearly two months rent money on a juicer!

Over here there is only a 5 year warranty rather than the 10 year warranty by the way.

edited to add :

Warranty Motor:	5 Years
Warranty Parts:	3 Years

[JuiceFiend]

I'm not 100% raw yet but I've been juicing for years.

My juicers: Omega J8006, Breville Juice Fountain Elite, Jupiter Citrus Press, Magimix le Duo, Hurom Slow Juicer.

I've got a few videos on Youtube but by far the best resource is John Kohler's rawfoods channel. He gives an excellent presentation about Buying your First Juicer as well as having videos for just about any juicer you can imagine.

[MyRedPanda]

I have a really nice Brevill juicer that I used to use every day, until I got my vitamix, and now I never use the Brevill, unless its to make carrot juice which I detest to be pulpy - but the Vitamix juices too, so really if you have one you don't need a juicer. For wheatgrass juice I use a hand masticating juicer.

[MyRedPanda]

Yes - I do - I have the juice fountain. It will NOT juice wheatgrass. I have a hand juicer for that. If you want to juice wheatgrass you must have a masticating and not a centrifugal juicer