All right, this is John Kohler, from discountjuicers.com.
Today, I have a very special treat.
I love when I get a brand new juicer in, I just got a brand new juicer.
You may have saw my other videos I made on the Green Star Elite.
One of the trade show back in March, when they wouldn’t let me film it actually they
cut me off, and then last, maybe a couple weeks ago, I had another trade show where
I actually did a demo with it.
Now I have my own unit to test and to show you, what exactly comes with the Green Star
Elite GSE-5000 Juicer.
So let’s go ahead and open the box and take it all apart and see.
So, inside the box you get this main piece here, you get all these parts.
You get basically an instructions manual, including your 5-year warranty on the Green
Star Elite Juicer.
You have basically a detachable cord, you know for the power and that’s very nice;
you know a lot of juicers have a cord that’s always hanging out this you can detach it
and store it away nicely.
You basically have a fine good quality stainless steel strainer, to strain your juice further
if you don’t like pulp in your juice.
You have two pushers, so you have a wooden pusher, which is basically a food-grade wood,
hard wood, for pushing the produce in, and then you get a plastic plunger.
I do prefer only ever using the wooden plunger, because if you do, uh, don’t pay attention
and put the plunger in the incorrect way, and they have an arrow on it to denote the
correct way you are supposed to put it in, it will grate away the plastic in your juice.
So, I always recommend using the wood, if some of the wood happen to get worn off into
the gears, it basically goes through and gets ejected with the pulp.
The next thing you get, you actually get, not one but two, cleaning brushes, that’s
really nice.
These cleaning brushes are totally set up, there’s a multi basically edges on this
cleaning brush.
This is very useful cleaning the screens, and this brush as two sides like an oversized
toothbrush, really nice cleaning brush, and you have another cleaning brush too.
The next part you get is a cover, so this goes over the top when you’re not using
the juicer, you can store the juicer with this on the top and no dust or anything will
get into the juicer while it’s in storage.
You get a nice drip tray, so the drip tray goes under the juicer, so that any drips won’t
get on your countertop.
You can use this if you like, I don’t think a juicer drips that much, so I don’t prefer
to clean another piece, so I don’t personally use it.
The next piece you get if you get basically is a homogenizing blank, this is the blank,
so it’s an open blank on the bottom and closed on the top, and goes in this direction
with the openness on the bottom.
You get a breadstick maker with a breadstick end cap, and with everything, this is a closed
blank, everything goes through.
I prefer to use this on everything actually.
And then you get a coarse screen, so the coarse screen is the accessory inside the juicer,
as it comes, I will pull it out, in a minute you will see the fine-hole screen.
Now the coarse screen is used for, if you like more pulp in your juicer, if you’re
juicing a lot of fruits, where you know fruits need bigger holes to get the juice out to
be more efficient.
So, that’s actually what comes with the juicer.
Uh let me see what else you get with the juicer, we will pull out the main guy here, the jumbo
twin Green Star Elite juicer here.
And in the box you get actually not a plastic but a nice glass juice collection bowl.
This juicer is very easy to assemble and disassemble.
The first step is you take the whole body housing off, you just literally pull it straight
up and it will come off, and it’s this piece right here.
The next part you are basically going to take these two clips, there’s one clip here.
You literally clip it here, clip that and the hinges literally come apart and you can
pull the housing off.
And this is the main front housing, it has a pulp ejection knob or outlet, adjusting
knob is what they call it.
Now, it has a spring on there, what the spring does, it keeps tension in on the pulp before
the pulp comes out of the machine and it only allows the pulp to come out if it is dry.
If it is still wet, it won’t allow the pulp to come out.
They do have an optional attachment, called the soft fruit, of the fruit adjustment know,
which actually has a softer spring attachment, but the same thing can be done if you are
really careful.
You could basically not screw this in all the way and leave it, you know a little bit
open, it will have the same effect.
I don’t really like the fruit attachment knob, I think it is a gimmick but if you like
it you can get it.
The next part you have is a fine-hole screen, this is the screen that comes assembled inside
the juicer.
It has small holes and this is what you are going to want to use for most vegetable juicing.
The next piece that comes out is the twin gears.
Now, I do want to take a minute and explain these twin gears.
This is the world’s first three stage twin gear juicer.
So, the first stage, let me point this out, is this first stage right here, the metal
basically crushes all the juice.
And then the second stage is the mixing point part, and you can see the difference between
this part and this part.
The mixing part of that basically mixes it all together.
And then basically you have the pressing stage is basically these last section, where you
literally press the juice before it gets expelled as pulp.
The last part is this housing here that comes on, I do want to point out the nice O-ring.
One of the problems with the old twin gear juicer was that it would get a lot of juice
that would seep around over here, this should hopefully solve that challenge.
So, to assemble its very easy, you’re gonna want to take this housing and put it on, there’s
a hole in the top that lines up with the hole right here, put that on.
The next thing is the gears, and if you don’t remember anything else I said in the hole
talk is, you always want to line up your gears.
As you can see there are two dots on this gear and one dot on that gear, and you want
to line them up like that so they can make a triangle, so two dots and one dot.
That is correct, this is not correct, you never to put your gears so they are not lined
up.
You always want to make sure your gears are lined up, this is very important.
Once you get your gears lined up, you’re gonna want to insert them into the machine,
and you’re gonna insert them and sometimes they won’t exactly in on [?? 6:08] all the
way, you might have to turn it a little bit while you are pushing it in to make sure it
is all the way in.
The next thing you’re going to want to do is take your screen and put that on here.
You’re gonna take your housing put that down here; clamp the clamps back; put the
top on.
And I like to use the wooden pusher there.
You always want to use a catch pulp bin, so we are going to use a plastic catch pulp bin
here.
So, let’s start to juice with the juicer.
So, it’s very simple, you want to turn it on and you want to take, and you know, we
are going to use a carrot first.
You are going to literally put your carrot in and you’re going to just push the carrot
in, you know use some force to push it in.
And never sick your fingers in the machine.
Then you’re going to push the carrot in with the pusher.
Now it does take some force to push the carrot into the twin gears.
And you can see we are getting some juice now, and the pulp’s coming out.
So, you know if you have something like arthritis or aren’t good at pushing, then maybe this
is not the juicer you should get.
This juicer does make a really good yield on things, especially like carrots juice.
I recommend always juicing organic carrots.
You can see this pulp is pretty dry.
The nice thing about this juicer, you can do, you know, you can take this pulp literally
and put it back in the machine, if you feel that you want to get a little bit more out
of the pulp.
A lot of times, you know, not a lot of actual juice is gonna come out of our pulp, because
our pulp is really dry.
If you desire to do that you can and get a higher yield actually.
All right I think we are done juicing.
Now, let’s show you how easy this juicier is to clean.
Take our handy dandy brush and literally disassemble the juicer.
So, we’re taking off the top piece here and we are going to scrub basically the top
piece, and rinse this out pretty good.
Set it on the drain rack.
We are going to pop these snaps off and pull the end housing out, and just literally run
water through there.
We’re gonna unscrew the outlet adjusting knob, and then you know, you’re gonna take
a brush and brush that off.
I do like to wash everything after each use right afterwards.
If you let things sit around, especially the [?? 8:33] in the carrot sit on the juicer,
they will stain the plastic.
So it’s always good to wash your juicer right after you are done.
The next part to clean is the gears, so I like to take one gear at a time.
Literally you can see the pulp just melt off the gear.
You run the water on it so you know maybe a little bit of brushing.
The brush is all you need to get it clean.
Set that on the drain rack there.
Same thing with this, literally the spray of the water dislodges all the pulp, the brushing
is there just to touch it up, really simple, really easy.
The hardest part to clean is this screen here.
So we are gonna you know, run the water onto the screen and then we are going to have to
brush.
Now, it’s really important to get all the carrot falls and pulp out of this screen,
because if you get residual carrot falls in the screen.
What’s gonna happen is you’re gonna reduce your yield over time because the holes will
get clogged.
So, they have this nice little pick thing on the back, and you can use that to kind
of like help pick all and wipe all the carrot pulp that gets stuck in there.
This is the hardest part to clean, it will take the longest amount of time to clean.
Let’s go ahead and do that a little more.
The nice part of this brush on the back and you basically shove it through there makes
it easier to clean out the screen, gets all the pulp dislodged from the screen.
I think we are almost done cleaning this screen here.
What I do like to do with the juicer after every use.
I will you know, clean it, and maybe like once a week, maybe putting the top shelf in
the dishwasher.
So, once again this can be a difficult part to clean, but with this handy brush, you literally
put the brush through and brush it.
So we are done, that’s how easy it is to clean a Green Star Elite Juicer and make pitcher
juice.
Bon appetite to your health.
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