All right, this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com, and today I have a number of my juicers here
on the table.
And today I'll be talking about what's the best juicer, or picking the best juicer for
you.
So as you can see, there's many different types of juicers and I'm going to, you know,
pretty quickly run down the different types of juicers.
The first type of juicer I want to talk about is the one that I don't have on the table
actually.
It's called a centrifugal juicer.
So basically it works much like your washing machine on a spin cycle.
So basically you stick produce into the top machine, it shreds it on a shredding plate,
and then it flings it out into a little basket that spins around continually.
Like your washing machine on a spin cycle that spin your clothes dry, this spins the
juice out of the pulp.
And then it keeps the pulp inside the machine.
So actually, unfortunately I don't actually own one of those juicers because I really
hate that design.
It's really antiquated and I don't really recommend them.
There are some uses that you may want to use that juicer, but for most all practical purposes
I'd say avoid that juicer.
I mean, the only time you would maybe even consider that is if you did want to juice
a lot of fruits.
But then I don't recommend juicing fruits, I recommend blending fruits.
More on that a little bit later.
So the next kind of juicer I'd like to go over is called the centrifugal ejection juicer.
So much like the centrifugal juicer you put the produce into the top of the machine.
And actually this in an example right here.
The Lequip 215XL, and basically what happens is you put the produce into the top of the
machine there, and what happens is the produce hits the shredding plates and then the produce
is shred, juice is released.
The juice actually falls through the screen and then out the spout in the front, and the
pulp is kicked out into a hopper in the back.
Now this is just a lot easier to clean than the centrifugal juicers.
The other thing about the centrifugal juicers that are not ejecting, they do tend to get
off-balance.
Has your washing machine ever gotten off-balance on a spin cycle?
It will make this large buzzing noise.
Well, the juicer won't make a buzzing noise.
It will literally walk across your table.
And then maybe walk off your table if you're not paying attention.
So I don't really recommend those.
So this kind is the kind I recommend.
It could be good for juicing certain kinds of produce such it does great on carrots and
apples and celery - things like celery.
I'm sorry, carrots, apples, cucumbers and celery.
It's not so efficient at juicing leafy greens.
The next juicer we're going to talk about today is the Champion juicer.
Now, the Champion juicer has been out since the 60's.
It works on a masticating principle.
So basically you put the produce into the top here, and there is a blade basically just
to chew up the juice, so basically grinds it, much like an old fashioned meat grinder
actually.
This one runs at 1725 rpm, so it's, you know, definitely slower than the Lequip over here,
but not as slow as the Omega.
So the Champion also has some other features such as in this juicer it's called...
we have what's called a blank plate.
So the blank plate allows you to make things like nut butters and frozen banana sorbet
and whatnot.
And actually I actually personally own this juicer just to make frozen banana sorbet,
because when you put frozen bananas in here with the blank plate, out of the bottom comes
pretty much nothing but out of the front comes basically banana sorbet and an ice-cream,
like frozen yogurt type consistency that would come out of the machine.
And it's just 100% bananas.
And the reason why it does it so well is because when you put in the bananas in there, it homogenized
it and it adds air and fluffs up your bananas.
So you know it makes a really good banana ice-cream but on the same token if you're
juicing carrots or apples it's also introducing, you know, air into your juice which oxidizes
your juice.
So maybe we don't want that.
So why don't we move on to the next juicer here.
This is the Omega 8005 juicer.
It's also the same as the 8003 juicer.
This is a single auger juicer.
There are many single auger juicers on the market right now, but this is my favorite
- the Omega 8003, 8005, and 8006.
And basically this works by putting the produce in.
There's an auger in here, you know once again, much like an old fashioned meat grinder.
It spins around and it will basically crush the produce.
It will make the produce to fit in a smaller and smaller and smaller space until basically
it makes the produce, you know, hit up against the stainless steel screen and a second screen
where juiced is pressed out.
On the initial drop when you drop the produce in, on the initial crush, the juice is, you
know, basically expelled through this first screen.
So this is a two stage single auger juicer.
Now the older juicers such as the Samson juicer, the Lequip Omni juicer, are single stage single
auger juicers.
So they're not quite as advanced as this model - the Omega 8005 that I'm showing today.
Also the Solo Start 2 is a dual stage single auger juicer that is actually a little bit
more efficient than the Omega 8005 that I'm showing today.
But the cost is it will take you longer to clean.
I like this juicer here because it takes me, you know, under 2 minutes to clean.
So we'll move on to the next juicer here.
This is actually called a green power juicer, and this is one of the first low rpm juicers
on the market.
It's pretty heavy.
I can handle it in one hand but it's pretty dang heavy.
This is like, this is the Cadillac of juicers, you know.
So you'll untwist this here and basically you would open it up and you'll see all these
parts.
You have a screen, you have two stainless steel twin gears and you basically put the
produce into this.
And the produce is literally squeezed between the two gears like I'm squeezing my fingers
to two gears, and it literally squeezes the juice out of the produce.
And you know, you have a big body here and a whole bunch of parts to clean now.
This juicer is really good at juicing most anything, but the problem is the cleaning.
There's a lot of nooks and crannies.
There's a lot of parts to clean.
And you know, it's also very expensive.
So that's why I will move to the next juicer.
And the next juicer is, you know, a revolutionary design that just came out.
It's basically a single auger juicer like I just showed you on the Omega 8005, but it's
a vertical auger juicer.
So basically you drop the produce in a larger feed chute than on, say you know, this is
the Omega 8005 feed chute - it's a circle.
And on this feed chute it's, you know, kind-of like a crescent shape but it's a lot larger.
So you can actually drop in whole pieces of carrots and, you know, half… one third piece
of an apple.
It will go in here and basically, you know, the same thing.
It will get into an auger situation and the auger will just basically compress it and
compress it down until the juice is literally squeezed out.
And one of the nice features about this juicer is that it has an automatic cleaning system.
So this silicone wiping blade goes around the juicer as you're juicing and it actually
cleans the screen for you so you will get a higher yield.
So one again, that's the Omega Vertjuicer.
So as you can see, there's many different types of juicers.
Each of them juice a little bit differently.
You know, these ones on this side of the table make a higher juice quality than, you know
say, the other two.
You know, I mean if you want something really durable - the Champion, it's built like a
tank.
I mean, they've made these in the United... it's actually probably the only juicer still
made in the United States.
They're built like a tank and they'll probably, you know, last forever despite the 5 year
warranty.
But, you know these juicers and backed up, you know, Omega 8005 with a 10 year warranty,
the Vert with a 10 year warranty, the Greenstar and green power juicers have a 5 year warranty.
So hope you've learned more about juicers today and juicer selection.
You can visit my website discountjuicers.com to read other informative articles about juicer
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