Alright!
This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
Today we have another exciting episode for you and what we’re gonna do in this episode
is compare the latest Omega horizontal auger juicers.
Seems almost like every week Omega comes out with a brand new horizontal auger style juicer
and because there are so many different models out you know they got the Omega 8003 8004
8005 8006 8007 8008 and then all new NC800 and NC900.
There’s so many different models and there’s maybe some confusion out there.
So this video is here to answer all your questions about the main differences about these machines.
So the first thing I’d like to say is that we have the Omega 8004 here and the Omega
8004 and the Omega 8006 are identical.
Only the color is different.
So the Omega 8004 is in the white.
The Omega 8006 is in the chrome plated plastic.
Next we have the Omega 8007 and the Omega 8007 is in the silver color.
The Omega 8008 is identical to the 8007 except in the chrome plated plastic.
Finally we have the Omega NC 800.
The Omega NC 800 is the silver color and the Omega NC 900 is guess what?
The same exact thing as the NC 800 but the chrome plated plastic.
And actually as a special tip, soon enough Omega will be coming out with a stainless
steel version, or just the body only will be stainless steel plus the catch cup, will
be stainless steel.
Now that’s probably due in late this year.
There’ll be no major upgrades other than the the real steel housing and the glass pitcher
and glass collection cup.
All the juicing apparatus will be identical to the current model.
So the models that I did not talk about were the Omega 8003 and 8005.
Guess what?
They’re the same exact thing.
The 8003’s in whites.
The 8005 is the chrome plated plastic.
I will not be covering those.
Those are the oldest of the models, which actually I do not recommend, because these
models have you know newer features that make it more worthwhile.
Such as all these machines have the longest warranty in the juicing industry.
It’s 15 years long.
The original 8003 and 8005 only have a 10 year warranty.
That’s 5 years less.
Other than that the 8003 and 8005 is pretty similar to the 8004 8006 except it has a melamine
auger, and the shorter warranty plus a different style on the body.
It has a flip up handle and is a little more compact.
So today let’s go ahead and compare the different models and you could think of all
these guys as brothers and sisters because they’re all in the same family but they’re
different generations.
Like you know you got your parent’s generation your grandparent’s generation your generation
right.
Or maybe you got the coke generation.
But these are different generation models.
We’re gonna start over here.
This is the 4th generation over here.
This is the Omega 8004 8006.
So then after the 4th generation comes the 5th generation, the Omega 8007 8008.
And then finally the 6h generation and the NC800 and NC900.
So if you’re wondering which one’s the newest, well the 6th generation.
This is Omega’s latest model.
And actually I prefer this model for a few reasons that I’ll go over in a minute but
we’re gonna go ahead and cover the old ones.
So say you wanted to get one of these models because they are priced actually less than
that guy here.
Then the one that I’d get out of these two would be the Omega 8007.
Now the main reason for this are a few things.
Cause it is a newer generation it has the upgrades and is new and different than the
previous model.
Both these generation machines, 4th and 5th generation, have the same size feed chute.
So this is 1.5 inches circular.
So that means you may need to cut larger carrots up into pieces or you know long pieces so
that you can get it in the feed chute.
It also means you may need to cut up your apples and other things to fit it in the feed
chute.
Now this one actually has a larger funnel which I do like a lot.
Now the other difference too is this main house here.
The housing on the 8007 8008 is made of the eastman tritan copolymer.
Which is a BPA free material and the 8004 and 8005 have this polycarbonate which does
contain some BPA.
Probably the next major difference with these guys are probably in the shape of the screen
and the material the screen is made out of.
Here we have the Omega 8004 8006 screen and here is the Omega 8007 and 8008 screen.
As you guys could see this screen has been redesigned.
The screen has more screen area and so that means it makes cleaning a little bit more
harder because the screen is the hardest thing to clean on any juicer.
And also it has a stainless steel first stage screen so these machines are known as dual
stage single auger horizontal juicers because on the initial crush some juice is released.
It basically comes through the first stage.
So on the 8004 8006 the first stage is a plastic screen which has been known to break.
The new upgraded 8007 8008 now has this stainless steel part so it’s much stronger.
Overall there’s 25% more screen area, which means you’re probably gonna get a higher
yield.
So I do like the Omega 8004 8006 and the Omega 8007 and 8008 because basically what happens
is on this end cap there are no adjustments.
So what does this mean to you?
This means it makes juice your juicing experience really easy.
This is preset at the factory to keep some back pressure on the pulp and only let it
out when it’s fairly dry.
So this is like a no brainer juicer.
It’s like getting on a tricycle and getting on and driving it and you’re not gonna fall
off whereas if you get on a bicycle or a unicycle you know unless you know how to do it you
may fall off right.
So it’s a lot easier to use these two models.
Now I do wanna say that these are horizontal single auger juicers.
John what does that mean?
Well that means each of the machines have a single auger, and this is an auger, that
turns around and basically produce goes in there it crushes and squeezes out the juice
out of the produce.
If we take a look at both these augers here you know both these augers I mean they are
virtually identical.
They may be just a little bit different but you know to my untrained eyes these augers
are pretty much the same for all practical purposes.
So the augers are the same.
Now these style machines are the horizontal because they got the auger running horizontally.
They also have the vertical augers where the augers run up and down.
Now it’s very important to know that these style juicers are best at juicing some things
and not so good at juicing others.
Every juicer on the market has it’s pros and has it’s cons.
My job is to share with you guys what the pros and cons are so that you could pick out
the juicer that’s best to meet your needs because my needs may be different than your
needs.
You may juice something totally different than me.
So for example, the horizontal single auger juicers are the best juicer by far in my opinion
based on my testing that I have on youtube for juicing leafy greens and sprouts.
Absolutely the best for sprouts and leafy greens.
So if you wanna juice things like wheatgrass and things like sunflower greens these are
the machines that I would get you know one of the horizontal auger machines.
If you wanna juice a lot of leafy greens like kale, collard greens, swiss chard, you know
dandelions greens, wild foods, wild greens, once again these are your babies.
They produce the highest amount of yield over all the other juicers that I’ve tested when
juicing leafy greens by themselves.
That being said if you wanna know which one is the most efficient on leafy greens it’s
gonna be the NC800 based on my test.
It’s 20-25% more efficient than these older models.
Now if you wanna juice something like hard vegetables, these machines juice hard vegetables
such as carrots and beets just fine.
They do a good job although they don’t get as high of a yield as like a centrifugal ejection
machine but the think to remember is that these machines run at a low and slow 80 RPMs
or revolutions per minute.
This means there’s gonna be much less oxidation and you’re gonna make a more nutritious
juice that will be able to store for a longer period of time.
The manufacturer advertises these juicers producing juice that can be stored up to 72
hours.
Although I always say and encourage you guys to drink the juice right after it’s made
for the highest level of health.
Of course if you’re gonna save your juice you know drink it a day old juice is far better
than you know popping opening a Coca Cola or a coffee or you know some other beverage
you may be drinking.
So keep that in mind.
So we know it does the hard vegetables good, the leafy greens the best, so what about the
fruits man?
So if you try to juice straight fruits like say John I wanna make pineapple juice man.
You get one of these juicers, it’s not gonna work so well.
These machines really are best for the leafy greens very strong you know decent and quite
good at the hard vegetables but at fruits alone, then it doesn’t work too well.
Now if you wanted to juice fruits with some you know hard vegetables it’s gonna do just
fine.
So just put like a piece of pineapple, a piece of carrot, a piece of pineapple, a piece of
carrot.
It’s gonna work great but if you just try to use straight pineapple it’s not gonna
work so well.
And so if you wanna juice like like mixed juices like John I wanna juice like you know
mostly green juices with some fruits to make it sweet, then yes.
These would be your babies.
Also these guys actually probably one of the best juicers for juicing ginger that I know
of.
Now before I get into the all new NC 800 and NC 900, the difference between this and these
models, the other thing I’d like to say is that all these machines are more than just
a juicer.
These are all actually known as nutrition centers, although the NC 800 which is the
Nutrition Center 800, these are actually the Omega 8004 Nutrition Center and 8007 Nutrition
Center.
Now these are more than juicers because instead of just having the standard juicing screen
that I pointed out earlier, you also get what is called a blank plate.
The blank plate allows you to put it into the machine here and what happens is everything
that you put into the machine now will basically just get mushed up and homogenized or crushed
up really small.
So what this attachment allows you to do is to take coffee beans and run it through your
juicer to make grind up your coffee.
Take roasted peanuts, put it through the machine and get your you know peanut butter or like
a nice crunchy peanut butter.
You could actually take things like frozen bananas and other frozen fruits, put them
through the machine, and get 100% frozen fruit sorbet which is much healthier than ice cream.
So this machine will also allow you to make and extrude pasta shapes out of pasta dough.
So I have no idea how to make pasta dough.
I’m sure I gotta use eggs and wheat and you know water and all this kind of stuff.
You make the dough you put it through and it extrudes the pasta shapes you know that
you then cook and be able to eat and enjoy.
You can make your own foods at home and that’s what I like about all the Omega horizontal
auger juicers.
They’re truly multifunctional machines.
So now let’s get into Omega’s newest horizontal single auger machine, the NC 800 and the NC
900.
Now if you want a small footprint on your counter, this guy is gonna be your baby cause
it’s the smallest footprint the Omega 8007 8008.
This one has a little bit larger footprint and this one is the largest of them all.
So to get into this the main differences between this machine and theses guys are two fold.
Number 1 this is also the BPA free eastman tritan copolymer material.
Once again these machines on this side of the table have been BPA copolymer instead
of the polycarbonate.
The next thing, on this machine is that it has a much larger feed chute.
So you could see the feed chute on this one.
It’s a 1 and a half inch in diameter circle.
And this one’s more like a stadium you know like a football stadium seating in my calculations
are like this is like 82% larger.
So this means you’ll have to do actually less cutting less food preparation to use
the Omega NC 800 NC 900 and I do like this a lot.
Now besides just the larger feed chute, which makes feeding produce easier, they also added
this main part here which is a end cap attachment.
So the end cap on the 8007 is nonadjustable as I mentioned.
So it’s like a no brainer.
You assemble, it you juice, it’s gonna come out.
On the NC 800, it’s for those of you guys that like to tinker or wanna get the highest
yield, this is it.
So instead of just having the standard outlet like this, and if you take this off you can
just run it like that with no adjustment, but I would encourage you guys to choose the
adjustment feature.
On here there’s basically numbers from 0 to 5 and you need to put this on here and
what you do is as you kind of tighten this up to like 5 it puts the most back pressure
on the produce.
So it’ll keep the produce inside the machine longer to extract you know the most amount
of juice and that’s why in my test I’ve gotten 25% higher yields in the NC 800 juicing
for example leafy greens.
Of course, your results may be different but I can guarantee you this, this machine will
outperform these guys because of you know this adjustment.
Now this adjustment can be difficult to get the hang of, much like riding a bicycle for
the first time.
You might’ve fallen off but once you kind of know how to do it you’ll know how to
do it.
Basically to sum it up, if you’re juicing leafy greens and vegetables you’re gonna
want to put it on 5.
If things start backing up in the chute and not coming through then you’re just gonna
loosen it up one number at a time until the produce starts flowing.
Then you might wanna back it back and increase the number up to 5 until the produce just
starts to trickle out right.
You wanna keep the produce in there as long as possible to get the most amount of yield.
Now on the other hand if you’re juicing really soft things like apples or something,
then you might even need to take this off or you know put it on a 1 so it provides a
little back pressure because the fruits in this style machine really start to back up
good because of the back pressure.
Fruits cannot have any back pressure because they don’t have the hard fibrous material
that like leafy greens and carrots do to help push all that pulp out.
Now let’s take a look at the juicing screen on the NC 800.
And here it is right here.
We’re gonna compare that first to the Omega 8004 screen.
So if you look at that basically these screens are fairly similar.
It looks like to me that there’s a little bit more screen area on the NC 800 than the
Omega 8004.
And once again this has the first stage is plastic and the second stage is a stainless
steel.
Next let’s go ahead and compare it to the Omega 8007 and on this guy the screen looks,
I don’t know almost the same area on the stage two, maybe a little bit larger on the
8007 8008.
And of course the first stage screen on the 8007 is stainless steel.
On this it is plastic and there’s greater screen area on the 8007 8008.
So yeah so that’s what the screens are and basically the augers once again if you take
out the auger on the NC 800 and like the 8007 basically to the untrained I they virtually
look identical.
It might be a tad bit different.
Maybe the ribbing’s taller on the 8007 and 8008 so I would not you know interchange the
augers by any means.
So there you have it.
Those are the main differences between the 8004, 8007, and NC 800.
You know if I was going to buy a juicer I would spring for the latest and greatest model.
I would go for the NC 800.
In my tests it performs better.
It has a wider feed chute that makes it easier.
It has an adjustable pulp outlet control that’s gonna allow you to get the maximum yield.
Now if you don’t wanna spring for this guy which is too expensive, then in my opinion
you wanna go for the Omega 8007 machine.
It’s priced comparable to the 8004 but has some upgraded features to make it even better
and you know I hear that they’re may even be some upgrades coming out for this model
later whereas they may not be coming out for the 8004.
In the end I’d like to say no matter which of these Omega horizontal single auger style
machines you get you’re getting some of the easiest to clean juicers in the whole
market.
All these guys take me under 2 minutes to clean, take me the least amount of time, they
work the best on leafy greens, wheatgrass, and sprouts, and it’s the one that I believe
you may wanna purchase if you’re really wanna hit up the green juices hard.
The last thing I’d like to say today is that if you’re interested in purchasing
one of these guys or already own one of these guys I would highly encourage you guys to
watch my video entitled “Common Questions and Answers Omega 8004”.
At the time I made that video these guys were not even out yet but the video that I made
for the 8004 8006 will apply to these models because the technology is the same.
In that video I explained how to properly use the machine and you know some of the tips
and tricks that I’ve learned over the years for cleaning and about how to feed the produce
and also about you know if your machine has some vibration in it also about some of the
extra spacing in the machine and all this stuff.
So once you watch that one you’ll know exactly for sure how to work all theses machines.
So you’ll get the perfect green vegetable juice every single time.
Hope you guys enjoyed this episode learning about the differences between the 8004 8006
8007 8008 and the Omega NC 800 and NC 900.
Once again my name is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
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