This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com, today is an exciting day for me!
I got the all-new Omega VRT350 HD model.
Now this unit hasn’t been released to any other dealers yet, we always see it here first
from discountjuicers.com.
We’re going to review this juicer compared to the Omega VRT330, and we’re also going
to juice some fresh-picked produce out of my garden.
So let’s get right to it, I love unboxing brand-new juicers, it’s like one of the
favorite things I have to do in the whole wide world.
So this is the Omega VRT350, before we even open the box up, basically it’s pretty much
the same as the Omega VRT330 with a few minor variations.
It has the all-new ultim screen, so that’s eight times harder plastic, one of the problems
with the VRT330 was that the screen did tend to crack if you are a heavy-duty juicer.
So they came out with a heavy-duty juicer to basically solve that issue.
So let’s go ahead, without further ado, let’s open up the box and see what we got.
So inside the box you get a couple of pieces here, first we’re going to show, of course
you get two collection cups, and that comes with the juicer, same as the Omega VRT 330.
Then you have the main motor body housing, and we’ll set this right next to the VRT
330, you could actually see, it is actually identical, so all the main motor and everything
is exactly the same.
The accent color is different, it’s black instead of a silver.
And the color of the whole body is silver.
So if you have one of those stainless steel kitchens, this is going to match much better.
Next we’re going to pull out the main body housing, and as you could see, it’s pretty
much similar to the Omega VRT330, not much has changed.
Let’s go ahead and show you the last few things that come with it.
Of course you get the standard large hole screen, this is not made out of the new ultim
material, so if you want to juice things like fruits and softer things, or get more pulp
in your juice, you’re going to want to use the screen with the larger holes.
That being said, the Omega VRT does tend to make a little bit more pulp in the juice than
other juicers out there.
So next, the last few things in here are of course you get your instruction manual, and
you get a cleaning brush.
Now this cleaning brush is very instrumental in cleaning the Omega VRT juicer, the hardest
part to clean on most juicers is actually the juicing screen.
So with this special over-sized toothbrush has stiff nylon bristles, you could easily
scrub and brush the juicing screen and the back has a nice screwdriver point that you
could actually unclog the holes of the screen with the screwdriver tip to get all the pulp
dislodged.
Alright next let’s go over some of the specific differences, and check this out.
You could actually take the VRT350, this is how similar these juicers are, take the VRT350
part, put it right onto the VRT330, and vice versa.
So now, anyways.
But yeah these juicers are basically the same, only the color’s different, and these few
minor variations that I’m going to talk about in one second.
We have the two juicers here, we’re going to take each juicer apart part by part, set
them on the table so you can see the specific differences.
And actually you’re going to see that they’re basically the same machine.
So we have first the pushers, the pushers are identical, they fit in either juicer.
Let’s set those on the table.
The next part is the top.
The top parts once again are identical, they could basically be mismatched on either juicer
once again.
We’re going to take off these top parts and put them on the table there.
The next part is we have the augers.
We’ll go ahead and pull these augers out, and as you can see these augers are pretty
much identical, we could go ahead and swap the augers into each juicer, actually they
are the same.
So let’s put those to the side in the front there.
This is where the main parts are different.
We’re going to go ahead and take out the two screens, and as you can see we have the
two screens here and they both have the wiping blades, and the wiping blades on both machines
are identical, they’ll actually fit on either machine because they are actually the same.
And the next part is the different part, and this is where we get the HD and the VRT350
HD.
This is the heavy-duty ultim screen, it has an eight times harder plastic or stronger
plastic than the standard white screen on the Omega VRT.
So if you’re a heavy-duty juicer and going to be juicing a lot, like every day, I highly
advise you to get the HD screen, or the heavy-duty screen, that’s basically going to minimize
and reduce the problems with the screen cracking that the Omega VRT 330 had.
As you can see, they’re pretty much the same, this will fit into the Omega VRT 330
as you can see, they both will swap out.
So if you do have the Omega VRT 330 with the serial number of 1006001 or above, you could
just actually buy the ultim screen, or Omega may cover it under warranty if your white
screen breaks, you could just actually just put that in, and then you’ll be up and running.
If you are an owner of an Omega VRT that has a serial number of 1006001 or below, you actually
have to buy a brand new bowl and then by the screen to fit into your machine, because your
machine wasn’t originally equipped with this upgrade there.
The reason for that is that on these newer screens, they enlarged this little hole by
28 percent, so it’s 28 percent larger now, which is going to minimize the pulp back-up
and minimize the pulp in the juice.
So the last part now is the main body housing, and let’s take a look at that.
That pretty much looks identical to me, except for this has a nice little straight line here
in the juice port, which may help to minimize the pulp coming out of the port.
Other than that these are identical.
So let’s go ahead and rebuild this juicer one step at a time.
You can see how easy this juicer is to put together.
First you’re just simply going to take the bowl, always make sure your pulp flap is installed
completely in.
What this pulp flap does, it allows the produce to stay in the machine longer to get fully
juiced before the pulp is extracted.
You can pull it out and juice with that but then juice will leak onto your motor body,
and then all the pulp will come out without any clogging, but you’re going to reduce
your yield.
So we’re going to just basically put this on the machine and rotate it, and it locks
into place.
Then next we’re going to take the wiping blade and the ultim screen, put that into
the machine.
Next we take the ultim auger, and we’ll put that into the machine.
So the last part to assemble is the feed chute, and there’s basically a triangle on the
feed chute and it’s right here.
Basically you need to line up this triangle here with the little red dot over here on
the main body housing, line that up and simply turn it and it will lock into place, and you’re
basically all ready to juice.
So here’s the juicing pusher and now let’s get juicing.
We have the Omega VRT350 here, and I’ve picked some fresh cucumbers out of my garden,
also some tree collards, which are pretty much like a kale, and some Asian pears, so
I love to juice Asian pears or add that sweetness, you could use pears, apples, or Asian pears,
and today I have some Asian pears that are in season now here in California.
So first we’re going to turn the Omega VRT350 HD version on.
As you can see it’s really quiet, it’s one of the most quiet juicers.
It runs at about 80 RPMs, that’s revolutions per minute, so it really runs pretty slow,
and it basically provides you with higher nutrient quality because it oxidizes the juice
less than other high-speed juicers.
So when you are juicing anything like leafy greens with the Omega VRT, they advise you
to basically tear it up into small pieces, otherwise the fibers in the stalk may get
cut up, so you see I’m easily just tearing this up into little pieces, and we’re just
going to put some of those pieces into the machine, and push it in with the pusher.
And as you can see the Omega 350HD takes those kale leaves in and breaks up and chews up
that fiber for you.
In kale there’s undigestible cellulose, and the reason why juicers are so beneficial
is because the juicer basically takes and separates the cellulose from the nutrients,
and I’m just tearing this up, real simple, real easy, just put that in the machine, and
you can see we’re already getting juice out.
Now don’t forget about juicing your stalk, especially if you fresh-picked your own collards
or kale, the stalk is the best part, it’s usually pretty, most people don’t like to
eat the stalk but there’s a lot of good juice in the stalk, it’ll make your juice
taste really good.
And so when you, I’m just simply tearing them up, and putting it into the juicer.
Another really good thing to do when you’re making your juice is to rotate the items you’re
juicing, so you can see I first put in the collard leaves, then I put in the cucumber,
then I put another collard leaf in, and now we’re just going to put in an Asian pear,
so let’s watch this thing go into the machine.
Dumps right in, you don’t even have to use a pusher, let’s do that one more time.
Right in, boom, right in the juicer.
That’s the auger going around, spinning around and taking chunks of produce and turning
it into some fresh vegetable juice, there’s nothing healthier than fresh-made vegetable
juice, especially the green juices, we want to be drinking our green juices, they’re
rich in chlorophyll and so many other nutrients, including antioxidants.
And how many people regularly get greens in their diet?
You know in a survey I saw, most people don’t even eat the one recommended serving of greens
a week!
I encourage everybody to eat at least one serving of greens a day, not even just once
a week as the USDA would recommend to us.
Greens are really healthy, they’re really beneficial for us, they really allow the body
to heal and give all the nutrients our body needs.
Next we’re just going to take a cucumber, and let’s watch that as it goes into the
VRT 350HD juicer, dump it in, and look at that!
That’s self-feeding.
It’s rare that you see juicers do that, that’s really cool.
Next once again, another Asian pear right in the machine, push that in a little bit,
chews it right up, so as you can see we’re rotating our produce.
So now we’re putting in some more collard leaves.
Let’s check that pulp coming out, look at this pulp, it’s really dry.
Most juicers have a big problem juicing leafy greens, but not the Omega VRT350.
I recommend for people that are just getting into juicing, you always want to juice three
quarters of your glass, something like celery, cucumbers, like Romaine lettuce hearts works
really good or carrots and apples.
So three quarters of the glass one of those, and then only a quarter of the glass of dark
green leafy vegetables.
And I encourage everybody to rotate their vegetables.
So if you’re juicing collard leaves today, don’t juice collard leaves tomorrow, juice
some spinach, or juice some chard.
Juice other kinds of greens, juice dandelions.
There’s so many different kinds of greens, and each have different nutrient profiles
that are really good for us to get all the nutrients.
Okay let’s do some more cucumber here, I’m down to the last two pieces of collard greens,
put those into the machine.
As you can see the pulp is still coming out really well, and that probably is due to the
fact that we’re cutting our pieces of collards into smaller pieces, we’re also rotating
our produce, which is really good, plus the 28 percent larger outlet on the new Omega
VRT350 helps out a lot too, to prevent the clogging up that the Omega VRT330 and, but
now all new VRT 330s also have the larger 28 percent bigger ejection port.
That looks like it’s going to be it for our juice.
So we just finished juicing, we got the pulp here, pulp’s pretty dry, done a really good
job with the all new Omega VRT350 HD, we got the juice over here, and you might notice
that there is a little bit of foam on the juice, now all juicers do create some level
of foam, some juicers make more than others, overall the VRT350 does a great job, and this
foam can be mixed back into the juice, so take a stir stick, stir it in, perfectly fine
to drink.
Some people don’t like to drink the foam, they’ll actually ladle it off with a spoon,
or what you could do is actually take a gravy separator, pour this into the gravy separator,
and with the gravy separator pour out the juice and the foam will stay in the gravy
separator, so maybe we should call them juicer separators or juice separators.
Anyways, the VRT350 HD is now available at discountjuicers.com, it’s definitely worth
it for the price, it’s a little bit more expensive than the VRT330, but you get the
all-new ultim screen that’s more heavy-duty, and as you can see, the results speak for
themselves, let me enjoy my juice here.
Mmm, the Asian pear just makes it so sweet and so delicious.
So once again this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com, be sure to visit discountjuicers.com/youtube
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