John: This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com. Today I have another exciting episode for
you. Instead of me sharing my expertise on juicers that I've been juicing for over twenty
years now and playing with these juicers each and every day. I want to get you guys a different
perspective and that's literally, I have my girlfriend.
She's been juicing now for about two years and she has a lot of experience with the different
juicers especially going out with a guy that sells juicers. So I want to get her on and
share her story about juicers, why she's juicing and the juicers she's used in the past, what
she likes and doesn't like about each one and which one she uses now.
So let's go ahead and introduce you to Lauren. Lauren: Hello everyone.
John: So Lauren, why did you originally get into juicing?
Lauren: Well, I was having health problems about two years ago, over two years ago and
I started juicing, actually without any of these juicers, I was using one of my parent's
old, old like twenty dollar juicers and I made like really, really bad combinations
of juice to begin with. John: So let's talk about that cheap, twenty
dollar juicer. I know you've used some of these high-end juicers now. How does that
twenty dollar one compare to some of the other ones you've used.
Lauren: Well, compared to any of these, the twenty dollar one was just awful, it was awful.
It took like, I don't know, it took forever to make like forty ounces of juice and at
the time I didn't really know how to make juice that tasted, you know, bearable. It
was just an awful experience to start off. But it's not that way anymore.
John: Right, so why don't you share like with my viewers like some of the juices that you've
made that tasted awful and why and maybe what you do now to help them out so that they could
make juices that taste good from the get-go and not go through your experiences.
Lauren: Well the first juice I made was probably like cabbage, lot of ginger, a lot of bitter
greens, no celery, no cucumber, just a lot of bitter flavors with a lot of ginger and
maybe a couple of tomatoes were in there and it was, I used to call my green juice my grassy
piss water. Because... John: It doesn't have to be that way!
Lauren: I had a bad attitude about it and I was just like this sucks. But, nowadays
I really, really juicing and I like drinking all kinds of juices. You just have to have
like a good base and not have the main ingredient be a bunch of bitter greens with ginger. So,
I like to use celery and cucumber as my vegetable base and then I also add carrots and then
I'll add kale or collard greens or something else. But I'll make sure that I have celery
and cucumber in there usually or carrots and apples, stuff like that and it makes it a
lot better. I can drink like any kind of juice and I really like it. So I'm like totally
different attitude about juicing now. John: Yeah, I mean the right recipes and the
right juicer could make your juicing experience so much better. If you're interested in learning
how to make your own and formulate your own recipes I have a really good video, I'll actually
put a link down below. It's basically titled 'Free Juice Recipes for Life Without Having
to Buy a Recipe Book." Because I want you guys to truly come up with recipes on your
own based on what you have in your garden or what's on sale at the store so you could
make an inexpensive, delicious juices that taste great every single time.
So Lauren, let's get into some of the benefits of juicing. I mean, you are very beautiful.
I know the juicing probably a small part, it's helped clear up your skin, you've lost
some weight because of eating healthy fruits and vegetable based diet and the juicing.
What else has it done for you? Lauren: Well, I was having a lot of health
problems to start off with. I was prone to candidiasis, so I was making a lot of green
juices and, I don't know it just kind of helped make me feel really clean and I guess I did
lose weight when I was initially starting to really get into juicing. It also kind of
changed my mind, I guess the more I juiced. The more the fruits and vegetables spoke to
me and told me what to do. John: She's kind of hippie too, I like that.
Lauren: Yeah, so I just, I really, really like it and I make all kinds of juices now.
It's a really good way to start the day and it's just really clean and it's not, you know.
It's really easy to digest and it gives me a lot of energy.
John: Awesome, yeah I mean I totally agree, juicing could help you get the nutrients your
body needs, it could help you shed those extra pounds because juicing is a low calorie food
plus it also allows you to concentrate in getting literally the nutrients out of five
pounds of carrots without having to eat five pounds of carrots. That's what I really love
about juicing. So Lauren, let's talk about some of the different
juicers you've used. These are all the different models and why don't you go ahead and go through
your whole story of the different juicers you've used over the different years and your
experiences with each of them. Lauren: Okay, well after my parent's twenty
dollar juicer, I went out and I got myself an Omega 8005.
John: That's very similar to the 8004 right here.
Lauren: Yeah. That's when I started juicing. I was juicing mainly vegetables and leafy
greens, so I was happy with it and everything was good. But then, I started having money
problems so I had to sell it. John: How much did you sell it for?
Lauren: I sold it for $200. John: And she bought it for like 250.
Lauren: 280 or something. John: Oh wow, so juicers, a good juicer keeps
their resale value. Lauren: Yeah, yeah. Then I bought a NutriBullet.
John: That's not a juicer. Lauren: No, no. But it was five easy payments
of $20 and it seemed better for my budget at the time.
John: So Lauren, what's the difference between the juicing you did with the 8005 and the
NutriBullet that then you had to get because you couldn't afford a juicer.
Lauren: Well the juicing, I don't know I felt like it's obviously better because I was getting
more nutrients with the juicer, but the NutriBullet was working, I couldn't blend a bunch of like
bitter greens with celery and cucumbers because that just...
John: Makes a mush. Lauren: Doesn't work. So I don't know, it
was good though. I would blend soups in the NutriBullet. It was good, I was using it every
day for a long time until I finally got a juicer again for my birthday which was an
8006 Omega. John: That's just like the 8004, but a different
color. So the 8006 that she had is called a horizontal auger style juicer identical
to the 8004 except the color's different. This style of juicer really is good at juicing
things like leafy greens and vegetables, it really does an amazing job and super simple,
super easy to clean. It does take a little bit more time than a NutriBullet that you
could literally rinse out and go. This one takes me about under two minutes to clean.
So it's super simple, super easy. But this wasn't meeting all Lauren's needs. So Lauren,
what was the next juicer you got. Lauren: I got a Breville Juice Fountain Plus.
John: Which is like this one. Lauren: This is the elite. Because I wanted
to start juicing every day and it kind of took a while to hurry up and make a juice
before I had to go to work or something and so I got a Breville and I started juicing
a bunch, well I'd juice like celery, cucumbers and carrots in the Breville and I would still
juice my leafy greens in the Omega. That made it quicker to make juicing something I could
do every day. I got it, well I got mine kind of cheap on craigslist, so it wasn't that
big of an expense. John: Awesome, so with every different juicer
there's always different pros and cons. Like the Breville it runs at 10,000+ rpms, this
one runs at like 80 rpms. So you're going to be done quicker. It does juice, in general,
hard vegetables and firm fruits better than the 8004/8006 series machines but it does
not juice leafy greens well at all. It literally spits them out whole. In addition this machine,
because it runs so fast it tends to oxidize and add air and interject air into the juice
which lowers the nutrition and that's the reason why I like the slow juicers. So Lauren
let's get into the juicer you got after you got the Breville.
Lauren: Well then I met John and he brought over this vertical Omega juicer and I was
like whatever I'm just going to stick to my, my two juicers. But then, you know the more
I started using it and the more I just started watching him use it and was like that's pretty
cool. So I started juicing everything in the vertical juicer, everything. I stopped using
my other two juicers completely. John: So yeah, when I originally went to Lauren's
place and I saw that she had an 8006 which actually I kind of liked and a Breville, which
actually I used to use these same two style machines like back in the day before they
had the vertical juicers, they were like the best of both worlds. You could do your greens,
you could do your other stuff fast. But I really don't like the fast juicers in this
day and age and I'm like oh she has those too.
To me the 8006 is kind of like it has a smaller feed chute, you got to push produce in there.
It takes so much time whereas the VRT's so much quicker and efficient and still produces
a higher quality juice than this. So then I'm like okay, I got to bring her out the
VRT, a vertical juicer, I just have an extra one, I could leave it with her and then she
could be juicing in that. Sure enough, she liked that more than these two machines. So
what did you do with these two machines honey? Lauren: The Breville is at my sister’s house
now and the Omega 8006 is kind of just sitting on my counter.
John: But what are going to do with it maybe? Lauren: I could use it again, or I don't
know, I could also give that to someone, but I'm really, I'm really happy with the vertical
juicer that I have right now. John: So she gifted her juicers, one of the
best gifts you could give to somebody else, a juicer so that they could improve their
health when you get a new one. So Lauren what juicer do you have now and what juicer's your
favorite out of the different juicers you've ever used including at my house and your house
and all the ones you've used. Lauren: Okay, the juicer I have now is the
Kuvings Whole Slow juicer and I really, really like it, I mean I like this one too, but I
like this one, it has a larger feed chute, is that what you call it?
John: Yeah. Lauren: The quality of the juice, like it's
really easy to make juice, like any kind of juice, like leafy green vegetable juice is
easy in the Kuvings and fruit juices are easy in the Kuvings. So I just like to use it,
use the Kuvings. Also like all of the juice tastes way better than if I were to make it
in something like a Breville and it tastes just a lot less aerated and you know it's
much higher quality. So I like the Kuvings, I guess the most. I also, I don't know, I
like your juicer. John: The Omega VSJ 843.
Lauren: Yes, that's good. It doesn't get as clogged as easily as the Kuvings might in
some cases. I think the Kuvings, I mean it does everything I want it to do. So...
John: Every juicer, once again has it's pros and cons and the Kuvings is a good juicer.
It sits on my counter-top also. I use it for juicing fruits. I really like the large feed
chute. It just makes juicing easy, makes it easier for Lauren then a smaller feed chute
on this vertical and they have different cleaning brushes and a nice recipe book to help get
you started. So there you have it, you've heard about Lauren's
story, about using all the different juicers and which one she likes the best now. I would
concur, I personally like the vertical style machines, vertical juicers the best, whether
that's the Omega VSJ 843, which I use a lot or the Kuvings Whole Slow juicer or even the
Slow Star. If you are looking at a buying a vertical slow juicer be sure to check my
other videos. I have a video on the top three vertical slow juicers and why I like them
where I compare them side to side. So Lauren do you have any other final tips
or comments for my viewers out there watching today?
Lauren: I would just say the best thing you can do is just to get started with whatever
juicer you have and it may be difficult at first because it's not a routine yet, might
not be something you're used to doing, but you can figure out what you can do to make
all your juicers taste really good. If it doesn't work out the first time, just remember
you can add celery or cucumbers, lemon or apples and carrots are all good bases and
yeah, just keep doing it and it might take additional time, but you'll get use to and
it's worth it and you'll feel great the more you start doing it. So that's what I would
say. John: Awesome. Yeah, I want to encourage
you guys to get started juicing. I always want to encourage you guys to buy good quality
items, whatever you're buying whether that's a juicer, a vacuum cleaner, buy something
that's going to last and going to give you a long warranty and literally some of the
juicers on the table here have 10 or 15 year warranties and they'll be around so that they
can give you the health benefits, provide you the weight loss and give your body the
nutrition it needs. So yeah, that's very simply just it, get started
today. If at first you don't succeed try, try again because I know you will make some
recipes that don't taste good. Once again, I will put that link down below this video
for my video on how to create and formulate your own juice recipes that taste great every
single time and be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you're not already.
Be sure to check my other videos, I have over 400 videos comparing different juicers side
by side like the Breville vs the Kuving, the Breville vs the 8006 and all these things
so you can determine what juicer is the best for you just much like one of those old fashioned
shoe salesman. I want to fit you guys with the right juicer because everybody out there
has different needs and while myself and my girlfriend love the vertical style that may
not be exactly the kind you need to get. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode, if
you liked it give me a thumbs up maybe I'll get Lauren on in the future to maybe make
some juice recipes for you guys and demonstrate some juicers. But anyways, my name is John
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