Alright!
This is John Kohler with DiscountJuicers.com.
Today we have another exciting episode for you.
You might be thinking “John!
Wait, where are the juicers, man?
What’s up?”
Well, hey, we’re actually in my garden.
My garden gives me much inspirations on what I’m gonna be juicing that day.
I’m basically juicing what I got ripe and what’s happening in my garden.
And today, we got something real cool to juice.
We got this big huge cucumber!
I wish my cucumber was this big.
But let’s check this out, I want to measure this for you guys.
I got a yard stick here, and if we check it out, it looks like this cucumber is nineteen
inches long!
So check this out, we’re gonna go ahead and clip this guy off—man, this is one heavy
cucumber.
Look at that.
What we’re gonna do in this episode is we’re gonna do a juice off with this very cucumber,
fresh harvested from my garden with the all new Omega VSJ843 and the Kuvings Whole Slow
Juicer.
So actually, let’s go inside and get my juice on.
So now we’re inside, we’re gonna get ready to juice this big, huge Armenian cucumber
that I just harvested.
And what we’re gonna juice it in today is the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer over on this
side, and the Omega VSJ843 over on this side.
Now, both these machines are vertical single auger juicers that run with an auger in the
middle.
And the main difference between these machines, primarily, is number one the feed chute size.
You guys can see the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer has the longest feed chute of any vertical
slow juicer on the market.
The VSJ has a smaller feed chute.
In addition, the motor on the Kuvings whole slow juicer runs at sixty revolutions per
minute, and the VSJ runs at forty-three revolutions per minute.
In addition, these auger sizes are vastly different.
We’ll go ahead and show these to you guys.
That’s the different augers.
Now this auger is shaped like this because it needed this design for the three inch wide
feed chute, and basically takes the produce in, crushed it, and squeezes it out, which
is what also the VSJ does, but it does it a little bit differently.
The VSJ actually has basically two wings here, or two edges, that actually come around and
chop the produce up a little bit, and then feed it into the machine.
And then furthermore as the produce gets down and gets squeezed out like it does on the
Kuvings, it actually goes up and underneath the auger and produce with get stuck underneath
here and get forced out the screen.
Now one of the biggest challenges on all vertical juicers is actually the screen.
In early vertical juicers, the screen actually would break and in the latest models the main
thing that happens is the bottom of the screen there’s a little hole.
So on the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer, here’s a little hole here and if you look over on
the VSJ, there’s actually no hole.
Because the pulp actually goes down the auger, up underneath, and then comes back down, and
it’s shot out this whole bottom area.
So this prevents some backup and some clogging.
So that’s gonna also potentially make less pulp in the juice.
Another thing I can’t really show is when I’ve used these juicers, not side by side
but at different times, I could see the VSJ actually grinds things up to a finer texture.
So, for example, one of my favorite things to juice is cactus fruit.
The VSJ juicer juices cactus fruit so well that it actually grinds up the seeds into
a sawdust, and then the sawdust seed pulp that does not actually get ejected out of
the machine, the machine backs up and then no longer functions.
That being said, on the Kuvings Whole Slow juicer, it juices cactus fruit wonderful.
It’s the best juicer I’ve found to juice cactus fruit because it doesn’t actually
crush up the seeds.
So every juicer has its pros and cons.
You can say “Oh, John, the VSJ sucks because it doesn’t juice cactus fruit!”
but this things kicks ass on leafy greens over the Kuvings.
In general, I would say the VSJ’s better for juicing hard vegetables and leafy greens,
then the Kuvings—I haven’t tested this theory yet, but we’re gonna see today how
it does with the cucumbers.
Another things that’s very important is the wiping blade.
On the wiping blade, you guys can see of the bottom of this there’s gearing, and that’s
driven by a drive gear on the bottom of the bowl.
And I like that on the VSJ, this has been deleted, because now the auger actually sits
up in the top and drives the whole wiping blade assembly.
So this makes clean up a little bit easier in here, because a lot of the pulp would get
stuck around the drive bowl, often times.
And so, yeah, that’s a main thing.
That’s the main thing with that.
Go ahead and set these guys up.
Now both these guys are easy to assemble.
I would have to give the VSJ the edge on assembly.
Unlike some of the other machines, there’s not all these different dots to need to align.
Basically just put this screen in, push it all the way through.
You just drop that in there, rotate it until it sinks in.
you’re gonna take the auger, line up these little cutouts into where the screen cutout
is, and it just drops into place and you have to rotate it, and then put the top on, line
up this arrow with the arrow at the top.
And you want to take this arrow, orient that to the back of the machine, and then rotate
it to match the other arrow.
You’re all set up, ready to go.
On the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer, you’re gonna take the screen and put it through the
automatic wiping blade.
You’re gonna take the dot on the top of the screen to the dot on the top of the housing,
and line that up.
You’re gonna drop the auger in there, and finally, you’re gonna take this white arrow
on the back of the feed chute housing, and you’re gonna align that to the open side
and slide it over the close.
Once the machines are properly assembled, you will be able to turn then on and start
juicing.
So I want to start with you guys the sound it makes.
I just turned the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer on.
This is running at 60RPM.
It has a drive gear that’s driving the screen.
I want you guys to notice how loud that is.
Okay, we’ll turn that off.
Now let’s go ahead and turn on the VSJ.
This is the quietest juicer that I’ve ever found.
I mean, you guys can barely hear that running.
It’s almost like a whisper quiet.
I really like this a lot.
Now besides just how loud these guys are, the warrantee on the VSJ is fifteen years
and the warrantee on the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer is ten years.
So another thing that I need to mention is some of the attachments and the accessories
that the juicers come with.
The Omega comes with one simple oversize toothbrush cleaning brush, whereas the Kuvings Whole
Slow Juicer comes with a totally of three different brushes.
An oversized toothbrush, a nice pipe or bottle brush, and also a brush that makes cleaning
the screen super simple, super easy, so I like this a lot.
Overall, even with the cleaning tools, I would have to give out the edge to cleaning on the
VSJ.
There’s less nooks and crannies to clean, and even though you don’t have the handy-dandy
screen cleaning tool, this takes me a little bit less time.
So aside from the cleaning, another thing that’s important to me is that the juicer
do multifunctions.
So while the Omega VSJ will juice fruits and vegetables, also make things like nut milks,
that’s pretty much where it stops.
It’s not designed to make the nut butters and frozen fruit sorbets like the Kuvings
Whole Slow Juicer.
Comes with actually a blank plate with the machine when you buy it to allow you to make
the frozen fruit sorbets and the nut butters right out of the box.
So I like this a lot.
Another thing is both these machines do not come with simple stainless steel strainers.
I believe every company should include a strainer with their machine.
They do not.
You’ll have to purchase one of these separately.
As you guys will see, as I’ve seen, when juicing with these machines separately, the
Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer will make more pulp, and I will show you this in this video, than
the VSJ.
The VSJ, you almost don’t need to strain the juice, it’s that pulp free.
This is the juicer that makes the least amount of pulp for any vertical slow juicer that
I’ve tested to date.
Next, I want to talk about some of the paperwork that comes with these juicers.
The Omega VSJ comes with a simple sixteen page instruction book and warrantee card,
whereas the Kuvings whole slow juicer comes with the instruction book, warrantee information,
as well as a hundred page full-color recipe booklet to help you and give you guidance
on your way to living a healthier lifestyle, including many different juice recipes you
can try.
So for this reason, I like the Kuvings whole slow juicer a lot.
Now besides just what the juicers come with and all this and of stuff, what really matters
to me is how it performs.
So let’s get into this juice off.
First, we’re gonna go ahead and take this cucumber, we’re gonna go ahead and cut off
the top.
Then I’m gonna kinda try to slice this in half to the best of my ability here, then
we’re gonna weigh each half.
Alight, so here we go.
Looks more like a melon on the inside than a cucumber.
The seeds are nice and big, so this may present a challenge for the juicer.
Let’s go ahead and bring out our scales and weigh these cucumbers up to make sure
we got an even fight.
So now we’re gonna do the weigh in.
over on the VSJ side, we got the cucumber, its 1.644 pounds, half the cucumber.
And over on the Kuvings whole slow juicer side, it’s 1.644 as well.
So now let’s get juicing.
Now check this out, we’re gonna probably juice first in the Kuvings Whole slow Juicer.
So fun, so if you take the whole slow juicer—I got a couple of random pieces cause I didn’t
cut it evenly.
We’re gonna drop those in first.
And check this out, we can put the whole thing in the juicer, no problem.
Oops, we gotta get the catch container over here.
This thing fits right in, no problem whatsoever, due to the three inch wide feed chute.
Alright so what we’re looking at here is in the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer, looks like
its left a lot of the cucumber pulp in the top of the machine that hasn’t gone down.
So we’re gonna go ahead and take the pusher down—now, never stick in anything into the
juicer like your hand.
Don’t stick any knives, don’t stick any forks.
Nothing in the juicer except produce and the pusher.
And this is part of the design that there’ll always be a little bit of residue up at the
top of the machine that’s not coming out, so this may hurt the yield actually of the
Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer.
Next, let’s go ahead over to the Omega VSJ side.
This cucumber, unfortunately, will not fit in the feed chute.
It’s just too big.
Let’s go ahead and cut this cucumber in half.
Let’s see if we can just do one slice in half and we can get it to fit in to the Omega
VSJ.
I like how that’s like whisper quiet.
Okay, so taking one half of the cucumber, nice long cucumber, look at that.
Just holding on.
It’s like literally auto-feeding into the Omega VSJ juicer.
Juicing right up.
Looks like the seeds are going in and all.
I’m not seeing a lot of residual pulp collecting at the top of the machine.
Next, let’s go ahead and put in this half.
I’m not sure if this is gonna fit—oh, yeah.
Check it out.
All we had to do is just slice is in half once and it’s fitting right into the machine
with no problem.
Alright, so the Omega VSJ is juicing this baby on up.
It’s working pretty well.
I like how both of these machines for the most part are auto-feeding.
The VSJ’s probably a little bit more auto-feeding than a Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer because of
the way the auger’s designed with the wider feed chute.
It has a different design around the top that sometimes doesn’t feed everything in, depending
on what you’re juicing.
Looking down the VSJ chute, looks like most of everything that we put in there has been
juiced.
We might have a little bit residual left in the screen, in the auger.
But the main thing you want to remember when using any vertical slow juicer’s you want
to keep an eye on where the pulp comes out.
And leave the machine on running a few thirty seconds, a minute more until the pulp stops
flowing, and the juice stops flowing.
This is gonna ensure you get the highest yield.
Alright, so this is still running.
We’ll give it a few more seconds.
Maybe let’s see if we can get some of this extra pulp down into the Kuvings Whole Slow
Juicer.
Alright, and no pusher was required with the Omega VSJ.
Looks like it’s pretty much stopped flowing.
Gonna go ahead and turn that guy off.
The last thing I always like to do is tip the juicer up just a little bit to see if
there’s any last drips…which there are none in the Kuvings and then very little in
the Omega VSJ.
Now I want to show you guys this here real quick.
We’re gonna go ahead and take apart the Kuvings and I want to show you guys—look
at that.
See all that pulp still clogged up in the feed chute.
This stuff is still wet, I mean, literally did not get juiced, and did not go into the
machine.
And this is the nature of the beast.
You need to put something else in to push the cucumber in after.
Maybe if you followed it with a carrot, the carrot as hard fiber that actually help push
everything through so you would get any residual leftovers stuck at the top of the auger there.
Now, in the VSJ, different story.
We can look at that, there’s nothing left in there.
Furthermore, we’re gonna go ahead and pull out this auger, and look at that.
On the auger, there’s very little pulp leftover on the auger.
Let’s do the same in the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer to show you guys this.
So in the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer, once again, very little pulp on the auger.
A little bit more than the Omega VSJ.
But next, let’s take out the screen, and this is actually quite telling here.
I’ll show you guys that—look, very little pulp.
I didn’t even do the auto cleaning feature just putting a little bit of water through
here like I did in the original video, which will make cleaning easier.
So there’s very little pulp that you will have to clean off.
This also means the juicer’s probably more efficient because it worked the pulp out of
the machine like it should, instead of in the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer that you guys
can see there’s a lot of pulp still left in the screen that’ll end up going in my
compost pile.
Of course, another thing that’s very important is the pulp.
So let’s go ahead and take this pulp, and we’re gonna do the pulp squeeze test here.
Take one pulp from the VSJ in this hand, and pulp from the Kuvings Whole Slow Juice in
this hand, I’m gonna squeeze.
And you know what, actually, it looks like the pulp from the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer
is actually a little bit dryer.
The pulp in the VSJ’s actually a fair bit wetter.
So that’s quite interesting.
But let’s see what happens.
Because there’s a lot of unjuiced cucumber still left.
So next let’s go ahead and take a look at the pulp that was generated by both machines.
So over on one side, we got the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer, the pulp, and the VSJ.
We’re gonna go ahead and shake these guys how a little bit.
So looks like primarily in the VSJ juicer, looks like we got a lot of foam and very little
pulp, actually.
Like actually very little pulp.
There’s a bit of foam.
The Kuvings whole slow juicer, basically a bunch of pulp here.
Not too much, but what you’re seeing on this side, if look on the side—I don’t
know if you guys can see that on the side in the back—I don’t really see any pulp,
it’s just foam that’s collected.
So, I mean straining the juice in the VSJ is probably optional, because it’s—you’re
not gonna get a lot of pulp.
In the Kuvings whole slow juicier, yes, there’s absolutely more pulp.
What percentage increase?
I’d say like 90% in this instance.
A lot more pulp in the Kuvings.
So now, most important thing, we’re gonna go ahead and check the yield.
Let’s go ahead and do a close up on this.
So on the VSJ side, look like we got about four hundred and fifty milliliters of juice,
that’s approximately two cups.
And over on the Kuvings whole slow juicer side, it looks like we got about three hundred
and seventy-five millimeters, which is almost one and three quarters cups.
So the Omega VSJ won in the sheer yield, but let’s go ahead and check the flavor and
taste of the juice.
Mm.
Wow, that’s the sweetest cucumber juice that I’ve ever tasted, growing in my very
backyard.
Yeah, quite good.
I did not detect any fiber.
Now I strain these juicers with the same thickness, with the same exact strainers.
Tastes the same.
So for all practical purposes, the producers produce the same juice, but the Omega VSJ
produced about 16% more juice than the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer.
That being said, the Omega VSJ is a bit more expensive, but its newer technology has a
longer fiver year warrantee.
But over to the Kuvings, it’s a dependable juicer.
It juices cactus fruits, whereas the VSJ juicer can’t.
It also comes with a hundred page instruction and recipe book that’s really cool, as well
as special cleaning tools.
And the main thing is it provides you with a nice three inches wide feed chute, which
means you’re gonna do less cutting and more juicing.
So again, I want to remind you guys that every juicer has its pros and cons.
At the present time, I’m really liking the Omega VSJ.
It’s quickly turning into my favorite vertical single auger juicer out there.
Be sure to check my other videos on the Omega VSJ843 to learn how it juices other produce
items.
And if you’re interested in purchasing the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer or the Omega VSJ
juicer, be sure to visit DiscountJuicers.com, and also be sure to visit discountjuicers.com/YouTube
for special promotional offers for YouTube visitors
So again, I want to remind you guys that every juicer has its pros and cons.
At the present time, I’m really liking the Omega VSJ.
It’s quickly turning into my favorite vertical single auger juicer out there.
Be sure to check my other videos on the Omega VSJ843 to learn how it juices other produce
items.
And if you’re interested in purchasing the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer or the Omega VSJ
juicer, be sure to visit DiscountJuicers.com, and also be sure to visit discountjuicers.com/youtube
for special promotional offers for YouTube visitors.