Alright!
This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
Now I've been juicing for over 25 years.
I've been selling juicers online definitely over 10 years, actually since 1998.
One of the questions I commonly get is, you know, "What's the best juicer to buy?"
Well there's many different juicers on the market ranging from, you know, ones seen on
infomercials to $2000 Norwak press juicers that cost lots of money and that make a high
quality juice.
But you know, besides being a lot of money, they’re maybe harder to use.
They make definitely a higher quality juice, but you know.
So the question is, "What should the average person buy as a juicer?"
Now you know there's many different juicers.
I sell and test many different juicers.
At discountjuicers.com I have comparison charts and a lot of different videos, you know, sharing
the different juicers with you to show you how each one works.
And so, you know, the best juicer to buy is the best juicer that's going to meet your
needs and your criteria that you have.
So for example, if you want to juice, you know, strictly carrots and apples and you
want a wide feed chute, and it's going to juice relatively fast, you know, that's where
something like a centrifugal injection style juicer with a 3 inch wide feet chute comes
in.
You literally don't have to cut any apples to put them in the hole.
You could stick 3 or 4 carrots in at once.
It's going to juice really fast, cleanup is relatively easy.
But on the same token, you know, so that's if you want to juice, you know, carrots and
apples and, you know, most other fruits and vegetables but with the focus on carrots and
apples.
The reason for that is this style juicer runs at a high rpm and it's not very effective
at juicing something like leafy green vegetables.
It's really going to get very few drops and kick out, you know little, like whole bits
of pieces of the leaves.
So it's not going to be very effective.
So you know, and also the price point is very affordable to get you started.
So that's why this is very similar to the Jack LaLanne juicer you may have saw on an
infomercial.
It's around, you know, little bit over $100.
And this one has a 10 year warranty.
So, you know, some points to consider when buying a juicer is, you know, “How long
is the warranty?”
Actually, this machine, this machine, actually all 3 of these machines on the table have
a 10 year warranty.
You know, there's no need to buy an extended warranty.
So one of the questions you should ask when buying a juicer is, "How long is the warranty?"
Usually manufacturers are going to back up their machine with a long warranty if they
have confidence in it.
The other thing to make sure is that the manufacturer has been around for a while.
You know, there's new juicer companies popping up all the time, you know, literally coming
out of the holes in the wall and their trying to sell a juicer.
But you know, maybe they just started last year.
Maybe they won't even be here next year.
And what good is a 10 year warranty if the company is not here to support it.
So all these companies here have been around in the juicing industry for at least 10 years.
Another question, or you know, criteria could be, "How loud is the juicer?"
Well, you know, I wake up early.
I have family members that are still sleeping when I get up and get ready to go to work.
And you know, I want a juicer that's quiet.
So here we can do a sound check.
We'll turn this juicer on.
You can kind-of hear.
You know, I raised my voice.
Now I'm kind-of shouting here.
It's fairly loud.
And you know some people have said that, you know, a juicer sounds like an airplane in
my kitchen taking off.
So you know, some juicers are more quiet.
Generally, the fact of the matter is, the higher the rpm, the louder the juicer.
So this juicer for example runs at about 80 rpms and it has a nice hum to it.
You can kind-of hear whirling, and if you put some stuff in there it will actually get
more quiet.
And so you know, this juicer is a lot less loud.
You know, this last juicer here, this also runs at about 80 rpms and it's also fairly
quiet as well.
So you know, the sound and how loud it is could be another criteria.
Another criteria is, you know, we want to match the juicer style with the produce you
want to juice.
So you know, like I said, this juicer is really good for whole apples and cucumbers and carrots.
And you know, it's not too good at leafy greens.
Now if you want to juice like mostly leafy greens, so I'm saying like kale, collars,
chart, bog choi and other leaves, that's where this juicer really shines actually.
And this juicer is going to get a really high yield on those leafy greens as well as being
able to juice wheat grass.
So this style - centrifugal injection style - cannot juice wheat grass.
This is actually called a single auger style juicer and this juicer is really good at juicing
wheat grass.
Actually the single auger style juicer was the original wheat grass juicer, then they
basically improved the design, and now they came up with this model that can juice wheat
grass as well as those other greens and carrots and even apples.
And then the last design here is also a single auger style, but this is a horizontal single
auger.
And this is a vertical single auger style juicer.
So now the auger is facing up and down instead of, you know, sideways.
And this style is actually a little bit more efficient at juicing carrots than this style
here.
The other benefits is that it's a little bit more efficient overall at juicing leafy greens.
So and it's also faster to juice.
So that's the other criteria’s.
You know, am I going to be in the kitchen all day making my juice?
Will it take, you know, half an hour or 10 minutes to make, you know, a quart of juice?
Well, this juicer is also one of the slowest juicers.
It has a smaller feed chute, and that can be another criteria, “How big is the feed
chute?”
The feed chute is about one and a half inches diameter on that one, and as I mentioned it's
3 inches on this one.
And this one has a crescent shape.
It's 2.25 inches by 1.25 inches.
So it's kind-of like intermediary - in-between.
So how big is the feed chute?
Because the smaller the feed chute the more cutting you're going to have to do to make
that produce fit inside the machine.
Oh and let me go ahead and give the names.
This is actually the Lequip 215XL model juicer.
In the middle here we have the Omega 8005 juicer.
The Omega 8005 is identical to the Omega 8003 juicer, only the color is different.
And now Omega has come out with the improved versions of this juicer - the Omega 8004 and
8006 which have an even 5 year longer warranty and has been improved basically with the harder
auger and larger collection cups and a nice built-in handle.
This one has a nice flip-up handle.
Then we have the Omega Vert juicer or VRT 330 and this is the newest style juicer on
the market.
This tends to be one of my favorite juicers now because it is pretty forgiving.
It actually juices fruits fairly well.
Fruits are generally very hard to juice because of their soft cell walls, usually like a carrot.
You know, I could take a carrot in here.
If I squeeze the carrot in my hand it's going to be... you know, no juice is going to come
out.
But if I have an apple and squeeze the apple I can literally squeeze the apple juice out
of my hand.
So juicers have a hard time juicing softer fruit.
So in most cases I recommend that we eat our fruits whole or blend them up into a smoothie.
In the case that you do want to juice fruits I did do a video on YouTube showing, you know,
the best fruits to juice.
And I juice over a dozen fruits in this juicer, and you see how it works.
So you know, those are some of the criteria’s on, you know, what you want in a juicer.
Another criteria could be, you know, "Does the juicer do anything else besides just juice?"
This juicer here is only designed as a juicer.
But with this juicer, this is literally a nutrition-center kitchen appliance.
So besides just juicing, all we need to do is unscrew the housing there and take out,
and this is the juicing screen.
Now also included with this machine is a blank plate.
So instead of having a screen material here it's solid, and instead of having screen material
here it's solid.
And what that allows you to do is to basically mill up foods.
So you can crush garlic and make your own, you know, coffee.
Grind your own coffee - fresh ground coffee.
You could make nut butters, you know, put whole nuts in or grind up those nuts together.
You could take the most popular thing to do with the homogenizing or the blank plate is
to make frozen sorbet, or what raw food people would call banana ice-cream.
You just take frozen ripe bananas that have been peeled, put them through the machine,
and out come a frozen yogurt type consistency of just 100% pure banana.
So that's an excellent way to, you know, maybe get some of those ice-cream out of your diet
to eat more basically fresh fruit.
So these are all some of the criteria’s.
Of course, the price could also be a criteria too, and you need to just basically pick and
figure out, you know, and learn more about the juicers and find out and, you know, define
your needs and define what you want to juice.
If you want to do the multifunction’s, if you're going to juice more leaves than, you
know carrots and apples, if you want that large feed chute so you can shove things in
there really fast.
The other thing that I didn't mention is, you know, "How high quality is the juice?"
You know, is the juice...
You know, the higher the speed generally, the lower the quality of the juice.
What happens with this is it spins, you know, 10 thousand rpms and as it is spinning more
air is being introduced into that juice which causes oxidation.
That's like when you cut open an apple it starts to turn brown on the inside.
And so we don't want our juice oxidized.
And the other thing I'd like to say is that we want to drink our juice as soon as we make
it.
We don't want it just to hang out and, you know, make it and then put it in the fridge
and then drink it later.
We want to make it and drink it as soon as possible or as soon as possibly possible.
Is that to say that, you know, juice stored for 8 hours is, you know, no good?
Well no, that juice is still fine to drink and definitely better than a soda or a tea
or a coffee.
But it's always good, better, best.
We always want to be trying to do the best we possibly can.
So the lower the rpm, the higher the nutrient qualities.
That's another criteria.
So hopefully I've answered some of the different, you know, criteria’s and explained some
of the different criteria’s and what to look for in a juicer.
And I'll definitely say visit my website discountjuicers.com and check out the video links I have - you
know, over a hundred videos showing you each of the different kinds of juicers.
And as you watch the videos I'll talk about the specific features of the juicers.
One other feature that I just thought about is, "How easy is it to clean?"
So these are some of the easiest juicers to clean on the market.
This one takes me under 4 minutes.
This one actually takes me under 2 minutes to clean.
And this one probably is about in the middle.
Maybe it's about 3 minutes.
So how easy is it to clean?
Because I want to sell you a juicer that you're going to use every day and, I mean, even if
you get the best juicer that makes the highest yield and high nutrient quality - that's another
thing, "How much does it yield?"
You know, even if it is the best in some situations but it's hard to clean and you don't use it,
you know I did you a disservice and, you know, by selling you a juicer that's hard to clean
because that's one of your major criteria.
So I generally recommend one of these 3 juicers are my favorites.
So this is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
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