Alright!
This is John Kohler with DiscountJuicers.com.
We have a juice off today.
So one of the questions I get lately is ‘Hey John, what juicer juices wheatgrass better
the Omega 8004 8005 8006 or 8003 or the Omega VRT?’.
Well you know what?
I grew two plots of wheatgrass just for this purpose.
So we’re gonna put the wheatgrass through the wheatgrass juicers and find out how much
juice we get.
Let’s go ahead and get started.
First we’re gonna use the Omega VRT juicer.
The Omega VRT juicer is a vertical single auger style juicer.
And uh you know it does work fairly well for most produce but you know there have been
some problems with it uh juicing leafy greens.
If you wanna juice a lot of leafy greens or a lot of wheatgrass, and I even had a customer
tell me that it doesn't juice wheatgrass, so let’s juice one flat and see what happens.
Turn it on, and we’re just gonna basically cut the wheat-grass and take it and put it
right in.
It’s very important when you’re juicing wheatgrass that you get fresh wheatgrass.
The other thing you may notice on the Omega VRT juicer is that it does make some squeaking
sounds while we’re juicing.
As fast as you can put that wheatgrass in is as fast as the Omega VRT juicer will juice.
And you wanna just put a little bit in at a time.
You don’t wanna try to crowd the whole machine and shove it down too much at once.
So you could see finally we put it all in.
We’re getting the juice out but you know what, no fiber’s coming out.
Actually some juice is coming out of the uh the ejection ports.
But you know what that’s quite normal until we get some more grass in there.
And I’m continuing to cut the wheatgrass and put it in to the Omega VRT juicer.
You know so if you juice only like a handful of wheatgrass what’s gonna happen is you’re
just not gonna get any pulp out.
There needs to be pulp pushing the other pulp through and now you could see we’re finally
getting some pulp out.
This is all done in real time.
This wheatgrass is grown in soil and rock dust so I highly encourage everybody to grow
their wheatgrass in raw dust minerals.
It’ll make your wheatgrass much much sweeter.
If you can’t get rock dust minerals, use ocean grown.
We’re gonna continue to feed the uh grass in.
Let’s take a look a that pulp.
Now this pulp you know you might think it’s uh waste product but you know you can feed
this to your worms.
You could actually use this as a poultice.
So if you have a cut you could put in on your cut, tape in on there, on pimples or acne,
you know try it and see what happens.
Wheatgrass is really rich in chlorophyll.
I think that’s why it’s really good for us cause they’re really rich in nutrition.
But I think the biggest benefit of the wheatgrass is that you know it’s alive until the time
you cut it if you’re buying it by the flat.
It’s still growing un-less you get it you know pre-packaged.
I don't recommend getting it pre-packaged unless you can't grow yourself or you know
buy it by the full flat.
Alright so that’s the rest of the wheatgrass juice.
The wheatgrass, you can see our flat is pretty much done.
And it’s very important when you’re done juicing with the Omega VRT juicer is you know
let it run a little while.
There’s still, you can kinda still see the pulp coming out you know millimeter by millimeter.
It’s still working and some juice continues to dribble out.
So we’re gonna go ahead and give that another minute while we set up the Omega 8005 Nutrition
Center.
So we’re all ready to juice our flat of wheatgrass in the Omega 8005 Nutrition Center.
This hap-pens to be my own personal unit.
I’ve had it for many years.
The Omega 8003 8005 8004 and 8006 are all identical and work the same and your yields
will be the same.
The only difference is basically the 8004 and the 8006 are the upgraded model.
The Omega 8004 and 8006 have a 15 year warranty where as the 8005 and 8003 have a 10 year
warranty.
I’ve owned this machine for many years and it’s still working really well and I’ve
found no reason to upgrade to the 8004 or 8006 because they are the same machine only
the warranty is different and also the 8004 and 8006 have a 8 times harder auger, which
is more durable.
So let’s go ahead and get start-ed.
We’re gonna turn on this machine.
All of these machines run at a low RPM, under 100 RPMs.
They work really well and they’re very quite so we’re gonna go ahead and turn this on.
We’re gonna start and uh start clipping off some of this wheatgrass and putting it
into the ma-chine.
Always the machines come with plungers and uh only use the plungers to uh feed pro-duce
into the machine.
You could see instantly we’re getting some wheatgrass out, wheatgrass juice out of the
Omega 8005 Nutrition Center, which is the same as the Omega 8006 and uh you know it
comes out a lot faster than the Omega VRT juicer.
Once again there will be a little bit of a noise when juicing wheatgrass.
And you know what I’d like to say is uh originally they used like a meat grinder to
you know juice wheatgrass and they modified the meat grinder de-sign to a single auger
style design.
Which is pretty much like this exact system here.
And uh that’s why I feel this kind of machine is gonna be a little bit better for wheatgrass,
with wheat-grass, than the Omega VRT juicer.
But you know what, this is a juice off and we’re gonna com-pare our results afterwards.
Right now what’s happening is that the juicer is breaking open those cell walls the cellulose
the fiber of the wheatgrass the expose the liquid gold, the nutrition, the nutrients,
vitamins and min-erals and enzymes and chlorophyll of the wheatgrass.
And when that happens, once that hap-pens, you know it oxidizes and we don’t want oxidation.
So we wanna prevent and minimize ox-idation.
The best way to do that is to drink the juice right after you make it.
Okay so you could see here we’re almost half done juicing this flat of wheatgrass.
The Omega 8000 series includes the 8003 8004 8005 and 8006.
It takes me under a minute to clean.
The Omega VRT takes me under 3 minutes to clean.
So the Omega 8000 series are you know much easier to clean.
You know what a juicer that is easier to clean will be used more often.
One of the other things I’ve seen on the Omega VRT and gotten feedback from our customers,
is that the Omega VRT tends to make a little bit pulpier juice than what some people are
used to.
So if you like a pulpy juice, then by all means go for the Omega VRT.
If you don’t like a pulpy juice, then you might wanna look towards other juicers.
Alright here’s the last bit of wheatgrass on our wheatgrass juice off between the Omega
8000 series and the Omega VRT.
Alright there you have it, we have a couple of straggling wheatgrass but uh that’s pretty
much it.
Alright so we just finished up juicing in the Omega 8000 series juicer, the wheatgrass,
and now we’re gonna see how much juice we got.
So we have two 1 cup pyrex uh measuring cups and first let’s take a look at the pulp.
You could see the pulp coming out of the Omega VRT juicer is in this kind of a design uh
really tight packed.
And this is uh out of the Omega 8000 series, we’ll squeeze this.
And you could see you know there’s a little bit of juice coming out.
And the Omega VRT you know what, there’s still a little bit of juice coming out.
So the thing you could do on the-se is that you could run these back through the machine
you know a second time on both ma-chines after you’re done juicing the first round.
It’ll squeeze out more juice and we’re not gonna cover you know juicing a second
time we’re just testing the first time through to see how efficient each machine is.
So here’s the juice from the Omega 8005 basically which is representative of the Omega
8000 series.
And uh there we go, we’ve got a little bit of foam there and we’re just gonna pour
it all in and uh see what we got.
So here’s the uh juice wheatgrass juice from the Omega VRT juicer and once again we’re
gonna pour out that all in there and see what we got.
So just uh you know without even to add in the foam, I definitely saw that the Omega
8000 se-ries was much more juice.
So let’s take a look at the difference.
So it looks like the Omega 8000 series had approximately 7 ounces of juice in that flat
of wheatgrass I had.
And the Omega VRT juicer had approximately almost 6 ounces of juice.
So uh you know probably a little bit more than an ounce more efficient in the Omega
8000 series than the VRT.
Plus the Omega VRT tended to make a little bit more foam.
So you could clearly see with wheatgrass that the Omega 8000 series was more efficient than
the Omega VRT but both juicers juiced wheatgrass and did a respectable job.
The other ques-tion I get a lot is “Hey John what juicer should I get between the
different two?”
Well you know that depends.
If you wanna juice a lot of wheatgrass and leafy greens, definitely go with the Omega
8000 series.
I’d recommend the 8004 and 8006.
They also have the benefits of having a blank plate so you could basically make frozen banana
sorbets and nut butters and other things where as the Omega VRT juicer is only set up as
a juicer.
And that being said the Omega VRT juicer is better for juicing a wide variety of produce.
If you don’t know what you wanna juice, if you wanna juice a little bit of leafy greens
some carrots fruits and other things, the Omega VRT juicer is the way to go.
It’s pretty much an all around good performer where as the 8006 is defi-nitely better on
the wheatgrass and the leafy greens, it’s gonna do alright on the carrots and it’ll
juice fruits as well but that’s where the Omega VRT shines.
So you know you gotta weigh out what you wanna juice and buy the juicer that’s gonna do
the best for you.
Hope you’ve learned a little bit today about juicing wheatgrass and these two juicers.
This is John Kohler with discount-juicers.com.
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