This John Kohler with discountjuicers.com, today we have a very special treat for you,
this is one of the most asked-for comparisons I get all the time, “Hey John, what is better,
the Omega VRT 350 HD” or same as the 330 basically, a 350 is the upgraded version of
the 330, has a new heavy-duty juicing screen, and for you guys out there that are watching
this video that are serious about juicing and you’re going to juice every day, only
go with the Omega VRT 350 HD, it’s the heavy duty version, it has a stronger screen, and
one of the problems with VRT 330 was the screen was cracking. So this should basically minimize
and drastically reduce the amount of cracking in the screen because it is eight times stronger
now. That being said, over here we have one of my other favorite juicers in the world,
this is the Omega 8006 Nutrition Center, and for those that are into living in raw foods
and want to make a whole lifestyle change, this is probably the machine I’d recommend
for you because besides just juicing, this one will allow you to make frozen fruit sorbets,
nut butters, baby foods, grind up your foods, homogenize, you can actually take just cabbage,
take a whole cabbage, put it through there with the blank plate it will homogenize it,
cut it up, and then you just basically ferment that cabbage into your own fresh sauerkraut
and that’s exactly what they do at the Ann Wigmore Institute in Puerto Rico. They just
use actually the Omega to grind up their cabbage and they make the sauerkraut fresh out of
that, so delicious. Anyways let’s get back to the juice-off today, so we’re going to
juice the Omega VRT 350 HD and the Omega 8006 Nutrition Center against each other. So that
being said, the Omega 8006 is identical to the 8004, which I have right here behind me.
So it’s identical to the 8004, the only difference is the color. Both these machines
have the 15 year warranty, this one’s less money just because the color’s different
if you need that chrome plating and the black color then it’s going to cost you more money,
but 15 years on the warranty on this machine, and the Omega VRT 350 has the 10 year warranty,
the Omega VRT once again 330 and the 350 HD are basically the same exact machine, the
only difference is the color and the screen material. But on these machines, they are
identical. So before we get started juicing, let me go
ahead and tell you about some of the differences between these machines. This machine, basically
they’re both single auger juicers, they both run at a slow 80 RPMs, so that’s going
to preserve the nutrition and give you the highest nutrient quality in the juice, and
they both do a great job. Overall, depending on what you’re wanting to juice, the Omega
VRT juicer may get a little bit higher yield on most things, if you don’t know what want
to juice, if you want to juice everything under the sun, then probably the Omega VRT
juicer’s going to tend to do a little bit better on especially things like the fruits
than the Omega 8006. If you’re one of those people that know you want to juice and you
want to juice a lot of leafy greens and wheat grass, this will juice all those, but the
Omega 8006 is basically going to be more efficient when juicing the leafy greens. So overall
for my juicing style, I prefer the Omega 8006, I tend to juice a lot of leafy greens with
some celery and cucumbers, although I also do use the VRT too when I’m juicing carrots
and other things too, so make decisions, this machine is less money as well. This machine
takes up less counter space, so if counter space is important, this takes up less counter
space. The other main thing to realize is that the Omega VRT juicer tends to make a
pulpier juice than the Omega 8006 so if you don’t like pulpy juice, then go with the
8006 or you’re going to have to get the Omega VRT and then strain your juice to get
some of that pulp out. If you like pulpy juice, well hey, then this is your machine right
here, real simple. So pros and cons, each juicer has their pros and cons, let’s go
ahead and juice just about similar produce amounts in each juicer and see what we get
to just kind of compare the yield. Now I haven’t exactly weighed out things, this is kind of
a rough ballpark, you’ll get to see how it works and kind of get to see the yield
and see the consistency. So that’s the test today. Let’s go ahead and first start with
the Omega VRT juicer, turn this on. I do like the Omega VRT juicer, it’s actually quicker
to juice. You can literally take carrots and just pop it in there, and it’s pretty much
self-feeding, so if you have arthritis or whatever, you don’t like pushing things
in, the Omega VRT would probably be a better machine because it’s literally self-feeding,
here’s a quarter of a cucumber going right into the machine, pretty much self-feeding,
basically chunks off a little piece and then it just goes in by itself. So my basic juice
is basically 75 percent of the glass of just some nice water-rich vegetables. By that meaning
either Romaine lettuce, and these are Romaine hearts, or you could use cucumbers or carrots.
I also put in a little bit of apple in there or celery. Actually we got some celery so
let’s juice some of that up next. Oh and it’s important in the Omega VRT juicer when
you’re juicing celery, you want to break it into little pieces and then actually drop
it in the machine for best results. If you put long pieces in, the string tends to get
stuck in the ejection port. And that’s one of the other benefits of Omega VRT and why
it is actually more, generally makes more yield, because there’s an ejection port
that has a flap, and the flap actually keeps the produce in the machine so the machine
can wring out the produce and get it drier before it’s ejected, whereas on the Omega
8006 they don’t have the same kind of flap, they do have some mechanism that keeps the
pulp in there, but it doesn’t quite keep it in there as long, so the pulp overall will
be a little bit wetter. So once again, we’re going to just chop up the celery and put that
in the machine. Next let’s go ahead and put in some turnip greens. So on turnip greens
or things like kale and chard with long stems, you’re going to want to chop up the stems
into little pieces, just tear it off and dump it into the machine, so once again the strings
in the stems actually don’t get wrapped around the auger and clog it up. It’s real
simple and real easy, shove that in there, it’s also really good on either juicer to
rotate the produce you’re juicing. So you see me kind of put one piece of each thing
in, and now we’re kind of starting over, [inaudible] carrot, and now the cucumber,
and what this allows is it allows the machine to have a mixture of different fibers. Like
carrot fibers are really hard and fibrous, and they actually tend to get pushed out the
juicer much more effectively than softer fibers like Romaine lettuce for example. So that’s
the Romaine lettuce, let’s put some more Romaine lettuce in here. As you can see the
pulp coming out is pretty dry. Next another stalk of celery here, we’ll put a small
piece in, put some more of these turnip greens. And you know, there’s all kinds of different
greens you could juice and I encourage everybody to juice a wide variety of greens. If you
make a juice with spinach every day, well hey, one day maybe you should make spinach
juice, the next day make some kale juice then make some kohlrabi leaf juice, have you had
that one? Make a parsley juice with the parsley as your 25 percent greens, dandelions, we
want to eat a wide variety of foods in our diet, and don’t get stuck on making the
same juice day in and day out, change it up just a little bit, you know change up just
one ingredient, like make the base always the same, maybe some cucumbers and celery,
and carrots, Romaine hearts, or change that up too. But always get a different dark leafy
green, try that bok choy, juice some bok choy from the store, try at your different farmers’
markets, different kinds of greens. Try juicing lamb’s quarters, I often juice lamb’s
quarters, they grow as a weed in my garden. But you know what, I use that weed to my benefit
and I juice it and I get the nutrition out of those weeds, and some of the weeds actually
are some of the best things to be eating, because they have a lot higher nutrient contents
than some of the standard leafy green vegetables that we normally get in the store. So we’re
just cutting up the last bits of these turnip greens, and the last couple of pieces here
going through the Omega VRT 350 HD juicer. Once again this is the heavy duty model and
for people that are serious about juicing, you should only pick the 350 HD model, and
not the 330, that’s my personal recommendation. So that’s pretty much finished there, we’re
going to turn that off. Next we’re going to juice in the Omega 8006 Nutrition Center.
We’re going to turn that on, the feed chute’s a little bit smaller, it’s about an inch
and a half in diameter. So we’re going to put a carrot in there, and you know the carrot
will sit there all day. With the Omega VRT it was nice you could just put it in, and
it would basically self-feed. With this, we need to give it a little bit of pressure to
allow it to juice. The other thing that may be important to some people that I didn’t
mention actually yet is cleaning time. So you know what, while it does take longer to
juice in the Omega 8006 because it has a smaller feed chute, you’ve got to [inaudible] more
or you’ve got to use a pusher, the clean-up time is actually quicker in the Omega 8006.
The Omega 8006 takes me under two minutes to clean, and the Omega VRT over here takes
me about under four minutes to clean. So it’s about double time, but if you’re juicing
a large amount you’ll save that time in the VRT and easily because it’s actually
going to juice at least two minutes quicker, it’s already taken a little bit longer to
juice already with just what we’re juicing today. One of the reasons why green juices
are so good for us is because they’re really rich in chlorophyll, and chlorophyll is basically
how plants turn the sun’s energy into its own energy, and then when we eat the chlorophyll,
we get the energy from the plants, or the plants’ energy the chlorophyll is basically
rebuilding, very good and very nutritious for us, rebuilding. You’ve heard about wheatgrass.
Wheatgrass, one of the reasons why it is so good is because of the high chlorophyll content.
But what people don’t realize is that most other dark green, or all other dark green
and green leafy vegetables also contain chlorophyll. The darker the green, the more chlorophyll
it has in it. One of the tricks that I like to show you guys when you’re juicing leafy
greens is if you take a big leaf like this and you try to just shove it in like I do,
it can be a little bit difficult, but what you want to do if you’re smart is you want
to take the green here and you want to just roll it up, and just carefully roll it up
just like that and then you’re just going to easily feed it in a little bit at a time.
You’re just going to go in much easier than having to work at it really hard. Much, much
easier. So let’s feed in some more of the turnip greens, and sometimes I like to use
even celery or carrot, the next piece of produce, use that as your pusher, makes it a little
bit easier. More turnip greens into the juice there. Every [inaudible] juicer has its pluses
and minuses, I wish there was a juicer that truly did it all and that was available for
an affordable cost, I’d probably recommend that to everybody. But until that time, you
want to pick the juicer that’s going to work the best and juice the best about what
you juice. For every person, they’re going to select a different juicer, and every juicer
works a little bit better. Which one of these juicers do I like the best? I don’t know
if I could answer that question, depending on what I’m doing. If I’m extracting coconut
milk, then this machine does horribly at it, this machine does wonderfully. So I have both
juicers, and depending on the specific job I’m doing in the kitchen, or the specific
juice I’m making, will determine what juicer I’m going to use. So unfortunately for most
people they don’t have a selection of juicers, I have all the different juicers in my kitchen,
so I get to pick every day what juicer I want to use for each specific task. But you might
only want to have one juicer in your kitchen, so you’re going to want to make sure that
the juicer you pick is going to do the majority of the tasks you want to do fairly well. Alright
so here’s the last piece of celery, and we have one more Romaine leaf going into the
Omega 8006. Alright so that’s all the juice, now let’s
go ahead and compare the results, now this wasn’t a specific yield test because I didn’t
weigh out and scrutinize the exact amounts of produce through each machine, I just kind
of said “Okay well this is about the same amount, one stalk of celery here, one stalk
of turnip greens here, quarter of a cucumber on this side, quarter of a cucumber on that
side.” So that being said, don’t take this as a legitimate yield test, it may not
be entirely accurate in that sense, but at least this will give us some kind of sense
of what juicer does yield more, and the quality of the juice. So we can see this juice here,
very little pulp in the juice, looks like to be a very clean, fine juice with very little
pulp. And let’s go ahead and take a look at this juice here, this juice looks to be
fairly pulp-free too. This juice out of the Omega VRT has a little bit more foam than
the juice out of the Omega 8006 Nutrition Center. If you want to take a look at both
those juicers comparing both juicers, looks like the yield, and you know this is not a
yield test but just for fun, the Omega VRT had about 16 ½ ounces and the Omega 8006
had about approximately 18 ounces, so the Omega 8006 did have a little bit more, but
I could have put extra produce on the tray when I was juicing this, so we can’t take
that as a full yield test. But we can tell you that in general, the Omega VRT does make
a pulpier juice, the Omega VRT is easier to feed the produce into, but if you’re just
wanting to make mostly green juices, I do recommend you get the Omega 8006 or 8004,
just in the long run it’s going to be a better machine. It also has a longer warranty.
So that’ll do it for the comparison of the Omega 8006 and the Omega VRT 350 HD model.
Both are excellent juicers and you know what, pick the juicer that’s going to be the best
and the right fit for you. Once again I’m John Kohler with discountjuicers.com, be sure
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