Customer Reviews

Metrokane Mighty OJ Manual Juicer, Chrome

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I have had this juicer for a year now, and have not experienced any of the problems noted in the other reviews. We may use it 4 times a week for several weeks, or only on weekends for a month. It looks good, is sturdy, and is easy to clean. Place the orange or whatever in the holder, slowly press down on the paddle style handle, and its juice galore. For larger fruits or bigger oranges, lift the handle up, reposition the fruit carcass a little, one more squeeze and Bobs-your-uncle. We like the machine just fine.

If you're looking for an orange juicer that will look great on your cabinet, then this might be the one. But if you're looking for a juicer that's user friendly and efficient, you might want to look somewhere else (like Metrokane's Chef's Juicer). When I bought the Mighty OJ, I noticed problems right off the bat. In the first place, it's hard to get an orange in this thing. There's barely enough clearance. So, if the orange is big, you have to sort of wedge it into the juicer. Then, the handle is short, so it's hard to get a good grip on it. If you don't hold down the left side of the juicer, it'll tip over when you press the lever down and spill juice everywhere. Also, with large oranges, this juicer won't remove all the juice. It will leave a ring of the juicy part of the orange just inside the peel. If you make orange juice once a week, these things might not bother you. If you make juice every day, they could be pretty annoying.

I bought one of these to see if it really was better than the super cheapo electric juicer I've been using for about three months. (It's one with the spinning squeezie cone...) The first time I tried the Mighty OJ, I didn't think to hold on to the machine, and it slipped, spilling OJ and peel bits everywhere, while falling on my hand, bruising up my fingers pretty badly.

OK... my fault. I tried again... and found that it just really doesn't handle normal sized oranges (about a big as a child's fist) very well. For something bigger than a lemon, it only squeezes the middle, and leaves a ring of unsquashed, messy orange on the outside. BUT, you can see that where it does squeeze the orange, it gets EVERY little bit of juice out! So... after mutilating about four oranges, and throwing about a third of each in the trash, I took a sip.

It's really the best dang juice I ever tasted. I was amazed at how much better the juice tasted than the juice I squeezed out of the same batch of oranges with my electric doodad.

So... I guess I'll buy little dinky oranges from now on... :)

This is a nice sturdy machine. Works great with oranges - you just cut them in half first.

It is so easy to clean-up too.

It extracts a large amount of juice from every piece of fruit and is so simple to operate. You definitely get the most juice out of this that one could squeeze from a piece of fruit.

I too have noticed metal shavings - but only around the top of the device where the gears come out of. With the machine properly assembled, I do not see how the shavings could fall down into the juice.

I have not noticed any other problems like a foot being loose or anything like that. The frame on mine is one solid piece of metal so I'm not sure how the steel could easily break.

I don't like gadgets, particularly electrical kitchen gadgets.

Somehow the thought of using an electrical can opener rather than a mechanical one strikes me as idiotic. For that reason, I suffered with a Metrokane mechanical juicer for a long time. It was a pain to use, a pain to clean, was not very efficient, and shed little particles of aluminum. I then got a Braun MPZ22. The Braun is marvelous, much cheaper, more efficient and easier to clean; 15 seconds under a running faucet immediately after you have used it is all it needs.

Buy the Braun instead!!

I bought this juicer, and I love it. It's great for everything from orange to grape fruit juice. The price is a little steep, but besides that its well worth it. I also have an electric OJ juicer and it can't compare. I'm sure you'll enjoy this product.

Although I ordered the juicer in the color black, I received the product in white. If not for the color I would have purchased it locally. After approximately 6 months of satisfactory occasional use the juicer is no longer functional. Some of the teeth on the gear that is connected to the press lever have broken off. I had expected a product this simple would have lasted for years. I am obviously totally disappointed.

The cone and funnel parts are made of aluminum and will eventually discolor. I shouldn't have put them in the dishwasher, I know, but they turned black and began turning my lime juice gray. I pitched the whole machine.

First, this product did succeed in producing awesome tasting orange juice and made us lifelong converts to fresh-squeezed juice.

But, it's sized so only small oranges are efficiently juiced. Larger ones cause the juicer cup to overflow, and a rim around the edge goes unsqueezed (wasted).

Finally, despite the "800 pounds of pressure" claim, our gear mechanism broke after, say 200 oranges were squeezed. It's ironic, because the rest of the machine is bomb-proof heavy metal, but the gear wheel is some cheap-o alloy that split in half!

We just purchased an OrangeX Express and hope for better luck.

When I first bought this juicer, I thought it was great. It sure beat squeezing by hand. But then, after using it for a while, I had second thoughts.

There is something about the relationship of the size and spacing of the squeezing elements that is not efficient with a variety of citrus fruits. A grapefruit or a big orange deforms and squashes out of the edges, so one does not get all of the juice. On a couple of occasions when we were juicing a lot of lemons and limes for parties, I noticed that the juice yield seemed poor. On a hunch, I put two already-squeezed limes in at the same time. Sure enough, there was another ounce of juice left.

For the past year, I have mostly been using the juicer accessory for my Kitchenaid (which makes for quite an expensive juicer if you have no other use for it - but I do).

It sort of works, and is somewhat sturdy, but I would find it hard to recommend. On the other hand, if you will be using small, thin-skinned juice oranges only, you may be satisfied.