This machine is just as great as everyone says. I use it every morning and a glass of fresh juice is the first thing I consume. The green star is tough as nails, produces more juice volume than pulp volume, and the quality of the juice is phenomenal. Plus it's shockingly quiet, so you can guiltlessly make juice in the wee hours and not worry about waking the other members of your household with the racket coming from the kitchen. Clean up is not that big of a deal, start to finish the whole process of making, cleaning up, and consuming my breakfast is around 20 minutes.

My only complaint, and this is minor given the overall performance of the machine, is that information about using the pasta and bread stick attachments is very minimal.

The DVDs focus exclusively on juicing and sorbet making, almost to the point of being tedious, and the manual has only very brief descriptions for either process. I've made amazing sprouted wheat crackers because I'm willing to experiment, but the booklet only mentions sticks. The pasta recipe calls for "premade pasta dough mix", which I didn't know existed, and the only piece of advice given for processing is that the dough shouldn't be "too wet".

I'd appreciate more specifics, especially when considering the same manual includes multitudes of recipes for juice concoctions, which are far easier to come up with by good old fashioned trial and error. Why not include some recipes for coconut noodles or alternatives for those with certain grain allergies? Why weren't these more technical processes included in the video how-tos? Shoving fruits and veggies into a shoot isn't all that mentally or culinarily (is that a word?) demanding. I suppose I can find pasta recipes for other machines online and adopt them, but if the advertising is going to hype the extra features of their product, the buyer should feel confident in their ability to utilize those features to the fullest extent and shouldn't feel obligated to search for outside information for guidance.

Still, four and a half out of five stars. I'll be using this machine when I'm 75, hopefully.