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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2012
Here I sit, drinking my first glass of juice from my new Omega J8004, and I must say, this juicer exceeds my expectations.
Past juicers I have owned, not loved, and left, have been a Champion, a Juiceman, and some double auger thing that was a major PITA. The Champion was a beast, I used it for a while, but it weighed a ton, had sharp parts that needed to be dried carefully after washing or they would rust, and I always felt like the pulp was kind of wet and I should have gotten more juice out of it. The Juiceman didn't do well with greens, was another PITA to clean, and I gave up using it pretty quickly. Never liked using the double auger machine. Too many parts, very slow.
After using the Omega J8004 once, I am satisfied with the juice to produce ratio I received. While the process of preparing the vegetables and feeding them through the juicer was time consuming, I anticipate that my routine will speed up some, and I am willing to spend the time for fresh, quality juice. The part I hate the most, cleanup, was no big deal.
This juicer has been criticized for having pulp in the juice. Yeah, as I was drinking my first delicious glass of juice, I could feel some little particles of pulp, but I just consider that a bonus - fiber! There wasn't so much that it was unpleasant (the Champion had much more). If you need to have very pulp-free juice for health reasons, you can either strain it through a fine mesh sieve, or shell out for a Norwalk juicer.
Some people have complained about the size of the feed tube, well yeah, it is pretty small. I'd image that the engineers who designed it sized the tube so that the rate of feed would match up with the take-up capability of the auger. If you are put off by having to cut your veggies into small pieces to fit the feed tube, this is not the juicer for you. Personally, I like using a knife.
This first batch of juice was made from a small beet with it's greens, 4-5 leaves of Russian kale, 4-5 red cabbage leaves, a medium apple, 2 medium carrots, about an inch of ginger root, and 4 medium celery stalks. I made the mistake of starting by rolling up one of the cabbage leaves and jamming it down the feed tube, followed by small pieces of carrot and apple. The cabbage leaf wouldn't move past the end of the tube and I had to take things apart and pull it out. After roughly chopping the leaves (everything else was already in manageable pieces) things went really smoothly. In the end my yield was about 24 oz. of juice. There is no way I would have eaten all that, especially the greens. I'm a happy girl!
So remember, drink lots of greens, and if you juice too many carrots, you'll turn orange.
Past juicers I have owned, not loved, and left, have been a Champion, a Juiceman, and some double auger thing that was a major PITA. The Champion was a beast, I used it for a while, but it weighed a ton, had sharp parts that needed to be dried carefully after washing or they would rust, and I always felt like the pulp was kind of wet and I should have gotten more juice out of it. The Juiceman didn't do well with greens, was another PITA to clean, and I gave up using it pretty quickly. Never liked using the double auger machine. Too many parts, very slow.
After using the Omega J8004 once, I am satisfied with the juice to produce ratio I received. While the process of preparing the vegetables and feeding them through the juicer was time consuming, I anticipate that my routine will speed up some, and I am willing to spend the time for fresh, quality juice. The part I hate the most, cleanup, was no big deal.
This juicer has been criticized for having pulp in the juice. Yeah, as I was drinking my first delicious glass of juice, I could feel some little particles of pulp, but I just consider that a bonus - fiber! There wasn't so much that it was unpleasant (the Champion had much more). If you need to have very pulp-free juice for health reasons, you can either strain it through a fine mesh sieve, or shell out for a Norwalk juicer.
Some people have complained about the size of the feed tube, well yeah, it is pretty small. I'd image that the engineers who designed it sized the tube so that the rate of feed would match up with the take-up capability of the auger. If you are put off by having to cut your veggies into small pieces to fit the feed tube, this is not the juicer for you. Personally, I like using a knife.
This first batch of juice was made from a small beet with it's greens, 4-5 leaves of Russian kale, 4-5 red cabbage leaves, a medium apple, 2 medium carrots, about an inch of ginger root, and 4 medium celery stalks. I made the mistake of starting by rolling up one of the cabbage leaves and jamming it down the feed tube, followed by small pieces of carrot and apple. The cabbage leaf wouldn't move past the end of the tube and I had to take things apart and pull it out. After roughly chopping the leaves (everything else was already in manageable pieces) things went really smoothly. In the end my yield was about 24 oz. of juice. There is no way I would have eaten all that, especially the greens. I'm a happy girl!
So remember, drink lots of greens, and if you juice too many carrots, you'll turn orange.
