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Alright! This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com ! Today we have another exciting episode for
you. And this one has been over 20 years in the making actually. What I’m going to do
in this episode is actually explain to you guys the best juicer for you. Now I’ve made
other videos before, the best juicer, this and that, like years ago. But here’s the
thing. As times change, as new juicers come out, the best juicer is always changing. It’s
like if somebody asked you what’s the best iPhone ? Some of you might say oh I like the
iPhone 4. But you know, the iPhone 6s is out now and that’s the best, right? Well, in
some ways it is, and in some ways some people like the old iOS. But anyways, what I’ve
done today is I’ve actually selected from over 20 different juicers I have here, and
I got the best of the best juicers of each category here to share with you guys, right.
And what I’m going to do in this episode is not just say oh buy this one, it’s the
best, because that would be negligent of me. Because I don’t know your specific needs
and just you watching youtube videos it’s hard to, you know, get that one on one connection
to figure out your specific need. So what I’m going to go ahead and go over are all
the different criteria that you will want to take into consideration before buying a
juicer. And pick which criteria are the most important for you, and then select the juicer
that’s best going to meet your needs. I mean, that’s simply what I do. It’s like
if you go to a store, you know, and you’re going to buy a dress or an outfit, you know,
whether you’re a guy or a girl, you got to match the outfit with the intended purpose
of the outfit, right. And a lot of other factors, like if you like the color and if your friends
are going to like it, and who knows what other kind of stuff, I don’t know how to pick
clothes. But I do know how to pick juicers. So anyways you’re going to want to watch
this whole video to learn all about all the different ones. Because literally you’re
not going to learn this anywhere else. I’ve learned all these things and I’ve experienced
using the juicers almost every day. Actually yesterday i used, you know, the juicer three
times for every single meal I ate came out of the juicer.
And I want to stop right there for a second, you know, and let you guys know that the juicer
is not some miraculous kitchen appliance that’s going to change your life, right. What is
going to change your life is by including more fresh fruits and vegetables in your life.
Which is what the juicer allows you to do. The juicer is my number one favorite appliance
in the kitchen because it allows you to concentrate the amount of nutrition you’re taking in
in the most powerful foods on the planet, the fruits and vegetables, which most people
just shove to the side. They shove it on their side salad, they never eat it, they eat their
stake and potatoes and corn dogs and hamburgers and chicken Mc Nuggets first, and never eat
their vegetables. So this does the exact opposite of what the standard American diet will do.
It allows you to maximize the most nutrient dense phytonutrient rich foods on the planet.
And that’s what these simply are. They are simply tools to allow you to increase and
maximize the amount of nutrition you are getting in. Because in this day and age, in my opinion,
the standard American is just deficient in nutrition. And people’s bodies are being
starved. People are over fed. That means they’re eating a lot of food high in calories, but
they’re undernourished because they’re not getting the, you know, different vitamins,
trace minerals, minerals, anti-oxidants, enzymes in the food. Because all the food is so highly
processed. Now when you have your own fresh produce and you process it yourself, you’re
going to get the highest quality nutrition of them all.
So without further ado, let’s go ahead and get in to some of the criteria that you will
want to take into consideration before buying a juicer. And we’re going to go over each
criteria and go over each one of these juicers and which one is better or worse for a specific
criteria. And it’s, this is a complicated subject, right.
So before I get into the different criteria, and you guys should take out paper and pen
and take some notes here so you could jot down what’s important to you and whats not,
we’re going to go ahead and introduce the different machines. These are the top of the
top machines on the market this time 2016 in the beginning. Now later in the year, you
know, new machines are probably going to come out so I don’t know. But in 2016, you know,
this is the latest information.
Alright, so best centrifugal ejection juicer with a wide feed chute that I’ve tested
to date for the price performance is the L’equip 215 XL. That’s a centrifugal ejection. We’re
going to talk about each of the different styles in a minute.
Next we have the two best horizontal single auger juicers in the market. This is the Solo
Star 4 and the Omega NC800.
The next kind of juicer we have that we’re going to share with you guys are the vertical
single auger juicers, that I must have a disclaimer. These are my favorite type of juicers in the
market at this time for many reasons. But we have the Slowstar juicer. We have the Kuvings
Whole Slow Juicer. And we have the Omega VSJ843.
And finally over on this last juicer here. This is the best twin gear juicer on the market
that I’ve tested to date. This is the Green Star Elite Juicer.
Now these are all different ways of juicing. Although they all do the same thing, much
like a car. You guys might have a sports car, you might have a truck, you might have a mini
van, you might have a hatchback, you know, or coop, and they all will get you from point
A to B but they’ll do it a little bit differently. If you’re a construction guy and you got
to haul your construction stuff around, you’re probably got to have a truck, and like you
know a Volkswagen Beetle is not going to work for you, right. And that’s the same with
juicing. And that’s why it’s really important for me to share this information with you
guys, because manufacturers, you know, some manufacturers only have one or two juicers.
They might say this is the best juicer, buy this. Well, you know, what the fact of the
matter is it’s not always the best in every possible situation, you know. I wish there
was one juicer that did everything, that juiced everything really well, yielded well, had
highest nutrition, was easy to clean, heck I wish it was self cleaning! It’d make my
job a lot easier. So I won’t have to make these videos to explain to you guys the best
juicer to buy, right.
And before I go any further, I want to encourage you guys if you guys like the work that I
do, if you guys enjoy this video and learn from it, right, I want to encourage you guys
to support me, right. By supporting me you’re allowing me to continue my online education
that’s so important to me, so that I could make a difference in the world. Because other
manufacturers, other you know people that sell juicers, big box stores, they simply
don’t do this for you guys, right. So I’m trying to help you guys out, because my life
was literally saved by juicing and eating more fresh fruits and vegetables. I almost
lost my life when I was in my twenties. I had spinal meningitis, and basically long
story short, I had to make, you know, major dietary changes in my, you know, in my life
so that I could be healthy and live. And I’m so glad to be alive today and I want to thank
one of my mentors Jay Kordich, formerly known as the Juice man. You know, he got me on the
track of juicing and helped beneficially. And now I’m here to spread the message to
you guys. So if you guys like my work, please support me by making your purchase at discountjuicers.com
. That’s very important. Because if you purchase anywhere else, it doesn’t help
support me to continue this work to educate you guys to make the change in the world that
I want to see, you know, which is just people just eating their real food man.
Alright, so the other thing you’re going to notice is that these are all the major
brands that I mentioned, you know. There’s always an xyz company with a new juicer coming
out, and people always ask me John what about this brand, what about this brand, and there’s
so many new basically what I call knockoff juicers from China coming out, you know. And
they’re literally a quarter of the price of some of these guys here, maybe a third
of the price, half the price, it varies. And the thing is this, I mean, if you guys get
a knockoff Gucci purse, it’s not the same quality as a real Gucci purse, right. It could
look the same, appear the same, but you know, in Gucci purses, you could probably get a
knockoff and handle it you know. But in juicers, let me tell you guys I’ve tested a lot of
the inexpensive cheap Chinese knockoffs, they’re not worth their weights. Number one, they’re
going to produce horrible yield. They’re going to be frustrating, they’re going to
break on you, they’re going to have a short warranty. So you want to stick with the machine
that has a nice long warranty. Some of the machines on this table, which I’ll get into
in a minute have as long as 15 years on the warranty. I mean, that is unheard of in the
small kitchen appliance realm. It’s only these juicers that have these long warranties
because the companies are there to stand behind them because they know you’re making an
investment. It’s an investment and the most important thing you guys got. Not all the
money in the bank, not your house, right. Your health! I learned at a young age almost
losing my life in the hospital, that if you don’t have your health you don’t have
anything. And so I want to encourage you guys, I know the juicers for some of you guys is
a stress to invest, to make the investment, but it’s the most important investment you
got, you health. Because without your health, you can’t have a job, you can’t love your
loved ones, you can’t take your dog for a walk, you can’t go to disneyland with
your kids, you can’t do anything. And so I want you guys really to value your health
above all else. And yeah, some of these juicers are expensive but you get what you guys pay
for. I mean, this is an old adage and it definitely holds true with the juicers on the table today.
So without further ado let’s go ahead and get into the criteria, right.
The number one, and this criteria is in order of importance to me, or what many people may
feel are important to them, right. So the number one thing consideration that you should
have when purchasing a juicer is yield. Super important. Like if you’re going to juice
carrots and you got a juicer that’s designed to juice, you know, wheatgrass, it’s not
going to do so well. So yield is the most important factor when selecting a juicer.
Now it’s really difficult for me to explain the yield, you know, just like oh this makes
the best yield or this makes the most yield. It’s difficult because every different juicer
and every different produce type is going to yield a little bit differently. What I
can say are some generalities here. And in general the yield on the Green Star Elite
on hard vegetables and leafy greens will basically blow away anything else on the table. So if
like the most important thing for you guys is yield, you’re going to want to go with
the Green Star Elite, right. You know, aside from that, you know, about so on most vegetables
and leafy greens when juiced together. Now if you want to juice just straight leafy greens
on their own, then you’re going to want to go with a horizontal single auger juicers,
one of these guys, the NC800 or the Solo Star 4. Now in my testing, and you want to check
my past videos, I have over 400 videos comparing juicers side by side so that you guys know
. You could dial in which one’s even the best between these two guys when I tested
the Solo Star 4 juicer made more yield than the NC800 on the leafy greens. Which would
be similar to juicing wheatgrass. Now if you want to juice just carrots, you know, like
hard vegetables, the L’equip 215 XL is going to actually do a fairly good job at juicing
hard vegetables. The problem is this guy doesn’t juice wheatgrass and leafy greens. It’s
going to really be horrible.
Now if you guys just say John I want to use a little bit of everything, fruits, hard vegetables
and leafy greens, that’s where these guys come in. These are the vertical single auger
juicers. This is the latest technology advance in juicers in my opinion. These are the juicers
that I use mostly every day in my kitchen because they juice a wide range of things.
They juice nice firm fruits, they juice hard vegetables and they juice the leafy greens,
you know, all fairly well. And these guys will juice wheatgrass. Although if you want
to juice a lot of wheatgrass you know I would recommend a horizontal single auger. But these
are the verticals, right. So that sums up the yield. And you know, for a specific yield
testing, be sure to check my past episodes. I can’t really get into more than that,
I’m just kind of giving you a summary, otherwise this video is going to be 3 hours. And it’s
probably already going to be one hour right.
So the next criteria, number two, that’s important for a lot of people is the nutrition
in the juice. Besides just yield, because a juicer could make a lot of yield but it
has less nutrition and less vitamins and minerals and phytochemicals and anti-oxidants in the
juice, how much nutrition is in the juice? Because I don’t know about you guys, but
for me if I’m going to take the time to juice, I want to have the maximum nutrition
for my produce buck, right. I mean, some of the studies that I’ve been doing lately
is all about the phytochemicals and phytonutrients. These are the pigments in the foods, you know,
the lycopene in the tomato, the beta carotene in the carrots, you know, the lutein and zeaxanthin
in your leafy greens. All these different carotenoids and things in the food really
are protective and disease protective for us, in many of the research studies that are
coming out, right.
So every juicer makes a little bit different nutrition. But here’s the general guidelines.
In general but not always, the slower the rpm, the slower the machine moves, the higher
nutrition it’s going to have. So this one, you know, runs 10,000 rpms in general. Because
they spin so fast it’s going to bombard the nutrients in the juice you know, certain
of the most valuable ones, which are the phytochemicals and phytonutrients, you know, it’s going
to bombard them with air. It’s going to oxidize them, so you’re going to have less
nutrition. Whereas the rest of the machines on the table all run at a lower rpm, you know,
under a 150. Some are even around, you know, in the 40’s rpms, revolutions per minute,
very slow. This is going to maximize the amount of nutrition in the juice that’s extracted.
Now once again, things are not always black, white, good, bad, right, wrong. It varies,
right. So what I can say is that the only company that’s done testing on the nutrition
is the Tribest company with the Green Star Elite. And they have studies that show, you
know, the nutrients that are derived out of the Green Star Elite. It’s basically the
top of the top overall in most categories, in most situations, you know, compared to
any other juicer in the market that I have seen, you know. The data that I’ve seen
to date. So if you want the most nutrition, this guy is the answer. So I mean, already
yield the nutrition that guy is the answer. But that fares well in those categories, but
in some of the categories coming up next it’s not going to do so well. But after that then
I would say all the auger juicers, whether that’s a horizontal auger or a vertical
auger, they all run in the same rpm range, you know, mid 40’s to 80, you know, maxing
out. And I would say in that rpm range, they’re all about the same nutrition. Now how the
juicer works and extracts the juice is another very important criteria. So for example, if
I’m juicing straight leafy greens in a vertical juicer, it’s going to tend to make a lot
of foam. Now foam is basically a juice that has oxygen added to it. And so that’s going
to be a thing that’s going to negate some of the nutrition, right. So if I’m juicing
once again, straight leafy greens , if I juiced them in these guys, it’s going to minimize
the foam. Now if you’re going to juice like leafy greens with hard vegetables, then these
guys then rotate when you’re feeding them, that’s going to minimize the foam. So that’s
going to be really good.
So anyways, to sum up the nutrition I’d say this has the highest nutrition this, these
ones have the next set and you know we could pick all day long over is that one better
than this one or whatever. I’m not even going to go into that because here’s the
thing. Other manufacturers have not done testing that I have seen to date. I mean, this company
did testing that said you could store your juice made in a cold pressed or in their juicer
for up to 72 hours. So then every other company makes a slow juicer just says oh yeah you
could store your slow juice for up to 72 hours. I’m like where is the data? I want to see
the test results. They’re like oh the other company did that. So if you really want proven
stuff, this is the machine to get. Because none of these other machines have data that
I have seen to date, you know, over a wide range of, you know, variables, so that I will
know. So I’m just kind of surmising on how the juice tastes to me when I’m juicing
it. Because we taste nutrition. I mean, you taste the juice out of a L’equip 215 XL,
it doesn’t taste as nutritious, not as like full bodied as juice made with the slow machine.
And actually just the other day I was using the Green Star Elite and I was amazed at how
much more richer and deeper the juice tasted than out of like a auger style machine, right.
So that hopefully will sum up nutrition for you guys.
The next thing I want to talk about is how long does this juicer take the clean. That’s
probably one of the top things that comes up. Because here’s the thing If the juicer
is hard to clean and you guys aren’t going to use it, then it’s not even worth having
the machine that makes the best yield or the nutrition in the juice if you’re not even
going to use it. And I’m going to be frank with you guys, like I do a lot for my health
but one of the things I will not do is invest like 15 minutes in the kitchen just to clean
the juicer 10 minutes. That’s not me. It might be one of you guys, and that’s really
cool, but that’s not me, I’m not going to do that. So it’s important to me to have
a machine that’s easy to clean. And you know, manufacturers drop that easy to clean
word all the time, and this advertises it’s easier to clean. It’s okay, well it’s
easier to clean than like a barbecue grill that you got to scrub off because it’s got
all the fried on, you know, acrylamides and heterocyclic amines and charred black stuff,
which is really not healthy for you guys, you know. This is way easier to clean that
that. But at the same time, this is probably the most intricate, you know, slow juicer
to clean. It’s going to take you the most amount of time to clean. Whereas some of these
other ones are going to take you less time. So now we’re going to go ahead and get into
how long it takes to clean some of these machines. And I have cleaned all these machines so I
kind of know I could give you some ballpark figures. As you guys know, the Green Star
Elite will take the longest amount of time. And then we’ll go within categories. So
within this category here, the vertical juicers, the VSJ843 is the easiest to clean. Takes
me approximate 3 minutes. I have timed it. It has a few less parts and nooks and crannies
than these other two guys. Next I’d say probably the Slowstar is a little bit easier
to clean than the Kuvings whole slow juicer, but they’re the most tied up. And then going
over to this category here, definitely the NC800 is way easier to clean than the Solo
Star 4 due to the massive amount of screen area, which is probably one of the reasons
why it gives more yield.
And then over on the centrifugal ejection, you know, centrifugal ejections in my opinion
are not that hard to clean. There’s three main parts you got to clean. You just got
to remember to scrub out the screen with the brush, not a sponge but a nice nylon bristle
brush. Many of these slow juicers actually or all of them come with it’s own nylon
bristle, stiff bristle brush. It’s kind of like an oversized toothbrush that really
could get in there and scrub the screen. I want to encourage you guys, when cleaning
you juicer, you know, do it right after you’re done juicing. Don’t like drink your juice
and then clean your juicer, clean your juicer and then drink your juice. Because the longer
you let the juicer sit with the pulp stuck in the screen and the juice in there, it’s
going to just like dry up and then be significantly more difficult to get out. So minimally, you
know, soak the parts in water, a dish wash, you know, a dish pan with some soap and hot
water if you’re not going to clean it immediately. And oh so the easiest juicer to clean on this
whole table right here, this is the Omega NC800. It takes me about a minute and half
to clean. It’s the easiest one on the table. Maybe next easiest I’d go with the VSJ,
and then maybe I’d say actually you know the centrifugal ejection that’s not too
bad to clean in my opinion, alright.
So aside from cleaning, another thing that’s very important for people is how long does
it take to use. Because people don’t even realize that the overall juicing process is
how long it takes to juice plus how long it takes to clean, which is the overall total
amount of time. So for example, just yesterday I juiced two pineapples and a pound of cranberries
in this very juicer right here. It took me about 18 minutes from the time I started till
the time I cleaned up. And so that’s not a lot of time. And that includes juicing two
pineapples and a pound of cranberries, and cleaning up. I mean, that’s nothing. You
guys got to invest 15 minutes in your health, right, to include more of these phytonutrient
rich fruits and vegetables. I mean, yesterday I had cranberries, and they say cranberries
are good for you know, urinary tract infections and all this stuff, right. And I’m just
eating a wide variety of foods and getting these into me so that I don’t have any health
challenges in the future. So yeah, so anyways, how long to use. So some of these machines
take longer to use than others. So the fastest machine on this whole table by far is this
guy. It’s the L’equip 215 XL. This has a nice 3 inch wide feed chute, runs at a high
speed, you cram stuff through there, the juice comes out, the pulp comes out the back, boom
you’re done. I mean I could juice, I could probably make a juice, clean it up in this
guy nice glass, 5-6 minutes max, right. 5-6 minutes max. The next fastest one to use on
the table are probably the vertical single auger juicers. And depending on what you’re
juicing, the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer with it’s 3 inch wide feed chute may be the quickest.
But it may not be depending on what you’re juicing right. Otherwise, the Slowstar is
probably right up there after the Kuvings and then the VSJ. But once again, it depends
on what you’re juicing. Then I’d probably go with the NC800 over here as being how long
to use. And then I’d go with the Solo Star 4, then finally the Green Star Elite. Now
why does the Green Star Elite take longer to use? Basically for juicing hard vegetables
you’re having to push the hard vegetable in to the feed chute in to the gears to get
them to grind up. So this is going to take a little bit of time. You know, with these
guys you still need to also push things in, you know, one piece at a time. And that’s
why I really prefer the vertical juicers. Because these guys for the most part are auto
feeding. You put the produce in there as the machine is rotating. It basically chunks off,
bites off a piece of produce, it sucks it into the machine, it juices it. So instead
of you sitting there, sitting there pushing pushing pushing, feeding stuff in, you’re
literally just are dropping stuff in, chopping, dropping, chopping, dropping, and it’s just
auto feeding. This to me is a major time saver. And that’s one of the reasons why I like
the vertical machines myself. So that’s on how long to use.
Now another factor I know is important for many of you guys is, John how much does a
juicer cost, man, cause I don’t got that much money, right. Well, once again I want
to encourage you guys, you know, make the investment in your health. Even if you’ve
got to charge it on the credit card, pay off your credit card, you know, the sooner you
can get a juicer, the sooner you can get more fresh fruits and vegetable juices in you,
the sooner in my opinion you’ll be losing weight, getting healthier, having more energy,
having more mental clarity. Think about it. If you have more mental clarity to focus on
your work whatever your work is, you’re going to be more productive. And if you’re
more productive at work, that means you’re going to probably make more money. And just
have an overall happier level of life. Or if you’ve got little kids, rugrats running
around, right, you can’t keep up on them, let me tell you get on the juice, the fresh
fruit and vegetable juice not any other kind of juice, you’re going to be able to better
keep up with your kids too. Now I’m waiting for that day because I’ll be able to keep
up with my kids. I was keeping up with my friend’s kids when I was visiting them.
I was climbing trees with a little 6 year old or whatever, and that was fun. I’m just
a big kid. But anyways, but yeah, the cost. So the cost. So here it is. The cost. The
least expensive juicer on the table is the L’equip 215 XL. And this is probably the
next cheapest set of machines, the horizontal single augers. Then the next, you know, less
expensive is the vertical single augers. And then the most expensive is the twin gear juicer.
And that’s the cost. And, you know, I don’t want cost to be an issue for you guys. Like,
I want you guys to like I know it’s going to be a stretch for some of you guys to afford
a machine that’s expensive. But I want you guys to get the machine that’s going to
do the best job for you and work the best for you, that you will use every day. Because
even if I sell you the most expensive machine but you don’t use it, I didn’t do you
guys a favor, you know, and I didn’t do myself a favor. Because I want to sell you
guys the right juicer. And that’s why I invest so much time in making these videos
to educate you guys with what I’ve learnt over the last twenty years of me juicing almost
every single day. And I’ve been juicing since I was a kid actually. I started this
seriously about twenty years ago, but my parents started me out juicing, I don’t know, 30
or 40 years ago when I was a little kid. Because we had a centrifugal ejection juicer that
my parents would just crank in carrot juice. I remember you know I was probably like 6
or something drinking fresh carrot juice when I was a kid. So I’m glad my parents got
me started in juicing, you know, to know how good it can be and to get real food in us
in this day and age of processed foods.
Alright, so that was the cost. Now another factor that may be important for a lot of
you guys is the noise. Some of you guys may have roommates, family members, you know,
and you want to juice early in the morning, or maybe you have paper thin walls in your
apartment complex and you can’t make a lot of noise or the guy next door will be like
(knocking sound) banging on the wall for you to be quiet. Or maybe you’re just noise
sensitive man, you’ve blown out your ears with like too much rock music and you just
don’t like loud sounds, right. Now we’re going to get into the juicer that’s the
loudest and it’s simply the L’equip 215 XL. Now after the L’equip 215 XL that runs
at a high speed, then some of the other machines that run at a lower speed are definitely quieter.
And I know the easiest one to say is the quietest, now the quietest one to me is the Omega VSJ843.
It doesn’t have the standard gearing that the normal vertical augers do, so it’s a
little bit quieter. It runs at 43 rpms . And maybe the next one would be something like
the Solo Star 4 and the Green Star Elite are fairly quiet. I’d say the vertical auger
juicers with the gearing, because some of the gearing it makes a little bit of gearing
noise. But in general these guys are really quiet, right. So I want to encourage you guys,
get a slow juicer because they are quiet. They’re going to, you know, be quieter,
so you’ll be able to juice when your roommates or family members are sleeping in the morning,
so that you guys could get the fresh juice in you.
Another criteria that you will want to take into consideration before buying any of these
juicers is you got to know what you will be juicing. That’s one of the most important
things. And people that just say buy this juicer it’s the best, without finding out
your specific needs, I mean I think that should be a crime in my opinion. There’s so much,
so much misinformation online when you hear people make videos about different things,
about juicers, it upsets me. So that keeps me motivated to tell the truth as to what
I know, doing this as a lifestyle, like every day researching it, every day using the machines
every day, going to trade shows and finding out the latest and greatest and why it’s
better, why it’s not better, and looking at some of the studies, you know, out there.
So what are you juicing? It’s super important. So for example, if you’re going to juice
like hard vegetables like carrots, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend these guys, although
they will juice hard carrots. Hard carrots like the centrifugal ejection, they really
do well. I mean, it aerates your juice, which we’ll once again talk about in probably
a little bit. But they do really well. Also the Green Star Elite, hard carrots do really
well. The vertical juicers, you know, they do pretty good too, even if the yield is not
quite as high as these two guys. But it does a decent job. Now the VSJ843 doesn’t handle
carrots too well, it tends to stop up, so you have to hit the reverse and unclog it
and what not. But these two guys are more powerful. I’d say the, the Slowstar overall
is the most powerful juicer for juicing just straight up carrots. And then these guys will
juice carrots, but I wouldn’t really want to do that with any large volume of carrots
because you got to sit there once again push each carrot in to the machine, which would
be kind of a pain.
Now another category of food or produce that you will be juicing are the leafy greens.
Now this to me is probably the most important category of foods or produce you guys should
be juicing after the vegetables. Why? Because the leafy greens have the most amount of phytochemicals
and phytonutrients with the least amount of calories. So this is especially important
if you’re trying to lose weight, right. It has a lot of nutrition but very little
calories. And in nutrition, the nutrition in the greens are you can’t compare it to
any other food on the planet. I mean, there are different, you know, isocyle phinates
and all these other properties, lutein, zeaxanthin. Like for example in broccoli they have identified
nutrients in broccoli that you know fight cancer, right. Super important. So we want
to get these leafy greens in because most people simply do not eat enough leafy greens.
So, like on an average on the slow juicer, right, one pound of leafy greens will equal
about one cup juice, on an average. And that’s why these guys are very important. You want
to get a slow juicer if you want to really focus in on and do any significant amount
of leafy greens. Now if you want to juice like the most amount of leafy greens, you’re
going to want to go with one of these guys. Because these guys really do leafy greens
the best. Now if you want to do something like sprouts and micro-greens, juice those
guys, once again the horizontal auger juicers they’re going to do the best. And then you
know, then I’d probably go with one of these guys. So if you’re going to juice like the
greens with hard vegetables, then the Green Star Elite. These guys don’t, I mean, they
will juice straight greens. And actually the VSJ does straight greens the best out of a
lot of the juicers here that I have you know tested. But in general I like to also always
mix up, you know, some vegetables with greens. So like celery, greens and cucumber is a good
mixture. And these guys will perform well. This guy will probably perform a little bit
better, and these guys will perform quite adequately. So yeah once again, know what
you’re going to juice. Now if you’re going to juice fruits, you know, I think it’s
better to eat fruits or blend your fruits. But I like to juice fruits sometimes because,
you know, here it is, drinking a fresh fruit juice that you make at home with your own
juicer is way better than buying a coca cola, a coffee, a kombucha or you know any other
kind of like sugar filled beverage from the store. Because when you juice fresh fruits,
you not only have the phytochemicals and phytonutrients, but when you make it at home without all the
industrialized processing, you will be getting the soluble fibre. And depending on the juicer,
even some insoluble fibre in the juice. And that’s very important to me. But the, basically
to juice fruits, these guys the vertical juicers juice fruits the best. Maybe after that maybe
this one here the Green Star Elite really is not a juicer if you want to juice like
fruits on their own. You know, if you mix in some fruits with your hard veggies, it’s
going to do great. And likewise with these guys, you know. Some fruits these guys, the
horizontal augers, will juice fruits okay, but a lot of times it may just back up on
you and give you a headache. And that’s another reason why I like the vertical single
auger machines.
So another criteria that you should take into consideration before buying a juicer is how
easy is a juicer to use. Some of these machines, right, you have to actually pre-cut the produce
into small bits, you have to feed them in a certain ordering or the machine is not going
to really work well. You have to, you know, feed the machine and push each produce item
in. It can be very difficult, you know. So for example, on the vertical single augers
you need to pay a little bit more attention as to what you’re juicing and when. So you
always want to, you know, put soft produce items in first, like you know a piece of apple,
then some leafy greens and then something like a hard carrot or some hard celery, and
keep rotating those different items, you know, soft you know leafy greens firmer and then
some hard vegetable matter to keep the machine working properly. Because if you juice like
all the celery, all the greens and all the apples, it’s really not going to work that
well. Because you really need to know how to use it properly. You know, with the centrifugal
ejection it’s the most forgiving, you could shove anything in almost at any time, it’s
going to work fairly well. And then over on the Green Star Elite, once again for best
results it’s best to rotate your produce. Although as long as you’re not doing straight
fruits, it’s going to do fairly well. And then these guys here they’re going to do
pretty well also, you know. You’ve just got to remember to rotate the produce. And
once again, you know, some of these guys may require pre-cutting of the produce, you know,
at least pre-cutting to fit in the feed chute. So you know, of these two guys, the Solo Star
4 has a smaller feed chute than probably any of the juicers here. So it’s going to require
more cutting of certain produce items into small pieces. Now if you have a nice long
carrot and the diameter is not bigger than one and a half inches, you could just put
the whole carrot in there. But if you got a nice fat carrot, you’re going to have
to cut it down the middle to put it in there. Leafy greens could be rolled up to stick it
into the feed chutes. But yeah, so how easy is a juicer to use, both preparation and actually
when you’re pushing each produce item in or whether it’s auto feeding or whether
you have to just lightly touch it to get it in contact with the fast spinning blade that
is literally going to shred it to bits.
Another criteria that you may want to take into consideration that some manufacturers
feel are very important, and to me it’s kind of important but kind of not, is the
feed chute size and is there a funnel, right. So the feed chute size, I mean, this guy has
a three inch wide feed chute as does the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer. So that makes basically
an easier job for you so that you don’t have to cut certain produce items. So for
example, in the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer, apples, tomatoes, pears, you don’t have
to cut them up. But even though it has a large feed chute, things like leafy greens should
not just be shoved in there haphazardly. In my opinion you should cut them into eighth
inch or minimum quarter inch pieces, otherwise the strings of the leafy greens and the celery
will get clogged up. Now with the Slowstar and the Omega VSJ843 the celery and leafy
greens won’t really clog it up because they have actually changed the design to second
generation. That’s not really going to have that problem, you know. And with the Green
Star Elite, you know, as long as it fits in to the one and a half inch feed chute, push
it in there and it’s going to basically juice it right up.
Now aside from the feed chute size, another thing that’s important to me personally
is it has a funnel. So all of the machines on the table have funnels except the L’equip
215 XL and the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer. Although it has a larger feed chute, if you’re
juicing something small and cut up like little bits of you know celery that you cut up to
feed in there, or cherry tomatoes that you just want to be able to put in the funnel
and have them funnel in at their own pace, you know. That’s where a funnel is really
required, and I have told the Kuvings to make a funnel and maybe in their next model they
will. But this is really something that makes it more convenient and easier to use. And
that’s why I really like the funnel, you know. The funnel on the Omega NC800 is actually
the largest funnel. So that makes feeding things in easier because you could stage things
like bits of carrots to drop in or whatever, you know, as you’re juicing. The funnel
on this guy is, you know, nice and deep but it’s not super large. I mean, I’m really
partial to the funnel in the Green Star Elite and the Omega VSJ843 that makes juicing a
little bit easier.
Now another thing that should be an important criteria for you guys are does the juicer
do other things besides just juice fruits and vegetables, right. And this is very important
because if you guys are trying to make a lifestyle changes, which is more than just a diet, right.
But you, you want to eat better but get healthier, you want to do more than just eat fresh fruit
and vegetable juices, you want to maybe make things like, you know, nut butters and make
fresh baby food for your baby, make things like almond milk or coconut milk or make fresh
salsa or grind your own garlic instead of having to buy the pre-ground garlic in the
store that’s been oxidized, you know, make or the favorite thing that most people like
to do is make frozen banana or frozen fruit sorbets using a 100% frozen fruit. Some of
these machines will take that frozen banana that you basically get them ripe when they’re
spotted up you get it for super cheap at the grocery store, you peel them, you put them
in the freezer, you pull them out once they’re frozen, you put them through the machine,
one of these machines with a blank plate. And when you put it through the blank plate,
out comes the end. It basically just homogenizes it, mushes it all up. So it comes out like
the soft serve yoghurt machine at the McDonalds that in my opinion is not healthy for you.
But this is a 100% fruit. So you’re now eating a 100% fruit instead of the soft serve
ice-cream, instead of the you know dairy rich ice-cream that’s high in calories and high
in artificial flavors, colors and sweeteners. So you’re eating healthier. And this is
what a whole lifestyle change is about. It is about improving what you’re doing in
your life. So you could now substitute, you know, instead of your morning coffee or you
know soda, drink a fresh fruit or vegetable juice. Instead of your evening dessert, you
know, have a fresh fruit sorbet that tastes just like ice cream. One of my favorite recipes,
if you just put a whole bunch of frozen banana with some frozen blueberries in there. Oh
man that’s totally amazing. So the machines that will do this task are the Solo Star 4,
the NC800, the Slowstar Juicer, the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer with optional attachments
and the Green Star Elite machine. Virtually all the slow juicers here will do it except
the Omega VSJ843, that’s not an option, they have not designed it to do that task.
So that’s the sorbets as well as nut butters and grinding attachment. All these machines
will do it except this guy.
Now the other thing that may be important for some of you guys is to get away from dairy
products, you know. Dairy products may cause mucous for many people, you know. Many people
are allergic to dairy in this day and age, and a lot of people, you know, just may not
digest it too well, you know. Chinese people, for example, don’t digest dairy so well.
And also, you know, there’s things in dairy that you may not want to be drinking including
artificial hormones and all this kind of stuff. So now what’s really popular are nut milks
and coconut milks. And some of these machines will allow you to make your own nut milks
at home. So my picks for making nut milks would be like, something like the VSJ843 or
the Slowstar machine. They do it the best and then I’d probably go with the Green
Star Elite, that does an amazing job, it gets the pulp amazingly dry. And then these guys.
These guys will do nut milks but they’re not really designed to do it, and it will
make like a watery nut milk because it’s not really getting a full extraction the first
time through. So yeah I’d go with a vertical one to do the nut milks. So yeah, some of
these machines are quite versatile and they have other features.
Now the next criteria that’s important to me and hopefully for you guys too is the warranty.
If you go down to your local Big Box store, department store, buy a juicer, it may have
a short 90 day, maybe one year warranty. The machines on the table are serious machines.
These are the ones that you want to invest in, because they have a long warranty. A lot
of those Chinese knock-offs have short warranties, because they design them to be throw away
juicers. These are not throw away juicers. These are machines that you will be able to
pass down to your kids probably, right. So here’s the thing, the Omega VSJ483 , the
Solo Star 4 and the NC800 , they all have 15 year warranties. That’s the longest warranty
in the juicing industry. That’s insane, 15 years! You’ll still be juicing in the
juicer that you buy today. Next we got the Green Star Elite over here with the 12 year
warranty. And then we have the Slowstar Juicer with the 10 year warranty along with the Kuvings
juicer and even the L’equip 215 XL juicer over here has a 10 year warranty as well.
Another criteria that may be important for you guys when selecting a juicer to purchase
is what style of juicer is it? I mean, we all hear about all these terms- cold pressed,
masticating, centrifugal. Well, I’m going to refer you guys to watch a video where I
go into an hour on talking about all the different types of juicers. Because with any juicer
style, whether it’s a centrifugal ejection, horizontal, single auger, vertical single
auger, or twin gear, they all have their pros and cons. And I think that should be an important
criteria for you guys, you know, to know which juicer style will best meet your needs. And
I’m not really going to get in to, you know, in this episode, because I’ve talked a lot
about some of the different traits of some of the different machines already.
So because we just talked about warranty, you know, a machine with a long warranty without
an established company to back it up, is no warranty at all in my opinion. So what I want
you guys to be concerned with is how long has a company selling the juicer been in business.
Once again, there’s a lot of Chinese imported juicers that are fly-by-night companies. You
know, they’re here one day, they bought a container of juicers, they want to unload
them, double their money and then you’ll never see them again. That means you’ll
never have warranty support. That means you’ll never be able to get parts. And that means
you just bought yourself a throw away juicer, you know. And so that’s why it’s important
that I offer juicers from established companies that have been, that are in it for a long
haul. So for example, Tribest has been in business for over 25 years, as has Omega.
They’ve been in business, they’re probably the oldest company in juicing in the United
States aside from Champion, right. L’equip, you know, that machine and kitchen specialities
or kitchen resource or a L’equip, L’chef is what they’re now called, they’ve been
in business a long time in the industry as well. So all their machines are backed by
solid companies that have been in business for a long time. Unlike some of the new pop
up juicers that you may have never heard of before.
Now aside from how long has a company been in business, if they are established or not,
and if they will continue to be here to support their products later on to cover their warranty,
is how is the customer service. This is a very big, important factor, you know. Because
there’s some reviews online that says so and so company has bad customer service. And
even if they got a warranty, you know, a long warranty on the machine, if the company does
not honor their warranty , or you have problems getting warranty service, the warranty is
worthless just like if the company went out of business, right. And there’s been some
challenges with some of the companies that I’m sharing with you guys today, but all
I could say is this- if you are a customer of Discount Juicers and you purchase a juicer
from Discount Juicers, from me, and you have a warranty issue with one of these companies
here, as long as they’re still in business, I will, and it’s a legitimate warranty claim,
it’s not because you stuck a knife down there and it broke or something, and you’re
not getting, you know, a resolution through the company, let me know and I will ensure
that you are getting taken care of. This is very important to me that the companies that
I represent support you guys once you purchase a juicer. Now if you purchase a juicer from
another company, I cannot give you the same level of support that I will if you made a
purchase from me because you’re not my customer, right. So go talk to the company that you
purchased the juicer from, then try to get warranties for if you’re having challenges.
And that gets me into the next criteria that you will want to take into consideration when
purchasing a juicer is where should you purchase the juicer from, right. I want to encourage
you guys to, you know, support independent people, independent retailers like myself
that sell the juicers that can give you guys support, that can give you guys pre-sale support,
such as this video, that could give you guys post-sale support like if you have a warranty
claim, right. That’s going to help you guys out instead of a Big Box store that’s just
going to say oh return the juicer. That’s not support, man, that’s just pawning you
off. That’s like it just really frustrates me that just so many juicers are sold and
not only sold but then returned because people don’t know how to use it properly, because
the juicer’s, you know, you need to learn how to use them properly. And you know, on
many of the juicers here that I’m sharing with you guys today have specific videos on
how to best use the Slowstar, how to best use the Green Star Elite. You’re getting,
you know, before purchase service, you’re getting during purchase service like the tracking
number and the information, and then you’re getting post, you know, after the sale service,
you know, in form of me being your consumer advocate for getting you the warranty support
if the companies are not taking care of you. Because I will get up in companies faces for
my customers if they are not being taken care of. It is important to me because, you know,
as much as the companies that I represent don’t like me saying this, I’m not faithful
to any one company out there, I’m not faithful necessarily to Omega or to Tribest or to L’chef
, L’equip, whomever. Who I’m faithful to is who has the best product that works
the best, that has the best warranty and the best service. And I don’t care what company
makes it. And some of these categories, you know, the machines are so close, I mean, Tribest
and Omega they’re the two top brands overall in the whole juicing industry. And their machines
go head to head all the time, you know. And on some points this one is better, on some
points this one is better, some points this one is better. And it’s for me to explain
this to you guys so that you guys could make the right purchase, right. And that’s why
it’s important to support an independent retailer such as myself. So that you guys
could get the education. Because if you guys don’t support me, I won’t be here to make
these videos anymore, to tell and make the difference in the world that I want to see,
right. So I want to thank you guys that have supported me in the past, and more importantly
thank you guys in advance for supporting me in the future so that I could continue my
work with the education I do. Because it is an integral part of my job. I don’t see
myself as a sales person, I see myself as an educator. And I want to just educate you
guys about the truth about all the machines, so that you guys could make an informed decision,
instead of playing the stupid smoking mirrors game that a lot of sales people and even on
other youtube videos, you know, say. Because they don’t know all the information about
juicers like I am deeply ingrained in this industry. Alright.
So aside from where to purchase your juicer, once again, I want to encourage you guys to
support me and my work at discountjuicers.com . Another thing that’s important is how
long is it going to take to prepare your produce that you’re juicing, right. People don’t
think about this because once again, total juicing time is not just how long it takes
to clean, how long it takes to juice, but how long does it take to prep the produce
that you’re juicing, right. Some produce you could just go out and pick in your garden
and just run it through the juicer if it fits in the feed chute. Some things you’re going
to have to cut up to fit in the feed chute. So that’s why a larger feed chute can be
helpful, you know. Some juicers such as, you know, the Kuvings Whole Slow juicer which
is the first generation slow juicer, requires you to chop up your leafy greens and celery
into small little bits and drop them in there. And it is auto feeding, you know. The L’equip
215 XL, I mean if it fits in the feed chute, dump it in there, push it in, it’s going
to be juiced. So minimal produce preparation is required as some manufacturers try to stress
the produce preparation part. And to me everything you’re always going to have to do some level
of preparation to the produce. You know, whether you’ve got to make two extra slices to make
a little bit smaller to fit in a smaller feed chute. I personally don’t think that’s
a major big deal. For me what’s more important is that the machine is self feeding. I’ve
already mentioned it before but what really gets me and what I really don’t like is
actually having to put a carrot in this machine, this machine or this machine, and have to
sit there with the pusher wasting my valuable time pushing the stupid carrot, sorry carrot,
in the machine and having the machine chunk off a little bit at a time. I’d much rather
sit here and chop things up , grab the chopped stuff dump it in, grab the chopped stuff dump
it in, grab the chopped stuff dump it in, and have it juice automatically without me
having to waste my time to juice it. So produce preparation should be something you may want
to take into consideration. Obviously the larger feed chutes are easier for that. And
for some of you guys this may be your first criteria. And that’s the whole thing. I’m
explaining all these criteria to you guys. It’s kind of like in my order of importance.
But you guys may have different orders of importances. So, you know, once you watch
this whole video, go over your your orders of importances and see which machines best
meet your needs and buy that juicer. That’s the best juicer right there, right, if it
meets all your needs. And that’s why I am explaining all these things that virtually
nobody else ever does. And I apologize if it’s so long. You could click the little,
you know, gear in the YouTube below and you could play me at double speed and so you could
hear me talk much faster.
Alright. Another criteria that’s important for a lot of people is, John how much pulp
is in the juice that is created. As we know, the juicers are there to separate out the
pulp from the juice, or the liquid nutrition of the fruits and vegetables. And the pulp
that comes out is the insoluble fibre mainly that comes out of the machine. Now some of
the juicers will put some insoluble fibre in your juice. And every one is a little bit
different. So I’m going to start of with the most fibre in the juice of all the machines
here. And I would say that has to be the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer. In general, overall, it’s
going to put a little bit more fibre in the juice from my testing. Now next it kind of
gets a little bit dicey as to say which one makes more fibre and then less, because it
depends specifically what you’re juicing. So for example, in general the L’equip 215
XL puts very little fibre in the juice because it has a nice fine small filter mesh that
the juice needs to come through. Over on these guys, you know, if you’re juicing carrots
there is going to be more pulp in the juice, but if you’re juicing leafy greens there
is going to be virtually no pulp in the juice. And over on the Green Star Elite, it does
a fairly good job because it has a nice small screen hole size to put little pulp in the
juice for you guys. Now the Slowstar, you know, it makes a moderate amount of pulp,
you know, less than the Kuvings but more than the Omega VSJ843. Now many of the juicers
here also come with an accessory sieve or strainer. So that once the juice comes out
of the machine, you could sieve out the pulp if you don’t want it. So they give you the
option to drink the juice with the pulp. Because some people like orange juice with the pulp,
and some people don’t like their juice with the pulp. Some people don’t care, and if
you don’t care I’d say it’s probably a good idea to drink some pulp with the juice.
You know, I kind of don’t like the pulp with my juice for whatever reason and that’s
why I like the VSJ843, it pretty much makes a pulp free juice without using an additional
strainer. It actually doesn’t come with one. The Green Star Elite comes with a strainer,
the Slowstar comes with a strainer and the Solo Star 4 comes with a strainer. The other
machines actually do not come with sieves or strainers. You will have to purchase one
separately if how much pulp in the juice is important to you.
Now another thing that’s important for many people is how much foam is in the juice. Now
foam in the juice depends on, once again, many different criteria. In general I would
say overall the high speed machine L’equip 215 XL makes the most foam in the juice because
it actually aerates the juice as it is being made, you know. Next I’d probably say that
if you’re, you know, depends on what you’re juicing and in what juicer you’re juicing.
So for example like if you’re just juicing straight greens, you know, this machine is
going to make way more foam than one of these two guys on straight greens. And I think this
guy might even make more foam than like the VSJ juicing straight greens. But here’s
the ticket, here’s the secret. If you’re juicing straight greens and want to reduce
the foam, juice some hard vegetables with it. Whether that’s going to be greens and
celery or you know and rotate greens celery, greens celery; or greens celery cucumber or
greens celery cucumber; or even if you want to do greens carrot, greens carrot right.
You want to get something in there to fill the space between the auger besides just the
greens. Because the greens don’t really fill the nooks and crannies of the auger and
that’s in my opinion why some of the excess, you know, foam is created. Now once again,
foam is just basically juice with some air in it, and if you let the foam settle for
a while it’s going to basically settle into some juice for you guys.
Now another criteria you may want to take into consideration, but in my opinion it’s
not super important, is how powerful is the motor. Everybody always likes like oh I want
a three horse power blender or I want a two horse power blender. Now those of you guys
that are, you know, electrical engineers and all this stuff know that it’s not really
possible to have a three horse power motor on a fifteen amps circuit and all this other
kind of stuff which I don’t really know about. But what I do know is this, all the
machines here have a proper size motor for what they’re doing, right. Now because we’re
not pulling buggies and carriages, we don’t really need sheer horse power in juicers in
my opinion. So motor power is kind of a misnomer, because you could have a really powerful motor
and it’d be very inefficient and not actually transparent to how good of a product or how
well the juicer, you know, works. So for example, like probably the most efficient machine on
this whole table is right here. This is the Solo Star 4 machine. It actually saves 10%
more electricity than say like the Omega NC800. This has a very efficient motor and it’s
with gear reduction, it’s torqued properly. And in my opinion, the torque is way more
important than just sheer horse power in the juicers. And I hope manufacturers will actually,
you know, measure the torque at the auger and be able to quantify this so that people
could compare this metric. Because I believe it is important. So for example, you know,
I believe the Solo Star 4 between these two guys has probably a little more torque. And
between these guys here, hands down the Slowstar juicer has more torque , because I can put
whole carrots in the VSJ and it basically will just stop because it just doesn’t have
the torque to snap that carrot, right. And I’ve never been able to really stop the
Green Star Elite, no matter what I put in there man, it just keeps on chugging along
and cranking up and grinding up that produce in a three step process. So yeah, you want
to pay attention to the power of the motor but more importantly how it works. And all
these machines by the major manufacturers are generally properly manufactured, you know,
to have the proper amount of power and motor power, despite the wattage. Some of the wattage
may be low, 150 watts, you know, is really low but that’s good because it saves energy
but it has enough torque and power to juice. And I want to encourage you guys to watch
and pay attention to the videos. When I make videos, when I feed in different things into
the juicer and see how the juicer reacts. You know, if the juicer stops up I’ll show
you that it stops up and hey this juicer stops up and I have reverse it. And so that you
guys could see with your own eyes, you know, more than just seeing a statistic that this
juicer is super powerful. Because in reality it may not translate out to being efficient,
it may not translate out to actually working properly.
Now another thing that may be important as a criteria for some of you guys when selecting
a juicer is how much does the juicer weigh. Especially if you’re older and you can’t
lift up heavy objects, you know, which juicer is heavier, which is lighter. Well I think
the Green Star Elite Juicer is probably the heaviest machine here. It’s quite heavy.
And the L’equip is probably the lightest. And then maybe like the, wow that’s even
a little bit heavy there. These guys are heavier than these guys, you know the vertical is
actually they got some heavy duty motors and they have that torque in there. But yeah,
so the weight of the machine may be an important factor for you guys and all I could say is
that I leave the juicer on my kitchen counter day in and day out, right. And so like I don’t
have to keep moving it in and out of the cupboards. And some of you guys might want to do that.
I recommend, you know, move that toaster off your counter top, move that microwave oven,
throw that in the garage, keep the juicer on the counter top so that you will be more
likely to use it. Instead of having to pick it up and carry it. Now I know some of you
guys travel and you know, and some of you guys want to have a light juicer for traveling.
I kind of like the vertical auger juicers myself for traveling because I want to take
what I’m used to at home with me. And yeah, despite them being a little bit more weight,
I mean to me that’s not a major issue. And that’s why this is coming at the end of
the list.
Another thing that may be important for many of you guys is the size or footprint of the
machine. Some of you guys might live in a small apartment in New York city or Chicago
or wherever, and you guys don’t have a lot of counter space to put a massive large machine
like the Green Star Elite. That thing is pretty huge, you know. The L’equip 215 XL actually
has a very small footprint, but maybe even one of the vertical machines are even a little
bit smaller. The footprint is how much real estate on top of the counter it takes. And
so that’s another reason why I like the vertical juicers, because they’re not as
large. I mean, the footprint of the NC800 is almost twice as much. Maybe not quite as
a vertical juicer. And the Solo Star 4 is probably the most compact horizontal single
auger juicer on the market at this time. So size may be a consideration, you might want
to take it into consideration before buying your juicer.
Now the last consideration that came up before with some people but it’s not a major one
for me is what’s the container catch size. So for example, the L’equip 215 XL doesn’t
come with a juice catch container. It comes with a pulp catch container. But you could
put your own bowl. I like to use a nice eighth cup Anchor Hocking, you know, mixing bowl
or measuring cup to catch my juice. That same bowl will work on the L’equip 215 XL, it
will work on the VSJ843, it will work on the Kuvings Whole Slow juicer, it will also work
on the Slowstar. But it won’t work on these guys or this guy because it has to be able
to fit underneath this hole there the juice comes out on the bottom. So for that I’ll
use like one quarter or fourth cup pyrex measuring cup. And under these machines, to catch my
juice. Because I want my juice going in, you know, to a glass container. That’s nice
and easy to clean. You know, all these machines on this side do include a catch containers.
The Tribest, Green Star Elite comes with a glass container. And all these guys come with
plastic containers. And in general the vertical auger containers hold approximately one quart
which is a little bit more than these guys. Actually I think the Solo Star 4 has the smallest
catch container. But once again, you could use your own container to catch your juice,
so it’s not a major consideration.
So, I mean, these are some of the top considerations that you guys now have learned, that I have
explained to you when buying a juicer. Now that you guys know this, you may be able to
better select the best juicer for you based on what is truly important to you.
What I would recommend for you guys to do is maybe like make a list of like the top
five. And the top three will be like the most important criteria.
So for me, the top three will be of course, yield. If I’m going to buy a juicer, I’m
going to invest the time to buy expensive organic produce, I want it to yield you know
a good fair bit of juice for my money.
And besides yield, what’s also important to me is the nutrition in the juice. That’s
like paramount. That’s the top of my list. Like I don't want to make a juice that is
less nutritious. So for example, in a high speed machine many people don’t realize
that they tested a high speed machine, you know, to compared to a slow juicer compared
to a high speed blender, and they processed broccoli. High speed juicer, high speed blended
broccoli and a slow juicer. They got out the results from the juicing or blending. They
put that in, you know, petri dish or test tube with live cancer cells to see which of
the juices would be more effective against cancer. And they found out that the slow juicer
on an average had a 50% more cancer fighting ability. So I don’t know about you guys
but for me I want more cancer fighting ability. Because that’s one of the reasons why I
juice is to have the beneficial phytonutrients and phytochemicals and the protective qualities
from the plants that the plants make, you know, based on how they’re grown and put
it into me. So that I could have this protection. And so people don’t realize that a high
speed machine, you know, you’re getting less nutritious juice. And that’s my, you
know, second top most important criteria for me and maybe for you also.
And my third most important criteria is how long does it take to clean. Because frankly
if it’s too hard to clean, I’m just simply not going to do it, right. And that’s why
I choose something like the vertical single auger juicers, you know. They are good, you
know, easy to clean, overall. But they are also easy to use. They don’t take too long
to use. And as much as this guy, the NC800 is so easy to clean, it takes longer to use,
so your overall juice time is longer. And that’s another important factor to me is
how long does it take to use. And that’s why I like, once again for my personally,
the vertical single auger juicers. Because those in general are, you know, the most versatile
machines. They’re going to do the most for you, right. And they’re going to juice most
fruits and vegetables and you know leafy greens all fairly well. And they’re pretty much
the middle of the road, right. They make high yield, good nutritious juice.
And another thing thats very important to me is is the machine auto feeding? Like, I
mentioned it before. This is probably the third time I’m mentioning it. I really don’t
like to push the produce in and out. Once again, why I like the vertical auger juicers,
right. So if some of these things, you know, rang out for you, like if you just want the
most nutrition and yield and you don’t care about the cleaning, you’re probably gong
to want to get the Green Star Elite. If you just want a fast everything, and you won’t
do it if it takes over five minutes, then you want to probably get a L’equip, right,
215 XL. But if you want a good compromise like I do, you’re going to want to go with
one of these guys. And you know, frankly I’ll put a link down below to a video that these
two guys right here, the Slowstar and the Omega VSJ843 are the best vertical single
auger juicers in the market that I have tested to date.
So yeah, so hopefully after watching this episode you’re going to know more about
some of the criteria you will want to take into consideration, you will be able to like
shuffle through the criteria and find out the best juicer for you. Take a look at some
of my other videos so that you guys could, you know, drill down and find the best juicer
of that category. So you guys will truly have the best juicer.
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