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Alright! This John Kohler at discountjuicers.com. We have another exciting episode for you.
What we're going to do today is something I've never done on the discount juicers channel
or ever actually in life. So at discount juicers we get many requests
all the time. Each and every day, I get flooded with all kind of emails asking me questions
about this juicer that juicer. John what is the best juicer for wheatgrass? What's the
best juicer for juicing oranges? How about pomegranates, this that? You know what the
best juicer for the highest nutritional if I'm going on the Gerson therapy? I have videos
about all these topics but I got an inquiry the other day that I actually don't have a
video on yet. So a guy wrote me an email and he said John
what's the best juicer for people that are blind? I thought about that for a second,
it's like you could juice if you're blind, I'm like yeah wow that's something I never
thought of before. So I guess he said that he's currently using a Jack LaLanne juicer
to juice and he's blind, and he's able to do that.
So he wanted to upgrade to a slow juicer. So he asked me John what's the best slow juicer
for juicing if you're blind. I thought about that for second and my brain started spinning
and like you know like can we use the Green Star Elite? Nah man that's like really hard
to clean there's too many nooks and crannies to get in there to clean and it's going to
be a little bit difficult. Like that Champion that's not a slow juicer
but like a horizontal single auger well that's pretty good on leafy greens and carrots but
like on fruits it's going to back up and you won't be able to see that it's actually backing
up to take appropriate measures. I'm thinking well okay maybe we got to do a vertical juicer
and a lot of vertical juicers they got a little dots and things. You got to put the screen
in there properly and if you can't see the dots you know it's going to be significantly
more difficult put together. Then I thought oh, well how about my favorite
juicer? This is my current favorite juicer, this is one both me and my girlfriend use
a regularly because I just fine and she finds that it works better than the other ones we've
tested and used. And so I said well hey what about the VSJ43, there's only like one dot
you're supposed to line up but even if you don't want to line up the dot you can do without
lining up the dot and it's really simple. The other thing about the VSJ is you know
it produces a you know that it produces less pulp in the juice compared to other vertical
single auger juicers. Now it's still going to make more pulp juicer than a Jack LaLanne
juicer, but less pulp there other vertical juicers. Plus it doesn't tend to get jammed
up and backed up like many other vertical auger juicers do.
That being said there are some specific things you will need to do in the VSJ reducing larger
quantities to get the best results. So I'll post a link down below this video to that
video. It's entitled how to use and clean the VSJ juicer and that's where I go into
you know the specific techniques to maximize and the juicing process in the VSJ and mainly
that has to do with my precutting some of the produce and then alternate feeding, which
I will be doing in this video. So there's several reasons why I like the
VSJ for juicing if you're not able to see. I guess the next thing I want to do exactly
I want to go ahead and get blindfolded and I'm going to go ahead and juice blindfolded.
Now I do not recommend you guys do this for fun, or if you get drunk or anything like
that. But I'm just doing this to show that me knowing the juicer intimately because I
use it every day for the last couple years. I'm able to use it with no sight by touch
and feel. Most people you know even if they don't know this one, once they start using
all the time they should also be able to do this, not that I'm recommending to do this
because you should always be able to see what's going on in the juicer and be safe because
a juicer is an electrical appliance with a motor and anything like that you will want
to have your full senses or as many of your senses as you are able.
So without further ado let's go ahead and I got my mask here. So we're going to go ahead
and put this on and I'm going to do the rest of this video blindfolded. Alright. So pretty
much I can't see, so this video might look a little bit weird, but we're going to go
over and disassemble and reassemble the VSJ843. This is the VSJ843, I like the square model,
that's the one we're using. It has the controls on the front, so it's a little bit easier
to manage. I could easily feel it. We're going to go ahead and take off this whole top housing
that comes off and that we could easily disassembled this.
So basically this top goes on, you're just going to turn it and then it comes off as
you can see. We're going to set that right there. Then we're going to get the parts inside
this bowl here, wiggled it out. I'm using my finger on the bottom to push up the auger
to get this whole assembly out. As you can see here we have the wiping blade, the screen
any are inside here will take out the auger first, put that down. Then we're going to
go ahead and get in here and push out the screen and the wiping blade. Finally we have
of the main bowl here. Now the thing on the bowl there's a few moving
parts on here one of which is this guy it's the spout cap. So I only recommend you guys
use this spout cap once you're done juicing so you don't get what you're doing is using
is that you don't get drips on your counter or some people encourage and some companies
recommend/encourage of using this closed to mix your juices in the juicer. I do not recommend
that based on my experience your yield will go down because if your pulp is soaking in
the juice running around in there, the pulps going to come out a bit more more wet so I
like to just leave it open. The other moving part on here that you will
have to deal with is this flap on the bottom. So there's a low pulp flat here, we could
unplug it and as you guys can see it's a little flap. This flap's job is to go in this little
hole there and it basically puts back pressure so that the pulp cannot immediately inject
out of the machine after it's been ground up so you get a higher yield. So even me now
looking at it, I could feel this and I could feel the little hole it goes into. Like right
here. I could just kind of like wiggle it in there and then it just goes in the hole.
Then you're going to want to make sure you press it in firmly all the way. Then I could
take my fingernail ridge and feel that it's all the way flush up in there. We should be
good go. The next thing is to reassemble the machine.
So we're going to go ahead and take this, we're going to take a spout, which is right
here and that faces the front so on this machine, the square design, you can feel the ridge
here and that's the front. On the round machines it'll be a bit more difficult so that's why
I recommend the square one. You're going to go ahead and put it down there and then basically
you don't get it right it's not going to seat. So now if we rotate it it fully seats. You
hear that a little bit. Next we're going to take the other parts.
Let's see, first we're going to take the wiping blade assembly. Then we're going to take the
screen. We're going to put the scree right through there. I like to hold it like this
and as I push back the screen it's going to kind of lock into place if you guys see the
side shot on that you could see it go all the way back in. So the screen is lower and
the other wiping blade simply is a little higher. Then unlike others juicer his would
not have any dots to line up. You simply just take this into the bowl, you drop it in there
and you just spin it around until it drops down maybe a quarter inch and then it's all
seated in there, so it's good. So next we'll take the auger. Now the auger
has wing tips on here. This is the wing tip on this side, on this side, and if you feel
very carefully on the screen and that wiping blade assembly there's a little indentations.
There's a cut out, one on this side and there's one on this side. So they're right here. So
we're going to take the auger on the wing tips and try to go right down in the middle.
And we're going to spin that around a little bit and we're going to try to put it right
down where they go and then the auger sinks down in there. So that's no problem.
Let's see here. Okay so we got the last part. This is the top of the juicer, but I think
we're backwards right here. This has a little hole. The little hole here lines up with the
top of the motor shaft here. So we got that flipped over. Now always you're going to want
to have the pushing feed shoot nearest you and in this kind of goes basically almost
like that. So it's diagonal towards you and you then you're going to turn it little bit
until it drops down. It drops down and you going to want to turn it to lock it. It'll
lock into place. If you take your finger, there's an indentation
on the top of the motor body here with a little arrow and then you move your finger over onto
the top of the juicer housing, there's also a little indentation for the arrows. You could
feel that those two line up. If you did assemble it correctly, it should
turn on as it's turning on now. The only thing you want to make sure next before juice is
you want to make sure your containers in place. So the larger container is for catching the
pulp, that goes under the pulp spout, so we can easily feel where the pulp spout is which
is right here. We're going to make sure that this catch container, this stuff that comes
out goes right into catching container. More important than the catch container because
getting pulp all over your counter is not a big deal but you don't want to get juice
running down your counter or your chin. So we got the juice catch container. We're going
to take the juice catch container, we got the spout here coming out, so we're going
to make sure that this is open and that when the juice comes the spout it's going to go
right in the container we're going to make sure it's centered up. I think that's pretty
much close. Then now we just need to juice our vegetables.
So here we have the vegetables pre-prepared. Some of things, such as the yellow carrots
we're juicing today, all I did was I cut off the tops and the bottoms and of course I washed
them. Some things like the cucumber all you really needed to do is cut them in half-length
wise. Something like the kale over here, we've a red kale. I would recommend pre-cutting
this into pieces, I'm not doing that today because I'm only juicing three pieces, so
that's not really a big deal but if you're juicing a whole head of kale you should cut
that up into pieces. Then, let's see what else have we got in here.
Oh, we've got these guys here, we've got some celery. Once again, this should be optimally
cut up into pieces, but I did not cut it up today, and I'll show you a technique for feeding
them so they juice easier without cutting. Then let's see, and then I got right here,
I think this, yeah this is soft, these are pears cut up into smaller pieces. And then
somewhere down in here, I have, if I can find it, I think these guys that are hard, they're
beets. So we're juicing beets, pears, celery, cucumber, and some carrots and some kale.
Alright, so our next step is let's get juicing. So we're going to go ahead and turn this juicer
on. And we're going to put one thing in a time. So generally I like to start off with
the softest thing first, so we're going to go ahead and try to grab one of these pieces
of pear and it's going to just drop right in. Another reason why I recommend the VSJ
843 for people that are not able to see is because you literally drop the produce and
it takes it in and it just kicks it out. You don't have to sit there using a pusher.
May as well drop a carrot in there, look at that. It's taking the carrot and it's sucking
it in. You can hear it grind up each piece. It's kicking out the pulp over on this side
which we're going to feel for and we're going to make sure our bins lined up. And hopefully
very carefully check out our bin and check out to make sure some of the juice is dripping
out, which I do feel with my finger there. So now all we want to do is we want to rotate
the produce we're putting in the machine here and next we're going to put a leafy green
in with a hard stem end down. But we're not going to just shove it in there right? We're
going to stick it in and let the machine take a little bite off and then pull it up, right?
Stick it in and pull it up. Stick it in, and pull it up. This way the machine only gets
little bites of the stem and the stem is the part that's most likely to clock the machine.
Once you get a lot of the stem juiced and pulled up, you can see I got a lot of the
stem chewed up there, next you can then take it and put it in and maybe take a carrot and
I like to use the carrot to just get it pushed in there. I don't use it to jam down in there,
because if you're using a pusher on a VSJ or in my opinion, any other vertical juicer
you're probably feeding in things too fast. This is one of the reasons why you might get
backups and clogs. So especially if you're not able to see what you're doing you want
to take your time doing it. So I fed in just one bite of the carrot instead of the whole
thing to have itself feed. Everything sounds like it's going alright, you always want to
check your pulp over on this end and make sure it's ever so slowly ejecting out.
Next let's go ahead and drop in a piece of pear. Let's see if I can find the hole. Next
we're going ahead and take a cucumber and we're just going to go ahead and put that
in there. You guys can either see or hear that it's actually self-feeding in there.
So that's really nice. Next we're going to go ahead and take some celery. The celery,
special case, I do recommend pre-cutting it into small pieces if you're able, if you're
not you're going to want to do it like this. You're going to want to go ahead and, once
again, stick it in. Let it take a chunk off and pull it out. Stick it in, let it take
a chunk off, pull it out. You're going to want to only let the chunks that you're sticking
in, maybe like an eighth of an inch or a quarter inch at the max. You don't want to try and
jam it in there and have it take off a bigger piece. You just want it to pull off a small
piece each time. This is one way you could get away from pre-cutting your produce in
the vertical juicers. Next, let's see if we can find my bowl here.
We're going to go ahead and drop in another piece of pear. Then also, since we haven't
done it yet, oh no, this is another piece of pear. I'm trying to find a piece of beet.
Oh here's a piece of beet I think. Drop that guy in there. You should be able to hear it
accept the beet and juicing on up. If you're not, maybe you got something stuck up in the
feed sheet. So we're going to go ahead and find a carrot
here. We're just going to go ahead and push that down a little bit to feed it in. Next,
let's go ahead and take another piece of kale, and once again we got the stem end down, stick
it in, pull it up. Stick it in, pull it up. I'm going to go ahead and juice the rest of
this stuff, because I think I gave you the general overview, without being able to see
it and we'll come back at you when I'm done. (music as John continues juicing)
One of the things I want to let you guys know is you always want to rotate your produce.
Don't just pull all the carrots in, all the celery, and then all the cucumbers. I'm trying
to rotate the textures, so always follow something by the carrot or the celery which tends to
help push the pulp to come out this side easier, especially if you're using lots of cucumbers
and apples. It's good to rotate in something hard like celery or the cutes. Let me go ahead
and get back to juicing, this is going pretty well and I think I'm almost done I think I
got a couple carrots left and some celery. (music as John continues juicing)
Well our juice is kind of getting near the top, we don't want to overflow our juice container.
I think we have about, what two more carrots. And if you drop the carrots in what's going
to happen is what just happened. You can hear the machine buzzing, and when that happens
it got overloaded. So you're going to turn it off momentarily, hit the reverse switch
for a second and then go ahead and hit the forward. That's because I just dropped a carrot
in instead of doing my technique, instead of inserting and pulling out. Inserting and
pulling out a little bit at a time. Once you get down to a thinner diameter of
the carrot that you can easily feel then you can drop it in more than likely. The problem
is when you have a really thick diameter that generally gets clogged up. Alright, I think
we still got room in our catch container there, and it looks like this is the last carrot.
I don't think we have anything left in there, in the bowl, so that's definitely good.
Now we're going to go ahead and let this run. This is very important to listen to the machine
and feel the pulp coming out, very carefully. Also, maybe feel to see if any juice is still
dripping out. You don't want to take the machine apart until it's done juicing which sometimes
can be maybe thirty seconds after you're done. I can still feel juice dripping out and I
can still, let's see here, we can clear this pulp back and we can see if something's still
coming out or not. It's coming out ever so slowly. We're going to go ahead and let that
run maybe other fifteen seconds or so. Make sure everything all comes out. Let's
see, okay, I think pretty much things stopped coming out. The juice on the front side. I
don't feel anything dripping. We're going to go ahead and turn this off and put the
spout cap down. Now last thing I want to do is explain cleaning,
if you're not able to see. Basically you've got to disassemble the machine, pretty much
the opposite way of assembling. Oh look I forgot a piece of kale leaf there. But basically
all you're going to do is you're going to take the top piece, grab onto the main chute
here, turn it to the right, that comes up. You should be able to, there's a special cleaning
brush that is included with the machine. You can get in there and clean all this. I usually
just run it under the running water, it's easier to do it, under the sink and it blasts
away the juice particles. You can put that aside and we're going to put it in the bowl
there. Next you're going to want to take the auger,
which you can just get your fingers underneath the auger and then pull up. Then as you guys
can see, this auger should be fairly clean of produce. I can feel a little bit on there,
but this is another reason why I'm recommending this juicer to people that aren't able to
see because it's pretty easy to clean. You can brush this down, run it under hot
water that should pretty much dislodge most of the pulp off there. I'm not really feeling
much on here. The challenge is you're going to have to flip it up into the underside and
then you can take your finger and as you guys can see the finger comes out and then there's
a bunch of pulp in there. So we're going to go ahead and put that in there. Once again,
just rising this out in the sink you should be golden.
Next we're going to go ahead and pull out the screen and wiping blade assembly. I pop
up the screen there. Now the screen is the most challenging part to clean on any juicer
and especially if you're not able to see. Normally if you were able to see, you'd be
able to see that there's all these holes in the juicer and you want to dislodge the pulp
from all the holes. Luckily they do give you guys a special cleaning brush, it looks like
an oversized toothbrush. You're going to water rinse this, underneath the sink and scrub
this meticulously, at least two minutes going all the way around the screen on both sides,
the outside bottom, the outside top and then the inside, brushing it this direction or
any direction you can get in there to dislodge all the pulp.
This is probably the major issue I see with not being able to see and having to clean
your juicing screen so that you can't get the visual feedback that there's pulp in there,
unless you're really sensitive on the feeling, I don't know how you'd feel the pulp in those
little small holes. So that's the most challenge, but this is going to happen on any juicer.
Even if you're using a Jack LaLanne, there's even more screen area on a Jack Lalanne or
a high speed centrifugal ejection juicer than on the Omega VSJ to clean out.
Then maybe have a friend who comes over and visits once and awhile double check your work
to make sure all the holes are clean. If some of the holes start to get blocked you're going
to notice a minimized yield happening and maybe even more pulp in the juice. So you're
going to want to check that. I'm going to go ahead and put that in the bowl here for
cleaning, for later. Next you're going to want to go ahead and
clean the wiping blade. This should have a little pulp around it and residues. But once
again, this easily wipes off with the cleaning brush under the running water of the sink.
I like to use the spray nozzle in the sink that's doing the high pressure thing instead
of just the stream, if your guys' sink has that.
Then finally we have the main juicing bowl. Some juice may drip out on you a little bit.
Let's see if there's any in there. No, it's pretty clean. When you do that you will want
to take your finger on the juice, or the pulp port and just do a wipe in there and you get
this pulp out, let's see if we can get that in the pulp bin, I think I have a pretty good
sense of where things are. Then over on the juice spout, of course, juice is going to
drip out when you open that so do that over the sink.
The only other thing, the challenge on here is once you're done juicing you're going to
want to pull this little leaver here to get out this pulp flap. So this pulp flap should
always stay pushed in when you're juicing. The only time you're going to want to take
it out is actually for cleaning. So what I like to do is I like to blast the hot water
on and blast it down this spout here, which will force the pulp to come out this direction
here, and I'll put the hot water down in here, that'll force it to come out this way.
In addition, I'll use the back of the cleaning brush tool which looks like a plastic screwdriver
to get in there to dislodge all the pulp, that's probably going to be the pulp blockage
that you're going to have to clean if you're not able to see, maybe you ought to get your
finger in there, like I feel there's pulp in there now with my little pinky finger but
depending on how big or small your pinky is you may or may not be able to get it in there.
The once again cleaning all this out you can pretty much feel if it's clean or not when
you’re doing it under the sink. That's pretty much it. That's how it is to clean the juicer,
oops, and do it without being able to see. Now the last thing I want to do, let's see
if I can do this, this is going to be even more challenging. I don't know. Oops, I got
to do it from over here. Okay, we got our glass. And now we got our juice. That we just
made, and now, hopefully I'm doing this right. We're going to pour it in a glass and I'm
going to enjoy. Amazing. Now you too can juice even if you can't see
with the Omega VSJ843. This is the juicer I recommend for people that are not able to
see because it is so easy to use as you guys saw me do. Now I have been using this for
over a year now, every day, with being able to see. So me being able to do it without
seeing, is not that difficult. But I know once you get it and you start playing with
it, and you start doing it, you'll be able to get more fresh fruits and vegetables in
you. Fresh fruits and vegetables have the most powerful phytonutrients and phytochemicals.
These are the things that prevent disease according to the scientific literature and
what most Americans lack. So that's why I encourage you guys to drink
and eat more fruits and vegetables and the juicer is the number one way to maximize your
consumption of the most powerful foods on the entire planet. Every different fruit and
vegetable has their own plethora of phytonutrients and phytochemicals that are good for different
things. So juice it all and don't every get stuck
into juicing, this green juice recipe every morning. Always juice a variety of whatever
produce that you can grow fresh in your garden or you can get fresh at a local farmer's market.
If you can't do that, then buy at your local health foods store, and buy organic produce
whenever you can. But even if you don't get organic produce, even if you just get conventional
produce, that's better, juicing conventional produce is better than not juicing at all
and in conventional produce is still way better in my opinion than eating processed, packaged,
canned, organic foods. Because you cannot put a price on the nutrition contained in
fruits and vegetables. Even the government tells us this.
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