16 out of 17 people found this review helpful.
Great Juicer for hard and leafy stuff
Date of Review: Oct 17, 2004
The Bottom Line: If you want to juice leafy and hard items, there is no better tool for that job.
I have this unit. Like all juicers for leafy and hard things, cleaning takes a bit of work. This one works by squishing material really hard between two gears. It throughly squishes the juice out. The waste comes out very dry. It is excellent. I have owned Champions, Acme's and others. This one is far superior. It simply gets more juice out of a given amount of material. NO JUICER DOES EVERYTHING WELL. This one won't work well for citrus, soft and watery fruits, etc. Watery goo will back up and overflow out of the feeder. For soft watery stuff you are better off with a centrifical unit like an Acme, but a unit like the Acme is poor at getting a good yield out of hard and leafy items. For citrus, a citrus juicer with a couple different size heads is best. Personally, I use a Cusineart food processor with the citrus juicer attachment for that. Juicers are like any other tools. You must first define the job you want to do, then pick the best tool for the job. There is no universal tool. If you have several jobs you need to do, then you need several tools. That's why there are a variety of screw driver shapes and sizes. All the jobs involve turning screws, but you have Phillips, Slotted, Hex, Torx, etc and all of them in different sizes. You wouldn't expect one screw driver to work on all types of screws. It's the same with Juicers.
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