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go to amazon & there are 177 reviews. here's one...
Everything that all the other people are writing about this juice extractor and gave a low rating is true. And , I'm no newbie to juicing.. I've been juicing for 15 years with an Omega 1000 or better and have been using my roommate's Jack LaLane juicer while I get replacement parts for my Omega, which only needs some new parts due to my fault.
The people who gave this item a high rating are either not serious juicers and only use it occasionally, or haven't had the item very long, or for whatever reason don't know what a good quality juicer is like. This one certainly is not of high quality. I wouldn't even call it mediocre.
This juicer has a weak motor and is not for serious juicers. It cannot handle cruciferous veggies like carrots, kale, broccoli on a regular basis
I can't believe Jack LaLane would ever endorse his good name to this heap of junk. It is built very cheaply with plastic that stains in a heartbeat and cracks and splits shortly thereafter.
A lot of Juice and pulp gets in-between the jam where the lid fits on the machine and it dribbles out and makes a mess. The manufacturer says this is normal. Pfffft. Whatever. Much of the pulp that is produced from shredding fruits and vegetables gets stuck in weird corners of the expulsion chute and doesn't come out and drop into the waste receptacle, making it somewhat difficult to clean. Gee Tristar (the company that makes or markets the machine) have you ever heard of rubber gaskets or seals?
The only metal you'll find on this juice extractor is on the shredding disc. The rest is CHEAP plastic that as I said before, stains easily and severely and has a propensity to crack so I wouldn't wash any of the parts in the dishwasher regularly.
Power? What power? If you put a whole apple in the large feed chute, many times it stops the motor cold. And if you normally juice a lot of cruciferous vegetables, the shredding disc will get dull in about a month. Then you must spend another 30.00 to replace it. There have been many times when I've been using this machine and apples get stuck in the feed tube, or I'm juicing carrots and the motor stops. Power my butt. This machine is a heap of junk. It juices whole apples SOMETIMES, the apples that are Ken and Barbie sized. Also, if you stick a whole apple in the chute many times it leaves a slice of apple at the bottom that can't be reached with the food pusher and will not go through the machine. The reason I'm making so much noise about apples is because on the commercials they say, "Oh and look, it juices whole apples, so you don't have to waste time slicing them." What a crock. "Well gee Jack, did you know that it's not good to be consuming a lot of apple seeds?"
One time I was juicing something, I think it was celery and something else. The stringy fibers of the celery and carrot got wrapped around the disc and in-between where the food pusher gets close to the disc and it fused the lid and pusher together so that it was effectively stuck and couldn't be removed. I had to remove it by wedging pliers in-between it and loosening it with very hot water. :\ Great craftsmanship.
Pulp comes out wetter than it should be, considering how great this juice extractor claims to be.
Oh, and if you're concerned about buying American, might as well skip this machine. It's made by our good friends in China. For the same money, you could have a real juice extractor (The Omega 02) that comes with a 5 year warranty instead of a 1 year warranty and is actually made in the USA.
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