Which is the Best Juice Extractor?

I've wanted a new juice extractor for quite some time and I wanted the best juicer I could afford. As I have gotten older I've felt more of a need to take charge of my health as many other baby boomers have. While I do eat fruit and vegetables, there is no way I eat enough of them. From all the articles I've read on maintaining health, I now feel the benefits of juicing are too great to pass up. It is a good way to get more nutrients from vegetables, fruits and leafy greens like wheatgrass into my diet. I haven't planned on juicing to replace these foods but it will supplement them since I know I just don't eat enough of them. (Read my About page on my blog for info on me. You can also comment on the Juicer News blog and contact me that way if you wish.)

In my quest to find which is the best juice extractor I've read a lot of juicer reviews. Then I started buying a bunch of different juicers and testing them. I've learned a lot and I have my own opinion about some of the big selling points manufacturers use to market juicers. There seems to be a fair amount of hype. I'm hoping I can offer visitors to this website, like yourself, some help in making your own decision about finding the right Breville, Omega, Braun, Champion, Jack Lalanne, Green Star juice extractor or whatever juicer machine you choose. By sharing with you my acquired knowledge and answering the questions I had, it should answer most of the questions you have too. Or at least you'll hear how I solved the problems I ran into that were created by all the juicer information out there.

The process of picking the best juicer that would suit my needs has been confusing for me and it probably is for you too. There are advantages and disadvantages of juice extractors depending on the type. However, I did figure out what would work best for me as you'll see in my recommendations, videos and juicer reviews.

This was my starting list of concerns, wants and needs for a good juicer:

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  First off from experience; I knew the machine had to be easy to clean. People, me included, just don't use things that are a hassle to use. Cleaning just couldn't be a long process which also meant that I was looking for a juicing machine that didn't have a lot of parts or accessories I didn't need.
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  I also knew I didn't want to spend all day pushing vegetables into a machine and having them get stuck. Then I'd have to take apart the machine and pull the pulp out. So I needed a machine that was powerful enough to handle juicing larger chunks and not get backed up with pulp all the time.
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  Juice extractors in general can be loud. A centrifugal juicer can sound like a jet engine. Because I tend to juice first early in the morning and I have neighbors upstairs, I needed a quieter juicer.
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  The main point to juicing is to get more nutrients into your body and thereby create better health. In order to get more of these nutrients, I knew I needed to make the best quality juice I could. This was a big issue for me but as I researched juicer reviews I found that maybe there was more hype than substance to it. Read more about heat destruction of live enzymes and oxidation here.
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  The more I read about the benefit of drinking wheatgrass juice the more I knew I wanted to add it to my juicing program. However, I also found out that it is one of the harder things to juice. Not all machines are able to be a wheat grass juicer. So I needed a juicer that could handle wheatgrass, spinach and other leafy greens but not get bogged down with any leaves.
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  It was also important that I had a machine that I could make carrot, ginger and apple juice with easily because I like the energy I get from those kinds of juice recipes. I learned some machines don't handle carrots in bulk very well.
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  It was also important to me too that I could use the fruit from the orange and lemon tree in my backyard. I also love lime juice and am starting to use it in everything from salad dressing to beer. So I wanted a machine that was a good electric citrus juicer as well as being able to juice vegetables, wheatgrass and fruit.
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  The money thing was a big concern for me too. I couldn't afford $500 or more for a juicer. If I had the money, I would probably have spent more and maybe picked up a Green Star GS2000 twin gear juice extractor. But then I found out that some of these more expensive machines could be more to clean up. I still wanted the easiest juicer to clean. So I was conflicted with that as well.
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  Having had different products break down on me over the years, I have come to the realization that getting a good warranty for any item over $100 is a good idea. And the longer the warranty the more secure I feel in my purchase. So if I could get a long warranty, I wanted that as well.
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  And last but not least, I needed a juicer that I could get parts for if I needed them. Some products nowadays only last a little while on the market. Then the company goes out of business or decides not to make them anymore. Finding juicer parts for a machine you really like can be a pain so I wanted an extractor that I knew replacement parts were not hard to find for.

In conclusion, which is the best juice extractor? Well for me there wasn't just one. None fit the bill perfectly. There just wasn't one juicer that could do all I wanted very well. I wanted a lot of flexibility and I was asking more of a juicer than they can be designed for. So I ended up with three different juicers to fulfill my needs.

I picked the dual screen single auger Omega 8003 juicer for most of my general vegetable, some fruit and wheatgrass juicing needs. It was quiet, gave high quality juice, super easy to clean, fairly compact, had a killer warranty and was not too expensive. It is by far my favorite. See my video and complete juicer review of the Omega 8003 juicer.

I also picked up an old Braun Mp80 juice extractor for juicing mainly carrots, ginger, apples and some other fruit. This is a centrifugal juicer. It's loud and more work to clean but fairly compact in size. It was inexpensive and came highly rated. See why I opted for this juicer as well as the Omega 8003 juicer in my video review of this simple Braun pulp ejecting centrifugal juicer here.

And last but not least, I also got a Braun Mpz7 citrus juicer because it was fairly strong, easy to clean and inexpensive. For a video review and more information on this juicer go here - Braun Mpz7 citrus juicer.

Below is a cool site I found that has a lot of information on growing wheatgrass. Since I knew nothing about it and I found it interesting, you might too.

Wheatgrasskits.com- Grow & Juice Your Own Wheat Grass. - Kits, juicers, supplies and information for growing and juicing wheat grass, barley grass. Sprouting Supplies.