juicers

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Hi,

I am new to the list and been reading the digests only for about two days.

I have had many juicers! LOL. The first one I bought at a health food store

about 4 years ago, a Champion. It is a

heavy duty machine and does a good job of juicing, what I don't like about it is

that it tends to warm the juice a bit

and you still get a bit of the pulp a tiny bit -- the juice is " cloudy " . I

used it for about 3 yrs and then decided to

try to find another machine because I also thought that the Champion was a bit

of a pain to use and clean.

I then found an Acme juicer (centrifugal) in the Trading Post and purchased that

one -- it was great! It had filters to

make the clean-up a cinch! The juice was cold as if it had just come out of the

refrigerator and it was more clear and

" pure " , no graininess to the juice! This machine got a 5 star rating from me!

Alas, it broke within about 4 months of

getting it -- not the motor but a major part of the casing:-(

I went back to my Champion and was soon disatisfied again. I then went surfing

the web and found a place out of

California and purchased what they said was the best machine you could get as

far as clean up -- wrong! It was the

Miracle Ultramatic -- very pricey and very much a " pain " to clean. The juice

was great however. It was a

centrifugal/ejector type....I think those are truly the worst for clean-up! I

sold that -- lost money big time on that

deal! Also the Ultramatic used a ton more veggies to get the same amount of

juice of other juicers, it really wasted

veggies because the fiber would be so very wet!

I then purchased a machine that is sold through a multi-level marketed company

called a Juice Factory 2000, I believe it

is made by Omega. I used it once and it vibrated horrible and spashed juice

everywhere. I don't know if there was

something wrong with this particular one or not but I promptly sent it back --

the advantage to buying from a MLM

company!

I then purchased another Acme hoping that it was built better than the one that

I purchased used. Well it looks

identical but it does have a 10 yr warranty and I love it! It is truly the

easiest to clean if you use the filters

(they are thin paper filters, kinda like the papers you use to roll a perm with

it!) and the juice is clear and cold:-)

BTW, it is centrifugal but not an ejecting type machine, so you are limited in

how much you can juice at once w/o having

to clean and replace the filter.

I realize that the Champion is supposed to produce juice with a better

nutritional value than the centrifugal type

juicers but it does you know good if you don't like the clean up or the taste of

the juice from it:-( Actually I did

finally find a bit easier way to clean the Champion. I would attach a plastic

grocery bag with a rubber band to the

nozzle of the Champion to catch the fibrous stuff shot out (my brain has not

woke up yet and I can't think of the right

word for that stuff! Oh my!). And cleaning the parts I finally did get down to

a " system " and so clean-up was not

quite so bad as it was in the beginning.

So, I currently own both the Champion and the Acme. I use the Acme and I will

not sell my Champion because I know it is

a good machine and will keep it as a back-up.....

BTW, I also give my dogs the juice and the fiber after I am done juicing -- only

about 1 tsp of the fiber though but my

dogs do eat a raw homemade diet, many people who feed their dogs like this also

juice and give that to their dogs.

Got to run!

Barb & Joe; Sailor (PWD) and e (SP, blue - but not showing it yet)

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