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763 of 767 persons found the following review helpful.
The best juicer I’ve ever had
By Scott Pelikan
I applied to have an ACME centrifugal juicer. I thought I would never like any juicer better than the ACME because it made good juice and was very easy to clean. The only drawback to a centrifugal juicer is it won’t extract much juice from leafy green vegetables and won’t juice wheatgrass.
I got this Omega 8005 juicer because I wanted to be competent to juice greens and wheat grass as well as root vegetables. I read on a forum that this new Omega juicer is the best there is for beneath $400. This Omega juicer is even more comfortable to clean than the ACME, which is a big issue because in the long run you won’t use a juicer if it is a hassle to clean. And it squeezes all the juice out of anything I put in it. The pulp comes out very dry. It is super quiet too and the ACME was loud.
The Omega runs at a low rpm so it doesn’t kill enzymes and stuff like that, so it is supposed to make more salubrious juice than a Champion or centrifugal juicer.
Its a pleasure to use. I make juice each day now. I love getting all the nutrients that I need regularly. It helps my body recover from surfing everyday.
The juicer is very well built and very simple. It seems like it will last a long time and it has a very long warranty.
You may tell that I love this juicer, eh?
Edit: It’s now 2009 and I’ve had this juicer almost five years. I still use it just when it comes to each day. I still love it. The juicing screen started to wear out a few months ago. I emailed Omega and they sent me a new one for free. They surely stand by their 10 year warranty. I am comforted to know that if anything else will have to happen, I still have five more years of no questions asked replacement.
583 of 594 persons found the following review helpful.
You Are What You Drink…er…Something Like That
By Galen K. Valentine
What I Think
I started thinking in regards to juicing a couple of years ago. Over time I did a little reading on the internet but never thought passed the idea of juicing more than fruit (I’ll get to why this essential a little later). The cost was also a little more than scary – I always thought I could find a better way to spend $300 or $400 (the price of the “better” fruit juicers).
I’m not a health nut, but after a short hospital stay I decisive I ought to take better care of myself. About a month ago I at long last purchased the Omega 8005 Juicer. Why did I choose this model? Review after review extolled it is virtues and the nearest competitor, the Green Star Juice Extractor, was more expensive.
This is one kitchen appliance that is well worth the expense.
Why Would You Buy This
If you are only concerned with juicing fruit this isn’t the best model for you. It isn’t so much cost, a good centrifugal juicer will cost regarding the same, or more. The issue lies in the straining screen. Pulpy fruits like nectarines clog the screen and you have to take the unit apart to clean it before you may carry on juicing (I know this from experience). It may be done and in little quantities isn’t that huge a deal. But if you never plan to juice leafy vegetables or grasses I’d look elsewhere.
If you want to juice leafy vegetables or grasses, then you need something like a gear juicer. The Omega fits the bill and is genuinely less highpriced than a great deal of fruit juicers. There is also the issue of heat. Some juicers may heat the vegetables because they juice at high-speeds – therefore reducing the nutritional value. Here again the Omega fits the bill because it’s gear mechanism turns a low rate and is actually less costly than a heap of other similar units. The Omega may also make nut butters, pasta, and whole host of other things; have I noted that the Omega is less pricey than a great deal of of it is challengers 
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More importantly, though, a glass of juice from the Omega holds more delicious vegetable nutrition than I have ever had in a single serving before.
Use/Convenience
I was a little concerned when it comes to having to chop up the vegetables and the reports of “lengthy” cleaning. Well, I wouldn’t worry too much with regards to it. Depending on how much you juice at one time it takes 30-40 minutes, from washing and cutting up the vegetables to finishing up cleaning the last piece of the juicing mechanism (not much more venture than cooking the darn things in my sentiment – and I still do a lot of that for dinner).
If you may clean a blender, the Omega is just as easy. I always take isolated my blender to clean it, so cleaning the Omega wasn’t that huge a deal – perhaps 2 or 3 minutes longer.
Tips/Tricks
First and foremost, do a great deal of research. The internet is chock-full of recipes and tips. Here are a few I picked up either through exploration or experimentation:
1. Use bitter or pungent vegetables and fruits in moderation – unless you just love chewing on a hunk of ginger, then go for it. Roots like ginger add a nice zing, but may overpower anything else if not used sparingly. Limes add a surprising amount of flavor; I add one-quarter of a little lime – anymore is just too much for me.
2. Peel oranges and grapefruits, but leave the white “skin” just beneath the surface. The rinds may be very bitter to taste and apparently comprise minute traces of toxins. Grapefruits fall into the “pungent” category for me. When mixing in other fruits I only use 1 grapefruit.
3. If you want to sweeten a drink, use an apple rather of sugar, even in vegetable juice. It works. Trust me.
4. Use pulpy fruit in moderation. This is largely a cleaning issue with me. I find that I have to take isolated the juicing mechanism and rinse it off for *each* piece of pulpy fruit and this gets a little cumbersome when attempting to make juice in the morning.
5. It may take a surprising amount of vegetables to make 24 oz of juice. But on the flipside one glass sets you up for the commended daily allowance for the next day or so.
6. Start your juicing regime slowly. I found out the hard way that it may have an…uh…interesting affect on your digestive tract if you go whole hog too quickly.
7. Experiment. Some mixes are better than others, but in all candidly I haven’t found one I didn’t at least like.
348 of 352 persons found the following review helpful.
I love this juicer
By A.V.
I never expected that a juicer could become my favored kitchen appliance, but here it is! Omega performs beautifully. Here’s what I’ve tested it with:
1) leafy greens (dill, cilantro, parsley, dandelion, kale, parsnip etc.): extracts lots of dark green juice; leaves very arid pulp. I haven’t tested Omega with wheatgrass yet, but given it is performance with other similar-texture greens it must do fine.
2) carrots, beets: approximately half of the volume comes out as juice; pulp is pretty dry.
3) berries (strawberries, raspberries etc.): most of the volume is juice, but pulp is rather wet. I had to finish off with carrots to push the soft pulp of the berries through the juicer. It may be a better idea to blend berries rather than juice them.
4) hard green apples, oranges: lots of juice, arid pulp.
5) yellow (softer) apples, grapes: lots of juice, arid pulp, but have to use something hard/fibery at the end (carrots or beets) to push the remaining pulp out.
6) almond butter, walnut butter: these came out more or less dry/crumbly, not as smooth as peanut butter; had to add oil.
Additional features that I like:
1) very quiet, can’t even compare to centrifugal models.
2) masticator rotates slowly, so the juice doesn’t get heated, consequently less nutrients are supposed to get destroyed.
3) Omega squeezes create cells rather of crushing them at high speed; this preserves more of the larger molecules (amino acids, vitamins etc.) therefore making the juice more nutricious.
4) Omega doesn’t develop fine-crushed pulp necessitating a fine mesh filter (as is the case with centrifugal models), so it’s much having little impact to wash. There’s no fine mesh to clean, which makes the divergence amid a juicer that ends up used once a year (as was the case with my old centrifugal juicer) and assorted times each day (as is the case with my Omega). It’s also very satisfying to see that the bulk of the construct is turned into juice and is not lost in soggy pulp.
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