Omega NC800HDS Cold Press Juicer Machine, Vegetable and Fruit Juice Extractor and Nutrition System, Dual-Stage Slow Masticating Juicer, 150 W, Manual, Silver

After 2 weeks of research and comparison, I settled on this juicer. It is VERY easy to clean (clean the juice screen before anything dries), juices everything I put in it handily (don't worry about squeaks-that's from spinach rubbing and nothing to worry about), easy to assemble and take apart and leaves pretty dry fiber as the remnant. I have not had to use reverse once and it never came close to bogging down. I occasionally did have to put some pressure on the "shover" to get things down and sometimes the last few crushed pieces don't go all the way thru but that's usually fruit and just a small amount. It does produce pulp in the juice but I like that. You want clean juice, buy a centrifugal juicer and waste more of the not-inexpensive produce & fruit or just strain it. As suggested, I cut everything up beforehand and tossed it into large bowls as I did so and then just fed the various hard/soft/fruit in as a mix and it ate it right up, green leaves being no problem at all. I cleaned it out after every individual juice and it does take some serious time, about 2 hours, to produce 4-24oz mason jars of juice this way but I'm ok with that given the results. You could do it faster without the cleaning and I doubt the flavor would be affected with a different juice but I have the time to clean it that way. Recipe books abound for juicing and I've found you can easily double an ingredient, add other things like garlic cloves, spices or ginger to just about any recipe and not ruin it. I won't use the pasta nozzle additions or make nut butters so you're on your own with those. At $340 it was mid-level for prices for horizontal juicers but with a rock-solid warranty and company behind it. I see no need to pay $500-$800 for the twin grinder models that I was also considering. They can't produce it faster or get much more juice out of it than the NC800HDS does. You won't be disappointed.Update: Still love it. Experience shows juicing gets faster, 3 hours now produces enough jars of juice for a week since I don't worry about the 3 days mentioned as the vitality span of the juice and I can't tell the difference. First, let the auger pull the stuff down and don't shove on it unless it stops dropping. I'd guess that's where some people break the auger and/or overload the motor. You don't need to do that much. Second, cut the pieces smaller than you need to just to get them in the chute. It only takes a couple of more knife slices and the auger can then more easily pull them in to crush. Third, I make 3-5 jars of the same juice I like at once so I run them all through without cleaning out the machine. I found that I didn't need to and it still worked great but clean between juice types or fruit vs vegetables. Also a 1/4 or so of water at the end of a juice type run tossed into the chute helps move out remaining stuff and doesn't affect the juice. Fourth, clean screens thoroughly when doing so. A little extra brush scrub makes sure you're getting ALL the juice you can. I also set the nozzle to 5, no matter what I'm juicing. Fifth, the recipes I've been using from a book actually fill a 24 oz mason jar almost exactly to the top. I expect most of them will. Last, experiment with your ingredients and don't think you must follow a recipe to the letter. Once you found those you like, toss out or add what you want and see how it tastes. I've found 2 that I've improved for my taste.Veggies and fruits are NOT cheap these days and it costs me close to what my meat & potatoes budget did to juice, if not a bit more. Still, I've lost 2 lbs a week for the past 6 weeks, while exercising of course, and have never felt hungry or deprived while having a juice in the morning, one in the afternoon and then a reasonable actual meal at dinnertime, fish or turkey and salad usually. I'm delighted I bought this and have actually used it. I hope you will be too.

I just got this juicer and used it for the first time this morning (I will update my review, if needed, after a few weeks of using). But after just the one use, I was blown away by what a difference masticating over centrifugal makes.I previously bought the Breville JE98XL Centrifugal juicer. At the time, I had wanted to get a decent juicer but didn't want to spend much. (In hindsight, it cost me more to get a cheaper juicer that didn't squeeze much out of anything I juiced.) If you're only interested in making orange juice and stuff, the Breville was fine, I guess? The pulp was never that dry (and yes, I tried all the tricks) plus the centrifugal juicers are CRAP at juicing greens. IYES, yes they are - there's no amount of rolling greens around other produce to get more out of them. And forget running the pulp back through a centrifugal juicer, it usually just spins right back out immediately. I don't juice fruits, other than lemons & limes and MAYBE the occasional apple. I'm interested primarily in greens. So I gave up on juicing at home for awhile because the amount of money I was spending on produce for the amount of juice I was getting was ridiculous. Also, I could not STAND cleaning the large screen on the Breville. No matter how much soaking and scrubbing I did, the screen always seemed covered in pulp residue.But I've been feeling run down with allergies lately. I spent a lot of money purchasing fresh green juices from a nearby place and noticed that I felt significantly better for a few days. Given how much I spent on a couple days' worth of juice, I figured I could either resign myself to spend too much on juice for a few days or just go at it again with a better, masticating juicer.I would have loved to have gotten one of those huge Norwalk's but I wasn't about to spend $1000+. The Omegas got good reviews and I decided to go for the NC800 over the J8006 for two reasons: One, the adjustable end cap because it said that you could tighten the pressure of the auger for things like greens, but loosen it for softer fruits or hard vegetables. I wanted to get the very most out of greens that I possibly can. Two, the feeding tube is oval and a little bigger than the J8006. I don't mind doing prep work and cutting things up, but if there was an option, might as well take the larger tube. The NC800 really doesn't cost that much more than the J8006 so might as well go for it.Some other reviews have said there's a learning curve - I really didn't find it difficult to use, at all. I thought I had done something wrong at first because it took a few minutes for the first bit of juice to come through when I started feeding kale leaves into the tube. But then the juice started to make it's way out and I was amazed at the size of the puddle from just a couple kale leaves. I spent a couple of minutes cutting up celery, peeling a cucumber & cutting it, tearing apart leaves, and peeling a lemon. No big deal. And totally worth it. Especially since with this juicer I can make one big batch and stick the rest in the fridge for a day or two. For this first go around I juiced: one cucumber, a small knob of ginger, about 6 stalks of celery, several leaves of kale and romaine, two small lemons. (I also added a couple pinches of sea salt at the end for an extra kick.) For the amount of juice I got with this juicer, I would have had to have used TWICE as much produce in the old Breville centrifugal. Plus, this juice definitely tastes brighter and crisper AND the juice actually seems a little thicker without being pulpy at all. (Oh, I forgot - I also added parsley and I can actually TASTE the parsley flavor now!)There are many little parts but it is SO easy to clean. You really don't need to scrub anything if you clean it immediately - just rinse it under hot water or let it soak for a few minutes and rinse off. I scrubbed the little screen quickly with the brush that's included, but it was SO quick and easy.Lastly, this juicer is much quieter than the Breville. The noise never bothered me so much, but with this one, I feel like I now have the freedom to start the juice even while the rest of my family is still sleeping. I LOVE this juicer and I wish I had just spent the extra few dollars to get it last year. (PS I am now off to try to convince someone on Craigslist to buy the old juicer... *smile*)

I spent a lot of time looking at the options before I bought this. I read hundreds of reviews of different juicers, and watched about 8 hours of videos comparing them in operation. Ultimately it came down to the NC800 or a vertical from another brand that also included a "homogenizing blank." I chose this one because it appeared easier to clean, and is better at roots like ginger and turmeric.I'm really really happy with this thing. It does an awesome job on ginger, turmeric, beets, celery, etc. People who say it isn't good at celery aren't following the typical instructions on cutting it up; you slice celery just the same as if you were going to stir-fry it, and this juices it right up with no problems at all. It also does way better at carrots than many reviews suggest; carrots are the most common thing I'm juicing, I'm doing that every day and it is working really well. I rarely have to push them at all, they just feed right down. I do slice them lengthwise first, not because the machine has trouble with them but because I'm trying to be gentle and kind to the machine. If you like to take good care of your appliances, and not try to shove the max amount through, you won't notice any problems with the foods that people say this isn't as good at.Except fresh fruit, it can't do fresh fruit other than very-crisp apples. However, it makes great sorbet from frozen fruit! Fruit I make into smoothies in a blender, so I didn't buy this wanting it to do fresh fruit. There really isn't a juicer that can "do it all," but this does everything-but-fruit really well. Broccoli works really well, including the stalks which I buy cheap at a store that sells their trimmings. Any juicer can juice a carrot, but carrots for juicing are really cheap. This thing does an amazing job at fresh veggies; kale is expensive, as are beets! The price of this machine will be made up over time by getting more juice out of the expensive ingredients; kale, ginger, turmeric, wheat grass, beets, etc. A glass of carrot juice costs me a few cents. I used to pay $3 or more to buy the juice. Same for wheat grass. And a ginger-turmeric tonic, I'd have to buy and drink 5 or 10 of them to get as much medicine, the ones they sell are just beverages, not tonic-strength. Now I can make it as strong as I want.And cleanup is as easy as it looked. I clean everything after each use, including using the brush on the metal screen, and it only takes me about 2 minutes normally, 3 after turmeric. :)

I've been juicing for over 30 years, and this is my favorite juicer. Note that the NC800 & NC900 are the SAME except for color. I also own the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer, and I feel that the Omega NC800 is much better.I've noticed that most of the rave reviews on the Kuvings are from people who are coming from a centrifugal juicer - well, any slow juicer will be a vast improvement over a centrifugal juicer, so I understand their enthusiasm.Cleaning - hands down, the Omega NC800 is easiest to clean! By far. It takes less than 90 seconds. The Kuvings is not simple to clean (although, again, much easier than any centrifugal juicer!). Kuvings has lots of parts with nooks and crannys, plus a huge screen, all of which require careful cleaning.Pre- Juice Prep - this might surprise you, but although the Kuvings has a huge chute, the juicer itself is not too great at handling fibrous things, so anything tough and fibrous (like celery, kale, wheatgrass) needs to be cut into very small pieces, so the idea of the huge chute is kind of misleading. The Omega on the other hand, has a much smaller chute, but takes abuse much better. You can cram whole pieces of celery, ginger, kale, whatever into the chute and it just chugs along. No, the omega won't fit an uncut apple, but an apple is far easier to chop into pieces quickly than greens and celery, etc.juice quality - The omega handily wins for greens, and "mixed juices" (like a morning juice of 1/2 apple, 1/2 cucumber, handful of greens, few stalks of celery, piece of ginger, turmeric, half a lemon, couple of baby carrots, handful of herbs). Very little pulp in the omega, and a very hassle-free prep and cleanup. Kuvings has lots of pulp, so be prepared to strain. I don't do much fruit juice (other than a bit of apple or citrus in a vegetable based juice). The kuvings would probably be better for just fruit juices like just pineapple or oranges (but really, you should be mixing more vegetables into your juices).Nut Butters - Kuvings DOES NOT DO NUT BUTTERS! Very annoyed by this, as that was one of the reasons I bought it. But when I got home, I looked at instructions and it says nothing about nut butters. I called Kuvings, and they confirmed, the machine is not designed to do nut butters. Ugh! The Omega does awesome nut butters, they're better when the nuts are lightly roasted (raw almonds for instance take about the same amount of time as in the Cuisinart). Raw brazil nut butter comes out really well In the Omega.Nut Milks, Coconut Milk & Butter - This is where the Kuvings excels. You have not tasted homemade coconut or almond milk until you've made it in a Kuving. OMG something about crushing the nuts/coconut makes the milk taste infinitely better than if you use the vitamix. And, the Kuvings makes it easy, since no need for nut milk bag, it sends the pulp out the ejector (save the pulp and use it for yummy treats!). And coconut butter from the Kuvings was an accidental surprise - I no longer purchase this very expensive product from the store. Sadly, the Omega doesn't do milks.So, my take away is that the Omega NC800 is just an amazing all around juicer. The key to juicing is actually taking the time to do it everyday - this machine makes that much easier to do.PS - I highly recommend watching John Kohler of discount juicers on YouTube before buying a juicer. His videos are very informative and kind of amusing in a Sean Penn from Fast Times at Ridgemont High sort of way (although most are way too long, but you can fast forward).

Overall, love the Omega NC800. Super easy to clean, Before I start juicing I have soapy dishwater ready and it takes seconds to disassemble, rinse, wash and clean. Omega NC800 Juices kale, wheatgrass, spinach, all greens beautifully which my old centrifugal juicer couldn't. In fact, I just bought some red winter wheat berries at the bulk bin at natural foods store and am growing own wheat grass to juice. Pulp is nice and dry. There was a VERY limited instruction booklet included. Little help given with the "dial" feature, all I know is that greens get processed at "5" and soft fruits processed at "1", but what about all the other numbers in between? I can't find more information online about the dial. No recipies are given in instruction booklet, but the omega website has many. There are 2 constant problems I face: the metal screen gets clogged with the softer, juicier items, such as apple, pineapple, and lemon. I have to stop juicing , remove the piece with the screen and rinse/brush it clean before I can finish juicing. Included is a nice, oversized "toothbrush" for cleaning the screen though, and it is very easy but annoying. The biggest problem I have constantly is the big sleeve that holds and tightens the feed tube(you can see it in the picture, the black "ring" against the body of the juicer holding the feed tube) is CONSTANTLY stiff/tight. It was difficult to open and close it after using juicer 5 times. I'm was so afraid something would snap and break. So I squirt a little "pam" cooking spray along the top edge whenever it gets stiff and difficult to remove. This keeps it easy to manage.I made pasta a couple of weeks ago, it was great! I used the 'dough only' function on my bread machine to mix & knead the pasta flour/egg mix. I added some fresh herbs to the dough (sage and thyme and chives from the garden). It extrudes pasta in long noodles, so have a knife ready to cut in reasonable lengths! I also set up my indoor clothes-drying rack to lay the pasta on to dry.I used the unit without the screen to process frozen bananas. I was babysitting the neighbors kids and they put the bananas through to make a sweet snack, they loved the activity.Overall, I love this product, and recommend it.

I purchased the Omega NC800HDS juicer after a week of researching and asking friends who are into health stuff and this juicer seemed to be #1 recommended. I bought the newer model because it is bpa free and supposedly has a larger chute than older models. Also it has a 15 year warranty. The juicer looks much bigger in photos than it does in person.I use the Omega NC800HDS to juice 2 bunches of celery daily. After a few days of chopping the celery before juicing, I realized I don't even need to chop the celery stalks to juice. I can just grab a couple stalks, insert into chute and continue.We are at 22 days of continuous juicing and it's working great. It's SO EASY TO CLEAN and it's fun! We use the celery fiber to feed to our worm compost bin.I've juiced grapefruit, papaya, and lemongrass (separately) and it's worked well. The fiber leftover from juicing lemongrass is divine and can easily be used for additional seasoning in dishes.I've made cold pressed almond milk using this juicer by soaking the almonds overnight and juicing next day while adding water. I tried adding seedless soaked dates and that did not juice well - the dates were too mushy and got stuck. but the almond milk alone was delicious, fresh, and so easy. Even when things get stuck, it is still very easy to clean. I just get a big metal bowl, fill it with soap and warm hot, throw everything in, and rinse - using scrub brush where needed.The cons:-the damper is already getting scratched up, not sure if that's from daily juicing of celery or from the almonds.I wish the damper was more resilient and i don't like the idea of plastic shredding off.I will look into getting a second damper that can be used for softer veggies and keep the original to use for hard foods-the plastic pitcher provided does not pour well (I use a 6 cup glass pitcher instead)Overall I am loving this juicer and would recommend to all, especially for those doing the celery juice cleanse, and anyone who values ease of cleaning and quality.

We researched for a while before getting a juicer. We've had Champion juicers, which were beasts--but produced juice that was half foam. We've had a Greenstar--which are wonderful, but have 20 pieces and take a ridiculous amount of time to juice anything. This juicer looked like a happy medium for a decent price.The results were a juicer that can chew up pretty much anything you can fit down (within reason), that makes a large amount of juice with very little foam (very little oxidation), that has 4 parts to the assembly that can be cleaned by dipping them in a bowl of water (and scrubbing the extruder a little bit with the brush they give you). The blades are really hard plastic, but the extruder has a metal plate that squeezes the vast majority of the juice out of the vegetables. It takes about a minute to assemble and break down, and maybe 2-3 minutes to clean. It is unbelievable how easy it is. The juicer body doesn't get dirty at all, so there's no chance of juice or pulp getting into the body of the juicer and causing mold.If you are juicing vegetables, there is nearly no pulp in the resulting juice. There's a bit more if you juice soft bodied fruit, but we didn't find this to be too significant. We haven't had to strain any of the juice yet, so it's drinkable right out of the machine. All in all, this juicer has been the best we've ever owned. Easy 5's across the board, and hopefully, you can see why.

All the other reviews give great detail about the pros of this machine so I don't need to go into too much detail. I just wanted to add another 5 star review because this thing is awesome. Here are a few things I learned that I didn't find elsewhere though.1. You can put pretty much any seed from any fruit in here (except something with big hard pits like cherries I assume, haven't tried). I've been successful with whole apples, oranges, lemons, limes, pears.2. Things that are not fun to juice because they clog up the filter. Mangoes, Pears, and Strawberries. If you are going to juice one of those, do it first, then clean the filter, reassemble it and continue juicing. For oranges and apples you can usually jam a carrot in there and it cleans it out but not with these fruits. Tomatoes also seem to have a hard time. It's not that they are impossible to juice it's just that they are so fibrous they clog up the screen/filter.3. My friends who have a non-masticating juicer came over and saw ours and were amazed at how quiet the NC800 is.4. You can juice the leaves attached to the beets. At least I have and haven't died yet.5. The chute where you stick the veggies is long enough that you can't stick your fingers in and get them ground up. (I couldn't anyway)6. The open and close dial where the whole assembled juicing unit connects to the motor gets sticky occasionally so you can't rotate it from open to close. I don't know if you're supposed to do this but I couldn't find any other way to clean it. I turned the faucet on low and held just that part of the motor unit under the faucet and turned the dial open and close a bunch of times to get the sticky out so it would turn. It has worked so far.Why I bought it: 15 year warranty. The amount of juice extracted appears to be more than other juicers so you're saving money by getting a certain percentage more out of your purchased produce. Very easy to clean. Heavy duty. Feels like it will last forever.

Bastante recomendable, es increíble la calidad del sabor que se percibe al hacer jugos con esta maravillosa maquina, muy fácil de ensamblar, y de lavar, su tamaño es un poco grande y poco pesado pero bien vale la pena hacer el espacio en la cocina por esta maquina

This is a wonderful product. I got it last night and I took it for a spin already :)Before you commit to a particular juicer, I highly recommend that you go searching, especially on youtube, in order to get some information on the types of juicers and what they specialize in, in order to avoid dropping a few hundred dollars on something you will hate. If you search "juicer reviews", you will find lots of resources. John Kohler on youtube is an amazing resource. I am by no means an expert but I learned a lot by reading and watching online videos on the subject.Before I write any more, please be aware that this TYPE of juicer excels at juicing leafy greens. That is not to say that it cannot juice other things, but this is what it is specialized for. If leafy greens are something you juice often, you will love this juicer. I juiced a whole pound of leafy greens with it already and the results were impressive. The juicer created very little foam. This is in contrast to my Omega VRT 400HD, which tends to create more foamy juices. As a side note, the VRT 400 seems to be better at fruits, but not as great at leafy vegetables.The nice thing about the NC800, is that you can do more with it than just juice. I threw in some cashews and as the internet instructions said, I ran them through a few times. By the 4th run, I had homemade Cashew Butter.The cleanup job was not the funnest but the taste of cashew butter was worth it.As with all masticating juicers, the amount of noise is very low. I don't have a decibel measuring device but I can tell you that I live in a building and I ran it after midnight with no concerns about disturbing neighbors. It's so quiet that you can have a conversation with somebody right beside you while juicing.As with most masticating juicers, some prepwork is required before you can feed veggies into the machine. This amount of time varies with what you are juicing of course, but you will have to cut produce in order for it to fit through the chute.The juicer is quite big, especially with the attachment installed (if you look at the picture, the tube can be taken off the main unit), which may be an issue for people who do not have a lot of countertop space.The juicer can also mince vegetables and create baby food, as well as create your own almond milk, coconut milk and so on. It comes with different end caps which can be used to make homemade noodles/pasta, baby food etc. I saw a video of somebody making homemade salsa as well.So how's the cleanup? well, if you own a VRT400 (or 330 or 350) you can expect the same amount of time (or maybe just a touch less). It does come with a cleaning brush, which looks like a toothbrush but I think I will get a bigger brush. That's just personal preference.The one gripe I have with the juicer is that it comes with really poor supporting documentation. It comes with assembly instructions which are easy to follow, but not one recipe. I have no idea how to make my own noodles and I will have to look this up. For a juicer which cost almost $400, I would have expected at least a few basic recipes for each interchangeable end cap.That is a minor gripe, and in no way does it make this juicer lose any stars.Good:- Quiet- Versatile (can make many things besides just juice)- 15 Year warranty- Low foam juice (Yes!!!)Bad:- Poor supporting documentationAll in all, a fantastic machine.

Llevamos casi un año con este product, preparando 4 jugos diarios, funciona muy bien para extraer los jugos y la calidad es muy diferentes a los extractores con aspas o de centrifugado. Hemos probado el modo de procesador de alimentos y tambien funciona muy bien. Muy recomendado.

I've purchased 3 different models of juicers in the last year specifically for juicing celery (lots of celery) and this one I find to be, for the price, a very good choice. Stepping back, I bought this model for my daughter and she loved it from the get go. It's easy and fast to put together, juices very well and the clean up is quick and easy. When I decided to get one for myself I went higher end and purchased a Hurom which is a different style juicer with a basket, for celery because of the strings, you have to cut each stick into 1 - 1.5 inch pieces making prep a lot more work. Also if you are juicing for more than one person, you have to clean and start over after each 16 oz glass. That one was returned, it was just too much work although I loved the look. Next I tried the Omega J8008C, it was nice looking the chrome is beautiful but there was a problem fitting on the hopper so I returned it. I have to say it didn't handle celery as well as the NC800 or 900 go figure because they have similar parts except the cone shaped piece that the juice passes through is much better on the NC800, just made slightly different. If you want to juice celery you can't go wrong with the NC800. Only negative is it does leave some pulp in your glass (but other juicers will too), it certainly isn't a show stopper and I just began straining with a fine mesh strainer into my glass and you've got superb celery juice. I can't comment on juicing other things as I have not done that as of yet but I doubt I would be disappointed. It's a workhorse with a great warranty. Kudos to Amazon for handling my returns so well when I wasn't satisfied. This will keep me shopping their site for Amazon supplied items.

El extractor es una maravilla, solo fue cuestión de armarlo, pero es facilisimo de usar, lavar, guardar. Los jugos salen a la perfección. Lo recomiendo mucho...además de que el pedido me llego antes de tiempo.