Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Please don't pay any attention to the negative reviews on here. I've read through them all, and my conclusion is that they are all a little bit...slow. I mean, one lady gave it 1 star because she couldn't figure out how to assemble it! What? People, if you can't figure out how to put this thing together, you have problems. Several other brainiacs gave it 1 star because they can't seem to put the catch cup in the right place. Once guy said he kept hitting it with the crank. I don't understand. There is only 1 possible place to put the catch cup. If you're hitting it with the crank, it's not in the right place. Move the cup. Another 1 star person was angry that it took too long to juice 12oz of carrot juice. Sigh. This is a single auger juicer. It's specifically designed for grass and leafy greens. Why would you buy a wheatgrass juicer to juice carrots? If you want lots of carrot juice, buy a centrifugal style juicer. The spinning shredder disk on those is designed to chew through bunches of carrots in no time. That being said, you CAN juice carrots with the healthy juicer. I juice them every day. Usually just 1 or two to go along with my collards, kale, parsley, and celery. You have to cut them in thin strips first. Not julienne or anything that tiny, but you don't want a huge chunk of carrot stopping up your auger. Cutting a carrot takes approximately 20 seconds though some of the 1 stars would tell you what a humongous hassle it is. Several others complain about how it doesn't juice apples or oranges. Well, it can. Just not by themselves. Again, this is an example of using the wrong tool for the job. If you want straight orange juice, get a citrus squeezer. Plain Apple juice? Centrifugal juicer. Although it's not specifically designed to juice oranges and apples, it will still juice them as long as you have something substantial to run through it after the oranges. Like a carrot. Or a couple stalks of celery. Or some collards. I encountered this problem when I first got the juicer and I then blogged about it. [...] It IS possible to successfully juice soft fruits like oranges, tomatoes, and cucumber. You just have to remember to juice them first and then run a carrot or something through to help press out all of the pulp. A list of things I've successfully juiced so far: celery carrots green cabbage red cabbage bok choy parsley cilantro collards kale mustard greens turnip greens watercress spinach beets beet greens swiss chard bell peppers onions garlic apples pears oranges grapes cantaloupe honeydew lemons limes blueberries raspberries strawberries cucumber tomatoes zucchini sweet potato Strangely, I've never used my wheatgrass juicer for wheatgrass, so I can't speak to that functionality except to say that you should expect to use a lot of grass to make a couple ounces of juice. That's just the nature of the beast. There's just not that much juice in wheatgrass. As far as pulp goes, I've NEVER had an issue with wet pulp. My pulp is always super dry compared to the pulp from a centrifugal juicer. If you've got wet pulp, you're doing something wrong. Watch the how-to video on the Lexen website if you're having trouble. Personally, I always use the little white wheatgrass cap regardless of what I'm juicing. Seems to extract more juice that way. I love my juicer. If it ever breaks, I'm buying a new one.