This juicer I've been a good two weeks, and have tried a lot in that time. The many negative opinions I have hereby clearly disagree.
It is easy to handle and great for cleaning, rinsing with a little warm water is sufficient absolutely and takes up little space. For this price, it offers even far more than would be expected. It is robust, nevertheless, that it is made of plastic.
I prepare every day a large glass (about half a liter) of vegetable juice to, sometimes I still do during the day and a fruit juice. I use generally mixed ingredients. For me the big question is how the device with hard vegetables, such as turnip greens, beets, carrots, etc. was clearly comes. The result: the best! And even using the waste - depending on the composition as a seasoning for soups.
One must note that we are talking about a small hand-powered device, for domestic needs. Accordingly, it is necessary to meter the vegetables properly. If I fully pot it with hard stuff, of course, the turning is difficult and it is clear that the crank you can even break! If an electrical appliance even the engine would burn! By vegetable pieces slowly one after the other to give everything goes wonderfully by without special effort. Because it is transparent, so you can see how far the worm has pushed the vegetables and when I can enter into the next piece. With some Hingucken and feeling you get the right rhythm of wonderful.
One thing I can confirm only of all negative opinions: pure apple juice is just not possible, but that is not the device, but on the nature of the apples. But with something hard in between this problem is also solved. You can try for example with pieces of ginger or carrot.
In my experience, no one has to cut the vegetables into tiny pieces, I make 1-1.5 cm thick pencils and I put into it at the pace as it bites off the device.
That comes as too little juice, I can not confirm. One must remember that the vegetables are crushed front and the juice comes out behind. So he takes his way, comes up behind, so probably a certain amount of material is necessary.
I also made the mistake when I got the unit wanted to know at once how to do it. So I immediately took an apple and a carrot and into it! Of course, I was bitterly disappointed that only one apple must has emerged that neither before nor wanted to move back. After some consideration and try, I have found that it is quite feasible, but:
1. I can not cram the apple completely at once
2. it must always be what hard dazwischekommen what the Mus pushes forward.
Thus, the apple-carrot juice succeeds also great if I alternately put the apple pieces with the carrot pieces in the machine. Finally, a piece of carrot the whole device dressing beautiful! It is generally the case that will be the best result you can get, in the soft and hard ingredients alternately rotated.
At the discoloration: Yes, natural vegetable dyes and precisely with the time of each plastic part, which comes into contact with fresh vegetables is discolored because the parts of this device are also not an exception. The discoloration can mitigate, where one is spinning in the end something bright, such as turnip or celery. The dressing the part really beautiful. I would take care not to go with harsh chemicals to this valuable and also see no need to put it in the dishwasher, after all, nothing is so greasy it.
The squeaking that's funny, that some want to oil the machine! The sound is produced with hard vegetables, thus, is that the vegetables firmly pressed against the plastic part and slid therealong and sounds with each other vegetables. Because there's nothing to oils, whether, you want to lubricate any vegetable pieces, I will not try it!
I read somewhere that the wheatgrass to attack the worm on the guide at the back and it makes it porous. I have found that, when turning the screw a little heated in the guide. I shoot a lot, hard stuff and to fast, I can well imagine that the heat generated will damage the screw.
In my experience with this juicer: absolute buy recommendation for diet-conscious!