I bought the juicer of Lurch, since I have three little boys, I simply want to offer juice from fruits from our garden. And with this as that. I can not only make juice but also fruit pulp, to neudeutsch smoothies. If you want to juice, turning the crank and after a short time the fruit or vegetable is strong enough crushed, so that juice comes. If one wants fruit pulp (smoothies), you take for example a banana or whatever catches and the fruit pulp through the pulp on. Then make juice, such as apples or oranges and both mixed together. Just stupid, that is not in the manual, but in one of the supplied recipes. But now it comes: I can make direct apple juice with apples. My boys eat namely not Apple, but drinking apple juice. I know of no other machine with the proceeds. Simply Apples share and squeeze in columns. The same goes so far with everything I've tried, carrots, oranges celery. Some apples the device squeaks but what you get to grips with a drop of oil. In the manual is that it is also suitable for wheatgrass but that we do not do. If we have time we make our smoothies, our favorite: banana raspberry.