OmegaNC800HDS Cold Press Juicer Machine, Vegetable and Fruit Juice Extractor and Nutrition System, Dual-Stage Slow Masticating Juicer, 150 W, Manual, Silver

I've had the NC800 for five months now. I use it once a week to make carrot with beet juice and celery juice for the week. I have a Champion juicer and a Greenstar (Tribest) juicer, but the Champion clogs up on celery and the Greenstar requires cutting the carrots lengthwise and is way too hard to push carrots through, so I'd have two juicers to use and clean which is very inconvenient. I also wanted a juicer for occasional leafy greens, since my old Wheateena grass/leafy greens juicer finally died.The NC800 is excellent with only a couple acceptable weaknesses. It is inexpensive considering it can do all my juicing and even make nut butters very well like the Champion. This is the first juicer I've used that does a very good job of juicing leafy greens, so a dedicated expensive greens juicer is no longer required. It definitely sets a new standard for juicers.The juice is still cool with very high quality full flavor. It lasts a week in the frig, which says a lot about the quality of the juice extraction. There is only 1 or 2 tablespoons of foam on the top of a quart, which is very good. It's quiet with little vibration.Easy cleanup is very important. The Greenstar was a real pain to scrub and clean all the parts. The Champion was pretty easy. The NC800 is a little easier than the Champion. I'm lazy so I often let it sit for hours after juicing or between juicing different vegetables, usually 5 lbs of carrots, a beet, and 4 stalks of celery and it's still easy to clean. I use an Oxo bottle brush which reaches all the way into the juicer body and cleans it right out. Even the screen cleans easily without any scraping or scrubbing with a hard toothbrush.I almost exclusively juice one quart of carrots, one beet, and a separate two quarts of celery juice:Celery juices easily with dry fiber out and absolutely no clogging/backup, like you get with the Champion.Carrots are clunky to push through (it seems to break them into chunks first and then grinds them) and you only get 4 cups from 5 lbs of carrots instead of the usual 5 cups, which is the worst I've seen in a juicer but not that important to me. It takes all but monster size carrots. I can't remember having to cut a carrot lengthwise first but I think I have once or twice.Beet is a little clunky, like carrots, with the same inefficiency but the juice is very good, like every other juice.I have juiced some other fruits and vegetables just to get an idea of the overall capability of the NC800:Spinach juices very well with 1/5 foam at most, which is far better than other juicers like the Greenstar which claim to be able to juice leafy greens. There is a trick to juicing leafy greens. Don't bunch them up or try to push them through. Trickle them slowly through on their own.Mustard greens juice efficiently and better than spinach. Use the same method as spinach. Just cut them in half if necessary before dropping them through the juicer. Even a high quality $1000 grass/leafy greens juicer will only do a little better, and is completely unnecessary.Cucumber does backup but clears quickly when you use the reverse button. You do need to cut cucumbers in half lengthwise and there is a lot of pulp in the juice, which you may want to filter out. This is one of the few items where you do need to switch from the 5 setting to the 1 setting to get it to juice decently. It's good enough, but if you drink a lot of pure cucumber juice, this might not be the best juicer.Oranges juice like the Champion giving you an Orange Julius type juice, creamy and milky, which some people, like me, prefer.Grapes give hard fiber out but backup after only 2 cups, so it isn't usable unless you are only using a combination of some grapes with mostly other juices. The 1 setting, like cucumbers, definitely helps in the case of grapes.Apples backup after only 3 apples. You will have to cut medium size apples into quarters. You will get too much foam, too. This is definitely not a juicer for apple based juices, but you might get away with juicing 1 or 2.Pistachios make fine nut butter. I used raw pistachios and the nut butter was dry but that just depends on the nut. You can always just add a little oil. There is a trick to making nut butters. Like leafy greens, you need to just trickle the nuts in slowly with no filling up and pushing which will just clog it and make it very hard to push through. This is different, but just as good as the Champion for nut butters.The plastic pitcher doesn't pour very well and the plastic fiber out container is a pain to clean. I use my Greenstar glass pitcher and a glass bowl for the fiber which is easy to empty and clean.As others have mentioned, this NC800 HDS 5th generation is the same as the NC900 HDC 6th generation with the same big feed chute, except for the color, silver/gray vs chrome. I think the NC800 also comes in red. I'm very happy with my NC800, and it's a little cheaper.25 Nov 2017 update:I get a cup of juice per pound on small carrots. If you use small carrots or slice them lengthwise as others have suggested and use very little pressure to mostly let them pull through on their own you'll get as much juice as almost any other juicer. You decide whether you want to juice faster or slower by slicing and patiently waiting in order to get more juice per carrot.23 Dec 2018 update:I just got 3 oz of wheatgrass juice with a little less than a tablespoon of foam from 4 oz of wheatgrass, so it really does juice wheatgrass, too.

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.