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Best wheat grass user on the market!
I felt compelled to write this review after reading a poor review by another site visitor. I have been juicing for many years and most certainly swear by the Waring's centrifugal juicers for most vegetables. The Waring PJE 101 is superb - very dry pulp and lots of juice!! <
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>I had been looking for wheatgrass juicers for some time, and, had tried out a number of friends' juicers while visiting them. They are universally average. Blockages, and difficulties cleaning them just put me off purchasing one for quite some time. One lucky day, I visited a smoothie shop and saw their Omega 8003, they used it only for wheat grass. I was quite impressed wth the 8003, it was fast and in the view of those in the shop who cleaned it, very easy to manage (you just unscrew the chimney part and rinse). The staff raved about it, and not just one staff member (there are several in the shop who rotate and because I made a point of asking them about it, they shared their experiences). <
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>I bought the 8005 as a result and am extremely EXTREMELY happy with its simplicity of use, ease of cleaning and perhaps most importantly, the amount of juice it provides. Don't get me wrong, I don't use this for carrots and other larger vegetables, I use my Waring for those, but for wheatgrass (and this is why I bought it), it is the Rolls Royce of juicers!

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Bad design, too many parts to clean, long juicing time, small capacity
I read all the positive reviews, and after using this unit I can only say that those giving the Omega 8005 a positive rating must have either very low standards or nothing better with which to compare. <
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>I have a Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite, arguably the pinnacle of consumer-level juicers. This thing is fast, easy to clean, and exceptionally well designed from a usability standpoint. The industrial design is tremendous, and everything is sized perfectly and makes sense. <
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>The Omega 8005, unfortunately, doesn't compare. It's feed tube is so incredibly small that you can only feed a single stem of kale at a time, or risk jamming the tube. The Omega 8005 is absolutely useless to juice anything other than grass or simple greens because of its inability to handle a decent quantity at one time. Even the tray that sits atop the feed chute is shallow, narrow, and utterly useless because whatever you put into it quickly falls out. <
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>It takes me a good 10-15 min. to juice two bunches of parsley and one bunch of kale, excluding clean-up, simply because you have to cautiously feed each item or risk a jam. The amount of juice produced is under 4 oz., enough green juice for one person. If I had to spend 10-15 min. juicing for each person (not including cleanup) in my household, that's a good 45 min. of juicing time plus cleanup. <
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>Although the Breville isn't particularly adept at juicing leafy greens, it can produce 8 oz. of juice in under 10 seconds from items such as carrots, apples, oranges, pineapples, tomatoes, grapefruits, etc. Such items make absolutely no sense to juice in the Omega 8005 because it would take an inordinate amount of time to chop everything up into the small 1 inch squares that are required to fit through the feed chute. <
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>When the feed chute jamps (quite often), the supplied plunger is inadequate to exert enough leverage to force the produce down the chute. When you do exert force, the entire juicer tips unless you use both hands -- one to force the produce down, the other to physically hold the juicer down. <
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>Cleanup is a big chore. The Breville has large, easy parts to rinse, but the Omega 8005 has easily double the number of parts that require cleaning. The parts are smaller, with a lot more nooks and crannies requiring attention. <
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>Photos of the Omega 8005 show a single container underneath the juicer to catch both juice and pulp, which is ridiculous. The container provided is not large enough to properly catch pulp, unless you enjoy having pulp all over your counter. Contrary to the representations made on the packaging and in the instructions, you need to use two containers: one for the juice and the other for the pulp. This machine contains a multitude of design flaws that are further exacerbated by undersized parts which inhibit usability and functionality. <
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>It seems to produce slightly more juice from greens than the Breville, although not by a quantity significant enough to mitigate the amount of time and frustration spent in using this underpowered, undersized, and badly designed machine. Juice is very thick and pulpy, with small pepper-sized pieces of the original vegetable present in the juice. Very annoying, especially since none of this is an issue with the Breville. <
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>You will read people claiming that juice from the Omega 8005 is healthier because it has less froth and is not subject to the "warming" of a centrifugal design, thereby retaining more of its nutrients. This could not be farther from the truth. The Omega 8005's single impellar produced plenty of heat from friction, and juice comes out substantially warmed from its cold refrigerator state. I have noticed no such warming in the Breville 800JEXL, and can't help but believe that users of the Omega 8005 once again are deluding themselves into believing marketing hype that simply isn't true (i.e., it's a big lie). As far as froth is concerned, yes, the Omega 8005 produces far less froth -- but at the expense of a pulpier juice with pepper-sized gritty fragments of vegetable in it. Given the choice, I'll take the cleaner juice with the froth and just skim off the froth. <
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>I did not purchase from Amazon, but from another store that had a better price. I wish I had bought from Amazon, as I could probably return the thing now that I've discovered its many flaws. I can't imagine anybody using this to juice anything of any substance -- it would take just too darn long. <
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>In short: don't buy this machine. Unless you specifically need to juice greens for the maximum amount of extraction and are willing to put up with a badly designed unit, pass this one up and go for the gold: the Breville 800JEXL. You won't regret it.

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I LOVE this juicer!!
I bought this juicer back in December and I absolutely love it. It takes seconds to assemble and take apart. All the parts can go into the dishwasher. Clean up is super easy...it just takes a few seconds to rinse each piece under running water. There's one attachment that has two screens that have to be cleaned out and at first I thought it'd take forever to get the pulp out of them, but it doesn't. You just run the brush (included) over the screens a couple of times and they're clean. The whole thing is really very simple. <
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>My other concern with this juicer was juicing leafy vegetables. I wasn't sure that they'd juice well, but they do! I've juiced romaine, spinach, parsley, beet greens, cabbage, collard greens, chard, kale. They all come out great! In fact, everything I've juiced has come out great. I've juiced everything from canteloupe, to beets, to pineapple, to carrots, apples, all citrus fruits, celery, garlic, onions, berries, kiwi, pears, broccoli stems, sprouts, etc. I've also made nut butters with this machine. <
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>The juicer has never made a mess, is pretty quiet, and doesn't take up a ton of counter space. Not any more than my toaster. <
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>I saw a comment from someone else who said that the plastic stains easily when juicing beets and carrots. I see how that could happen, but what I do to stop that from happening is, whenever I juice beets or carrots, I simply soak the plastic parts (mainly the pulp and juice containers) in hot water for about five minutes as soon as I'm finished making my juice. As I said, I've had mine since December and there's not a stain anywhere on it. If you rinse the parts when you're finished using them to make a dark colored juice, they'll never get stains on them. <
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>I have no complaints at all about this juicer. It's true that the feeding chute is small and produce needs to be cut into smaller pieces before juicing. I guess everything is a trade off. I'd rather spend the extra 5 minutes chopping than to have a machine that will break down on me, is loud, doesn't juice as well, produces warm juice due to high rotation, or makes a mess. On top of everything else, this machine has a ten year warranty on all parts and labor. You can't beat that. <
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>I'd recommend the Omega 8005 to anyone who wants a high quality, long lasting juicer.