The main arguments for a masticating over a centrifugal are that a masticating juicer (on average) juices leafy greens and grasses much more efficiently and the juice is exposed to lower temperatures due to the low RPM of the auger in a masticating juicer vs. the much faster spinning blade/grate thingy in a centrifugal juicer.
Don't get a Vitamix. I had one and I didn't end up using it.
I also haven't used my Champion juicer for years. It is a bear to clean up. I end up buying fresh juice at the store.
That first sentence makes you sound very firm in your resolve, then you go on to provide the weakest of weak arguments in favor of your opinion. None. If you actually owned a Vitamix you'd know that it's much easier to use and 10X easier to clean than any juicer, and you get all the healthy fiber.
Take it from somebody who actually uses their equipment; buy a Vitamix if you can afford it. I had an Omega masticating juicer because I wanted a juicer (6 years ago) and this was the best for the money that did a good job with grasses and leafy greens. I used it but was quickly turned off because it took SO LONG to make the juice. Plus I had to prep the ingredients after washing which took a long time...and the cleanup took a long time as well. There was also a lot of waste. I mean, here I am, drinking all of my veggies and all of the healthy fiber is going into the trash. Yes it's good that I'm getting all of the nutrients from the veggies, but where else am I going to get fiber in my diet if not from fruits and veggies....and all that fiber is going right into the garbage with a juicer. Also, with a juicer, how much fructose are you drinking in one setting? In the end, the prep time and clean up time caused the Omega to just sit there on the counter, unused. I'm not a lazy person either. It was that much of a pain to use.
Sold my Omega on ebay a few years ago with the goal of buying a Vitamix someday when I could justify throwing down $450 on a "blender". I bought the 5200 in Red/Black last September and I've used it literally every day since.
The only prep I do besides washing things is to quarter my apples, chop down the celery a bit, quarter and de-seed the oranges (which I then freeze), peel the bananas and halve them (which I then freeze), and slice the pineapple into disks and then quarter the disks (which are then frozen). Everything else is then washed and thrown into the blender or washed>then frozen> then thrown into the blender. So prep is faster than for a juicer because I don't have to cut everything down. Then the actual blending part takes about 1 minute compared to the 30+ minutes it would take for my Omega juicer to do the same volume. The cleanup also takes MUCH less effort than a juicer. It takes about 1 minute. All I do is rinse out the blending container, fill it half way with hot water, put a couple drops of dish soap in the water, and blend on "high" for 30 seconds. Then let dry.
So Lumenosity, why exactly are you so strongly against the Vitamix?
Edited by hyper_ventriloquism, 13 July 2012 - 04:12 PM.
