This mid-sized Orange-X juicer is a well designed heavy duty juicer that should last a lifetime.It is easy to use and clean and it is powerful enough to be used both commercially and at home.
Some may quibble over whether one juicer is better for oranges or lemons.From reading reviews, one that may be a little better for lemons, or grapefruit probably doesn't do as well with oranges etc due to only one strainer cup size being available. This very heavy duty juicer did a great job for me with lemons, oranges, and small grapefruit.It seems to be optimized for oranges though.However, I use it primarily for lemons and have had no problems except a very tiny bit of the lemon left on the side.I feel the claims about it not working well with lemons are grossly exaggerated and inaccurate.
This juicer has a stainless steel juicing strainer and cup, so the health conscious have no need to worry about aluminum being leached into the acidic juice.
Contrary to what one reviewer said, you cannot hurt your fingers using this juicer as long as you put your hand on the rubber handle (it is hard to use otherwise).The handle has a nice well calibrated stoper at the bottom that keeps you from damaging the unit by over extending when pushing down and still squeezes all the juice out well.The lower push range offers superior leverage over the juicers that have a spring and leave the handle up as you start and end from a higher position with them.(However, either way, it is not going to be hard to juice with this or other heavy duty juicers such as the Hamilton Beach regardless of handle position).
The only thing I don't like about this juicer is that if you leave the handle up and try to move it, the heavy handle will fall easily and it could hit you on the head or face if you are bending over or short.It is particularly easy to have the handle fall since the suction cup feet make it a little difficult to move around and you have to pull and yank on it a bit to get it to move.I bought some standard 4mm screw on bolts and some nice non-marking rubber feet called bumpers (screw, rubber) at Ace hardware for a few dollars that fit perfect into the holes for the screw off suction cups that came with the juicer. My guess is the suction feet were meant primarily to help in a commercial environment where you always kept the juicer in the exact same position and didn't pull the juicer out then push it back on the counter when done like you might do at home.The juicer is so heavy, that even with these new non-suction non-marking rubber feet it doesn't move at all during routine juicing.
Overall, this is a very heavy duty well made and designed juicer and I recommend it for home or commercial use (it is still quit large though called mid-sized).If it were not for the annoying rubber suction cup feet that it came with (and I easily replaced) I would have given it a five star rating.See my full review and explanations under this same mid-sized Orange-X juicer thatAmazon itself sends out.
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Jupiter Large Commercial Juice Press, BlackProduct Description: Finally a commercial grade juicer for the home that will do as advertised, deliver a glass of fresh squeezed juice.This mid-size commercial juicer form OrangeX is as cool and refreshing as the juice it produces.Whether your fresh squeezed fancy is oranges, grapefruits, lemons or limes the OrangeX commercialjuicer will make your morning a breeze.Made from cast iron and stainless steel with 2300 PSI (pounds per square inch) of force everyone in the family can have freshly squeezed juice at the drop of a lever. Removable parts are dishwasher safe.
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This juicer works well enough, but I started noticing metal shavings in the juice and under the juicer.I'm not fond of ingesting metal shavings so I plan to contact the company and demand an explanation and a refund.I do NOT recommend buying this item until this problem is resolved.
